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by mikestew 2y ago
I guess I'm living firmly in the past, but $20K still seems to be a high price for a car. You're not even living in the past. Our 20 year old Scion xB cost us $20K out the door new (granted, that's with most of the paltry l
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by mikestew 2y ago
Referenced in the doc as “the Eddie Murphy rule”.
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by mikestew 2y ago
If something bad is happening to an organization that I hold a significant amount of clout and power in… Seems to me if one held that much “clout and power”, they wouldn’t need to resign on principle. Instead one learns who really holds
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by mikestew 2y ago
They didn’t “fold”, they wanted a very uncomfortable conversation to change direction. I’d advise finding a less objectionable term, because many people probably stop listening after your opening salvo.
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by mikestew 2y ago
https://archive.ph/seYD7
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by mikestew 2y ago
Must every company in the Midwest use a cow theme in some manner? Staff use cow bikes, cow carts, or cow vans to mooove across campus. It was cute when Gateway did it, still cute when FatCow does it (it is in their name), gettin’ a litt
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by mikestew 2y ago
The short answer is “yes, saltwater ruins nearly everything thing it touches in fairly short order”. PVC pipe? Okay, that’s probably fine. Pumps, sensors, and a lot of other things aren’t quite so tolerant.
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by mikestew 2y ago
For now. Oh, that old canard: “yeah, but just you wait!” I live in the present, and I’ll deal with the facts as they are today, not some hypothetical future offered up to win an argument.
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by mikestew 2y ago
I, too, wish I’d put more into my winners, and less into the losers. But what I really wish is to figure out which is which before I lay money down. :-)
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by mikestew 2y ago
I was making no attempts at comparison. Don’t try to detail the conversation.
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by mikestew 2y ago
The post is bordering close enough to “unhinged” that I’m not taking this woman’s word for it. There’s a story here, but we aren’t going to get the whole of it from her. But given enough extrapolation, I think your explanation is probably c
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by mikestew 2y ago
Gives an investor a chance to invest. It gives the unwitting a chance to lose their money. “Do your homework” against professionals whose job it is to make your homework as difficult as possible, including the very tactic you seem to be a
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by mikestew 2y ago
Apple doesn’t charge for CarPlay (can’t speak to Android), so I’m unsure what you’re referring to.
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by mikestew 2y ago
Note that the bike pictured does not have a front brake. So I’m guessing he went back to his starting position at some point to hit the brake pedal. He first probably just rolled off the throttle until the bike got to a much slower speed. “
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by mikestew 2y ago
That's a long-winded way to say, "no, I've never tried it". If one has never tried a pursuit, I can understand how it might "seem dumb". What seems dumb to me, though, is doing track days for years on end, and
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by mikestew 2y ago
Our Hyundai grocery-getter does a 1/4 in 13s, the "N" go-fast version does it in 11s. And those are Hyundais with full-sized, heavy-ass batteries, and abysmal stock tires. Porsche Taycan GT (with a full-sized, heavy-ass batte
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by mikestew 2y ago
Drag racing has none of that. What is it the kids say? "Tell me you know nothing about drag racing without saying you know nothing about drag racing"? Drag racing has all of that, squeezed into 1/4 of a mile. That's
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by mikestew 2y ago
From TFA: “Since cremations were common in the European parts of the Roman Empire around 100 AD [CE], inhumations are an absolute exception. Finds of Roman skeletons from this period are therefore extremely rare,” said Kristina Adler-Wölfl
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by mikestew 2y ago
The Tao of Pooh is awesome. (But holy crap, avoid the follow-up title, it redefines “off-the-rails” in comparison to the first book.)
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by mikestew 2y ago
John F. Kennedy couldn’t get 50% against Richard Nixon, as just one of many examples of a fine candidate winning with less than 50% of the popular vote.
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by mikestew 2y ago
Coming up next, ChatGTP does James Joyce.
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by mikestew 2y ago
Perhaps that church is committing tax fraud? Perhaps it’s the third-or-fourth-hand story telling.
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by mikestew 2y ago
My dreams of a real-life Giddyup Buttercup are finally coming true…in 25 years. Hydrogen powered? Seems about as realistic as a Fallout-style nuke-powered one.
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by mikestew 2y ago
320x480 screen meant normal web pages wouldn't display properly I’m not sure what you mean by that. The whole point of the demo was it rendered the New York Times website just as it rendered in desktop Safari. In contrast to, say, Wi
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by mikestew 2y ago
Redmond, WA has a ban on billboards. Locals can see this demonstrated by driving 124th St. and crossing Willows Rd into Kirkland. First thing you’ll see are billboards. Just got back from a trip to Florida. Billboards along every freeway, a
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by mikestew 2y ago
Anyone that has revisited a glacier they visited 10-20 years ago can see with their own eyeball(s) that the glaciers might still be there, but not for long at this rate. Besides, it begs the question of who made this “prediction” to begin w
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by mikestew 2y ago
The National Parks Service allows it: While motorboats are permitted to operate in the marine environment, their presence can influence the wilderness setting. https://www.nps.gov/ever/wilderness.htm
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by mikestew 2y ago
Not to dismiss Chollet’s work, but I’m starting to think he need prove nothing to even the muggles. For example, nearly any endurance athlete stands a good chance of being a Strava user. If you run in those circles, have you heard a single
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by mikestew 2y ago
It can be that easy, but you are gambling. If the market turns for whatever reason, then all your positions go near to zero. They’re options, they can go all the way to zero , not “near to zero” (which is what happens to the majority of
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by mikestew 2y ago
It's most certainly not true. It's the ol' "fiduciary duty" canard. Because it's cheaper to make a product by shoving infants into a meat grinder, the company has no choice but to go buy a meat grinder and star

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