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by smallmouth 3y ago
"Once the world runs on electricity, it’s future proof". Hmm, ok, yeah, electricity is future proof. I agree. Buuuut what's making the electricity with enough density to guarantee your quality of life?
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by smallmouth 3y ago
Hydrogen, concentrated solar, petroleum or "something else". Everything else is an ecological and aesthetic disaster.
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by smallmouth 3y ago
A lot of coal powers that line. I work in a building right next to that Metra station and have the occasion to take that ride down to Flossmoor rather frequently. Nice ride with a lot of post-apocalyptic scenery along the way. Hyde Park use
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by smallmouth 3y ago
I commute into Chicago for work and always see endless tankers in Buffett's BNSF petroleum pipeline and more coal cars than I can count. Seems like it's going to take a lot of "dirty" energy to make that clean energy. Ec
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by smallmouth 3y ago
Elected politicians
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by smallmouth 3y ago
But Doug, what about all the young kids today who are discovering and falling in love with JavaScript for the first time? Can't JS be one of the joys of their generation?
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by smallmouth 3y ago
I cannot comment as to whether the CIA is particularly good or bad at anything, but what I will say is that they are particularly effective at guiding domestic policy and operations.
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by smallmouth 3y ago
Yeah, youtube is the new boobtube and it's become somewhat of a mild addiction for me. Maybe if I start seeing these 30 second unskippables it will help in the cure. There are so many more productive things to be doing than watching yo
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by smallmouth 4y ago
She WAS NOT a victim of circumstance. She was/is morally and managerialy deficient and leaves a mountain of destruction in her wake. Chicago is, essentially, a warm corpse of a city. Still beautiful, but a stinking and dangerous place
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by smallmouth 4y ago
Impressive, but what is his ultimate goal? To live longer? I don't know if this will help him, but to each his own. I don't have his kind of cash, but if I can keep doing 10 pull-ups, benching my weight 10 times and play a couple
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by smallmouth 4y ago
Of course! I was a commodities trader until I was blown up (financially) on 9/11. Then in the depths of despair I picked up software development as a profession. It was a straightforward transition since I had a physics/math(comp
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by smallmouth 4y ago
I don't know if this will help, but the best way to become a professional programmer is to have a gun to your head; not literally of course. Deadlines, money, pressure and more complexity than you're comfortable with have a way of
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by smallmouth 4y ago
I don't think whomever is in control of these objects are aliens from outer space either. And I don't think they make mistakes of crashing into windmills as well. But "they" are here for whatever reason.
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by smallmouth 4y ago
I've known my small share of military aviators back in the day and these are some pretty serious folks. I cannot imagine them now or then perpetuating a sustained hoax such as the possibility you are suggesting. I just don't see t
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by smallmouth 4y ago
Interesting story. As someone who is interested in this, uh, subject, it is astonishing the number of "Air Ship" sightings that were reported in the latter quarter of the 1800's. Sightings on the ground and in the sky of Air
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by smallmouth 4y ago
Apology accepted, and absolutely! Myself and two other developers just kicked off a very non-tivial, data-heavy application for a Dow 30 that will be used by a maximum of 12,000 users. Using jquery will help us avoid a lot of thinking and t
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by smallmouth 4y ago
If you believe a goofy little face mask is going to stop or slow down the spread, in either direction, of a respiratory virus, then I have a bridge to sell you. Look at the data. There's no correlation between masking and prevention. A
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by smallmouth 4y ago
IIRC there are actual documents/comms between the current administration and twitter regarding the request for removal of content and contributors. I believe that this makes twitter a de facto NGO and therefore they should be subject t
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by smallmouth 4y ago
Indeed. I second this recommendation. I also recommend John Keel's "Operation Trojan Horse". He's my favorite writer on the phenomenon and brings a skeptic's wit to the analysis while not discounting the volumes of
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by smallmouth 4y ago
Most would be quite surprised by how resourceful the military can get when a need arises. It's simultaneously impressive and scary.
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by smallmouth 4y ago
No. High property taxes are NOT good.
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by smallmouth 4y ago
Very nice essay. And do as I do: Always print your photos. Not all of them. Just the good ones.
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by smallmouth 4y ago
Very nice article. I wish I could have went there, but instead MIT's was the quickest rejection letter to arrive after I sent in the application so many years ago.
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by smallmouth 4y ago
Great, but no thanks!
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by smallmouth 4y ago
Can I put that on a t-shirt?
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by smallmouth 4y ago
California banning gas stoves in restaurants means normal people need to find a way out of the state as soon as possible.
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by smallmouth 4y ago
I graduated from college in 1988. Here's the total extent of my parent's involvement in my college career: Mom: Pulls up to my apartment at the start of sophomore year. Gives me enough time to pull out a couple of suitcases, a few
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by smallmouth 4y ago
I think his comment was completely rational; likely accurate even. What I do think is that it was insane that he posted it here.
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by smallmouth 5y ago
It's whatever the other person wants it to be.
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by smallmouth 5y ago
The novel "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo was outstanding and should be read in order to fully enjoy the films.

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