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Bay Area drug kingpins lured low-level dealers, promising cheap rent (2020)(eastbaytimes.com)
65 points by loosetypes 6y ago|47 comments
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by loosetypes 6y ago
> [...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. > "That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said. > "It's not that I don't believe in contemp
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Any resources you could recommend for getting started re LSP with emacs?
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by loosetypes 6y ago
A previous thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506303 , had an interesting response from someone from Namecheap.
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by loosetypes 6y ago
I’m imagining a world where writing the word “they” is banned. As in: if you don’t have something “we” to say, don’t say anything at all.
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Running Tide attracts VC names with plan to bury gigatons of CO2 on ocean floor(mainestartupsinsider.com)
26 points by loosetypes 6y ago|10 comments
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by loosetypes 6y ago
If you haven't been, Green Apple Books on Clement street is also great.
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by loosetypes 6y ago
> to reveal color selection as being logical, predictable, and driven by principles anyone can learn. In that regard, is there any sort of algebra for color compatibility to quantify legibility? Specifically, say we have some text and ch
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by loosetypes 6y ago
And it’s been continued, to an extent, by folks like Deadmau5 and Marshmello. I wonder if any groups have stand ins ready to don the mantle for live performances if there were ever, for whatever reason, a double booking.
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Is it not the same with most aspects of software as consumption reaches economic critical mass? Systems designed by and for users lose control to business interests. Leading to streaming over media ownership, as we become renters in every d
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Agreed. If you print a dinosaur skull out of ABS, I wonder if the cast would survive longer than a real fossil.
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Same. Perhaps a different time scale but I’ve considered doing this for files within a source code repository to better familiarize myself with the history. One interesting feature might be to be able to select any two commits such that you
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Aha! Thanks Now I’m certainly going to be trying Blitz.
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Thanks. I’m referring more to a REPL environment for executing inline javascript against your project rather than a CLI of prebaked commands. So something like creating an instance of an existing model definition and trying out its methods
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by loosetypes 6y ago
In the spirit of Rails, does Blitz include a repl analogous to irb? Something that automatically loads in your models and maybe config? It’s been a while since I’ve used Rails but that interactive environment was my favorite way to get fa
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by loosetypes 6y ago
You know how positive feedback loops exist in social media (in terms of engagement) with negative outcomes (whether for the user, society, ..)? Maybe that’s following a YouTube rabbit hole and now you’re unintentionally watching flat earth
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Context < Subtext < Plaintext Cute, overly self congratulatory turns of word aside, this had me look up the etymology of text. I hadn’t put it together before, but woven is such a fitting root for the fabric of our thoughts made mani
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Just to add to the list, Noam Chomsky has long maintained that the NYT has a very strong agenda regarding Israel which manifests in any and all related coverage.[1] Such an idea ran contrary to my long held sentiment for the NYT as rational
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Shoot, my apologies - I should have checked before posting.
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by loosetypes 6y ago
I recall hearing of Stripe recruiting in groups, perhaps others have followed suit since? https://stripe.com/blog/bring-your-own-team Best to all those affected.
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by loosetypes 6y ago
I’m not a book reader and agree, although I’m only three episodes into season 5. Amos was one of my favorite characters but am a bit put off by how his role has, to an extent, become fan service. I appreciate that he’s a tough guy, enjoyed
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by loosetypes 6y ago
> the idea didn't grow over time I always find retrospective and hypothetical discussions of idea genesis and maturation fascinating. Amazon retail aside, I wonder if you (or anyone else) would be willing to give perspective on AWS:
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Xmxinx | Xmxinx means XNU is not Xinu | Xmxinx means Xinu is not XNU https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinu
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by loosetypes 6y ago
I recently learned the term OPM (other peoples’ money). As in, it’s preferable to invest OPM. Could that be the definition of a hedge fund? And in that regard, it’s basically the opposite of the ideals many of us are intimately familiar wi
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by loosetypes 6y ago
Oh wow, this could be interesting for discussing system architecture or database schema designs before committing a large chunk of time to an implementating a solo project. If it’s something you’ll spend a significant amount of time buildin
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Source for Schwab?
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Ask HN: Where is it getting colder?
1 points by loosetypes 6y ago|1 comments
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by loosetypes 6y ago
How are the touch pads on system76 laptops? I’m pleased with just about every aspect of running Ubuntu on a dell XPS except that one.
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This reads similarly to me as conversations that justify medical bills being so high in the US when there’s a closed loop between the those charging and those paying (ie, not the one receiving medical care). “You should be thankful that we
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For maybe the first time I can recall I wasn’t able to locate a webpage via google search yesterday. (Described in my last comment if anyone knows the source) Seemed like every attempt to better describe it as a query took me further from w

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