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by tristor 3y ago
I love Marfa, and have visited multiple times. That said, it's definitely a big sacrifice for someone to take a residency there because it's the type of small rural town that doesn't even have a 24 hour pharmacy or proper em
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by tristor 3y ago
> but that that public education had failed to prepare this person and apparently a whole community for higher education. He didn't know a single person who attended class after high school and the high school curriculum was so weak
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by tristor 3y ago
It's pretty obvious for anyone who has traveled and driven in other countries that drivers in the US are utterly terrible. We have effectively no licensing standards, and effectively no enforcement of basic safe driving practices. Th
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by tristor 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I will definitely check it out. I really liked "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and "Bullshit Jobs" by the same author.
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by tristor 3y ago
Number 9 isn't there, and in my personal interactions right here on HN, Julie doesn't ignore people who challenge her viewpoint. She says "Set Some Boundaries" and in fact doing so is not only necessary, it's healt
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by tristor 3y ago
If recognizing that society is unfair is an indictment, might I suggest opening a history book, or even spending some time reading about the current affairs and policy news from literally any part of the globe? Human existence is unfair.
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by tristor 3y ago
Or maybe because it would be an act of war and a war crime to drone-strike civilians in a foreign country because of them committing a criminal act? We generally arrest criminals and put them on trial, we don't summarily execute them
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by tristor 3y ago
> The Republican party doesn't have any credibility left. So, I'll continue to do the rational thing, which is to ignore the folks that have a long history, and ample evidence in the present, of intentionally lying. You're
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by tristor 3y ago
Learning Vim was one of the most important steps in my life in the journey to escaping Windows and learning Linux/UNIX. I still use Vim every day as my primary text editor and it’s the first thing I install on a new Mac. RIP Bram, I h
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by tristor 3y ago
Mostly because almost all of this originates from India and the Phillipines, not from within the US. The scammers are almost never associated to any US entity. The spam telemarketers that work for US companies that are beneficiaries are k
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by tristor 3y ago
> An obvious improvement is to just be OK when another serious regulator approved the drug too. If, say Europe or Australia calls it safe and effective, and the market is small, then approve with their study. I wish this were true, howe
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by tristor 3y ago
> a politically Republican organization Your other arguments aside, why is this surprising or relevant? For whatever else you can say about the broken politics in America, the only party that gives a shit about rural people is the Repub
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by tristor 3y ago
Honestly, I don't really care for software that is "local" to the machine as its primary path. What I like is software that provides a self-hostable backend that is as close to identical as the cloud-hosted backend as possib
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by tristor 3y ago
My understanding may be incorrect, after all the freezing the drives trick is mostly something that was shared among sysadmins like an old wive's tale. Nonetheless, it does work (or did). The way I had always understood it was that if
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by tristor 3y ago
Yes, stiction is a real issue in old hard drives. In fact something that used to work well if you were cold booting an old server even in the mid 90s, with the expectations of an immediate migration, was giving the drives a good sharp slap
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by tristor 3y ago
No. They actually train dogs to alert on cash, specifically. The scent they train on is the scent of the special ink used to print US currency. They do this because large amounts of cash moving between cities/states is often a hallm
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by tristor 3y ago
Yes, there is a support option in app w/ chat support. It's generally unhelpful, and you have to be extremely demanding to get them to take any action at all. The "support" for Uber is basically designed to tell you to
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by tristor 3y ago
It's commonplace for drivers to text you /through the app/ demanding you cancel if they don't want to take the ride after they accepted it (they get penalized if they don't accept riders when they're set to acc
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by tristor 3y ago
I despise Uber Eats, but almost exclusively use Uber when traveling. I have noticed a major degradation in service in every city I've been to since the pandemic, but I continue using Uber because it's the only service available t
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by tristor 3y ago
Meanwhile, I refer to one of my father’s second cousins as my uncle. It completely depends on context, even in more strict cultures around this. If someone is close enough to the family they can be an aunt or uncle even if their relation
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by tristor 3y ago
> what is HNs obsession with disabling JavaScript? Javascript is an inherent security vulnerability because it allows other entities to execute arbitrary code on your computer system. Disabling it is basic prudence at this point. > A
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by tristor 3y ago
I have a few things I disagree with in here and I haven't even gotten all the way through. Generally, most of this is unnecessary, some of it is even ill-advised. The best thing you can do is enable automated updates, and rely on you
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by tristor 3y ago
It is a form of price discrimination, but it's actually more straightforward than that. These "nicer hotels" are primarily business hotels, rather than hotels targeted at personal travelers. Business hotels, at least in the
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by tristor 3y ago
Unfortunately my allergen isn't on the list and is a common food ingredient. I know how to say it, read it, and write it in 22 languages, because I have traveled extensively and it's critically important to know. The EU system i
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by tristor 3y ago
There’s a difference between blame and prudence. It’s not blaming him to suggest he is empowered to change his conditions. If someone eschews prudence once aware of it, then they do bear some accountability for their outcomes, but even ac
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by tristor 3y ago
I spend more time in the Bay Area than I would like to. Despite everyone being outwardly extremely “progressive”, people in SFBA are generally extremely insular and bigoted. This expresses itself in many ways, including racism when the ot
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by tristor 3y ago
> But bikers are not a large reason people aren't pedestrians. They are a significant piece of the reason in NYC, although car-centric road design is a larger piece. You and several other commenters continue to ignore people pointin
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by tristor 3y ago
Howdy Julia, I debated whether I should respond to you at all, however I feel that I must. You and I don't know each other, and based on the last sentence of your reply I suspect we agree with one another more than we disagree. Nonet
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by tristor 3y ago
I had a slow day at work in the beginning of my career (I was a help desk monkey then) and I wanted to learn more about how Active Directory actually worked. One of the things that I found out and became more curious about was why DNS was
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by tristor 3y ago
I don't agree with this article. I think DNS is something few people take the time to learn, but it's not actually hard to learn. One of the great things about DNS is that the system itself will tell you about it's internal

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