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by vlark 4y ago
Have you heard of these things called trespassing laws? And stand your ground laws? Don't need a "no soliciting" law if you got those. All you have to do is say you felt threatened by the salesperson and thought they were goi
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by vlark 4y ago
False. James Patterson became the world's best outliner who handed off his ideas to other authors to make whole.
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by vlark 4y ago
In a wide-spread situation like this, when you have the goods on the cheaters, yes, you flunk them.
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by vlark 4y ago
I agree that no-haggle, pay-for-feature pricing works. There was a reason Saturn was successful in the marketplace when it first launched, despite the cars themselves being ho-hum. Things turned south with Saturn when they moved away from t
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by vlark 4y ago
I said this on reddit so I'll just quote myself: This professor invested way too much in trying to understand why his students were cheating and giving them a second chance. While it's good to catch the cheaters and document the c
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by vlark 4y ago
Nobody's mentioned it yet, but AccuRadio is another community-supported music streaming service: https://www.accuradio.com/
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by vlark 4y ago
Because Americans like their big dumb cars to drive their big dumb fat asses half a block to check the mail or to go to the drive thru at McWendy's Carlsburgers.
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by vlark 4y ago
I'd say it was two things: the gold standard was dropped, as many other commentators have already remarked. But Milton Friedman's editorial about the primacy of the shareholder's interest in business decisions -- what has bec
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by vlark 4y ago
The best distraction-free device is a notebook and a pencil. Now, if you really want to get distracted, start trying to decide which notebook with which grade of paper and which pencil with which type of lead.
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by vlark 4y ago
It was the $40 paint buckets: https://youtu.be/thioGeqPCNM
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by vlark 4y ago
This is an infrastructure design problem that can't be solved by simply trying to change behavior. We have to change how we design streets and roads so they are more pedestrian and cyclist friendly. See here: https://www.str
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by vlark 4y ago
Buy low. Sell high.
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by vlark 4y ago
It doesn't suck.
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by vlark 5y ago
Yup. I drool over JetPens.com, Field Notes, and Doane Paper.
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by vlark 5y ago
Pocketmods are common in the indie RPG scene: https://itch.io/search?q=pocketmod
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by vlark 5y ago
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
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by vlark 5y ago
Vivaldi. Like Firefox, it has cross-system syncing (Windows, MacOS, Linux -- including Android & Raspberry Pi).
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by vlark 5y ago
Some folks object to the Brave Rewards system and the embedded crypto wallet.
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by vlark 5y ago
Yet one more reason to use Fennec on my tabs and phones.
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by vlark 5y ago
AutoZone stores still have the book hanging by a string in their physical stores. And it's faster to search and find the right blades, too.
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by vlark 5y ago
http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/22/0222/33.html
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by vlark 5y ago
Anybody remember setext, which was used in the original TidBITS newsletters back in the early 1990s? When Gruber introduced Markdown back '04, it struck me as an enhancement on setext more than anything else.
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by vlark 5y ago
"The beatings will continue until morale improves!"
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by vlark 5y ago
And let's let parents off scot-free because clearly everyone else is to blame for their children's lack of success. /s
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by vlark 5y ago
Here's a better idea: how about we allow colleges to repeal diplomas for folks who graduate but clearly didn't learn anything. Let's start with the author of this column.
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by vlark 5y ago
Oh, those stories go back to 2015 and beyond: https://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-fo...
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by vlark 5y ago
143 comments and not one person has said the obvious yet: it's an alien fighter craft. Duh.
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by vlark 5y ago
You talk about Oregon Trail, but Where in the World is Carmen San Diego on the Apple II was my jam.
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by vlark 5y ago
Because the people overseeing the convicted hacker have no clue what the hacker is capable of and are afraid they will use their skills to commit more crimes right under their noses. Never underestimate the technological ignorance of the ma
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by vlark 5y ago
Firefox + Ublock & Privacy Badger, on desktop and mobile. I also use Blokada on Android. This combination stops most ads, and if a few sneak through it is easy to create a custom rule. While I still find Google useful, especially Google

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