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by pravda 10y ago
I bought a very economical "Prusa I3" clone, the Wanhao IIIP (re-branded and sold as "Maker Select" by Monoprice), and I have had nothing but excellent results. $310 shipped (3/2016). No problems with slicer settin
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It sure is! The US even outmatches Switzerland, the most crazy-expensive country in Europe![1] We're #1! Go America! [1] Well, ok, maybe Luxembourg or Monaco are more crazy-expensive, but those are freak countries.
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by pravda 10y ago
"Annual physicals" in asymptomatic individuals are known to be a useless waste of money and time. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/re-thinking-the-annual-phys...
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by pravda 10y ago
You're friend's story does not make any sense. New York screwed up its individual health insurance market a long time ago, via 'community rating'. Here is a nice summary: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront
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by pravda 10y ago
Whenever I boot up my CNC controller computer, I get greeted with AWARD BIOS (c) 1996. It's a Pentium-S DOS box.
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by pravda 10y ago
>bashing of Marissa that will undoubtedly unfurl on this thread Can we say something about the Tumblr acquisition?
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by pravda 10y ago
Believe it or not, that's a thing, and it's called 'keistering'! Apparently, pro's can get a cellphone 'keistered'. But I think the flip-phone style, not an iPhone. As far as microsd cards -- I think you
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by pravda 10y ago
When they write 'Googlers' in the complaint...it just seems silly. Why not 'Google employees'? Most of those bullet points seem completely reasonable. Google instructs employees in its training programs to do the follow
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by pravda 10y ago
How did this page get here? It seems to be just an advertisement.
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by pravda 10y ago
Xhamster uses https! Which is great, because my ISP doesn't learn of my interest in German-language fetish videos. Ja! JA!
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CNN acquires Beme social media app for $25m(nytimes.com)
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Skip the resellers. Buy direct: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=sphere+magne...
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by pravda 10y ago
Replacement batteries are $20-ish on eBay. 5 minutes to swap.
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by pravda 10y ago
Another Roomba 650 owner here! Mine was $280 purchased from eBay, in March. I also have a Roomba 555 bought for $200 in 2012. I spent about $100 to upgrade the older one to the newer sweeper/dustbin and to buy a new battery. Love the
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by pravda 10y ago
I think people have just figured out that competitors offer much more value.
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>Edit: He also thought that his activism would get him fired, and so his wife started going back to school. No, not get him fired. Get him imprisoned! His wife went back to school so she would be able to support the family, if he ended u
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by pravda 10y ago
Didn't mean to offend, but you can find them for orders of magnitude cheaper! https://www.amazon.com/Fruit-Loom-6-Pack-Tucked-T-Shirt/dp/B... 6-pack for 12. That's $2 each, which is 4 (log 2) orders of
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by pravda 10y ago
I think anyone who pays $32 for a T-shirt, whether free shipping or not, is an idiot. But then again I might not be the target market.
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by pravda 10y ago
Everything is extremely marked-up in pet stores. Pet water fountain at PetSmart: $50 Exact same fountain at Amazon: $25 But I've noticed that pet stores (or at least Petsmart) are starting to do price-discrimination by having onl
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by pravda 10y ago
Don't fish off the company pier? Still stupid. If you're a quasi-sexual predator, "pump-em-and-dump'em" PUA, looking to increase your "n-count" by using "game" to seduce the HB9 in accounting, t
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by pravda 10y ago
>1 Relationships - Don't shit where you eat. End of story. That is one of the stupidest expressions. What percentage of married couples met at the workplace? Half? A third? It's a high percentage.
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by pravda 10y ago
Denmark has free oil? I think you're thinking of Norway. Danes have melancholia.
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by pravda 10y ago
Everything clickable (the sounds) before http://www.lightnote.co/music-theory/pentatonic/ did not work for me (on Chrome). Still really liked it. Await the chord progressions stuff.
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Great artists steal!
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>It's "why dont McDonald's hamburgers also cost $600?", and how do we make the market for drugs as competitive as for burgers? Because insurance doesn't pay for McDonalds. To make the market for drugs competitiv
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by pravda 10y ago
>How can any article about this issue not mention the word "patent" anywhere? Because there is no patent here. That is why.
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by pravda 10y ago
It's a Dr. Strangelove reference.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4XhhTF7vRM
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In some states, you have to give your SSN to get a driver's licence.
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>I've tried a couple of different Roombas. They simply don't work very well. Your experience is much different from mine. I bought a Roomba, then bought another Roomba, because I realized I needed Roomba redundancy. Could not
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by pravda 10y ago
When I read about the hair, the first thing I thought of was Steve Ballmer. Then I thought of Jeff Bezos. Then Andreessen. Then Horowitz. And then I came to this conclusion: you certainly don't have to be handsome to be a CEO! It

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