mechhrt

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by mechhrt 9y ago
Are you aware of hnrss.org? Not my site but one I find extremely useful.
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by mechhrt 9y ago
Sure but anyone judging your credit score isn't looking for that. "Paying off debt but not too quickly" or "Carrying enough debt to accrue interest without defaulting" are more likely what they would want to see.
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by mechhrt 9y ago
Small towns rely on B&O tax revenue from small businesses though. So for the sake of streamlined access to cheap goods now there's no money to provide police protection, roads, parks, libraries, etc. that are paramounts of small-to
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by mechhrt 9y ago
Sure you hate it but the riders/consumers love it and that's another reason that electric bikes will fail.
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Tech giants are the robber barons of our time(nypost.com)
6 points by mechhrt 9y ago|0 comments
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by mechhrt 9y ago
"Mr. T Ate My Balls" - probably the original "meme" as it would be defined today
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Broke man who sold blanket for $1.5M has new woes(msn.com)
1 points by mechhrt 9y ago|0 comments
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by mechhrt 9y ago
Twitter does not have this type of value for me - it could mainly be replaced by RSS aggregation and/or (micro-)blogging by "influencers"
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by mechhrt 9y ago
I have a lot of Facebook friends that I would completely lose touch with, because I have no backup contact info. If I knew ahead of time that Facebook was going away, I could procure a backup method but if Facebook just disappeared one day,
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by mechhrt 9y ago
I am willing to bet that theater has a monopoly with no substitute goods. Rural != Cheap The lowest prices are probably in suburban areas where there are many competing theaters in a populated area with easy access.
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by mechhrt 9y ago
You can't expect the college to give you a realistic prospect when they are the ones who stand to (non-) profit from your matriculation. At the very least, they will give you a best-case scenario instead of a worst-case or median-case.
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by mechhrt 9y ago
I think this is the one, from ESPN's 30 for 30 series. http://www.espn.com/30for30/film?page=playingforthemob
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by mechhrt 9y ago
This is a great example of knowledge that should be on a webpage somewhere. I feel the Medium format is really limiting the presentation of the information.
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by mechhrt 9y ago
"Soul of a New Machine" - Tracy Kidder. I read it while in engineering school, and it's the first time it kind of clicked with me of what an engineer actually "does"