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by tosser0001 7y ago
I'd be curious to know why jewelers wouldn't buy these diamonds and reset them. Is there some chain of custody that they want to maintain or something?
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by tosser0001 7y ago
I knew a guy who I always thought was basically the opposite of clinically depressed - I thought of him as "clinically happy". In some ways I was a bit jealous of how he never seemed to let things get to him. But on the other hand
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by tosser0001 7y ago
Why is $15/hr the magic number? Just because it's some round number? If raising the minimum wage has had nothing but positive effects, why not raise it to $20/hr - or some other number calculated for maximum benefit - who kn
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by tosser0001 7y ago
I've only seen clips of "late stage" Alex Jones where he's very clearly gone off the deep end, but it's interesting that earlier Richard Linklater cast him in "Waking Life" (2001) and "A Scanner Darkl
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by tosser0001 7y ago
I've seen people praise him for changing his mind about the moon landing being a hoax, but the fact that he accepted that idea at all to me is just totally indefensible. I can't take anyone seriously that could even countenance t
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by tosser0001 7y ago
With a bit of Larry King in terms of the unchallenging interview style. Larry King was able to get a lot of guests because of his softball questions.
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by tosser0001 7y ago
I can only speak from what I saw all around me growing up in the US, but people were eating some comically terrible stuff back then. People grew up on white Wonder bread and shoveling raw sugar out of the bowl onto their cornflakes, etc. I
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by tosser0001 7y ago
For whatever reason, I was struck watching the special on PBS, "Woodstock: 50 Years Later". Everybody was thin. It was sort of amazing when you stopped and really noticed it, then contrasted it to what you see on a day to day bas
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by tosser0001 7y ago
1. I’ve seen people overclock using liquid nitrogen 2. Freeze off warts
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by tosser0001 7y ago
For the Boston-Cambridge-Newton area they have this: Top 5% More than $374,000 So 1 in 20 people in this area bring in more than 374K a year? That is sort of mind-blowing. I thought I was doing fairly well, but now I feel like I'm mi
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by tosser0001 7y ago
How many different monthly services are people willing to tolerate? It seems there's a business opportunity for someone to aggregate different services into a "golden ticket" where you pay some fixed fee and can sign up for a
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by tosser0001 7y ago
This is just the alt-text associated with the image and is there for accessibility purposes. That text is always part of the page even without the "glitch". This to me is a good use of AI as it provides a richer experience for th
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by tosser0001 7y ago
This rant about horsepower here has always stuck with me (and this is an 11 year old article): http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/080909 (Unfortunately you need to search for the section &q
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by tosser0001 7y ago
Doesn't higher torque directly lower fuel efficiency? It seems they could get better range if they weren't trying to make the car a "blast to drive around town". Having a car be a "blast" may be fun for the d
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by tosser0001 7y ago
You can’t force a bunch of text onto busy individuals and then label them “inconsiderate”. Honestly, I think it shows more consideration to assume people only have so much time to devote to interruptions and so keep the text tight and speci
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by tosser0001 7y ago
> * If there's a question for the person to answer, make sure it is the very last sentence in the email. Oddly enough I do the exact opposite: Within reason, I try to make the question I want answered the very first sentence. I hate
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by tosser0001 7y ago
I think the election of Donald Trump was the triggering event for the backlash. There are a significant number of people that feel it was one of the principal reasons why he was elected. I know several people that quit in direct response t
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by tosser0001 7y ago
I suspect that Dave doesn't actually exist. Stories this well-calibrated to make a specific point I think are generally fabricated from whole cloth.
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by tosser0001 7y ago
In my city the DPW constantly drops a sapling in a sidewalk cut out with no after care or follow up so they just die within a year or two. It seems like a real waste. I’ve always wondered what would happen if instead they really prepared th
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by tosser0001 7y ago
It would be interesting to calculate how much better wages are given country of origin. What I mean is, there are currently about 28 million immigrants living in the U.S. with about 1.2 million arriving every year (both documented and undo
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by tosser0001 7y ago
I just came here to say something similar. It drives me nuts that this sort of power and performance is let loose on public streets. At some point I would think we'd be able to have some sort of geofencing system were a car would be f
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by tosser0001 8y ago
This story seems a bit too well-calibrated to make a point for it to be completely true. Presumably this company could be easily identified. Did this actually happen?
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by tosser0001 8y ago
This is going to get ugly in Cambridge because a lot of parking is going to be eliminated and people who used to be able to park near their homes will be parking on the side streets. People who live on those side streets are going to sudde
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by tosser0001 8y ago
The city does clear the snow from bike lanes with little mini bobcat tractors, but there's only so much that can be done. In mid-winter, I think studded snow tires are a must. And even those aren't exactly magic. There were a c
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by tosser0001 8y ago
It will be interesting to see what effect this has. A few things I predict: 1. The price of housing with off-street parking will rise even faster now. 2. A lot of off-street parking in the neighborhoods will be eliminated, forcing some peo
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by tosser0001 8y ago
The whole problem with the article's line of thinking is that, for the most part, immigrants have just as little interest in living in these places as the ones who already left.
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by tosser0001 8y ago
I know this is probably crazy, but would it be legal to add nicotine to a, say, a soft drink? How much would need to be added before it became addicting?
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by tosser0001 8y ago
I’m moving into my later 50s and have been an IC basically my whole career. I’m at a company with a lot of people my age. I was on the job market a few years ago and the only issue I encountered was salary. I think the problem is when you’v
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by tosser0001 8y ago
Skip the blog spam: https://www.mathieustern.com/blog/2018/10/22/l437fjpq58g619v...
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by tosser0001 8y ago
I find it ironic that their tagline is "The front page of the internet" but they push you to use a proprietary app.

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