justin66

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by justin66 6y ago
> I know that HPB has always had a good selection of 78s on the shelves and that is why I took them. Oh, that's great. My local store doesn't have them. > I also have a large collection of vinyl albums from the late 60'
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by justin66 6y ago
> I wish I had not sold my 78's to Half Price Books a few years back. I had a couple hundred records, some of which had probably never been played. How much did you get for them? I assume HPB puts almost all 78s in the dumpster.
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by justin66 6y ago
It's a good thing they waited until there was a Raspberry Pi available with four cores and 8GB of RAM.
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by justin66 6y ago
Not to defend the Prius too much, I wouldn't buy one, but it seems like you are being a little tough on them. The thread you linked to about the oil burning problem starts with a post containing... the solution to the oil burning probl
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by justin66 6y ago
> Theoretically, the ideas he's talking about make sense. You'll want to be very clear about which of his ideas "make sense." You're talking about the guy who equates estate taxes with the Holocaust. https:&#x2F
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Solvay Impede Research into Unknown PFAS, Threatening Test Lab with Legal Action(consumerreports.org)
1 points by justin66 6y ago|0 comments
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by justin66 6y ago
If that book is as good as you say, it's a pity he published with Packt. Their stuff is typically very bad.
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by justin66 6y ago
I'm just curious, feature-wise, what keeps OCaml from being an OCaml for systems level programming?
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by justin66 6y ago
> But the language downplaying the severity will mean this all blows over in a couple of months, without the actual mobilization/funds to properly secure not just this one site, but any similarly affected plants. Our society’s inabi
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by justin66 6y ago
It’s a bit of a tangent, but I got a kick out of hearing Paul Krugman make a glowing endorsement of your work last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/podcasts/ezra-klein-podca...
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by justin66 6y ago
> I find "an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln" to be a ridiculous introduction; it should read "an American assassin who killed President Abraham Lincoln" One sentence fragment conveys t
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by justin66 6y ago
> I didn't read the entire report, so I may have missed it, but where is this stuff coming from? Various places. One of the culprits, arsenic in rice, is a problem that was exacerbated by the use of arsenic-containing pesticides in
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by justin66 6y ago
Drive the guy to a shelter, drive the guy outside of town and dump him in a snowdrift, or nothing seem like three typical options.
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by justin66 6y ago
> I'm curious if anyone sees LibreOffice gaining any traction in a professional setting. > In my experience, everyone uses MS Office, and LibreOffice still remains relegated to private individuals that don't happen to alread
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by justin66 6y ago
> 6 months later I still don't have my ZX Spectrum Next Was there anything in the way the Kickstarter was presented that made you believe you'd have one by January? January, when they were scheduled to begin production? The a
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by justin66 6y ago
There are some of those! Along with 330, 105, 301, 326, 641, 302, 102, 103, 300, and I just assume a few others, all coming from ESENT. I guess that's a question: what would it look like on a Windows 10 system if it had a truly broken
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by justin66 6y ago
TIL the software responsible for almost exactly 10% of the utterly inexplicable Application warnings in Event Viewer on my Windows 10 PC is considered by someone to be "server-grade."
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by justin66 6y ago
You should step back and read the chapter of an intro to logic textbook where the topic of validity vs soundness is discussed. It’s easy to use these terms in a way that expresses your intent. One nice thing about doing so is that an unders
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“GameStop effect” could ripple further as Wall St. eyes short squeeze candidates(reuters.com)
2 points by justin66 6y ago|0 comments
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by justin66 6y ago
Yeah, it certainly seems that way. Even Vanguard Brokerage Services, of all places, is offering $0 stock trades. They were never really a discount broker like Schwab, Fidelity or TD Ameritrade. (Schwab offering $0 trades, on the other hand,
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by justin66 6y ago
> Interactive Brokers also offers a "Lite" version that is pointed at a similar market to RobinHood (no fees, no comissions). Who charges fees or commissions on stock trading anymore?
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Why N95 Masks Are Still in Short Supply in the U.S.(npr.org)
3 points by justin66 6y ago|0 comments
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by justin66 6y ago
> I'm finding all the Consider Phlebas hate kinda weird. You're not alone. Most of it does not ring true for me at all.
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by justin66 6y ago
So little of this comment makes any sense at all. > The fact that MBS had managed to bamboozle the western media into fawning over his token "reforms" prior to the Saudis brazenly murdering Kashoggi was a disgrace. If Khashoggi
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by justin66 6y ago
> People are only forced if they start being dangerous to other people. I assume this isn't really true, and that the standard in Finland is that they're institutionalized if they're a danger to other people or themselves
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How The Washington Post Fact Checker tracked Trump's false and misleading claims(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by justin66 6y ago|0 comments
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by justin66 6y ago
> It takes another level of self loathing to wish sterility on other people. I’m pretty sure loathing those other people would do the trick as well...
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by justin66 6y ago
> They're not endangered, they are aggressive predators, and Scotland's ecology isn't obviously in need of them. Are you certain on that last point? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/
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Coding Prodigy Behind Hit Game PUBG Eyes IPO Worth Billions(bloomberg.com)
1 points by justin66 6y ago|0 comments
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by justin66 6y ago
> Why would I want to read a biography written by people who didn’t know the person until five years ago? Because you're the kind of thoughtful person who would evaluate the question of whether you should read a book based on more t

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