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by mattrp 7y ago
interesting solution but for now just turning it off seems to be much preferred. We’ve noticed our kids engage their imaginations and are much better behaved the less time they spend online.
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by mattrp 7y ago
It’s even worse. There were some articles awhile back about just how scary awful YouTube kids was...
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by mattrp 7y ago
We really struggle with YouTube - for ex. You can’t block it because Kahn Academy uses YouTube. And quite a lot of kids content is really informative and great content. But I can’t tell you how many times we are watching and it literally
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by mattrp 7y ago
I want to see the cybertruck vs wrecking ball and caravan... that would be pretty epic.
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by mattrp 7y ago
I’m hoping for Jeremy clarkson to take a whack at “killing a Tesla” a la the infamous hilux that wouldn’t die: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
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by mattrp 7y ago
GMC just got pwned with their electric smooshed truck reveal earlier today.
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by mattrp 7y ago
If you looked at historical p/e, the low for msft was the last year of ballmer. I think their p/e was 8... it was never a dog stock but an 8 is kind of like what you get if your p&g or coke. It’s not a growth stock anymore.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Besides have you tried moving a modest amount of stuff across the country these days? Unless it’s literally the clothes on your back, $10k is barely enough to move very far.
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by mattrp 7y ago
About ten years ago in some of the rust belt you could buy a house for under twenty - Detroit comes to mind. Some of the sales had conditions that you tear down the structure and agree not to build so that city services could be removed fr
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by mattrp 7y ago
heh last time I stood in line for brunch was in Nashville. There are all sorts of pros/cons wherever you go. I’ve lived in Charlotte, Denver, Chicago, Austin, New York and have traveled enough to places like La, SF, London, etc that
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by mattrp 7y ago
Yeah I know ... my comment was in jest ....but note the dateline below was yesterday...<raised eyebrow> https://www.krgv.com/news/spacex-extends-buyout-offer-deadli...
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by mattrp 7y ago
That’s one way to get the neighbors to move!
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by mattrp 7y ago
I’m glad you like it. Above article is fascinating - it’s like cows destroy the ecosystem through grazing while bison “engineer” it to make it better to the point they can see bison grazed land from space.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Well I guess I got downvoted because of the implication that you picked up on - “saving them by eating them.” One kind of has to read the book. When you look at efforts to repopulate bison to the prairie, the most famous is Yellowstone.
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by mattrp 7y ago
There’s a really good autobiography called buffalo for the broken heart which chronicles a ranchers quest to switch from a cattle ranch to a buffalo ranch. It really lays out the case for these amazing creatures.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Change your word selection from group to community and your point is more effective. Your point about newton is exactly right and you can see it again in the physicist community that unraveled the secrets of the atom. You can see it again
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by mattrp 7y ago
You are right that it is the style of how you communicate something that matters as well as understanding your place in history. Perhaps Turing resonated and Engelbart didn’t is because of when they spoke. But there’s another aspect to th
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by mattrp 7y ago
Yeah long haul on Amtrak also has this annoying feature where connecting trains are often 1 day apart because the connecting train left an hour before the arriving train gets there. And forget about the cost. I’m about to fly to the west
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by mattrp 7y ago
Agreed - I used to take NY to Baltimore a few times a month. Typically I had a few co workers with me. So let’s do the math: if we shared a car and left at 8:30, we’d spend .. what $30 in tolls round trip? Another $50 in gas..one of us w
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by mattrp 7y ago
Short run regional doesn’t have to be Amtrak’s mandate when there are plenty of feeder lines like NJT and Septa able to step in. The problem is not rail vs road. The problem is that rail becomes a sinkhole for public fantasyland spending.
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by mattrp 7y ago
I’ve heard this referred to as programmers syndrome. The tight hamstrings also lead to frequent lower back pain as does the lack of movement. It takes as little as 15 minutes of sitting for your spinal discs to compress. Moving your legs
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by mattrp 7y ago
I’d agree with this. All the action in a house happens in the basement. It’s here where you see the mechanicals and all the wiring and plumbing decisions. It’s where you see if there’s water or radon leaks or structural issues. And it’s
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by mattrp 7y ago
Hah, haven’t seen any myself but I’ll ask him. Why do you ask?
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by mattrp 7y ago
I never thought of that.. you know another way Reno’s are like software... you often have to debug other people’s work. Simple example, in one house there were wide door jams that met in the middle of the top of the door frame. Why would
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by mattrp 7y ago
I’m a developer but have built a side gig renovating 100 year old homes. My partners in the effort are a carpenter who can do pretty much anything and a former machinist who can take anything apart and put it back together (whether that’s
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by mattrp 7y ago
My kids are homeschooled and we consistently receive unsolicited feedback from other adults that they rarely encounter children these days who can have a conversation. I know that’s not true as I see plenty of conventionally schooled kids
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by mattrp 7y ago
Yeah but could he build a model railroad set as good as Rod Stewart’s in under five years?
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by mattrp 7y ago
You’re right - I wrote that in jest. I was first to complain but I truly do like the content that makes it to hacker news and the way in which it is ranked. I would say 9 times of 10, I’m surprised to see what’s on the front page because
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by mattrp 7y ago
More political for sure. And more nytimes, Bloomberg links that I am likely to have already read either directly or through other channels. And seriously, do we really need another link talking about how awesome Rust is?
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by mattrp 7y ago
There is one but the premium is the same as the gold plan.

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