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by peckrob 11y ago
> The other possibility is that going to the parties is a good use of time, and that is where many students develop their networks. This was kind of my experience. I went to university two states away from where I grew up, knowing a gran
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> It's hard for me to imagine a pivotal art or technology being lost like that, but I'm willing to bet its not at all uncommon if we look across history. This has happened quite a bit throughout history, actually. Complete soci
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In 1994 I called a remote system in Washington state (we were living in Tennessee) because I wanted to download a patch for Outpost [0] that added some of the enhancements that were supposed to be in the game from the beginning. I couldn&#x
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We were just talking about this a couple days ago at work! If you listened very carefully to the handshake, you could tell what the quality connection you had. After awhile, you could even guess the final baud from the sound of the handsh
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Some of my best computer memories of that era are from playing various MUDs, and even 20+ years later I still keep up with some of the friends I met playing MUDs during those years. Many of the MUDs I played on are sadly long gone, but a fe
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Oh man, the memories. For people who have grown up in a hyper-connected always-online world, it's hard to explain the pure joy of hearing the sound of your computer picking up the phone and sending those tones [0]. Because it meant g
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I don't disagree with you, but I could apply this same logic to the 50 gazillion channels of reality TV cable was offering me that I could not possibly care less about. I don't like subsidizing them, but I was still paying for the
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Not sure where you're located, but in the US ESPN is a cable/satellite only channel. The only way to get it is with a subscription. For college sports, they're also the biggest player. The "big" matchups of the week
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Yup, that's exactly what I was doing. :)
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> The reality for cord cutters and cable companies alike is that, if it weren't for ESPN I'd have no reason to have cable. It's the only reason I have a pay TV package. During college football season I got a Sling subscrip
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> I don't recall the airline, but it was a major. It was most likely Delta. Assuming you're in the US, it was either TWA or Delta because they were the only ones still operating the L-1011 by the late 1990s. United also operate
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I seem to recall I once flew on an L-1011 TriStar as a kid that ferried an engine. It was out of Atlanta but I can't remember if we were going to Los Angeles or San Francisco. That was probably 25 years ago, so not sure which it was. A
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I'm always surprised DC isn't higher on the list for tourists. The museums alone make it worth the trip. If you're already in NYC, it's a pretty short train ride (by American standards at least) to DC. I think it's
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I used to help run a rather large fan convention. For our first 5 years (starting in about late 2003 or so), PayPal was the only option we offered for registering online. At the time, they were really the only option for implementing online
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> When I first started reading about American health care being a foreigner I saw a persistent argument that in single-payer system "people will die in lines". This is one of the reasons I really wish international travel was
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Random personal anecdote. When I was a teenager, my family took a trip to Europe. This was summer of 1999, IIRC. Anyways, near the end of the trip, when we were in Italy, my dad came down with a cough and sore throat. Rather than try to gut
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Hey, this is really cool! Any chance you could add a daily summary email (like PH and some other similar sites have), or am I just missing it? That's a really easy way for me to keep up with what's been featured.
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Correct, but who's to say where the investigation would have stopped if they didn't uncover anything at first? If he wasn't so publicly reviled, it may have been dropped if wrongdoing wasn't immediately uncovered. But be
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They were investigating him but he was largely unknown outside of some financial and biotech circles. After Daraprim and the subsequent public outrage, not to mention his grating "bro" public persona, he became one of the most hat
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A friend of mine in college had a very good saying about this that I always keep in mind: "There's nothing like succeeding at something you weren't even qualified to attempt."
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> Air, water, and particulates get sucked in all of the time, it doesn't cause a "major problem." If you suck in enough water, it can cause you major problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ai
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Dale Brown books are one of my guilty pleasures. Actually, Silver Tower was the first sci-fi book I remember reading when I was a kid. He went to military thrillers after that one and I've read all of them too. But Silver Tower and Old
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Read "Flight of the Old Dog" by Dale Brown. It's a bit dated by modern standards (it was written in the 80s, when the Soviet Union was still a thing), but still good. I won't spoil it for you, but the book features a hea
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> In fact, without the rising Arab civilization undertaking huge efforts to acquire and preserve what the Western countries were discarding as "unchristian", we would have lost even more knowledge than we did. Not to discount t
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Initially no, but later versions of the product were 1.2 compliant.
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My first internship, while I was still in college, was with just this type of company. We did e-Learning materials; our products were basically self-contained websites, with video content and scripted subtitled text, distributed on CDs. Thi
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Exactly. My time has a value and it is most definitely worth more than $4. If I need something but I don't need it right now , Amazon is the answer. Need a pack of sharpies? Yeah, they might be a few bucks cheaper at Walmart, but then
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They are both considered Level 7 events by the IAEA [0], the highest level. I imagine it's a bit like the difference between category 5 hurricanes. Some are bigger and more destructive than others, but that's where the scale tops
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> there was no meltdown Except that there totally was a meltdown. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa... * http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/201706-muon-scans-confirm
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> all others were near incidents (Three Mile Island, Japan, etc...). I would hardly call Fukushima [0] a "near incident." It's considered on the same scale as Chernobyl [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

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