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by mrexroad 4y ago
Fascinating, I had no idea.
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by mrexroad 4y ago
I’ve always quipped that the idea that the highest property taxes fund the poorest areas, and vice-versa. While not feasible, the current situation is absurd.
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by mrexroad 4y ago
Only way to go is w/ either magnetic core memory or isolinear chips.
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by mrexroad 4y ago
Col. Ray Butts.
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by mrexroad 4y ago
Hmm, a few years late per SeaQuest’s timeline… I just hope we have a SeaQuest 4600 class sub handy to sacrifice in order to plug the lava flow when the turbines cause the ocean floor to break apart! Ironically, in the SeaQuest timeline, Sea
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by mrexroad 4y ago
“Percussive maintenance”
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by mrexroad 4y ago
There used to be quite a few pay-phones…
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by mrexroad 4y ago
Huh? What a weird comment. “[born with] no preexisting moral guilt” — Is that some attempt to re-frame ignorance? I have teenage kids and they sure as hell have been raised to understand, from a young age, that while they are in an unfairly
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by mrexroad 4y ago
I dunno. I’m early millennial and, due largely to money reasons, I’ve done the following myself in past 12 months: - re-graded slope of dirt in back yard (by hand, oof), trenched and added irrigation (to code), and seeded a successful lawn
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by mrexroad 4y ago
Either way… Amazon canceled The Expanse. Frustrating.
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by mrexroad 4y ago
While I find some aspects of your comment interesting, I’d also throw out that the environmental devastation from farming far outstrips that of housing. However, in both scenarios, it’s clear that much of the solution space is vertical (pun
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by mrexroad 4y ago
The mental model of buying something new/used doesn’t apply same as cars. Unlike a car, the structure is simply an improvement that’s factored into the price of what you’re purchasing — the rights to the physical space itself. Sometime
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by mrexroad 5y ago
I have a 12 mini. Love, love the size, but batt life hurts and I miss the 2x lens more than I expected. I hope it lives another generation or two to resolve camera and batt trade-offs.
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by mrexroad 5y ago
I think most people would consider “falling” to be going “down” a gravity well. Stable orbits around a gravity well, or at sufficient distance to not be influenced by it, are not what most would consider to be “falling.”
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by mrexroad 5y ago
Wait, people don’t have fond memories of pop tarts?
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by mrexroad 5y ago
Same. My dog sliced open the sleeve, and I was about to stitch a crappy fix myself until I saw their policy when googling. Got it back and looks good as new. I’m picky and I was fairly impressed.
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by mrexroad 5y ago
Don’t forget that it also was the catalyst for Executive Order 9066.
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by mrexroad 5y ago
Ours is always still evaporated, at best
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by mrexroad 5y ago
This. Thank you.
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by mrexroad 5y ago
“ Exporting telecom, medical, auto, agricultural, electrical and tech equipment, as well as some forestry products, will be banned until the end of 2022.” I’ve purchased Baltic Birch plywood before that turned out to be manufactured in Russ
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by mrexroad 5y ago
> “expresses hostility by being unreasonable and difficult” Sadly I’ve seen well-intending ASD/Asperger’s folks be written off as hostile. It’s a tricky balance to build culture of positivity without blocking neurodivergent folks f
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by mrexroad 5y ago
s/fake news/entertainment exploiting a set of curated insecurities to maximize ad-sales/g The problem is that most are convinced that it’s all “fake news” and their preferred source is the “least fake”, all while getting pull
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by mrexroad 5y ago
Space Seed and then, later, The Wrath of Khan.
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by mrexroad 5y ago
I’ve always been tempted, but I almost worry I’d start obsessing over “the next find” as well as hoarding. While I’m (maybe?) 75% kidding, I do already have a garage half full of my stuff over the years that I can’t bring myself to throw aw
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by mrexroad 5y ago
Fwiw, black belt was basically when you actually started learning. Everything up until then was really just gaining what you needed in order to actually start learning. IIRC the “black” represented the dirt (effort) accumulated over time.
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by mrexroad 5y ago
Fwiw, while Ga Tech is not that difficult to get in to, their undergrad CS program is that difficult to graduate from.
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by mrexroad 5y ago
Paging George P. Burdell…
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by mrexroad 5y ago
FWIW, you really shouldn’t put them in your ear…
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by mrexroad 5y ago
This. I’ll also add that the reviews themselves were a great resource when researching the a product space — 10 years back I’d use Amazon rather than google for learning before buying. Now both are garbage; I get some value out of restricti
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by mrexroad 5y ago
In 20+ years, I have rarely seen a technical interview actually be indicative of a team’s standards. I’ve seen good, bad, and much in between, but mostly I’ve found the “standards” communicated during the interview to be purely aspirational

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