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by showerst 3y ago
“See the best of Washington DC” -> sends you to Rosslyn. Those poor tourists… Joking aside I love fun new excuses to explore the city, that’s a great theme for DC.
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by showerst 4y ago
There's a couple of good videos on these (and other home laser fun) on the youtube channel Les' Lab. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ptp5KuvAJmp8kRV8dqZDA
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by showerst 4y ago
It’s gorgeous on my iPhone, though it does scrolljack for effects which I find annoying. Maybe an overzealous ad blocker?
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by showerst 4y ago
I learned cursive in school and haven’t used it at least 20 years, except to read historical curiosities like old letters. While I think it will still be many generations before people can get away with not being able to hand write at all,
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by showerst 4y ago
There were a lot of negatives about pensions; employee mobility and companies trying everything possible to weasel out of promised benefits being the biggest ones. The problem isn't retirement accounts, it's a lack of mandatory fu
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by showerst 4y ago
In the US, there are a number of buildings with their own zip code, but you can do a little better. The president has 20500-0001 reserved, but even he loses out to someone more important: Smokey the bear is the only resident of 20252 =). h
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by showerst 4y ago
As far as I know Amtrak still sells beer. They even have some decent regional beers.
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by showerst 4y ago
Yeah, they announced that in 2019 if not earlier. At some point they said it would be delayed, presumably due to the pandemic.
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by showerst 4y ago
If you've been on a corporate earnings call or watched a presidential speech, I think you'd agree that jargon and statement-couching is the norm when you're addressing a large, potentially hostile group. It's not necessa
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by showerst 4y ago
Fair enough! I'm surprised by how many people feel this way in this thread. Out of curiosity, do you also think that the majority of Americans feel that way? My guess is it's gotta be at least 90/10 that would be less likely
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by showerst 4y ago
inetknght it looks like we hit the flame war reply limit. Only thing i'd like to respond to is that my view has nothing to do with making money or using the house as a business. Whether the house is worth the same, more, less than I bo
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by showerst 4y ago
I mean this sincerely -- if you were looking to move, to someplace urban like Sacramento and you saw two houses, and one had a neighbor with multiple broken down cars in the yard and the other didn't, would you value them same all else
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by showerst 4y ago
That's nice that you don't care, people who cost others money rarely do. I hope you move somewhere next to other neighbors who are on the same page, and it all works out fine, and i mean that non-sarcastically. That's why I&#
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by showerst 4y ago
I have experience on this, and let me tell you, some of the people who believe in the 'fundamental right to have broken down cars in my yard' are _not_ the sort of suffering neighbors who need a community and some understanding. W
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by showerst 4y ago
> You don't need these laws I don't want to go around proposing a HOA-style contract with every single person in earshot / downwind every time I move, and hope we can come to terms I can afford. > it's easier to fo
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by showerst 4y ago
I think much of it depends on density. If we're in a tight suburb with 1/4 acre plots, my neighbor's weed infested yard with a broken down car makes it much harder to sell _my_ house. If they move in after I do it's plau
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by showerst 4y ago
If I move next-door to you and start a garbage dump out front, this affects you substantially doesn't it? People should have to pay for their externalities. I think the policy in question is stupid, but so is being absolutist about it.
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by showerst 4y ago
According to his son he wasn't physically tortured, but subjected to psychological torture that we'd probably call 'enhanced interrogation' these days. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-instituti
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by showerst 4y ago
Hopefully! Keep in mind that other alternatives are possible, including “St. Louis and Detroit in the 80s-2000s” style downward spiral into blight. I have no interest in bailing out billion dollar property holding companies, but we need to
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by showerst 4y ago
On my current Reddit[1] I can see five posts per screen on my phone. On this version, I can see 2 and a half. That’s a huge downgrade, particularly from the old-old Reddit where I could get 6-8. Otherwise it looks fine. I wish they’d ditch
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by showerst 4y ago
There have not been any dogs in Antarctica since 1994, so that would have to be a really long time.
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by showerst 4y ago
They're a 70 year old company, with over 50 years in North America...
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by showerst 4y ago
> I know the market rate for a candidate that is just over-the-bar for my role, and I know that market rate for a super-star Great, then you know the good faith range and you're good to go. > then I should reject you so you can
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by showerst 4y ago
Having spent entirely too much of my life working with Elastic's annoyingly verbose and confusing JSON query syntax, the SQL is a big upgrade here even if it's not 1:1 with relational DBs.
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by showerst 4y ago
As someone who's become a bit of a test equipment nerd, that is _very_ neat.
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by showerst 4y ago
.75 microns? Bah, may as well be a clapped out bridgeport clone! =). In all seriousness manual jig borers feel a little like a Monarch 10ee -- an absolutely incredible machine that will never be built again due to how constraints have chang
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by showerst 4y ago
For everyone saying this is a 5000 dollar ebay score from the 50s, here's the regulation -- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-10-24/pdf/2018-2... The regulation appears to pertain to _Thre
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by showerst 4y ago
I generally agree but one of your examples is in fact a counter-example -- the president and particular congress people tend to matter, as lawmaking is rarely the average of voter preferences. Does a median replacement president to Obama pa
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by showerst 4y ago
Photoshop has been common knowledge for years, and people still buy some very dumb edits. I imagine that deepfakes will follow a similar path to edited photos -- lots of deception, followed by trustworthy sources gaining a little more cache
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by showerst 4y ago
The ones I’ve seen that don’t take cash are fast food where you don’t get your meal until after paying. Sweetgreen, for example.

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