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by thx11389793 8y ago
The trillion/year I believe was in reference to military expenditures.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
my personal method when out and about is "ask a stranger," with using my hand computer as a backup. i delight in answering these questions as well, so i'm inclined to believe people generally don't mind.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
Neal Stephenson has done world building involving megacorporations that devolve into semi-feudal colonies. His style is goofier than Gibson's gritty realism but worth reading.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
Protip: if you find a crap product that's being shilled for in the reviews, you can talk your way into getting paid decently for your silence. I know someone who was paid several hundred dollars to not leave a bad review for a somethin
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by thx11389793 8y ago
I went surfing with a friend a couple years ago. I made an error while donning the wetsuit and ended up irretrievably wedging my head into the sleeve. Had to have my friend unwedge me. Paddling takes a LOT of effort, and you do a lot of it.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
autorotation requires control of blade pitch.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
my cursory research seems to indicate that it's pretty reasonable to start a local wireless ISP, with a lower bound wrt minimum number of clients to make the venture worth it being 50 or so according to someone.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
I came across an old copy of this when I was in grade school. Early aughts. Finding those books may well have put me on the path to where I am now (embedded hardware eng)
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by thx11389793 8y ago
If you've been holding onto a LOT, it's possible to spend the entire length of the experience processing everything you've lived up to that point. I've seen it in first-time MDMA experiences, notably a friend in his late
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by thx11389793 8y ago
MrLeap did a great job explaining this. If I were to add anything, it would be to echo the recommendation to take a class if you're really starting from nothing. Two things are really important starting out: someone who can demonstrate
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by thx11389793 8y ago
it's a reference to Eisenhower's famous 1953 speech
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by thx11389793 8y ago
it's all fun and games until someone figures out they can make cigarette butts and turn them in for money
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by thx11389793 8y ago
fabrication, welding, juggling, playing music, working on and riding motorcycles, doing acid in the woods. it takes some doing but it's well worth the effort to move your leisure time away from device-focused activities. the sense of l
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by thx11389793 8y ago
Not to mention that there are often different bins for different color glass (have seen them in public areas, not sure if this happens for residential as well). And iirc you may get yelled at for doing it wrong
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by thx11389793 8y ago
is this actually a legit synthesis? as a non-chemist it has the air of plausibility, author names and quips aside.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
mine (etymotic) came with a small squeeze to open coin-pouch thing, maybe 5cm by 8cm. it disappears pretty well into a jeans pocket. expect to pay 100-200 for custom molded ones. if you want inexpensive ones that are still pretty decent and
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by thx11389793 8y ago
commonly accomplished by smoking a largish joint beforehand.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
While the materials don't quite exist for a tether that can survive the forces needed to escape Earth gravity, the wiki you linked mentions the moon as a place where current materials could be used. Makes me wonder about the near-term
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by thx11389793 8y ago
This is an important idea in performance vehicle design - in a crash, the 'capsule' around the occupant must not be compromised. You see this pretty vividly in bad F1 crashes. Granted, those vehicles are so weight optimized that t
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by thx11389793 8y ago
It occurs to me that we haven't quite done away with cubicles, we have instead shrunk them down to the size of our heads, in the form of noise cancelling headphones.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
I worked in a highrise office that had TVs ringing the floor that you could remote into to display dashboards and whatnot. One day I decided to play, on mute, endless episodes of How It's Made. For reference, I work in a hardware engin
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by thx11389793 8y ago
If we have a hundred years to burn, how about reorganizing our cities into forms that obviate the need for cars (self-driving or not) in the first place? Anecdotally, I've heard people make the point that public transit is infeasible i
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by thx11389793 8y ago
OT, but why are immigrants called expats when they're from anglophone nations?
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by thx11389793 8y ago
I'm a motorcyclist. I've had the misfortune of flying through the air because someone didn't bother looking before making a left hand turn. The literal mantra of riding a motorcycle in highway traffic is "assume you&#x27
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by thx11389793 8y ago
I've known people to freeze bagels. Apparently they toast more or less equivalently compared to bagels stored above freezing.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
When I was a kid making yeast-based sugar hooch I just stretched a balloon with a pinprick in it over the mouth of a jar or jug.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
true, thanks for the correction.
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by thx11389793 8y ago
I do wonder how much of the issue stems from lack of engagement with the surrounding community. Anecdote: when I was 7 or 8 I rode my bicycle down the block and came upon a middle aged man who was working on some part of a plane in his driv
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by thx11389793 8y ago
Having seen a whole tide of articles like this recently, I wonder how long it will be before popular opinion and parenting practices trend back toward giving children appropriate amounts of autonomy. I hesitate at the thought of raising chi
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by thx11389793 8y ago
It was disheartening to see Jane Kim vote against sb827. The detractors moaned that it would usurp local authority over development. As someone who has to put up with the effects of insane housing policy, I'd rather see the state step

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