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by nocoiner 3y ago
Not the prior poster, but it seems like you’re missing his point? From my perspective, I’m far, far more uncomfortable about authenticating through my bank than providing a credit card number - that feels like I’m potentially granting a bad
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Ha, this reminds me of getting my first ISP account cancelled when I exceeded their web hosting bandwidth limit. The limit was 150 MB (I think per month? This was 1995, but even for back then, that seems awfully low…), and my pages racked u
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by nocoiner 3y ago
> One side note - a friend of mine has a house that sits on a county and city border, and is taxed in 2 different cities and 2 different counties here on the outskirts of Houston. He gets multiple tax bills per year, and doing anything t
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Correct. The “small/limited government” state legislature took away all sorts of rights from individual communities’ self-determination - involving things like running elections (but only in counties above a certain population size, me
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Sorry to nitpick (I have one of your products and have generally been quite pleased with it), but where do you explain this? I only get one unrelated article in your knowledge base searching for “MQTT” and don’t see anything in a quick web
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by nocoiner 3y ago
A 21st-century font in a 17th-century thesis would have been much more compelling.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
One additional thought, on an item FTA: “I’d like to see Instagram offer more accurate tags/labels, as there is a literal difference between getting a cardboard box and receiving money to express an opinion, but it will do for now.” Is
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Somehow, at some point in the last few months, I found myself reading a portion of a mid-1960s Federal Register that included capsule summaries of various small-bore enforcement actions the FTC took against misleading advertisers in the pri
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I am fairly sure I don’t have aphantasia, but for me there’s no visual component to daydreaming - it’s purely just zoning out and later realizing I’d lost track of time. It’s so interesting to hear about how other people’s minds work totall
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Super interesting, thanks for the response!
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I personally could have been on board with a remake with the original cast (though the original was already about aging and maturity, so I don’t think the passage of yet another generation would have been all that compelling of a story), bu
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Verify. Me?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
All airlines have lost planes due to the pilot letting his teenaged son fly the plane? Ah, no, they have not. That one is sui generis.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
United offered “chicken and quinoa” and “tofu and pasta” on a nine-hour flight. I assume they thought the choices sounded sophisticated or something. The chicken was literally frozen (up to and including the time that it was served to the e
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by nocoiner 3y ago
You sound far better acquainted with the facts on the ground, so I defer to your assessment. But “river activist indifferent to land” being a position held by someone out there is not something I find terribly difficult to imagine.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I know, right? “Sterrett said it was vital that all drones were recovered and that similar shows did not take place over water until there was an assurance the same thing would not happen again.” So the alternative is that all future drone
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I called United recently with a question about a $1200 flight credit that was evidently unusable, seemingly due to an apparent failure in one of their systems. I called the customer service line and guffawed out loud when the automated voic
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by nocoiner 3y ago
This is hilarious - I flew United recently for the first time in 2-3 years. And good lord, I thought it had been bad before, but somehow the potential was there for it to become worse than I ever could have imagined. Surly crew, comically d
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I don’t know if my bias is affected by the last half dozen or so flights I’ve been on during this unseasonably hot last few months, but it seems to me like temperature regulation on planes on the ground is way more unpleasant than it used t
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Too interesting. I just saw your other comment about the longevity of properly maintained wood pilings. Never would have thought that preventing rot would require them remaining wet.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Fascinating, thanks. Do you happen to know what material they used for the piles? I’ve always assumed some kind of concrete column, but that seems possibly incompatible with the process you saw.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Sounds like your geography is very similar to mine, fellow gulf coaster/swamp dweller. I know my house sits on a bunch of piles as well, though I don’t know how deep they go. I would guess it’s likely less than 50’, though maybe not.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
What percentage of the average urban area is covered by buildings with 70’ foundations? I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that this is something that’s only required for skyscrapers or other similar large commercial buildings? And the average
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Is there a reason why you favor 500’ below ground level? My naive initial reaction is that seems like tremendous overkill in 99% of applications. Presumably in the vast majority of urban areas, 50’ would be more than enough to avoid any and
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by nocoiner 3y ago
100 or so years ago, couldn’t this article have been written about the use of German in science papers? I’m really not sure that this is a problem per se, but rather just a dynamic that is going to exert itself in any type of worldwide comm
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Plus the topic category for this piece is “AIER >> Daily Economy >> History >> Authoritarianism” Lmfao, overreaction much? I suspect Mr. Tucker has never had the misfortune to live in an actually authoritarian society.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Edit: the formatting on this is just atrocious, and I don’t have time to do more than take a quick shot at hopefully fixing it, but suspect it isn’t gonna work. Apologies in advance. Just off the top of my head, I guess my short list would
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Against my better judgment, I’m going to make a statement that sounds incredibly crass, but is directionally true: those are all travesties that no decent society should accept, but at the end of the day, they’re rounding errors. There’s pl
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The energy position of the United States is just …. tremendously, tremendously sound. We’re a net exporter of hydrocarbons, have terrific renewable facilities in place, under development and untapped future potential, and have poured how ma
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Big son of a bitch!

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