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by nocoiner 2y ago
I wasn’t sure what exactly I would see when I clicked over to view the logo, but yep, you nailed it.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
This comment captured a lot of my thoughts about the article, Amanda and many of the other comments on this thread, except that you put them into words much more capably and eloquently than I was able to do. Well stated.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Cool. Now you’ve just undone 70 years of rural electrification in the United States. Optimizing for factors other than universal service is completely valid, but I’m guessing each of those municipal power systems pre-dated rural electrifica
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by nocoiner 2y ago
But then after that ruling the Delaware legislature changed the law, so it seems like the “awkward questions” you allude to have been mooted?
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I’m told it’s the equivalent of a chest x-ray.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Looks just like Columbia on her last reentry :(
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by nocoiner 2y ago
So that just means that if they ever make the political decision to pursue nuclear armament, they’ll call it the Japan Strategic Self-Defense Force. As it is, Japan probably already has nukes that are all-but-assembled. Even if they don’t
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Amazing. And indeed, surely a multi-million dollar commission (in ‘90s dollars!) - the logo is from the same guy who did the logos for IBM and NeXT (among many others).
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Great article, but I believe this needs a (2022).
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Nice find. Also one of my favorite bands and one of my favorite songs of theirs. Edit: I found the set list for that show: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pulp/2011/hyde-park-london-en...
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Y38.5 - medical diagnosis code indicating injury caused by terrorism involving the use of nuclear weapons.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I think you’ve just invented the ESOP.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I too love the engine configuration of the 727 (and if you like that, you should check out the L-1011), but it wasn’t a widebody. It has the same fuselage cross section as a 737.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I got fitted with these last year after finally losing the ability to focus on small text at reasonable distances. They work shockingly well for me. I don’t recall there being any period of adjustment at all.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Agree that Hawaii is (gloriously) remote, but to my eye there still seems to be less shipping in its vicinity on average than there is in similarly remote areas of the Pacific. But I also just noticed I was misinterpreting the scale of the
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by nocoiner 2y ago
You are correct, I was referring to that Vancouver-Panama routing. The more I look at the map, the more I think it does have something to do with some aspect of US jurisdiction - at first I thought the phenomenon was limited to the west coa
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Also in that scene when he slightly moves his hand to get Jack to back off from interrogating the admiral about whether he’d ever met Ramius - just terrific non-verbal acting that speaks volumes.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I love that movie too. It’s amazing how well it holds up for it being, in many ways, a tech-focused movie - I mean, yeah, the tech is very much dated and completely a product of its time, but it doesn’t look at all ridiculous. Undoubtedly p
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I wonder why there’s that “elbow” off the west coast of the US. Is that composed of vessels avoiding the US EEZ or Coast Guard regulation or something?
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I assume your first paragraph was a direct tribute to H.R. Hadden’s first rule of government spending?
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I love this idea for an extension and have wanted something to do exactly this, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. I checked the enablement and the permissions, but the imgur test image link still loads the full page.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Slashdot is where I found out about 9/11. I got up one morning and the NY Times (which I usually read first) wasn’t loading. Neither was CNN. After one or two more news sites, I shrugged and went to Slashdot, and that was where I saw t
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by nocoiner 2y ago
The fact that he got into Northwestern is proof in itself that the “system” didn’t consider him to be a bad student. It actually seems like the system did a pretty good job of identifying sheer intellectual horsepower and potential despite
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Big Secrets by William Poundstone. There was also a sequel (Bigger Secrets). I read those books a bunch as a kid, but haven’t thought about them in decades. I wonder how they hold up.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Ah, the original “contact us for pricing.”
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by nocoiner 2y ago
You are a liberal arts major at an American university in the first half of the first decade of this century. At every house party you attend, you see a copy of this book on every coffee table. You are aware that it is critically acclaimed
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Seems like they should have put the magnet in the case and the sensor in the screen.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
It’s not a meme, the man really can’t write an ending to save his life. But generally the pages other than the last ~25 make it totally worth it (other than that post-death MMORPG book, that one was terrible and just a slog the whole way th
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Hey, you joke, but I literally learned about liquidity traps through the parable of the babysitting co-op.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
At best, a lifetime subscription means the lesser of my lifetime or the company’s lifetime. If the former, sucks for me - it’s kinda like “winning” on your life insurance policy.

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