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Inflation and Real Estate(inflationguy.blog)
1 points by pneumatic1 4y ago|0 comments
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
I had to let(make) it become part of my identity. “I’m a person who doesn’t drink alcohol.” “People will know and perceive me as a person who doesn’t drink alcohol. This is fine because it’s true.” It’s the same as being a person who doesn’
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Prisencolinensinainciusol – gibberish that sounds like American English (1972)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by pneumatic1 4y ago|3 comments
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
what happened to stop.lying.cloud?
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
Have you looked into Kelly criterion?
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'm not surprised by this.
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The first computer mouse (2017)(vintag.es)
19 points by pneumatic1 4y ago|6 comments
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
Yea this is possible. I can’t remember exactly how but I installed Dropbox on both computers and put the Thunderbird profile in there. Iirc the profile directory was getting conflicting writes from each computer. But it ended up working som
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
At my last job I made an app that takes a bitmap as input and returns it converted to a coded pattern that's readable by a knitting machine along with knitting instructions. The machines I made it for were 25-30 years old and my patter
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
I was a carpenter in my early 20s and the owner of a company said he was going to sue me for the cost of some very specific training since I quit after only working for him for 9 months. It was pretty valuable training and I definitely used
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
I have been looking for something to build as a way to learn Rust and I think I just found my inspiration. Thanks!
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
There’s a book called Dumbing Us Down that is a collection of his essays. I liked it. I’m glad I read it after I finished school and before my kids start.
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
Asked what the company would do if workers eventually developed cancers because of earlier exposure, Mr. Davis [executive vice president of the chemical division] said, “Well, we'd feel very badly about it.”
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Study at Hooker Plant Found '75 Emissions Dangerous to Health (1979)(nytimes.com)
2 points by pneumatic1 4y ago|1 comments
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German city lets residents control the streetlights(cities-today.com)
2 points by pneumatic1 4y ago|0 comments
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How to remove (uncheck) all your Twitter interests(exploit.cz)
3 points by pneumatic1 4y ago|0 comments
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
https://theportal.wiki/wiki/Embedded_Growth_Obligations
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
I’m on the mailing list. They just started sending job listings again after 2 year hiatus. My wife and I are serious about it but there’s a pretty narrow window we’d have to hit to time it well for our kids.
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
We considered: Lansing, MI Chapel Hill, NC Wilmington, NC *Ithaca, NY*
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
Maybe more likely to be in an accident because the driver feels safer and so is more careless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
Also safety ratings are only with respect to other vehicles in the same class. Great ratings for a sedan don't say anything about how well it will perform head-on against an F-150.
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
>high beams at eye level I had to fully tint the windows on my car for this reason. Trucks with lift-kits are guaranteed to behave this way. If I see one coming, I'll pull over to let them pass before they get the chance to tailgate
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
"Bigger trucks pose a greater hazard to pedestrians and smaller vehicles" It's an arms race. I used to live near a couple who were both doctors in the ER and they both drive the biggest trucks that they could find because the
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
I work for a company that installs sensors that monitor water levels (reservoir and tidal) and make real-time dashboards with millimeter precision. Previously, I was programming industrial machines in the manufacturing industry. I found the
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
I think it’s funny when half the employees at tiny startups have C-level titles. At other companies I worked at before I got into tech, you’d just be a project manager or accountant. But in tech your the COO or CFO. I’m not sure if it’s ins
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
I grew up in a house with no closed doors and it pushed me to find other, less healthy, ways to distance myself.
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
I used to have a physically demanding job. I didn’t often do movements at work that were identical to what I’d do in the gym. But it was helpful to fit. I think of leetcode as the gym and I try to do one exercise everyday outside of work.
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
The Economist and only read the print edition.
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
Memento mori
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by pneumatic1 4y ago
I am related to the NYT writer. His name was Carr Van Anda and he was a really interesting guy. He was fluent in hieroglyphics and supposedly corrected a mathematical error of Einstein’s. I have a copy of his article on the Titanic sinking

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