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by mmanfrin 10y ago
We are truly living in a modern fall of rome What on earth does this have to do with the fall of Rome? Why do you think the empire fell?
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San Diego gets special mention, because I believe the great American Beer Renaissance started there. The modern (American style) IPA was first (commercially) made in SD in 1996.
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Come visit California. We have too many wine regions to name.
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This is the click-baitiest fluff piece I think I've ever seen without a 'This Post Sponsored By' line. The section that is presumably 'why' is this: AT&T has been positioning itself as the leading wireless
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It never really occurred to me that that money would be more useful paying for things outside the US. In my mind I thought 'tax free but useless vs taxed and useful'. So this essentially means that building anything outside the
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Facebook's vassalization of Instagram was brilliant, in retrospect. Facebook is free to pursue its imperial ambitions while Instagram follows the much quicker and looser edge/leader features demanded by the market of Snap/IG&
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Reddit and Facebook ate forums. Reddit in particular fills that interest-niche conversation role to a degree that it strangles forums.
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Mildly off topic but still on topic: Last night I was looking at user benchmarks for the Ryzen 7 vs the newer i7s and it looked like the i7s were beating the R7s in almost every practical category. I thought the R7 was supposed to be the &#
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My favorite moment of the experiment was when a German flag began to overtake a French flag, and as fighting was taking place over the former-French flag, France went upwards and made a flag, and once that was complete the fighting over the
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That is a very expensive oversight if they did not already negotiate. I would not be surprised, however, if they already have an agreement (and kept it in his name until after the announcement, so that it would not be 'leaked' b
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I think one of the difficult things is that volatility (and speculators) do play a role in a coin succeeding, as speculators make the 'network effect' problem of altcoins easier to overcome. There's next to zero reason for a
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There's only one very slight mention of the lack of fish in their diet in this article, which I think does injustice to a component that (I feel) is exceptionally important to understanding why the colony failed: They did not eat fish.
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I think there's a difference between being mad, and having formed an opinion about a person. I'm not actively raging about Lickey, but I have formed an impression of him that is unfavorable.
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I don't find it takes much energy to consider him a horrible person. e: Downvoting because you disagree is not a proper use for your downvote button.
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The same kind that provide telephone, cable and electric service Telephone: deeply regulated. Cable: deeply unregulated. Electric: deeply regulated. There's an odd-man-out here.
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Sonic is reliant on AT&T boxes; the best I can get is dual copper, and given my distance from the box, my estimated speed is 6mbps. Oh how I've pleaded with them to bring fiber here. I remember when they announced that Berkeley wa
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Demand for Youtube and FB are so high and ubiquitous that pretty much any ISP will immediately cave in. Yep, Comcast better be careful lest I leave them for the 6mbps competitors I have as options in the backwater community I liv
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Outside of the case, the most striking thing to me about this is the level of detail that Google has over the logs and actions of their laptop. They were able to tell that a memory card was plugged in for 8 hours a year ago? I have troubl
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
I cannot read longer books unless I'm reading on an ereader. Normal books are fine in paper or ebook, but if a book is >500 pages, I psych myself out when trying to read (and also find it unwieldy to read on public transit when I do
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My favorite recruiting emails are the ones where their name-replace code broke and left in {{first_name}} or something similar. Ah, yes, I must be the perfect fit for your role!
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Doesn't 70% of CA tax revenue go towards paying pension obligations Not even close . The article linked by the comment I replied to states that CA will chip in $5.4bil -- last years budget was $122bil. Maybe you got the 70% fi
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I managed to crash my bike in to a car in Italy; I remember the process of going to a doctor (which happened to be the closest door on the sidewalk where I hobbled over to) and having them send me to a hospital. I got looked at, xrayed, and
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
[2] is about CalPERS, which is separate from the budget of the State. There may be a current budget shortfall, but CalPERS is fine (it is the largest non-country pension fund in the world; and comes in the top 10 when listed among countries
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s/their/our
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I can't imagine how you'd begin to do this.
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Hard or soft boiled eggs -- bonus is that when you pressure cook them, it makes the shell stupid easy to get off (crack a ring around the middle, then pull the shell off). 5mins for hard, 4 mins for softer yolk, 1 min for runny (like for eg
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The root cause was the never-allow-pain mantra of the 90s when it came to proscribing painkillers like Oxy; this was followed years later by a later tightening of prescription policy that led many to look to Heroin as an alternative.
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Decriminalization and an expansion of social programs to help addiction recovery. It's hard for people to get help when they fear legal troubles. Unfortunately neither of these will happen in the next 4 years; and likely the opposite w
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Does it feel like there have been a bit more 'hit pieces' about Snapchat recently? Is this typical around IPOs?
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There is a distinction to be made between the living room and the family room. Family rooms tend to have TVs, and living rooms are for sitting+conversating. This is an article of clearly well-off households and their living rooms. Your ment

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