panzagl

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by panzagl 5y ago
Given that the largest source of man-made debris is Chinese, I don't see that happening.
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by panzagl 5y ago
I don't think veganism is a crazy idea, but it often seems to devolve into some sort of purity competition that becomes crazy.
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by panzagl 5y ago
More likely retail- in my town the bookstore, stationary store, newsstand, hardware stores, etc. were all family owned until the big box stores opened up two towns over.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Maybe they downloaded more RAM...
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by panzagl 5y ago
The same people who will run a clustered database on VMs.
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by panzagl 5y ago
'Weapon System' is acquisition speak for a project of a certain size that has to go through certain processes involving design, funding, acceptance, etc. Whether it is actually intended to harm someone is somewhat orthogonal to t
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by panzagl 5y ago
In practice most contractors end up hiring a bunch of former users to act as stand-ins for the real operators. These former users then get to engage in continual pissing matches with the acquisition office over how things really get done.
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by panzagl 5y ago
At work, yes.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Who wants to fund my plastic dome startup?
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by panzagl 5y ago
So what should we call spaghetti with a marinara? Chinese noodles with crushed American nightshades?
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by panzagl 5y ago
90% of my upvote usage on HN is balancing out people who have no sense of humor.
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by panzagl 5y ago
The answer is ditch JSON for something already supported (XML? CSV?) or homebrew a more minimal serialization format that you can implement in a couple of days.
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by panzagl 5y ago
A combination of very few people and high tax income from oil companies- Alaska even pays part of the oil company licenses back to residents.
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by panzagl 5y ago
lol, I don't disagree...
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by panzagl 5y ago
Does anybody have the inside baseball on what happened to this after YC got involved? It seems like there should be more of a lesson here than just to not back software kickstarters.
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by panzagl 5y ago
If climate change is a manmade problem than you cannot ignore politics, psychology, etc. in the solution. Otherwise 'nuke China' is more of a solution than 'tax carbon' is.
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by panzagl 5y ago
So we'll charge the Masai the same for their cows that we'll charge a Texan?
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by panzagl 5y ago
Right. But the solutions can't impact the environment, or the developing world, or the disadvantaged. It's pretty obvious that the US, UK, and Commonwealth countries are going to be expected to disrupt their lives and economies wh
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by panzagl 5y ago
And yet the best solution science has been able to come up with in all that time is that we should not eat meat or drive a car. Maybe the population in general will take it seriously when they're told to do more than engage in Puritan
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by panzagl 5y ago
maybe "in the loo"?
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by panzagl 5y ago
The guy who invented Fritos made them at home- does that mean they're not ultra-processed?
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by panzagl 5y ago
Simpler than AD&D, not implying that they're simple. What you described is a big kriegsspiel- the equivalent of Gygax and Kuntz running multiple parties through the Greyhawk dungeon at the same time. They would have used similar me
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by panzagl 5y ago
Jon Peterson's "Playing at the World" gets into the wargaming history of D&D.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Both Little Wars and Kriegspiel are much simpler than AD&D.
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by panzagl 5y ago
This podcast seems pretty focused on Appendix N (from AD&D, after Arneson's direct involvement ended) instead of the origins of D&D as a whole. Google 'Secrets of Blackmoor' to get a better view of Arneson's infl
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by panzagl 5y ago
It might be because: >replacing formulas with die rolls makes no sense, as D&D still has formulas, and most wargames had die rolls.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Don't worry, reddit is getting worse at the same rate as HN so we'll never catch them.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Really? Because in places like Colorado and Montana the Californians who sold their parents' house to move there and start their 'lifestyle business' is so old it's beyond a cliché. Maybe substitute 'inherit'
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by panzagl 5y ago
San Diego is fine if you can live near the water, but go inland where people can afford to live and it's basically desert.
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by panzagl 5y ago
I like to read the reasoning behind things that appear to be spurious because sometimes it turns out they have a good reason for doing it that I haven't considered, and it might be something I want to incorporate in my practices.

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