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by pnut 10y ago
I disagree. I bet the French government is more afraid of their people than the American government is. The French people shut down their economy and raise holy hell when the government starts acting contrary to their interests. The America
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by pnut 10y ago
In a world of unpaid internships, I think there are probably a number of employers who would break out the contract with a big, fat goose egg on it if you tried this.
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by pnut 10y ago
The individual employee can say that too. I'm in a highly competitive housing market, and my children are in a highly competitive educational market. A number of interesting projects that won't pay off immediately. Since when is
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by pnut 10y ago
I did really well in school, and am a professional developer now, and my wife utterly destroys me at this game. She can find sets in real time as the cards are being dealt, while singing along with music, it's maddening.
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by pnut 10y ago
The popular drug of the age always seems to reflect the general mood, the zeitgeist of the time. I just assumed the era determined in what direction people generally choose to escape from reality, rather than economic factors. Go-go eighti
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by pnut 10y ago
My answer to the question, is 'NO'. I love trains, and use them whenever possible. However, with static start and endpoints, and existing low-cost air infrastructure that is dynamically reroutable and equivalently fast, why spend
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by pnut 10y ago
I totally disagree. Drones are the most precise tool (limiting collateral damage) in the history of war. Do you seriously think that if drones didn't exist, they wouldn't be conducting air raids or sending in legions of troops to
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by pnut 10y ago
Ha! I periodically check the comments sections on WSJ political articles to acquaint with the latest right wing conspiracy theories. Sometimes the comments at foxnews.com are more civil than WSJ in my experience, but they're both prett
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by pnut 10y ago
Bowie, and now Prince?? Dylan, hang in there...
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by pnut 10y ago
Pretty sure this would be included in the box http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av...
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by pnut 10y ago
Yep, pretty much. As a die-hard train lover, I've moved on to autonomous cars as the hope for civilized travel in the future. Like a tiny train that takes you wherever you want to go. Plus, the era of public spending on public good in
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by pnut 11y ago
"Laying down a tasty lick on my strat at the elephant foot"
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by pnut 11y ago
I get what you're saying, but it's a little binary.
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by pnut 11y ago
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=20812
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by pnut 11y ago
This is silly! Absolutism is not tenable. Fracking may be bad for the environment in absolute terms, but it also has effectively made the US energy independent. Geopolitically, this is a brain dead position to take.
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by pnut 11y ago
Half of America still thinks the word 'socialism' is a curse word. There are enough ignorants, malcontents, and profiteers to hold back meaningful progress far beyond any of our lifespans. Not to be a wet blanket or anything, but
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by pnut 11y ago
Well you know what they say, Democrats fall in love, and Republicans fall in line.
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by pnut 11y ago
It's every 7 years, 2 months paid vacation. Must be taken as a contiguous block. Has a 3 year window of opportunity, then expires. Is available to all full time employees (unless that's changed in the last 3 years)
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by pnut 11y ago
That will quadruple the uselessness of Congress. I feel fairly confident that the political industry would scale nicely to accommodate all those new puppets.
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by pnut 11y ago
Came across gitup today, looks interesting http://gitup.co/
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by pnut 11y ago
Counting the days until my b-spoke Brompton arrives. Folding bicycle is a life changer.
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by pnut 11y ago
We can only hope, at least those decision chains can be audited.
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by pnut 11y ago
Wait, now we don't need a rice cooker, or a stove? I can throw rice and water into my rice cooker, go grocery shopping, come back 90 minutes later, and have perfect rice nice and hot, waiting for me. I don't see the point of all t
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by pnut 11y ago
White collar sweat shop.
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by pnut 11y ago
Just don't piss them off while they're drunk.
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by pnut 11y ago
The impending dawn of the autonomous car era is the reason why I am not marching on Washington for rail investment. This is really one time where cynical cheapskate politics may hasten rapid, positive societal change.
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by pnut 11y ago
For me, depends on the length of stay. If you book Airbnb for a month, it's usually around the same price as a 2 week stay, and the nightly rate cannot be touched by hotels, particularly for the size and location.
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by pnut 11y ago
Machine elves, obviously.
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by pnut 11y ago
You don't get that time back. I went full-time remote from that kind of structure, and have reclaimed an incomprehensible amount of quality of life and daily time, compared to the slog you are rationalizing.
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by pnut 11y ago
But my freedom requires the exploitation of millions. Don't impede my creative thought! Your binary perception of the world doesn't take into account why we have systems at all, be they capitalism or government. The point is to ma

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