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by nogabebop23 6y ago
What about Walmart? They have a big online presence and sell a lot of 3rd party - anyone know what their counterfeit situation looks like? I've only ever bought diapers from them and if they were fakes it seems oily rags (or whatever i
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
HN is one website with a very small audience of people who understand how it fits into the broader internet. A FB group is what a much, much larger set of less experienced users have been taught is "how you communicate with your tribe&
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
At its peak AOL had millions of users and the internet accounted for a tiny fraction of a person's life. The number of people who viewed AOL a "the internet" and the impact it had on them was a rounding error compared to FB&#
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
it's kind of interesting that places like University research groups (including MIT in the early days of computing in the 50's/60's) recognized this need and had dedicated machinists to build a lot of the mech that they
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
This is still the case for many of the stripe press books I would like to purchase. Not available in Canada so looking at very expensive shipping and import duties.
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
The entire point of identifying an externalized cost is that it is not being paid for by the beneficiary. You can't both allow it and have them pay for it or it's no longer externalized.
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
Well my insurance company offers a minor discount if you have an alarm, so that's about as emperical as it gets. From their perspective you're ~ 2% less likely to have a significant claim with an alarm vs. without
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
My house was broken into with the high tech method of a rock through the sidelight window, right on top of the ADT sticker; so much for that theory. This occurred @ 10am on a weekday when we were out for less than an hour too. We added (rea
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
So the author is a GP in a VC firm focusing on the future of work", who thinks that many (most?) of the challenges of the "permanently flipped workplace" can be solved with the combination of SASS tooling and essentially miss
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
also it's much harder to read the internet, check your phone or leave your desk during a call when you have video on. People did all of these back during the in-person days, but it took more effort or less caring. Now it seems S.O.P.
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
I think I'm #1, definitely not #2 or #4 and with honesty a little bit of #3, if only because it's a necessary but not sufficient part of #1. I've taken the summer off work rather than continue WFH because I just don't se
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
The only true thing in this comment is "you are not a lawyer". Acting on information that is not public knowledge for your benefit is insider trading, regardless of where/how you received the information, and would be a viola
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
>> I'd definitely try to get my kid into sports so he can learn to lose early and often. So nobody, kid or not, wants to fail/lose all the time but after watching my three kids play lots of different sports the pain they fe
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
>> was Steve Jobs known for fabrications? ... known to say outrageous falsehoods? Just off the top of my head... He lied to Woz about being paid to develop break out and stole money from him to go to India; He presented essentially a
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
This type of comment feels a lot like "I knew of the band before they made it big". I'm not disagreeing with your perception as I think it applies to the entire internet as a whole. It's exclusionary and selfish and unfa
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
You can drop the word "Inexperienced". But hte idea of paying to avoid this risk is misplaced. You're also doing a completely different activity. Under you're logic you should also work from home and order in all your me
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
>> you sweat salt water all over it and don't want your alloy handlebars to break in half because it corroded underneath the bar tape. Of all the ways to crash - mechanical failure, operator error, 3rd party - this is the one th
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
>> I really wish the government was doing these tests What does that even mean?
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
why do keyboards need firmware updates and companion apps? yet, that's exactly what my razer mech KB required for me to change the slow fade in/out to just "on". Pretty ridiculous and I too uninstalled it after, but who
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
He is a marketer at heart, so his material often comes across like this, but there is good content in there if the presentation doesn't turn you away too soon.
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
Tim Ferriss is an unapologetic self-promoter who often comes across as greasy and his major product is the Tim Ferriss id, but he's also right so much of the time. He offers very good advice from someone I would never want to be, and t
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
I'm older too. Maybe the issue is if the central premise is vapourware or components/add-on features So maybe if the author automated the metadata collection, ran some filtering on it and then had a fitness pro sanity check the re
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
yes - this is related to non-routine maintenance. I assume operation prevents moisture forming that can corrode. Storage for several weeks or months means this is like a more stringent used car "road worthiness" inspection.
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
It's not necessary to use calipers to measure these tolerances. In this case talking about clearance between two parts you just use a feeler gauge which is a calibrated thickness of metal. If the documentation says no more than X mm, y
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
wellhead gas used as fuel is pretty minor. Maybe 5-10% of production, sometimes even less than what's flared. Burning gas for electric generation at the consumption site is about as clean as fossil fuels get. If we could do it domestic
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
You're catching a lot of flack but in my experience this is true. We always leave the leftovers with the students who attended as (1) all students, regardless of school can always use some good leftovers, (2) the logistics and health c
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
>> If you find yourself collaborating less as a result of remote work, then I question your remote setup and culture. Ah yes, the old "you're doing it wrong retort". Blaming the person who doesn't conform to your i
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
I agree with your progression, with a little more detail: * emulators on your desktop * harware like a RPi and maybe add dedicated USB controllers * cardboard mock-ups (I use particle or panelboard for mounting the controls) * permanent ver
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
Big box stores are NOT going to cut with the precision and fiddly shaped pieces you need to make this worthwhile though. Even using a circular saw is going to result in something that looks, well, home made. Using hand tools for symetrical
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
Which is totally backwards, as these classes are the point of contact where energetic, motivated new students get that magical passion that pushes them into an entire life in the field. When I was in grad school and expressed a desire to fo

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