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by quesera 2y ago
I would never bet against the market finding a use for higher performance products. ~"Good fortune favors those who are prepared to take advantage of it", etc.
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by quesera 2y ago
School shootings are real, and are legitimately frightening. But I suggest that active shooter drills do more harm than good. And I suggest that it's a mistake for parents to legitimize active shooter drills by giving their kids specia
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by quesera 2y ago
Active shooter drills are a tragic case of adults failing to deal with adult problems. We scare children because we're scared, and somehow imagine that sharing that fear with them is helpful to anything but our own selfish fear of fear
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by quesera 2y ago
I think all of those downsides may be frustrating in the moment, but will turn out to be much less important, when viewed in the longer term.
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by quesera 2y ago
This is a terrifying way to raise children. I.e. it sounds like you've terrified your children. Why would you do that?
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by quesera 2y ago
Pretty sure Nas was first though. I can't even find Ecclesiastes on Tidal.
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by quesera 2y ago
> And of course a few hours of skilled labour in a big city ... In many/most places, these repair shops don't even exist any more, because the products have gotten too complicated/integrated/parts-unavailable, and t
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by quesera 2y ago
This rings true to me. You can infer (with various degrees of fidelity) a lot about people by their communication patterns: age, gender, education, hobbies, reading habits, news sources, place of origin or residence. And obviously, socializ
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by quesera 2y ago
I am not aware of any mode of watching Netflix that is constrained to 15 minutes. "Trying" to sleep is also doomed to failure, of course. Personally, what works best for me is modeling solutions to issues in projects (work or othe
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by quesera 2y ago
> It's 0:29 where I live and I'm just turning on Netflix after a failed try at sleeping I'm sympathetic to your situation -- but with all due respect, this would seem to be a strategy with a vanishingly small likelihood
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by quesera 2y ago
But there is no basis in law for any of these objections. "Wasting peoples' time" is a byproduct of every activity in a less-than-perfectly-efficient economy (which is all of them, obviously). "Wasting lots of peoples&#x
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by quesera 2y ago
> I propose Chicken of Thesaurus Which itself is surely evolved from Chicken of Thesea. And, consequently, canned tuna.
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by quesera 2y ago
> But maybe I should have Yes, definitely! For the reason you suggest, but also -- complications from injury sometimes are not evident immediately.
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by quesera 2y ago
Well I thank you for it. :)
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by quesera 2y ago
> So if a machinist is doing some work for you and they want to measure twice and cut once - they're doing you a favour :) This is the real key. Emphasis on (professional) machinist . I have, however, needed to intervene in the t
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by quesera 2y ago
This is a good point. I'd argue well more than 80% though. Time signatures, instrumentation, arrangements, chord progressions, etc are the base gruel that forms the core of almost all (western/popular) music. The "new" c
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by quesera 2y ago
>> unless you're Low COL > I lived in Duluth I had to retrace the thread to be confident, but I think you leapt to Minnesota-local from an oddly-capitalized fragment of the phrase "low cost of living". Neverthele
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by quesera 2y ago
In case rot13 doesn't come naturally: alias rot13="tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'" echo "Lbh arrq fvk phgf orpnhfr lbh arrq gb rkcbfr rirel snpr bs gur prageny phor." | rot13 I wish I had Mr
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by quesera 2y ago
The neglected Latin pedant in me can't not comment: 2nd person singular should be "amas". :)
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by quesera 2y ago
> Modern Pyrex ... Old Pyrex Most conveniently differentiated by the branding on the product. All caps "PYREX" is the classic (high quality) borosilicate stuff. Titlecased "Pyrex" is the modern ordinary glass stuf
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by quesera 2y ago
To restate more precisely: It is well-established that December 25 is a highly unlikely date for the birth of Jesus. Children and people who have only a superficial knowledge of Christianity might very well believe otherwise. But they are p
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by quesera 2y ago
> December 25 (when Jesus is believed to have been born) I don't think anyone actually believes Jesus was born on Dec 25.
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by quesera 2y ago
The "ring me even if I'm not at home" feature has some value also. And for people who do not live in high-crime areas, but might want the other features of a Ring camera, the value distribution would necessarily be different.
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by quesera 2y ago
But this gives you the functionality of a $200 system (Nest, Ring, etc) for ~zero cost, and not all property owners will approve a Nest camera on their porch.
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by quesera 2y ago
> but I don't live in some places Great. I don't think OP made this thing explicitly for you. And I'm not attempting to persuade you into choosing this doorbell option. For others, who are not you, and who have different
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by quesera 2y ago
Larger buildings with many units usually do have intercoms with two-way audio (and sometimes one-way video) and the ability for the resident to remotely unlock the door. Sometimes these work via telephone or Internet, so the resident does n
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by quesera 2y ago
Bad metaphor perhaps. Attempted to clarify above.
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by quesera 2y ago
Some places don't have functional doorbells, and some doors are too far from living space for a knock to be heard. Some renting situations make solving those problems difficult, annoying, or impossible. But yeah, generally a doorbell i
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by quesera 2y ago
Easily pranked yes, but not that different from other cases which turn out to be non-problems in daily life. People could also print flyers with your phone number on them. Add your email address to spam lists. Etc etc.
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by quesera 2y ago
I probably agree with your premise (it's not clear), but: Scenario 1 (QR code) puts 100% of the infrastructure on the client (visitor) side, and scenario 2 (Nest, Ring, etc) puts 100% of the infrastructure on the server (resident) side

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