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by npsimons 11y ago
I for one used to be a fairly avid computer and tabletop gamer, but dropped them for more active hobbies. If I ever did go back to gaming, it would be tabletop, hands down. While LAN parties were fun, the constant hardware upgrade cycle, gr
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by npsimons 11y ago
> Chromecast only doesn't support Amazon Video because Amazon hasn't made apps (iOS, Android, or Web) that support the Google Cast SDK, not because Google does something to degrade performance. > AFAICT, essentially the same
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by npsimons 11y ago
> I have Prime and prefer Netflix, because Prime Video still doesn't have a great selection. In my (limited) experience, the selection between Amazon Prime Video and Netflix is about the same. While this move very much feels like de
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by npsimons 11y ago
> had violent confrontations with cars. If this happened between a motorist and pedestrian or even other motorist, what would happen? That's right, they'd take away their drivers license, which should be happening more often. T
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by npsimons 11y ago
> Man! You guys are a bunch of complainers! I second the get-an appropriate bike line of thinking. This line of thinking got us fleets of gas guzzling SUVs and crumbling infrastructure because people didn't want to pay their road ta
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by npsimons 11y ago
> bicycles are only useful to the able-bodied Maybe if they biked to and from work, they wouldn't be "disabled" (ie, burdened by fat). The truly disabled make up a miniscule portion of the population, and while accomodatin
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by npsimons 11y ago
While I agree that cyclists should be better behaved, I feel that it may be an (over)reaction to hostility from drivers. There's a saying motorcyclists have: ride like they (the car drivers) can't see you. I like to extend that fo
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by npsimons 11y ago
When I did my on-site interview with Google in Mountain View, it was very obvious to me I would almost certainly be car commuting every day, for (at least) two reasons: 1) Cost of houses close to Google was ridiculous. 2) The city is very c
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by npsimons 11y ago
The IBM comparison is really apt. IBM hasn't died, they used to dominate like Microsoft, with all the same underhanded tactics, and they eventually came around. There's also the "culture wars" to consider, where many (
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by npsimons 11y ago
37, started using Linux in '98 (what can I say, late bloomer), but ran OS/2 before that as "rebelling against the M$ hegemony" (plus OS/2 was technically superior). I still have some of the IBM Linux ads. I still do
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by npsimons 11y ago
> when I see one Congressmen one-upping another on how we need to be "tough" or have "no tolerance" for this or that, I'm little surprised that our police and intelligence agencies act the way they do. Puritanism
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by npsimons 11y ago
I'm glad to see an expert come to the same conclusion that my amateur study of this subject has. The predicate in the first sentence in the article ("The Founders misread history") really rubbed me the wrong way, as I've
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by npsimons 11y ago
> he slagged off Pratchett's writing calling it pot boiler and calling Pratchett himself mediocre, while being preachy about his taste. Hence the trolling. And while it might be clickbaitish, he did have a very good point, and just
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by npsimons 11y ago
The sad fact of the matter is that this boils down to: you will never live long enough to read even all the good books, for almost any value of "good" [1]. While the OP may be responding to another writer whom he deems "troll
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by npsimons 11y ago
Good riddance. I've never liked shopping, and these days, if I can't find something in 10 minutes, I'll go home and buy it online in 5. Note that I'm more than willing to try buying local first, support local businesses,
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by npsimons 11y ago
> I think singling out vegetarians is pretty unfair, even if it was mentioned in the paper. Heck, just the starting to think about what you put in your piehole that vegetarianism forces people to do would immensely help with food-related
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by npsimons 11y ago
> I think we overvalue logos. Only if we let the ends justify the means. If we consider them as ways to learn about the world, logos beats the other two hands down. That being said, I am slowly turning into a Machiavellian pragmatist: wh
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by npsimons 11y ago
Here's the thing: honest enquiry is something that should be encouraged. Sea-lioning[1], JAQing off[2] and Gish gallops[3] should not. When you are buried to your eyeballs in bullshit, it's hard to see who is really someone willin
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by npsimons 11y ago
> What more do they want? They won't tell you, because then they wouldn't be able to move the goalposts, by "just asking questions".
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by npsimons 11y ago
> I think we all want tools that help us do our jobs quickly and more reliably. I can't help but feel there's something vital missing from police, DA, etc training. I'm reminded very distinctly of my ethics class (which wa
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by npsimons 11y ago
So, that's an interesting phenomenom, albeit one with possible explanations (that others have provided), but I'd like to volley a question back to you: have you performed the same experiments that Arrhenious[1] performed in 1896,
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by npsimons 11y ago
> Because it's not a debate about science, it's a debate about policy. Bingo! The science is settled, as much as any science ever can be. The problem comes in with people "just asking questions", the same questions, o
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by npsimons 11y ago
I think it's pretty easily explained in even just the fifth paragraph in: most bosses are baby boomers, with a stay at home spouse who takes care of household things (the "life" part of the balance), and they consider face ti
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by npsimons 12y ago
So totally this; it's what I've said time and again. Is Linus abrasive? Yes, he can be. He usually has reason. But people seem to rarely read the whole thread, and even if they did, they are usually outsiders who lack both the tec
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by npsimons 12y ago
Same sentiment; I'm really wondering how they managed to find 60kft of gain in (at best) hilly Tennessee. Then again, if you find a steep enough hill and run up and down it enough times (which it sounds like they do), I guess that wo
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by npsimons 12y ago
So what you're saying is, even though it's ridiculously cold, they still found a way to reduce the number of cars on the road, and it was through more taxes on cars?
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by npsimons 12y ago
Also, the implications of GP, if true, seem to be obvious to me: reduce the number of cars on the road to make cycling safer. Seems like a win-win to me.
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by npsimons 12y ago
I wouldn't call firing bullets into the engine (overeating on a regular enough basis to get obese) well intentioned.
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I like to say if a pilot (person) starts firing bullets into the engines (eats too much) and crashes the plane (suffers the effects of ill health), then it's probably the pilot's fault for thinking the laws of physics don't a
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by npsimons 12y ago
Actually, it's like saying "you can have sex, just wear a condom and don't have sex with every person that asks; use a little self-control."

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