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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Yet there are single parents all over the United States working multiple jobs to get by. Childcare exists without paying some boutique daycare tens of thousands of dollars a year.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
It's not the greatest book but it was one I do not regret posting. They covered it on the Mysterious Universe podcast years ago which put it on my radar. Same with The Vertical Plane although, fortunately for people now, it's been
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>2. I became obsessed with Luna Park, an influential proto-Disneyland based in Coney Island 100+ years ago. It was so popular they ran light rail out there and hundreds of thousands of people went there every weekend until it burned down
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>But lamentably my good fortune in the finding of cash has come to an end. Perhaps the rise of the credit card changed my fortunes. I'm a moderator of /r/silverbugs and we see some fun ones sometimes, if you pop over there
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Just before covid started a friend of mine found a $100 bill in a purse at Goodwill, all of our friends went nuts on Facbeook reporting back on all the random (never money) stuff they were finding in pockets of purses/garments at Goodw
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
"we can't delete bad reviews, but you could always make a virtual kitchen" is how I take that 'feature'.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>You need to go shopping for food, you need to pick ingredients, manage "freshness" so that food doesn't go off and plan what meals you'll cook with the ingredients you bought. It would create situations where I had t
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Maybe not 300k but /r/overemployed has a private paid discord that I checked out for one month out of curiosity, there are some extremely legit appearing people in there showing their setups and I fully believe the $$$ figures the
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
I'd run it off of a LiFePO4 (bioenno or something), but that's the ham in me (also I'd probably give it powerpole connectors just to further justify how much I spent on my crimpers haha). Really cool!
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>Inevitable. Working 2 hours a day while getting paid 300K+ is unsustainable Right? And some people are holding multiple full-time jobs doing that sort of "work" glares at /r/overemployed
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>[Edit] Yeah, I get that your average stag deer doesn't have access to thermal imaging and neural networks. But this is military camo, not deerstalking camo. The average grunt doesn't have access to thermal imaging or neural ne
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>Why did they try them in the first place? With no knowledge what so ever my gut reaction is to simply point to nature. Leaves get eaten/bitten/broken/ripped, a branch might be in front of another adding depth with similar
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
I've seen "Crazy European commercial" type videos and they were things like two people having fairly aggressive sex and in the very background a crumpled pair of jeans or socks or something was the product being advertised. I
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
I for one like notifications. I want to know when I get a text message, I want to know when I get pinged on work Slack or discord, I want to know when I get a call, I want to know the second I get an email from a very specific person becaus
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>a lot less prudish than the US. >In France you get shampoo ads that just casually show a boob If you have to show a breast to sell shampoo, there's something wrong with your culture.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Well, thank you! 14 of those look like they'll be fun deep reads over the next few days.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
I have no clue about the process but if I had to guess I imagine it has something to do with the chemicals not being evenly distributed either by inexperience, some sort of mask used before chemical exposure to achieve the effect, or the pr
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>they seem to be recent pictures which have been photoshoped to look like glass plates: If you click Tomas's name and scroll down some you see on his profile "Photographer Tomas van Houtryve captured the 19th-century grotesques
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
My wife is a high school teacher, the stuff those kids are doing now in class is beyond anything I did the first decade I worked in an office. I'm 37, high school education of today in no way resembles the high school experience I ha
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Yes. The only stuff it really sees is what I write on HN/Reddit/RyanMercer.com and papers I'm writing for class. 95%+ of what it sees me write is already public domain.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Spreadsheets aren't just useful for jobs. Budgets, keep an inventory of digital purchases, making a directory of contact info/birth days/anniversaries, dietary tracking, fitness logs, etc, etc, so on and so forth. Not to ment
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Excel is a far different beast than what Libre Calc offers, and then what Google Sheets offers. It has some formulas that are exclusive (mind you Liber likely has some that Excel no longer has), outside of startups it is effectively the i
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>At this point if you're wearing a mask you are quite a kook Masks are still very much a thing for a LOT of people in the midwest. In the past 2 weeks we've had at last 7 family members (my 69 year old mother, some of my wife&
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
>"my nation's telecommunications backbone has a malicious FPGA hidden somewhere so it can man-in-the-middle critical communications" Not just that, for about a decade now I've had a thought that you could just have a
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
"DALL-E being trained on artists content" Well, I can't go ask Caravaggio or Gentileschi to paint my query since they've been dead hundreds of years. But being able to to feed a query containing much more modern concepts
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
> I haven’t seen it generate anything that feels artistically interesting. I'd disagree. - One of the first queries I did made some interesting chairs, I would genuinely buy the first if it was sanely priced: https://www.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Same. I generated several thousand images and found it a chore, outside of the daily theme on the discord server, to try and even think of anything to query. It was also discouraging when sometimes you'd hit pure gold for 4-5 of the 6
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
This is the most wonderful thing ever.
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Mine goes back to the very early 2000s when it was still a LiveJournal, it is worth the cost to me because it is a repository of my thoughts and memories that I felt like sharing with the world. It is 100% for me, not for trying to get a jo
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by ryanmercer 4y ago
Self defense isn't "misbehavior", I assume you mean the punching one. An armed felon, that had threatened police, was actively resisting 3 police officers trying to put him in cuffs... are you saying you wouldn't have pu

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