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by vitaflo 8y ago
> I always wanted to move back near my folks but I worry about the drinking water quality due to this CAFO, with the probable high nitrates from spills and the high capacity wells sucking out all the drinking water. Same. Always wanted
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by vitaflo 8y ago
>I’ve heard people in the Bristol TN/VA region refer to electric cars as a threat to their daily life and values. Seems a little crazy when these are American made vehicles and they use electricity to run, most of which in that area
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by vitaflo 8y ago
Herzog Zwei was the influence for Dune 2, and Catacomb 3D was the precursor to Wolfenstein (both by id Software), so we can go even further in history if we like. Just goes to show there are large influences all over.
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by vitaflo 8y ago
>I was seriously asking if these small town communities can act as a sort of buffer during recessions because of their relative isolation, thereby limiting negative effects. It goes both ways though, because they're small towns, the
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by vitaflo 8y ago
Which is interesting because Adobe XD also heavily uses MacOS specific API's and had to do a complete rewrite to support Windows. But Adobe has the manpower to do that.
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by vitaflo 8y ago
Adobe lost about a year in feature development on XD when it ported it to Windows. They've picked it up since they've reached feature parity. Also, XD is the spiritual successor to Fireworks. Its internal codename was "Spar
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by vitaflo 8y ago
>The cheap Gucci / LV stuff has the biggest logos. Their expensive stuff is generally quite subtle which is pretty interesting. I noticed this when looking at Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Their most expensive car (the $200k Maybach) has
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by vitaflo 8y ago
The scene hasn't died! There are still people doing awesome demos on the Amiga 25 years later. Elude's Amiga demo "Rise and Shine" from just last year is phenomenal! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7liU
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by vitaflo 8y ago
As a friend of mine says, if everyone stopped having children, the climate change problem would solve itself within 100 years.
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by vitaflo 8y ago
After I got my license I also got a Skywarn license (that has to be renewed every 2 years) so I can do storm spotting. It's basically a volunteer effort for the National Weather Service. Licensed spotters get called out to go spot sev
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by vitaflo 8y ago
I cover my healthcare costs by adding it into my bill rate. Same way I pay for every other employee benefit I don't get as a contractor (like vacation, disability, 401k match, software/hardware, SE Tax, etc).
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by vitaflo 8y ago
Let me see my photos (and only my photos) on the map view. This used to be a link on my profile, I used it often to track photos to locations. Now the map view seems to just be a global view of everyone bunched together. Too much of searc
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by vitaflo 8y ago
It says it right on your flickr account page, in the header.
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by vitaflo 8y ago
I mean, just look at the North Loop. When I worked there in 2000 there were no condos at all, just drug dealers and prostitutes on corners. Now they can't build condos there fast enough, and the rent on them is insane.
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by vitaflo 8y ago
>This need is something I've never really understood >Zuck wouldn't be mister billionaire if he'd kept FB V1 Are you sure you don't understand it?
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by vitaflo 8y ago
The advantage is for anything you can't install ublock on. It's program agnostic.
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by vitaflo 8y ago
>If Pi-Hole had a webpage where you could put in a domain, i.e. cnbc.com, and it went off and loaded the html of that page, worked out all the other domains that html connects to, and then gives you a 'unblock' button to click,
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by vitaflo 8y ago
Sure, but first let me have you talk to my PM who got this request for an obtrusive popup from our lawyers. Designers don't want stupid popups all over the screen. Designers don't want half the bullshit that's put into sites
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by vitaflo 8y ago
Hiring freeze? If only we were so lucky. Imagine half the tech companies around you straight up folding, and the other half laying off half their workforce. Now imagine you're part of this huge sea of newly shit canned developers an
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by vitaflo 8y ago
> Timing the market is extraordinarily difficult. It's doubly difficult because you have to be right twice. If you're lucky enough to have called the top, you have to get lucky again and know when the bottom is. If you buy b
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by vitaflo 8y ago
> Cyclists tend to be more patient than drivers Given the amount of cyclists I see blow thru red lights and stop signs every day, I'm not exactly sure I can agree with this.
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by vitaflo 8y ago
Do a search for "Easter". It's on page F-15.
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by vitaflo 8y ago
As a business owner the single best benefit you have is contributing to a Solo 401k or SEP-IRA. You can contribute much more into these than an employee can in a typical 401k. It will also help come tax time. I recommend setting one up a
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by vitaflo 8y ago
> Too many people are willing to shill for free, which hurts anyone trying to do it for money. But you're still a shill either way. Maybe I'm just old but when I was growing up being a sellout was a pejorative. Now it's
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by vitaflo 8y ago
They also will not experience the best part of Battlegrounds, which was server-only battlegrounds. Before cross-server battlegrounds (which Classic will have) you could make a name for yourself on your server via PvP. Everyone on my serve
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by vitaflo 8y ago
Reminds me a bit of this toolbar in Google Sheets. The last option is not underline (it's text color). Always trips me up. https://imgur.com/a/7w1NwvO
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by vitaflo 8y ago
Deflation reduces demand and increases hoarding. Why spend when tomorrow my deflated currency will be worth more than today? The currency then acts less and less like a currency (sound familiar?). In a deflationary environment, wages woul
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by vitaflo 8y ago
>It is not unreasonable to argue that fiat currencies around the world are not stable because of inflationary monetary policies. Lots of crypto supporters will talk about inflation like it's bad. Hyperinflation is bad. Typical m
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by vitaflo 8y ago
FOMO is a trap. You're looking for a needle in a haystack, but instead you should let someone else bring the needle to you. If something is worth your time, someone you know and trust will bring it up to you. The more people you talk
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by vitaflo 8y ago
> TV+Internet is cheaper than Internet alone Not true. Check your bill. TV+Internet might be cheaper when only counting the base rate of TV, but when you get TV you also get tons of fees piled on. FCC fees, Local Cable Access fees, Fr

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