mhardcastle

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by mhardcastle 4y ago
If the goal is providing entertainment, why not just adjust the payout to be 0 profit?
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by mhardcastle 4y ago
One has to wonder if the fixed costs of some kind of electricity -> fuel production will ever get cheap enough to solve this problem. If it would pay, it would be great for there to be a factory on stand-by to make, e.g., hydrogen or eth
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by mhardcastle 4y ago
I've been thinking a bit about this lately. I've read estimates of ~30 million Bison before European settlement, ~35 million pronghorn, and ~3 trillion oysters in beds on the east coast, in addition to all of the other natural abu
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by mhardcastle 4y ago
For most cheap imports like this, I've found eBay is wonderful. My girlfriend wanted toe spacers and I found the exact same no-name pair on eBay for $4, compared to $10 on Amazon.
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by mhardcastle 4y ago
I made the potato cannon from this book as a teenager. It was made of a PVC chamber for the propellant and a narrower ~potato-sized PVC pipe with the end filed to be sharp so that a potato would be trimmed down to create a potato slug with
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by mhardcastle 4y ago
I'm very glad you mentioned the homepage spam. It's increasingly difficult (and valuable) to live without information overload these days; Edge's forced "news" spam has pushed me away as well.
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by mhardcastle 5y ago
It's not a test of whether it was "news" at the time - it's a test of its relevance to you. If you look back at the news from a particular day and see now that reading it didn't convey information you've used s
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by mhardcastle 5y ago
My favorite way to demonstrate the news's general irrelevance is to go to archive.org and look up the front page of your favorite news source from, say, 10 years ago. In hindsight, paying attention to nearly anything on the news a deca
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by mhardcastle 5y ago
I started boycotting Samsung forever when I woke up one morning to the NFL app on my home screen on a Galaxy S6. Able to be disabled, but the fact that they'll install spam apps long after you've bought a device is really maliciou
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by mhardcastle 5y ago
I've always wondered how this works with CCPA. I attempted to exercise my right to data deletion and was directed to log in. Do those with shadow accounts not have the right to have their data deleted?
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by mhardcastle 5y ago
I think this is definitely true - and it's enough that I just don't find it worthwhile to use the service anymore. The overhead of doing detective work to determine whether something might be counterfeit, and the too-commonly-real
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by mhardcastle 5y ago
In my experience they've always required me to go to a UPS store or retail location (Kohl's, Whole Foods, etc.) to process a return, even when it's a counterfeit product. Returns I've elected are a great process; being f
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by mhardcastle 5y ago
Shopping at Amazon has become such a blatantly user-hostile experience. More than any company I've dealt with in recent memory, they seem to tolerate just about any unethical behavior - allowing fake product reviews, facilitating sale
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by mhardcastle 5y ago
I'm not hiring, but wanted to say that I absolutely love Damn Interesting. The Zero-Armed Bandit is among the most interesting articles I've read. Thank you for what you do!
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by mhardcastle 5y ago
A friend used this service to try to have a pizza party for a small cohort of graduating Master's students, and said that one pizza came hours early and the rest never arrived.
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by mhardcastle 5y ago
They do. I use pickup lockers without Prime all the time.