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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
And speaking of audio, make the volume control a real analog knob that's directly in the output circuit, so when I quickly spin it down it immediately goes down. Not some encoder that's trying to rationalize how far down I really
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
> they have kids and don't have time or energy for that I don't have a lot of sympathy for this argument. If they have time to take half a day to go to an interview, then it doesn't seem like it should be much different t
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
I bought a used car that had satellite radio. I never paid for the subscription, but it worked for 10 years! Then, suddenly one day it was cancelled. I didn't really feel like I could call them and complain.... I wonder if a previo
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
One of the points in the article was that there are a lot more rides at Disney now. But my thought was, "yeah, but you can still only ride 5 of them in a day!"
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
If the books are anything like the short videos they have, I think $11.95 is kind of expensive. I guess it's nice that they're vetted or presented by experts in the field, but it almost seems buzzfeed-ish to get "the top 10
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
Daly makes the case that conventional economics deals with "intermediate" means and ends, such as food production and health/leisure; and that we should instead be more concerned with "ultimate" means and ends. He e
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
This points out the much more ubiquitous problem of people simply misunderstanding one another. It's very, very common for someone to post a comment intending to emphasize or convey one idea, but it gets interpreted as emphasizing or
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
Moto e6. I chose it because it has a replaceable battery, SD card for expandable storage, and fits in my pocket. Hopefully I can use it for a long time. The only thing I don't like about it is that the power button is below the volum
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
Very late to the discussion here, but I often put a single song on repeat and listen to it all day long. Well, "listen" to it -- it's usually something that I can tune out (heh) or fits as background music for whatever mood
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
This concept is also relevant when applying for a job. At one of my previous jobs, I asked my boss what about the interview convinced him to give me an offer. He said it was because I asked so many questions, and he hardly had a chance to
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
Looks kind of like the graph of human population growth spiking in the last couple hundred years. How much forethought and planning is going into what the long-term effects of this will be?
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
I just can imagine how I'd convince 5 kids to go to lunch with me, without outright kidnapping them. This sounds like Black Mirror material.
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
I have the same situation with my parents. Their home is storehouse of stuff that my mom bought, mostly with the intent of giving them as gifts as special occasions come up, with paths carved through to get from one room to the next. She
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by unbalancedevh 4y ago
Haha, I wish they'd thought of that before they implemented the ribbon to replace the menu bar. I can't imagine how many hours of productivity were lost for people dealing with that change.
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
Late to the party here, but -- if you haven't checked out other interactive fiction, you definitely should! This would fit right in. Also, btw, "examine" (or "x" for short) is a popular alternative to "look&qu
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
> Erdős and Graham conjectured that any set that samples some sufficiently large, positive proportion of the whole numbers — it could be 20% or 1% or 0.001% — must contain a subset whose reciprocals add to 1. Conjectures like this seems
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
Tactics like this are inherently effective. They spread doubt about the truthfullness of information by spreading false rumors about disinformation. It seems like this could be pretty effective at swaying the public opinion of groups that
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
There seems to be a lot of info that it's both great for you and terrible for you. This is probably a good case for when "all things in moderation" is a reasonable approach.
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
Being low in erucic acid is a significant difference, making it more marketable. It isn't "just" rapeseed oil. And Granny Smith apples are green. I don't think anyone would ever mistake one for a Red Delicious apple.
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
Maybe not marketed as such, but in the US anyway most bottles of "vegetable oil" are soybean oil.
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
Most "vegetable oil" in the US is soybean oil.
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
> to go fully metric would take a genereration Longer than that, I'd say. I remember watching videos about the metric system when I was in grade school back in the 70's. ("You can measure how far from your car to a star
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
It very much depends on the circumstances. Was there something funny? Were they insulting you personally, or professionally? Generally, though, I think a good response would include staying respectful of others and taking responsibility f
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
That was my first thought as well, but the article is pretty thorough about the relative benefits of using a hot water bottle, also asserting that the intent isn't to replace central heating. It's an option with some cultural hist
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
As a new, junior engineer fresh out of college, I was mortified with the idea of being caught wrong. Now, as a senior technical advisor, I see my being wrong sometimes as part of setting an example to the junior staff -- even senior staff
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
I always wondered what tools the Fed had left after interest rates were dropped to 0. Negative interest rates are a thing, but I don't think it's a continuous transition in the practicalities of going negative. It seems like the
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
I never understood the argument that it's easier to swing a weapon with the arm on the wall-side. On the wall-side, there's wall everywhere, and closes in both behind you and in front of you. On the newel-post side, the space op
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
I guess it's pretty universally agreed that spoiling your kids is a bad thing. I always thought that the goal of parenting was to teach kids how to live healthy, productive, satisfying lives. Presumably that will make them happy in t
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
When false accusations/anecdotes result in someone being socially ostracized, it is still an injustice that can severely affect the person. I don't really think there's a prescriptive solution to this, but I hope society impr
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by unbalancedevh 5y ago
> Although longtermists think we should focus more on the future, there are plenty of “neartermists” who tend to think we should focus more resources on current problems like global poverty, health, and well-being. I guess I'm a nea

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