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by showerst 5y ago
There's also a nice discussion from Sixty Symbols when the news came out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzn4o4z5Bk
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by showerst 5y ago
Generally speaking, the US prefers stability over chaos, even among its enemies. Plans with respect to every country have changed over time and author, but I think it's safe to say that many in the US had a vision of the middle east&#x
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by showerst 5y ago
I don't think Youtube is all that great for learning the kind of structured basics they teach in school. Many people are self-motivated enough to watch videos on woodworking or sports or video game production. Less so for algebra or gr
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by showerst 5y ago
There's a great documentary on this -- http://www.thesearchforgeneraltso.com/ There are immigrant associations that will take recent Chinese immigrants, train them to cook the US staples, help them find a new "ter
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by showerst 5y ago
The majority of US states only meet a few months a year. Many have two year sessions that start in odd-years, so things that don't get completed in 2021 can get picked up again where they left off in 2022. You'd be surprised both
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by showerst 5y ago
Fair enough on the flight ceiling, I misread that, so it's a substantially higher spec drone. > idiot employee at government contractor) or if they had an interest in doing this I guess that's where my Hanlon's razor comes
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by showerst 5y ago
Someone in the article comments pointed out that everything described could be accomplished by a $25,000 off the shelf drone from lockheed [1]. Now that's not something you find on every street corner, but well within the range of &#x2
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by showerst 5y ago
Coffee is a bit like high end alcohol. There's a world of really amazing experiences out there if you're willing to put in the money and time, and cut through marketing BS. ... but if you're perfectly happy with dewars white
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by showerst 5y ago
For your filter issue, toddy makes disposable paper filter bags that are great. You just brew in them instead of a nut milk bag. There's virtually no grit.
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by showerst 5y ago
Could be any number of defense contractors, military, or LEO recklessly testing out a high end drone, then breaking the rules to avoid consequences. Is there any intelligence that a drone that size could provide that you couldn't get f
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by showerst 5y ago
1k/mo sounds high, but if you’re paying for elevator upkeep and inspections, landscaping, shared space HVAC, and door and maintenance people it’s easy to rocket past that. Some fees also include water and trash. It just depends how nic
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by showerst 5y ago
I don’t know about Chicago specifically, but HOAs in buildings are generally pretty different from hoas in neighborhoods. They tend to handle all the common space issues like roofs and elevators, so they serve a real purpose other than bein
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by showerst 5y ago
> Rails made this approach viable at the time. Rails didn't get big until 2006, eight years later than this time period =).
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by showerst 5y ago
Darkside is likely based in Russia, where lifetime median earnings are much lower.
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by showerst 5y ago
“Who cares about PII leaks when there have been other breaches” is a weak argument. Aside from being helpful for phishing, leaking the last 4 is enough for the issuer to pull the card, which is a major annoyance if you have other things bil
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by showerst 5y ago
I wonder how much YouTube and younger generations are turning this trend around. I got interested in machining as an extension of general making thanks to Adam Savage, ThisOldTony, and a host of others. Between the pandemic and the Us-China
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by showerst 5y ago
Not OP, but a couple of things: 1. For magnetic confinement -- Affordable, extremely high powered magnets called ReBCO magnets have hit the market in recent years. 2. Increases in computing power have made doing the modeling for a new desig
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by showerst 6y ago
One clever side effect I haven't seen mentioned here -- No matter how little these particular companies care about IT security, or infrastructure in general, a letter to the legal department from the FBI ought to provide a kick in the
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by showerst 6y ago
I wonder if we aren't at a bit of a unique moment in that: 1. Norms around speech have changed quite a bit in a fairly short amount of time. 2. For the first time, we have a group of adults who were largely on the internet as young peo
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by showerst 6y ago
I see it sort of like pot smoking. In about a two decades, we went from "probably the most dangerous drug in the United States today" (Reagan), to "I smoked but I didn't inhale" (Clinton) to "Of course I inhal
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by showerst 6y ago
In this context, we're specifically talking about young people, who are _literally not yet wired_ to properly evaluate consequences. It doesn't mean they get a pass for anything, but surely at some point in your life you've s
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by showerst 6y ago
I suspect that as a larger and larger percent of the population has a cringey internet past to look back on, the power of old tweets will fade somewhat. It'll take a while though, and of course depends on how vile the past actions are.
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by showerst 6y ago
Neat! FYI the blog link in the footer of https://housestockwatcher.com/ is broken.
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by showerst 6y ago
(Note i still think the author is right) -- If eating that pizza kills one in 100,000 though, you'd have no idea. But the USDA saying "Go ahead, eat the pizza!" would kill dozens of people a year. Advice to huge numbers of pe
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by showerst 6y ago
I tried to go to your pricing page on mobile and got 3 pop ups that I had to dismiss before I could see the content: two separate chats, one that made noise, and some email callout /beg. This really turns me off of your product.
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by showerst 6y ago
Yeah for sure. Hopefully we can continue to evolve ways to share all the new gains, especially with people who got pushed out who weren't property owners.
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by showerst 6y ago
Almost 1/3 of the US population lives within about day's drive of DC - https://www.statsamerica.org/radius/big.aspx . That's pretty central given how spread out America is. You could certainly argue that
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by showerst 6y ago
NoVa is specifically the northern Virginia part, people here wouldn't consider that to include any of DC or Maryland.
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by showerst 6y ago
I don't mean this as an attack, but do you live in DC? The stereotype is actually that the very wealthy lobbyists and contractors live in VA where the taxes are lower. There's plenty super-rich here, but they're not particula
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by showerst 6y ago
It's too expensive to take to work, but I live in a city (DC) with a downtown centered transit system, so certain 20 minute drives take an hour or more on transit. Add in a 5-10 minute walk on both sides if your home/destination a

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