mrexroad

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by mrexroad 10y ago
> My point being that the houses are being listed and sold in a short time frame. That suggests that the housing market is pricing appropriately for the buyers. i live in sunnyvale. along the ~0.6mi route between my house and the kids&#x
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by mrexroad 10y ago
[Edit: depth perception article has more complete than monocular article] Monocular Cues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception#Monocular_cue...
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by mrexroad 10y ago
I've been prescribed/taking 30mg IR for about a decade now. I don't feel anything after taking it, beyond causally noticing that I'm not causing the problems I do when unmedicated. My doc asked years back if I was intere
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by mrexroad 10y ago
Many would argue that M&A is Cisco's primary market.
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by mrexroad 10y ago
I dunno. Uncle Phil's house was what came to my mind for many years when hearing "McMansion."
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by mrexroad 10y ago
> "The Juligo headlamp has become a top-selling item on Amazon. And we all know what happens to top-selling items: They get arbitraged. Other people -- Becker’s peers -- are now selling her headlamp on eBay and making a few extra bu
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by mrexroad 10y ago
I dunno. After many years of music filled flights, I've recently starting using earplugs, instead of music, with my Bose noise cancelling headphones and have found it quite rewarding. I can't sleep on flights, but the kinda silen
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by mrexroad 10y ago
> A human, with proper training and heuristics, can reasonably be expected to never make a mistake that causes a terrible accident. fighter pilots make mistakes causing terrible accidents. and they're a group of humans that were pre
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by mrexroad 10y ago
Likewise, having a population of 1-2B also introduces the risk of scaling beyond the food production capabilities of the land. Obviously an overpopulated country can (and likely will) take from an underpopulated country, but modern weapons
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by mrexroad 10y ago
...or maybe there are advantages with not being faced with the crisis of how to handle unsustainable growth? I'd love to see population / GDP growth models reflect the "oh sh*t, there's no food for half the population&qu
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by mrexroad 10y ago
Forgive the lack of depth in explanation, and I know it may not make sense, but for me: my children.
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by mrexroad 10y ago
My first thought was, "oh, reminds me of the SEAL's 40% rule... so if they're trained to ignore that limit, why don't they get hurt?" Then, in first google result [1], I read this: “I first met “SEAL” at a 100-mile
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by mrexroad 10y ago
"subtle science and exact art" - s. snape
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by mrexroad 10y ago
agree on frustration with the inaccurate use of the word "hate". i have little/no tolerance for my kids saying "i hate you" or "i hate this/that", and have explained they have never truly experienced
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by mrexroad 10y ago
"Part 6 — Summary tl;dr it’s a summary" yep, tl;dr was there at the bottom; i laughed.
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by mrexroad 10y ago
Huh, me too. I'd just assumed that was normal; been this way for as long as I can remember (years); tho I have had random short bouts (<30nin) of tinnitus more frequently over past few months.
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by mrexroad 10y ago
It's more common than some people think in America I have seen it occur near a park in San Francisco.
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by mrexroad 10y ago
i think if my bank offered advice, i'd strongly consider doing the exact opposite of whatever they suggested. i'd rank it up there w/ listening to jiffy lube's recommendation to refill the blinker fluid.
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by mrexroad 10y ago
"inexpensive" Just wait until TSA vendors out the development of it :)
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by mrexroad 10y ago
"interrogations of urban design and architecture" this. it'd take me paragraph(s?) to convey the concept of design systems having personality (be it of a single designer, or the relationship/history of the city/buil
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by mrexroad 10y ago
Yet they charge you for the cup -- $0.65 for a crappy plastic cup at SFO.
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by mrexroad 11y ago
> "It's the circle of life..." - King Mufasa
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by mrexroad 11y ago
The Apple W.A.T.C.H. Wrist Activated Taptic-notifying Checking Heartrates!
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by mrexroad 11y ago
> Individual property owners sell/move on average every 7 years. Really, on average? Just SF, or Bay Area overall?
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by mrexroad 11y ago
highly recommended. read it over a decade ago, and still think of it often. the feelings/emotions, as they relate to all sorts of mundane aspects of society (e.g. the barn), haven't faded in the slightest.
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by mrexroad 11y ago
this. an immediate family member is a prosecutor. as a software engineer who loves hard problems and agree that few professions rival the mental strain of holding that problem in memory, but i can attest as to just how strong the parallels
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by mrexroad 11y ago
Parking spaces are probably as feasible as we'd get before energy model for vehicles changes. Parking spaces can be retrofitted versus having to rebuild transportation infrastructure. Plus, being a stationary discrete position simplifi
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by mrexroad 11y ago
My expectation as a consumer of these kinds of devices was not, at all, met by what Dropcam is. I consider it unethical (particularly the misleading copy on their packaging, but the general case of a device being ransomware, as well) Wh
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by mrexroad 11y ago
I am very curious about everything and everyone I see . . . and so I have felt invisible also, as a child feels himself invisible, beneath the radar of adult supervision. The consequence of so much unsupervised freedom was that I became pr
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by mrexroad 11y ago
counter point: i pre-ordered dropcam for the reason that it was limited to cloud-use only. I wanted something dead simple to use so my wife / house sitter / etc could easily move it as needed, we had access anywhere without config

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