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by nocoiner 3y ago
Finally, the graphics of an N64 and a 1989 DOS interface, together at last.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yup, that makes perfect sense. Going from a fairly weak pound to a fairly strong one, coupled with a subset of strong growth years, can most definitely make per capita GDP appear to have doubled in a surprisingly short period. Thanks for di
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Oh come on, surely that’s an overstate… > Size: 458 GB Damn.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The UK doubled per capita GDP in six years (2001-2007)? That seems implausible. That’s got to be a function of exchange rates, or an artifact of PPP (is that chart PPP adjusted?), or - as you said - somehow related to financialization. If t
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I somewhat suspect that the new minimum elevation requirements are overkill. Since the completion of the bayou drainage project, it seems to me that significant rain events are drained much more quickly and the water level in the bayou does
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Incredibly well stated. This was the comment that convinced me to check out the link and, man, what a blast from the past. So many of those commercials I literally haven’t thought about in decades and couldn’t have told you a thing about th
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Buying GoldenEye for the N64 on release day. For the first couple of weeks, being the only one of my friends to own it, but telling all of them how great it was. A week or two after that, one of my friends buying the game (and an N64 to pla
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by nocoiner 3y ago
As a Texan, my preference for electrical generation is “all of the above (except coal).” There is so much generation potential here - wind is probably going to be mostly tapped out pretty soon, but lots of the state is pretty, pretty good f
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I think the 55% number is specifically referring to June 28 and 29? Not clear what the scope of the 50% number is supposed to be - could either be the “evening peak” (not sure what the scope there is either) for those two dates, or June gen
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Unrelated to climate, but speaking of unpleasantness indoors, the Houston airport authorities decided to let a barbecue restaurant open in the middle of the newest, nicest terminal at IAH, with smoke pits and all. It smells strongly of smok
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I think I would take the other side of this bet. I do think that there will be at least one major U.S. urban area that is rendered permanently uninhabitable at some point this century, and the first one will be somewhere in southern Florida
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I was thinking earlier this month that this was the first summer that the heat has really bothered me and generally kept me hiding indoors - normally I love it, and feel very comfortable in it, and usually look like a fool during our mild w
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I was going to say Norman Borlaug, but then I remembered we’re actually a quarter-century out from the twentieth century… Still, I guess he’d get my vote if the relevant window was the last 100 years.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I thought this was an absurd statement in her post. Maybe our societies do exist only at the sufferance of billionaires, but I sure hope not. And if the continued existence of our society is in fact totally dependent on whether Elon Musk ch
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yes. If Twitter had attempted to remain independent, they probably could have, but the board members would have spent the next several years of their lives in depositions for the inevitable shareholder lawsuits. The offer was so rich, they
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by nocoiner 3y ago
In my opinion, there’s certainly a GCE here, but the title was not the first thing that came to my mind.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Thanks for the link. I was scratching my head trying to figure out the evident disparate treatment (Why not Visa? Why not credit cards?) but that explained a lot.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yeah, I thought that the emphasis on (and assumption of) an inherent tragedy of an expanded yard detracted from what was otherwise a fascinating and pretty great article. I kept waiting to learn why this expansion was going to be so detrime
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Also, they left a live mammal at home during a trip to London… presumably (hopefully?!) a house sitter would have been visiting soon enough and would undoubtedly have noticed the 90 degree indoor temp.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
That’s a reasonable point. I don’t envy folks in your situation having to deal with that. From what I understand, the tax situation sounds pretty ridiculous. Still, it somewhat boggles my mind that one could be patriotic enough to volunteer
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by nocoiner 3y ago
So the US spends, what, $10 million (more?) to train each military pilot, and then after retirement, with their pension and thanks of a grateful nation evidently being insufficient compensation, it’s OK for one of them to decide to moonligh
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Probably used to have refineries that have since closed.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Just from eyeballing the dates on the chart, I’m guessing a lot of those extra emissions are due to the oil industry and the long history of production within the United States. The US was the number one producer for a while, never really f
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I think you are still not understanding what an opinion piece is? It’s fine that you weren’t persuaded by it - maybe it was a poor argument, or maybe you weren’t the target audience, or maybe you’re totally hidebound in your thinking and pe
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The “he doth protest too much” vibes coming off that article are strong. Strange coincidence that he also renounced his American citizenship around the same time he was doing this very cool and totally legal flight instruction.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The conclusion is baffling. If I understand the author’s thesis, I think it was something like: “Wouldn’t it be neat if the thermostat had more insight and could have automatically arranged to have itself repaired? But I don’t know how that
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by nocoiner 3y ago
This is really interesting, thanks for posting it here! On a semi-related topic, I love mysteries like these - mystery songs, those Japanese kanji in Unicode that nobody knows what they mean or where they came from, paper towns on maps. If
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by nocoiner 3y ago
It’s racist to observe that different cultures have differences? Aren’t differences what culture is ?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
For sure, I definitely recall how space constrained things felt back then. Still, five megabytes of traffic per day doesn’t feel like much of an allowance, even back then. I guess it was really just intended for text-only personal pages. I
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I always found it hilarious when .ly was a trendy domain and people were literally building businesses on it. Like, you’re going to put your fate in the hands of Muammar Gaddafi?

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