pnut

32 ms·

331.
by pnut 11y ago
I sort of get the appeal of the audio cassette. You can throw it directly into your backpack or pocket, no delicate fiddliness like a CD. It has enough physical substance to be meaningfully comparable to its contents, in contrast to a USB t
332.
by pnut 11y ago
Pff, voters. Wake me up when Google is manipulating the electoral college, that's where the action is. Manipulating voters is the explicit raisin d'être of every news organization, politician, and super pac in existence. One more
333.
by pnut 11y ago
ha, wow, living up to your handle! There's some Texas hospitality! Knives out! For certain values of cool, Austin IS the mecca, but I have no use for it in my life. You can soldier on through the allergies, drought, heat, toll roads,
334.
by pnut 11y ago
I used to live in California, and now live in Austin. Have to agree w/ other commenter, there's actually a pretty surprising overlap in personality types between the two places. Maybe Austin skews a little younger (both biological
335.
by pnut 11y ago
America is the greatest economic engine the world has ever known. It's not because we're situated on a mountain of rubies, or that we are intellectually superior to other countries. It's because of our system of government. T
336.
by pnut 11y ago
I've got maybe 70 more years to live, my unfunded liabilities spiral into the millions!!! And that's before children! I must be bankrupt!
337.
by pnut 11y ago
Diplomats and Foreign Service Officers also do tours of duty. It's a limited period of service at an outpost.
338.
by pnut 11y ago
What's so bad about the estate tax? Afraid your sheltered little brats can't hack it with only $5M?
339.
by pnut 11y ago
Where do you get off telling other people what they want?
340.
by pnut 11y ago
in Austin, you sweat your ass off checking the mail!
341.
by pnut 11y ago
Well to be fair, her only claim to fame was a single filibuster. And even when the voting rolls turn purple/blue in Texas, that's just a green flag for the entrenched Republican elements in TX to break out their book of dirty tric
342.
by pnut 11y ago
As usual, this traces back to ALEC http://www.alec.org/model-legislation/the-animal-and-ecologi... Browse through their catalogue for some additional ideological templates such as * Capital Gains Tax Elimination * Bala
343.
by pnut 11y ago
His writing style makes me cringe... just unprofessional, regardless of content.
344.
by pnut 11y ago
Guilty as charged!
345.
by pnut 11y ago
I mean this honestly. Do people actually even use QR codes? Filling up your phone with a bunch of hi-res pictures of bar codes, not to mention having to load: 1. QR code app 2. camera app 3. browser app These things are 100% in the gimmick
346.
by pnut 11y ago
On first read I thought you meant a giant warehouse robot shuffling books like a deck of cards. Let me know when they can do that too.
347.
by pnut 11y ago
And if you go back in time to the Vietnam era, and tell anyone that in the 21st Century, the president would personally authorize the deaths of individual militants when prosecuting a war, they would think we now live in a liberal utopia.
348.
by pnut 11y ago
I read this interesting story once before and still don't understand why the author insists on typecasting Mel as a "Real Programmer". It sounds to me like he should have been writing optimizing assemblers instead of wasting
349.
by pnut 11y ago
Looks like quite soon after the civil war ended, the US Supreme Court ruled that secession was not allowable per the Constitution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White
350.
by pnut 11y ago
The US government is abolished, but the legal system is preserved? Not how it works. There would be a vacuum and a brutal rush to reappropriate resources according to rules other than property rights, which ceased to exist along with the go
351.
by pnut 11y ago
Other figures running drug distribution operations at this scale stay physically outside the US and build up paramilitary defense/enforcement. They either face an identical fate to Ross or meet a violent end. This is not a surprising o
352.
by pnut 11y ago
This. The labels 'conservative' and 'liberal' in the US are extremely misleading. I would like to hear a counterargument from a self-described conservative, about why deregulation in particular is a conservative value.
353.
by pnut 11y ago
I believe this is the reasoning behind The Economist anonymizing their journalists, which they have always done.
354.
by pnut 11y ago
Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China, maybe even Howard the Duck
355.
by pnut 11y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you, except for the massive, glaring exception of inherited wealth/passive income. If you're just talking about the peons trading labor for money, then yes, more or less. But there's another cl
356.
by pnut 11y ago
Um, pretty sure they can make whatever demands they want on their own website. JS is standard issue in 2015, come on out of the bunker.
357.
by pnut 11y ago
Thank god for robots and computers, 'cuz capitalism isn't going anywhere, anytime soon.
358.
by pnut 11y ago
NASA did acknowledge that at the power level the American team tested, thrust is generated in a more omnidirectional manner, which is focused into a directional jet as power levels are increased, so that might account for some of it.
359.
by pnut 11y ago
According to Chief Justice John Roberts, not exactly a liberal, marriage availability to homosexuals per the method you are describing amounts to sexual discrimination. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/us&#x2
360.
by pnut 11y ago
The Bush years made me so ill, I had to stop following the news in order to maintain my health. A generational low point for western society.

More ›