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by mrslave 6y ago
Mini-ITX case recommendation that holds 8 3.5" drives please?
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by mrslave 6y ago
#5 neglects the fact that Epstein had an office on campus, which is far more interesting than the number of times he was invited in by staff. (Covered in more detail by someone else, below.)
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by mrslave 6y ago
Second. I regularly laugh with my friends at how different subsets of the group dominate the conversation depending on the subject. Cricket has a few fanatic followers, and the rest of us quickly tune out. Recommend using the article's
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by mrslave 6y ago
Heart scarring too https://www.smh.com.au/national/seizures-and-battered-heart-...
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by mrslave 6y ago
Perhaps it was not to get a girlfriend, but to keep one and nurture a meaningful relationship?
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by mrslave 6y ago
The biggest value my UPS gave was keeping the home broadband running (modem & wifi) in a sustained black-out. It impressed everyone a lot, except me. Keeping a whole system running for a while was my real intention, but I quickly learnt
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by mrslave 6y ago
1 kettlebell. 1 jump rope. Thank me later. ;-)
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by mrslave 6y ago
Exactly the thinking that causes policy makers to keep the cost of borrowing cheap, thus exacerbating the precise vulnerability.
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by mrslave 6y ago
I appreciate that on HN this article may provoke intelligent conversation, but this article is smells a lot like a "top N things you need right now" blog post where everything is an Amazon affiliate link. (Edit: I was wrong about
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by mrslave 6y ago
I remember an interview with a very wealthy person. While describing his young adulthood he mentioned having the goal of buying his first luxury watch (think $10k equivalent today). Now I don't like the if-you're-not-a-billionaire
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by mrslave 6y ago
And https://16colo.rs/
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by mrslave 6y ago
Imagine how slow that will be after it's great firewalled. No wonder there's protests in the streets!
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by mrslave 6y ago
Late reply. It was your comment that had been downvoted into the negative when I came across it. So I was engaging in a kind of off-topic defense of your comment. ;-)
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by mrslave 6y ago
Is anyone just using Git{Hub,Lab,Tea} issues and being fine with it? Is the absence of a Kanban board a deal breaker? Perhaps for management.
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by mrslave 6y ago
Please stop downvoting comments just because you disapprove. This is probably the worst practice on HN of late. This post is entirely independent of the subject being discussed. I have no opinion on these particular podcasters.
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by mrslave 6y ago
Internally they're quite honest about what's most important on IT projects: billable hours.
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by mrslave 6y ago
I was going to reply to GP but you beat me to some of my points: > realize that your muscles will get stronger faster than your connective tissue The author, or another prominent advocate on YouTube, emphasizes the ability to get a worko
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by mrslave 6y ago
Among my work colleagues, friends, and family, it seems alcohol consumption has either slightly increased or significantly decreased. I made a conscious choice as Coronavirus was just getting its shoes on to completely stop drinking alcohol
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by mrslave 6y ago
Your statement that Mexico is a narco-state as a direct consequence of USA fighting against the importers of illegal drugs from Mexico cannot simply be given but clearly requires expounding. And even if it were, the implication is the natio
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by mrslave 6y ago
Someone close to me struggled with addiction. I was more supportive than most, making an effort to spend some one-on-one time, and having difficult conversations about his treatment. (In hindsight I still wish I did more.) In spite of all m
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by mrslave 6y ago
Yes. Desktop app/web app only. If you can't ignore blue, shut it down. If you get lots of red, shut it down. Helping others is one thing. Doing it at the expense of your own productivity is another. Silent phone is easy for me. Yo
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by mrslave 6y ago
Reminds me of a Yogi Berra quote: > Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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by mrslave 6y ago
I thought that DDG used Yahoo! Search under the hood exclusively (because... why use more than one?). It turns out that it is a complex mix of resources from multiple partners[0]: > In July 2016, DuckDuckGo officially announced the exten
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by mrslave 6y ago
Another "How to get a FBI file in just one click!" post. But I suppose I should be more open minded. Just because someone famously does wrong does not mean everything they say is wrong, right?
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by mrslave 6y ago
The Project for the New American Century[0] think tank is probably the most significant influence here. Naming Cheney alone oversimplifies matters, but he was without a doubt a prominent figure. > It was established as a non-profit educa
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by mrslave 6y ago
> If we want to stop neighborhood gang violence in the long term, we need to work on why people join gangs, and what they are fighting over. This may be utopian and fails the "perfect is the enemy of good" maxim. Meanwhile enti
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by mrslave 6y ago
It was kinda funny, and not nasty at all. Let's assume good faith here?
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by mrslave 6y ago
He has a child so the natural order of things is not entirely upended.
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by mrslave 6y ago
If I remember correctly, babies learn to distinguish vowels from consonants from near birth when adults speak to them in that annoying high pitched "coochy coochy coo" dialect. After 6-12 months of life this starts to hold them ba
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by mrslave 6y ago
Late in life chess learner here. I broke through a plateau by studying openings more than memorizing them. Slowly working through the early possibilities to separate what works from what doesn't helped to reinforce basic principles. So

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