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by jurassic 5y ago
It's generally accepted among online lego communities that organizing by part/shape makes retrieval more efficient than organizing by color. It's tough to find a red 1x2 plate in a huge bin of red pieces, but it's easy t
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by jurassic 5y ago
I’m 34 and healthy. Each of my shots and the booster gave me severe flu-like side effects (chills, body aches, etc). I’ve lost 5-6 days over the last year to recovering from these side effects. Given my low risk from the actual virus, I don
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by jurassic 5y ago
By the same logic BestBuy, Verizon, and other hardware retailers should get a cut of Apple’s revenue.
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by jurassic 5y ago
Do you think your experience of congestion would be improved by everyone driving private vehicles instead? Not sure I follow the logic here.
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by jurassic 5y ago
Completely agree with this. I bought last April and have already needed a new roof and a new water heater. These were not expected expenses based on the age of the home. For me it was an unpleasant surprise but not a big deal, but people wh
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by jurassic 5y ago
Concept2 machines are bomb proof. These things are designed for intensive use in gym settings which far outweighs the use I put in a single individual. I've put in countless meters on mine over the years and it's still practically
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by jurassic 5y ago
It's actually gone the other direction, with Lego releasing licensed Minecraft sets since 2012.
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by jurassic 5y ago
I’ve come to think a certain amount of attrition is needed to keep a product and the individuals working on it healthy. Back in my consulting days I worked with a few enterprise software companies that had a lot of highly tenured employees
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by jurassic 5y ago
About 2/3 of people own a home, which is a lot, but I'm not sure I'd call it "most people". And for the 1/3 that do not own a home, often already at a disadvantage in ability to build wealth, they will continue
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by jurassic 5y ago
Yes, I think the hacker house idea and adult roommate living situations more generally are very common in the Bay Area due to housing shortage and high costs. It's the only place I've ever lived where it would not be surprising to
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by jurassic 5y ago
Thansk for the comment. I have no problem with multi-generational living. I'm not Asian but I lived with my in-laws for a few years while we were saving up to buy a home and it was great. The problem I have is when there are more peopl
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by jurassic 5y ago
I think non-residential street parking, paid or not, should probably be illegal. Or at least eye-wateringly expensive and limited to a few minutes at a time (e.g. food pickups). I say this as someone who drives regularly. The lack of visibi
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by jurassic 5y ago
Who is "we" though? I certainly had no part in a European democratic process that led to these laws but I still have to get nagged by popups every day.
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by jurassic 5y ago
The commenters here seem to take for granted that this cookie law is a good thing and Google/Facebook are evil villains, but there is a difference between a law and a good/just/reasonable law. I would argue interrupting the e
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by jurassic 5y ago
For a lot of lower wage people, the ~$3k stimulus checks they got last year was the first time in their lives they've had enough financial breathing room to quit abusive jobs and have a break without having another job immediately line
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by jurassic 5y ago
Whenever I hear a bit about the hikikomori phenomenon in western news I'm always left wondering how they support themselves. Are these trust fund kids or something? If they're just living in mom's basement or whatever, that s
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by jurassic 5y ago
I kinda doubt that. The US Mint manufactures a ton of commemorative coins in denominations and materials (e.g. silver dollars, gold $5, etc) that have no relationship to the circulating coinage. As long as there’s an audience for it, I expe
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by jurassic 5y ago
For any Charles Babbage fangirls/boys out there, the Royal Mint recently honored him with a commemorative 50p coin as part of their Innovation in Science series: https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/char
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by jurassic 5y ago
There's a ton of complex research out there on nutrition data as well but we still have laws about how that information needs to be presented. The reason we have Nutrition Facts on food packaging is to summarize and present the informa
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by jurassic 5y ago
I'm not advocating an increase in art history majors. I'm saying if art history was cheaper, that could send even more people down a path that is financially unrewarding. By pricing degrees according to value, a CS degree becomes
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by jurassic 5y ago
I don’t agree with necessarily tying price to value. I don’t want people choosing art history over CS just because it is cheaper. I do think each major should have something akin to a Nutrition Facts label laying out clear information about
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by jurassic 5y ago
One thing I hear cited often is the way antibiotics are widely used in animal agriculture to boost margins by helping keep more animals alive in the lowest cost living conditions (often squalid and unhealthy for the animal). This is antibio
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by jurassic 5y ago
The 1950 United States census will also be released by the National Archives in April 2022. There will be much rejoicing among genealogy nerds.
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by jurassic 5y ago
I'd bet Square already has one or more microservices named tessaract.
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by jurassic 5y ago
The revolutionary bit is you can raise money through a DAO without paying millions to a corrupt investment bank to handle your IPO. No letting the investment bank set the opening price too low so their stable of institutional investors get
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by jurassic 5y ago
I am a coin collector. So, yes. They should call them what they are which are “tokens”. But physical tokens are usually understood as a poor substitute for real money (think arcade token you can only spend in the arcade, or subway token for
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by jurassic 5y ago
If it makes you feel any better, numismatists and coin collectors are not happy about the coopting of the word “coin” either. For millennia a “coin” was a physical item (usually a metal disk) which served as a medium of exchange in commerce
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by jurassic 5y ago
This. Until I can pay my taxes in crypto, the United States dollar isn't going anywhere.
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by jurassic 5y ago
I vowed never to pay the NYT another dime after the hassle they gave me about unsubscribing from their crossword subscription a few years ago. It was such a pain, I told to actually cancel my news subscription too. Never looked back. These
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by jurassic 5y ago
After watching that story of the condo collapse in Florida, it gives me the creeps to think about going near that thing.

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