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by prawn 3y ago
No, it's neither of those things IMO. (I've driven a lot in Australia and in the US.) The latter you mentioned sounds like a truck-specific rest-stop - there are loads of those on the Stuart Highway, or heading over to Eyre Penins
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by prawn 3y ago
I'm in a different country, but I think drivers here are generally very reasonable. Very rare to see someone going well beyond the signed speed limit (unlike the US where it is shocking how much people speed). Always someone willing to
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by prawn 3y ago
And I can see how patrons might look at their $250k fee (or whatever it was) and assume that price signals an absolutely premium and safe product, where really the bulk of it just signals that it's a difficult, risky, remote and rare e
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by prawn 3y ago
I cannot convince my mother that ignoring someone's request to not receive any gifts is selfish behaviour by the giver.
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by prawn 3y ago
Pianos are a classic. We have a semi antique but untunable upright that no one would even take free. Would cost $200 to have it removed. Seems very wrong, but my current plan of action is to hack it up with an axe and slowly feed it out thr
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by prawn 3y ago
I put cooking in this same sort of category, but over the years have noticed a lot of people on HN who seem to dislike cooking and have no interest in learning how. Maybe because it's such a regular imposition for them, it feels differ
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Life before cellphones: The after-work activities of young people in 2002(slate.com)
158 points by prawn 3y ago|138 comments
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by prawn 3y ago
The demand for it would be from a minority. A lot of people are watching content on their phones, for one thing. I create some travel video content and up until last year, most of my clients weren't even fussed about 4K. I had been sho
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by prawn 3y ago
They went during a brief weather window. One of the people on board had suggested just prior to departing that this was likely to be the only trip the vessel made this season. Rough phrasing in hindsight.
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by prawn 3y ago
Their business model is to take wealthy explorers and also researchers, hoping that the explorers subsidise the researchers. So there is collateral damage.
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by prawn 3y ago
Or because they don't want to disturb the newer ships too much when exploring them and never realise there's something even better underneath.
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by prawn 3y ago
Have you tried their shorts? Future of computing! :) I don’t think the demo was pushing fitness games. I reckon Apple are comfortable leaving the $500 end of this opportunity for Meta and co. I bet they included the power brick as a last re
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by prawn 3y ago
I don’t think their goal is to make something to use along with heavy machinery. I’d say they’re leaving that market for other operators. All their promos (and of almost all their hardware) pitch a pretty consistent crowd.
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by prawn 3y ago
I assume they can’t have employees as mods without risking legal responsibility (S230, etc)?
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by prawn 3y ago
"Master of Library and Information Science", for anyone else who didn't know.
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by prawn 3y ago
The default front page is like reading gossip magazines. A lot of those subs appeal to base instincts (rage bait, etc) and are worth making a strong effort to avoid and ignore.
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by prawn 3y ago
I've used this sentence as an example with my children, showing how with language you can demonstrate pace or frenzy. A battle charge is absolute chaos. There's no time for sentence structure, it's all wild glances from one t
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by prawn 3y ago
To recover, watch The Last Man on Earth.
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by prawn 3y ago
You could try Child of God? It's shorter than Blood Meridian and feels a bit less serious and rollicking, even though it's about a necrophiliac. Suttree and Blood Meridian are the elite tier, IMO.
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by prawn 3y ago
I'd read it multiple times previously, but recently picked it up after having not read a book in a year or two. Got through 160 pages without realising. Felt like I'd blinked and it happened. My son is now a bit older than the boy
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by prawn 3y ago
I like that you can play through both The Last of Us games and think "What a grim existence, scraping together things to cobble a defence against relentless threats. Horrific." And compare it to The Road, whose environment would h
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by prawn 3y ago
Go read Blood Meridian. And then struggle to suffer anything else in the world compared against it. It is stunning.
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TV’s Streaming Model Is Broken. It’s Also Not Going Away(vulture.com)
3 points by prawn 3y ago|0 comments
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by prawn 3y ago
"Take one small step." Ignore problem and take small step of buying a book about the problem. Now you have to read the book to get back up to facing the problem. ;)
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by prawn 3y ago
I'm part way through this process. "There's a guy on YouTube and he just gives people money. That's how I'm going to get money!" "I don't think that's a great strategy because (broad discussion).
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by prawn 3y ago
There's an equivalent in personal finance where people think that a payrise will solve their money woes. Their habits remain, their discretionary spending scales up, and they usually continue on with the same problems.
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by prawn 3y ago
I think one argument against this sort of thing is that it can price out an older person or someone inheriting a property. What's the recommended approach for situations like that? Time for them to sell the ancestral property and downs
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by prawn 3y ago
In Australia at least, I'd guess that standalone homes are at the juncture of 'rentable' and 'appreciation of the base land' (which is usually what is rising in value). Land can be subdivided as lifestyles change. A
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by prawn 3y ago
Worth extending that to: somewhere to live where you have more control over your tenure there (can't be kicked out year by year), and ability to make more than basic changes to your living environment (knock down a wall, add an extensi
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by prawn 3y ago
Being pedantic, but I imagine the houses generally do depreciate, and it's the land that appreciates. Land value alone where I live would be 3x what we paid for the land and house 15 years ago. And I can't see how land won'

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