mrchucklepants

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by mrchucklepants 8y ago
My grandparents lived in the same location. I used to love hearing the F-16s sit at the end of the runway at full throttle and then release the brakes. That would also shake the whole house. As a kid it was amazing to experience.
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Subscription Updates for Computer Backup(backblaze.com)
2 points by mrchucklepants 8y ago|0 comments
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by mrchucklepants 8y ago
It looks like the plane never left the runway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1288
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by mrchucklepants 9y ago
I ate cactus quite frequently when I lived in Mexico. It’s pretty good when prepared well.
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by mrchucklepants 9y ago
Guaranteeing the big banks can't fail is a source of moral hazard, removing the cost of being wrong from those taking the risk and transferring it to the general public. Make the banks responsible for the negative consequences of their
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by mrchucklepants 9y ago
Most of the damage the Fed causes is due to artificial manipulation of interest rates, disrupting the time coordinating function they would serve when driven by natural market forces. This time discoordination is the source of the boom-bust
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by mrchucklepants 9y ago
That's actually true of non-renewable energy as well.
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by mrchucklepants 9y ago
They state the downloads are sent over HTTPS. They also have a downloader that allows for resumable downloads [1]. [1] https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665908-How-t...
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by mrchucklepants 9y ago
I love my ST.
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by mrchucklepants 10y ago
There is a great children's version of this as well: http://tuttletwins.com/pencil/
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by mrchucklepants 10y ago
I also own a 2015 Fiesta ST as my daily driver. It's the most fun I've ever had in a car.
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by mrchucklepants 10y ago
The only true monopolies are those backed by the government, which the original AT&T was. There has never been a "monopoly" not backed by the government that did not benefit the customer. Standard Oil and U.S. Steel, the class
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by mrchucklepants 10y ago
It is not socialist at all. You are free to take your capital and business out of the system at any time. There is no coercion in the system.
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by mrchucklepants 10y ago
A great place to look for a Mormon view on what Zion will be like, at least in principle, is a book called The Enoch Letters written by Neal Maxwell, a LDS apostle. It is written in the style of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. It a qui
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by mrchucklepants 10y ago
David Hall has been my boss for the past 10 years. I have worked a little on some of these projects over the years but I work for the oil & gas part of the company that was sold to Schlumberger. David has lots of ideas, many I have help
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by mrchucklepants 10y ago
I'm guessing I share an office with your brother then.
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by mrchucklepants 10y ago
Foreflight[1] does something similar already but they are focused on traditional flight. This is an interesting idea. [1] https://www.foreflight.com/
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by mrchucklepants 11y ago
An attack on cash will surely follow.
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by mrchucklepants 11y ago
The answer to the first question is the time-value of money. The capitalist has put his capital into the production and is delaying the return on his investment to the future. The employee is being paid now, regardless of when the income fr
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by mrchucklepants 11y ago
Nice to meet another die-hard Astros fan on here. There aren't too many of us.
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by mrchucklepants 11y ago
This happened to me at Costco the other day. Chip capable terminal but it didn't do anything. The guy at the register had never seen anyone try to use it before. He didn't even know the new slot was there.
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by mrchucklepants 12y ago
I've been running with a Thunderbolt Display for a few years now with few problems. I've had zero problems on Yosemite.
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by mrchucklepants 12y ago
Holding a classic liberal, or libertarian, philosophy and having strong feelings of empathy and compassion are not mutually exclusive. It is a logical fallacy to assume that because one is opposed to the government doing something that pers
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by mrchucklepants 12y ago
I'm pretty sure their clients are all native.
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by mrchucklepants 12y ago
Makes sense. Mine is connected through a thunderbolt display so I only have to make/break one connection.
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by mrchucklepants 12y ago
They do support external drives but not network drives. I have a 3 TB external drive attached to my MBA that backs up just fine.
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by mrchucklepants 12y ago
The Glomar Explorer, which was custom built by the CIA to raise a sunk russian nuclear submarine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Glomar_Explorer_(T-AG-193... ),used heave compensation for the entire crane/rig t
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by mrchucklepants 12y ago
In the engineering fields (I am an ME), I am seeing steady growth in the use of Python and declining use of Matlab. The trend does appear to be more prevalent among younger engineers.
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Not all crowd funding has to be a dishonest mystery(pando.com)
2 points by mrchucklepants 12y ago|0 comments
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by mrchucklepants 13y ago
This is a little disconcerting. I have 3 computers backed up with Backblaze. I had a successful 350 GB restore last week. I hope that wasn't an anomaly.

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