ubermonkey

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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
It's not wrong. I would 100% support measures that inhibit corporations from owning residential property. Apartments are probably a special case, but I'm not entirely convinced the age of giant corporate complexes is a good one. I
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
If your parents didn't make a serious stink about this, they failed you. As it is, I guess you learned a valuable lesson about what sort of person seeks the profound authority granted to school administration.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
I don't know what you mean by "identity politics." No algorithmic platform can sustain or even encourage genuine human interaction, so FB isn't even on the table here.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
I still don't understand why so many people have accepting using an ad company's browser. The motivation vectors exist here to ensure that, over time, Chrome behaves in ways the end user DOES NOT WANT.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
"I think it's going to effectively kill public chat communities without either proof of identity or attestation through a web of trust." Those sorts of places were always the only places with reliably good communities.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
SEEK HELP.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
This is appealing for some films, but may not matter for others. I'm glad I was in a full house for Avengers: Endgame, for example. I don't know how much it mattered, OTOH, for Oppenheimer, or Hail Mary.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
I've never read that book -- no reason; just mostly prefer fiction, and never got around to it. The funny thing is that I make a habit of doing what Carnegie describes here, and for the same reasons. As I've gotten older -- I&#x27
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
Absolutely true that few folks who show up at track days or autocross sessions in high-end cars know what they're doing. But the ones that do? Ho-leee shit.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
Fair. The thing is all 100k cars are well past the point of diminishing returns. I use to have a 993. It was a lot of fun. I also had a 2016 GTI. It was at least 85% of the fun for 20% the cost. It didn’t turn heads as much, though, which i
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
>but the difference is a fun driving experience I'm not convinced there's a materially more-fun driving experience to be had by spending gobs more money. If you optimize for that instead of other aspects, then Prius money would
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
I only know road bikes. The groupset would drive it for me. If I was buying a new bike, and I knew I wanted to be a rider, I wouldn't mess about with anything less than Shimano 105. At Specialized, the lowest end bike with the 105 grou
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
>This has nothing to do with higher end cars or bikes being "signaling" this is just an anecdote between your skill and the next level. No, that's precisely what it's about. >You could say the same thing about a to
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
You appear to have some reading comprehension issues. Perhaps revisit my prior reply. What specific benefits does a "driver's car" have over a "regular" car, praytell?
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
HOA fees on freestanding homes are VERY common, but they're generally not as high as places with shared walls. It's only in condos and whatnot that they get crazy, though. My sister has $2500 in monthly fees associated with her fu
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
Yeah, we're 56 this year and have no mortgage anymore. That's nice.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
I'm saying it made sense for ME in 2000. I'm saying it's less obviously a good move for a 30 year old in 2026. I have a strong suspicion that housing is due for a correction. Appreciation requires demand, and housing is now s
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
We are debt-free, but it's because I paid off a mortgage the hard way, and then sold that house to buy another.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
Home debt has traditionally been seen as "good debt" for a bunch of reasons, but the big ones were that (a) Home loans meant you were accumulating equity in an appreciating asset; and (b) Mortgage interest was enough to allow mo
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
That's definitely true, and I have a whole other rant how my cycling pals and I love to poke fun at dudes who show up to the group ride on a brand new $10,000 bike and get dropped before the midpoint. BUT! It's easier than you thi
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
I find that I am AMAZED at how few customer-facing sites have failed to even consider the basic idea of "why is someone on our site?" A great example is a restaurant site. If a user has to scroll and click around to find an addres
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
They cannot, because they are wrong. And I say this as a person who has owned no small number of fancy cars (but I got better). A new base-model Prius is absurdly luxurious compared to a base model car of 1975 or 1985 or even 1995. If you h
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
Super predictable for HN to trot out the "tablets and phones aren't computers" line. It's still wrong. Countless people use them for all their computing needs. Overwhelmingly, though, these people are not the sort to com
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
Did you, at any point, download Headspace? Apple's ecosystem allows a user to buy a phone and restore their last backup to a new phone via iCloud. This would include application installation and even sign-in. I wonder if it's tied
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
They are, in fact, the bad guys.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
>it should be expressed with less vulgarity, Clutch those pearls!
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by ubermonkey 6mo ago
I get the impulse, but I do not think this mandate is a good idea. I didn't think the USB-C mandate was a good idea, either.
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by ubermonkey 6mo ago
I have tried many times to migrate to Obsidian and DataView from OrgMode, but I just can't get there. Obsidian is appealing because it's available on iOS, but the whole approach ended up (for me) being more fiddly and less effecti
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by ubermonkey 6mo ago
That's Tom Noonan (who recently passed away) and Ben Bailey; one of the kids in the other booth we see briefly is played by Gbenga Akinnagbe in his first film role, who rose to greater prominence as Chris Partlow on The Wire.
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by ubermonkey 6mo ago
I'm agog you're still using POP, honestly. ;)

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