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by tunap 7y ago
I am afraid you are correct. As popularity rises, degredation of discussions(and never-ending o-t tangents) increase. A write-up of the quality mods in the New Yorker will not change that tide, IMO. It's not "goodbye" yet, bu
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by tunap 7y ago
He did a presentation in Austin TX for the MotoGP earlier in the year... over the track, no water. Despite knowing Frank from our old js racing days, I must admit I noted his success(despite all of our incredulity) and immediately fast forw
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by tunap 7y ago
Heh, Vernon(team machinist) used to do specialty welding work for my friends & I back in the day. Was inspiring & heartbreaking to hear him tell his 1st hand account. An amazing & talented man.
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by tunap 7y ago
He also flew into Iran during that time to visit the imprisoned employees to assure them he was doing everything in his power to get them out. If he had been spotted, he surely would have been arrested, too. On Wings Of Eagles https:/
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by tunap 7y ago
If it was an apartment sized stacked unit, did you happen to notice the shaft not mounted in a bearing assembly, but instead turning inside a vinyl cup? Only took mine 2-3 years to fail to metal-on-metal... single male, bi-weekly usage equa
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by tunap 7y ago
My idea was to run a "smart" phone through wifi router & be amazed while i.d.'ing all the easter egg packets and servers connecting to fuel the surveillance economy. But alas, kids don't care and "have nothing t
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by tunap 7y ago
Windows 7 should have been called Vista SP7. That is what I called 7's hasty premier after Vista's lackluster debut.
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by tunap 7y ago
No nutritionist here (& it's way too early to think in any depth) but the fruit juice +/- fiber issue comes to mind... https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=orange%20juice%20sugar%20pulp%...
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by tunap 7y ago
I am a regular wanderer of the Mazatzal Wilderness, one of the most desolate areas left in thw lower 48. In 5 years and 100+ milea of rugged terrain I have found dozens of mylar balloons. Their absence will be welcomed.
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by tunap 8y ago
I found it odd that the day the NTSB(FAA?) followed the rest of the wotld in grounding the MAX is the same day the NTSB posted the black box details on Amazon's plane. The nose going back down after pilots reversed initial nosedive sou
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by tunap 8y ago
14yo me could not fathom the how/why Dune's Butlerian Jihad could ever be conceived. Web 2.0 and modern spyware economics enlightened me, what these monsters could do w/ AI & Quantum Computing is terrifying, frankly. Than
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by tunap 8y ago
I was rooting for this little guy to continue it's long legacy. Back around 2010 I happened upon Squyres' book on bringing the MER(s) to reality & I've been hooked ever since. Def'y a good read: https://ww
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by tunap 8y ago
Fellow martian here. You may get some satisfaction from reading Khaneman's "Thinking Fast & Slow". Most everyone is BSing themselves. As to the 'why?', Sagan's "Demon Haunted World" lays it out pr
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by tunap 8y ago
I wonder what the numbers would be if FF forks were included. I see Seamonkey in the list, but no Waterfox or Pale Moon, etc. Surely wouldn't be any great number, but is curious the forks are not listed.
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by tunap 8y ago
Heh, sorry to be a nit,but CEO didn't quite make it to jail. He died while "vacationing" between sentencing & incarceration. Very shady, but history written says it was natural causes.
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by tunap 8y ago
I am curious what the 3rd party bounty/revenue model is & if fixing/locking edits to verified owners would inversely affect G's & 3rds revenues. I ask b/c every licensed biz owner I know who have not utilized Goo
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by tunap 8y ago
I shudder to think how bad ANH would have been if Lucas had his way. We had a 1st taste in ROTJ and full-Lucas vision in the prequels.
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by tunap 8y ago
While I loved 12 Monkeys story & most of TG's body of work, I must posit "Brazil" is more relevant in our non-fiction world than anything else he has done. I hesitate to note the multitude of similarities to our current s
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by tunap 8y ago
I was in Vegas last month for work & a woman was wailing in an adjacent room from 3am until I left around 6:30am. It was unsettling, to say the least. I could only imagine what events led up to her crisis & what fallout followed. It
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by tunap 8y ago
Bonus, especially if electric dryer, you save a ton of cash not running it several hours a week. In AZ, it may take clothes less time to dry, IDK, I don't own/use a dryer.
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by tunap 8y ago
Blackstone is spending millions to retain such exemptions trying to block Prop 10 as we type No safeguards like those in Phoenix, it's still the wild, wild west of politics & regs here.
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by tunap 8y ago
Please stop feeding the "Us vs Them" narrative. We all know the history of white-euro aggression & crimes. By all means, call out the wrongdoers, but giving credence to the binary narrative only perpetuates and obfuscates the
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by tunap 8y ago
In the US they are called "luxury rentals", so the marketeers aren't constrained to marketing merely apartments. They can be called condos or townhomes... or whatever else their imaginations can come up with. The reality is:
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by tunap 8y ago
Thanks for the observation. I regularly read the HN comments before an article to avoid such detrirus. The child comments, plus The NYer tends to have well written content, lead me to believe it may be worthwhile reading as I am ignorant of
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by tunap 8y ago
Better analogy: Please disable your data & use our "free wifi" to better triangulate your movements, download the contents of your contacts, emails, texts, browser history and while we're at it, drop a tracking app/c
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by tunap 8y ago
I have been searching for large SSD sales the past few weeks and use numerous - operands to negate this crap. Ironically, when I include -seagate the G ads at the top are exclusively SG hybrid options. Typucal result of predictive analysi
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by tunap 8y ago
It's no conspiracy, it's a racket called "gentrification". The hoods get cleaned up, some naive, young professionals buy in @ inflated prices & then the sun goes down & everything not bolted down is stolen/d
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by tunap 8y ago
Heh, just to clarify, are you referring to climate change, surveillance economy, data breaches or all of the above? As it applies to all, and yet, they all end up blaming end users in one way or another while patently ignoring the forces th
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by tunap 8y ago
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Blaise Pascal
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by tunap 8y ago
No disagreement from me. However, we are talking about tweekers & cookers. They tend to be genuinely resourceful, yet not the most intelligent of peoples. It took 2 years to get a blatant lab shut down on my upper middle-class street. E

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