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by tropdrop 8y ago
I am sure Dallas and Houston are great places to be, but my own prerequisite for "big city life" is the ability to live comfortably without a car (and because the poster is from the Bay Area, I assumed they had something similar i
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by tropdrop 8y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure why you're comparing to European/Asian cities here - I did qualify my recommend for Chicago only applies if you'd like to stay in the US. In my experience, the nightlife in Chicago is more diverse (wit
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by tropdrop 8y ago
Mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro. Because I can (and have) easily take it apart to add SD storage and replace its previous hard drive, or battery, or etc. It pairs perfectly with my other devices. It can handle most post-production software I
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by tropdrop 8y ago
There are some extremely convincing new veggie burgers that mimic the texture, taste and even bleeding of meat so well that meat eaters love it too [1]. I'm thinking of the Beyond and Impossible burger brands especially. [1] https:&#x
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by tropdrop 8y ago
If you would like to remain in United States and do not mind having proper seasons, I would strongly consider Chicago, the last affordable big city in the United States. University of Chicago pulls a robust intellectual community (81 Nobel
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Lederman began suffering memory loss in 2011, as the article mentions. Four years later, it is unlikely that he had the energy and capability to launch a crowd-sourced fundraising campaign. Professors aren't really known for their lac
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> somehow Note that access to reproductive care continues to be impeded on in places like Utah and Texas - see the recent filibuster in Texas by Wendy Davis, for instance, or Utah's "abstinence-only" school curriculum. It
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by tropdrop 8y ago
Note your argument could apply to radium radiation - painting my entire hand with radium-based paint each day would not cause me to feel acute physical pain... until a few months to a year later, when the bones in my hand would disintegrate
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by tropdrop 8y ago
From my own brief membership at WeWork - can confirm about the cult feeling. Every member of the "WeWork [support] Team" had this airhead quality about them that assured one there wasn't calculation (or anything of depth, rea
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by tropdrop 8y ago
That's an interesting system. The extent I could agree with it largely depends on how well this step - "courtsider reports [private] data that ump hasn't recorded/doesn't record" - represents the real game. I w
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by tropdrop 8y ago
In cards, stocks and tennis, we can map the system thus: 1. Decision about action is made (Firm decides on merger during board meeting/Roddick decides to serve a topspin/Dealer decides to deal in alternating order) 2. Action occu
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by tropdrop 8y ago
The problem with the design of this page isn't with the font, or with the decision to minimize decoration. The execution in that regard is done well. The big problem is an aggressive blue (RGB 0,0,255) and similarly extreme Yellow (255
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by tropdrop 8y ago
Note that the majority of these offending articles come from one source - and that source is Bloomberg. Once I learned to ignore Bloomberg I started to realize relatively few outlets are disparaging of millennials anymore.
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by tropdrop 8y ago
It seems lately I see an article like this about once a week - "an algorithm did it" and 1 person's livelihood in shambles, with said person needing to prove they're real/not a criminal/not violating policies&#
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by tropdrop 8y ago
So he never swallowed Zen Magnets, then. The distinction between Bucky balls and Zen is outlined many times - Bucky balls being responsible for many injuries like these and Zen balls for zero injuries is the reason Zen won the suit.
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by tropdrop 8y ago
If we can make provisions for permanently disabled people to have jobs, then we can make provisions for temporarily disabled people to also have jobs. The article you are commenting on largely deals with large employers (Merck, Walmart),
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by tropdrop 8y ago
Thanks to those removable screws, I upgraded my mid-2012 with an SSD and it boots blindingly fast. Only when I do particularly complicated graphics work do I notice any lag - other than that, this laptop is a champion and I see no laptop on
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by tropdrop 8y ago
When uncle Joe in Utah posts a racist rant on Facebook, I don't get penalized. Even if he posts a political rant or conspiracy theory, I don't get penalized. I can and do still remain friends with him on this social media channel
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by tropdrop 8y ago
But in the Chinese system, your number goes down if someone you're friends with on social media makes a post that the Chinese government deems politically unsavory
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by tropdrop 8y ago
Do you mean a penalty that one pays if they DON'T pay for some private insurance every month? Because that's actually what we have and it should not be confused with universal health insurance
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by tropdrop 8y ago
I would like to hear more from individuals that actually take the time to read every single EULA that gets thrown at them - and what their next course of action is after they do. For some EULAs, it is possible to abstain using the service o
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by tropdrop 8y ago
This person is truly inspirational in reclaiming the freedom that has been taken away from them, despite the odds. Note Nicola lives in Seattle - by American standards, a fairly transit-oriented city - and note how difficult it is for Nicol
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by tropdrop 8y ago
Even in this relatively crude form, I already see a wide range of application for fashion design. For instance, you could take some of the textured flower designs the author presents and place them on graphic tees that could easily sell at
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by tropdrop 9y ago
I think you misunderstood what I meant by "x" - (x - publication). legostormtroopr says: -> I'd believe anything that Salon had to say on the matter of identity politics, if their editorial stance couldn't be clearly
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by tropdrop 9y ago
But the reason they're making $200k a year is because they're in SFBA... right out of college I briefly considered an offer to be an "administrative assistant" at Facebook - a job that normally nets you about $40K&#x2F
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by tropdrop 9y ago
California is currently attempting to pass a bill doing almost exactly this - SB 827: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/03/03/sb-827/ A lot of people are up in arms because if you include Muni bus/r
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by tropdrop 9y ago
Are you not engaging in identity politics yourself, at this moment, if you choose to dismiss an idea because it is published by x? How is that any different from the root sentiment that breeds the types of articles you're denouncing in
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by tropdrop 9y ago
I just read the green text in this and looking back at this white page afterwards, I can barely read anything thanks to afterimages... For a few seconds I felt like I was going blind. What is the purpose of them trying to visually assault t
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by tropdrop 9y ago
You have to remember that a minority group will often attempt to reclaim a derogatory term as their own to take the bite out of it. A great example is the term "Yankee" back during the American revolution, but I am sure you can th
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by tropdrop 9y ago
Hmm. I see, you're quite right - they either cited the wrong skin suit study or potentially assumed not too many people will click on "They did [sleep better with cooling suits]."

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