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by showerst 9y ago
He runs one of the more prominent historical re-enactment suppliers in the country, so I think they see it as a form of advertising. Plus, you get the impression that he just genuinely loves to share his interests with people. Somewhere the
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by showerst 9y ago
So this is something of a multi-part response, corrections appreciated. Full disclosure I am highly pro-Net Neutrality, although I believe the authority problem is complex enough that congress should just pass a bill mandating it, to clarif
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by showerst 9y ago
I own a big variety of methods because I think it's fun, but get the most use out of our Toddy [1]. You can make 15-20 cups of cold brew at once (which has a decent shelf life) and if you use the optional filter bags, cleanup is super
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by showerst 9y ago
I don't see enough data to parse the claim about the IRS ignoring the wealthy, but the second seems to be false, here are some sources: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-examination-cov... https:/
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by showerst 9y ago
It's a clustered bubble chart that's been ordered. Clever.
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by showerst 9y ago
Blue Apron is not for people who want to _eat_, it's for people who want to _cook_ but don't want to shop, transport things home, or meal plan. This is where the price premium is worth it to some people.
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by showerst 9y ago
I think you're really idealizing these subreddits here. The way reddit works, the downvoting of dissent will never be seen, that's the problem. (Generally a pro of reddit, but not in this case). Dissent will get sorted out of the
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by showerst 9y ago
<personal bias, no time to research this for sure> The extremists weren't going to be swayed anyway by people arguing with them, or even ridiculing them on the internet. If anything, the focused subreddit with its own moderation
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by showerst 9y ago
I think that there's a cohort of people (mostly teenagers and early 20s?) who won't actively seek out hate based sites, but if they're available might check them out, especially if it's not just direct hate, but focused
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by showerst 9y ago
I wish there was a way to just tell search engines whether your content should be treated as part of the parent subdomain or not for SEO purposes. That way you'd keep the XSS protections of CSP, while still not breaking things like git
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by showerst 9y ago
These are called Sankey diagrams.
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by showerst 9y ago
It seems likely that some activities are orders of magnitude more dangerous than others for CTE. Maybe you'd rather your kid play football or learn boxing than lay on the couch. If the risk is 10x that of baseball, and 50x that of trac
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by showerst 9y ago
From 1960-2013 there were about 23,000 players[1]. I don't know much about the growth of the NFL over time, let's say there were 30,000 ever. [1] https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/5875/get-seas
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by showerst 9y ago
I mean, in the context of 'discussion of small entrepreneurs who have started internet companies from scratch'. You're right that it's a relatively small amount to start any kind of business. I do think someone mid-caree
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by showerst 9y ago
Not to take away anything from the incredible achievements of autodesk, but $60,000 in 1982 was roughly $155,000 today. That's a non-trivial amount of cash to be able to dump into starting a company.
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by showerst 9y ago
At the start, AirBnb was focused entirely on renting out individual rooms in your place, while the host stayed there (sometimes including cooking breakfast!). The ability to rent a whole place came later. Even in hindsight, that's a qu
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by showerst 9y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I think your frame of reference here is awful. Victim blaming in these cases really understates the harm caused by these actions, and the lack of agency that the victims have in preventing them. If the same b
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by showerst 9y ago
'weight gain linked to soda' does not mean that every single person who drinks soda will gain weight, simple as that.
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by showerst 10y ago
Honestly you never know these days, but it's not a bill from an influential rep, has few cosponsors, and so far has no important movement, so right now it's unlikely. I suspect that the republicans in congress understand that the
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by showerst 10y ago
Seconding regex101.com -- it's really a wonderful tool.
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by showerst 10y ago
I disagree there, thinking back to the days of when Office 'customized' it's UI to how you used the product (constantly moving menu items, shudder!), I'd rather have a consistent UX that didn't exactly fit my patte
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“We have to reinvent the wheel every once every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot of inventors.” - Bruce Joyce Keeping your head up while (inelegantly) solving tons of problems yourself is an cr
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by showerst 10y ago
Another group that's taking this on is https://github.com/statedecoded/statedecoded -- although they're targeting converting existing data rather than being a workflow for the states.
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by showerst 10y ago
Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS) - probably the closest you'll get for Algorithms, next to Knuth. It's also updated relatively often to stay cutting edge https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms
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Both DC and Baltimore have something like this (Union Market in DC, not eastern market) and it's a really great trend. It's a fun place to take people, and it's nice to choose from different cuisines when you have a group. DC
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Military pensions aren't super high, unless you're very high up. I picked 03 on the calculator (Army Captain, mid-level officer) and got < 40k before taxes. High enlisted ranks are looking at < 30k. The benefits are good tho
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by showerst 10y ago
Different salts have different trace minerals, different molecular shapes, and are ground to different textures. Why wouldn't they taste different?
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Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any discussion of the difficulty typesetting or printing charts, beyond just creating them. I imagine this had to pose a significant hurdle to early newspapers.
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by showerst 10y ago
Yup. In 2004 Interpol busted a pedophile by untwirling his (lousy) face obfuscation: http://boingboing.net/2007/10/08/untwirling-photo-of.html
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by showerst 10y ago
Interestingly for this discussion, CmdrTaco is now at Wapo, after a brief spin through their various internal startups.

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