war1025

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by war1025 6y ago
I believe the way it works is there are laws on how much profit they are allowed to make. Our provider is technically a non-profit electric cooperative [1]. Maybe it's dumb, but being from a rural area, I've always been big on coo
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by war1025 6y ago
This makes sense to me on a conceptual level, and I think that's more or less how it works here. The difference is I believe the company you pay is just whoever owns the local infrastructure, and they take care of buying / supplyi
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by war1025 6y ago
Seems like an odd model. I guess it makes sense though.
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by war1025 6y ago
I remember as a teen I'd go on Digg and open all the articles in separate tabs so that by the time I was done reading the text ones some of the images would be loaded on the ones with pictures. We've come a long way.
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by war1025 6y ago
> Here we get to choose from literally dozens of providers How does this work? Is it similar to all the various wireless providers that are actually just resellers for the people who own the actual infrastructure? I don't understand
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by war1025 6y ago
Both the town I grew up in and the town I currently live in have Municipal Broadband. So maybe I have a skewed view of the landscape.
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by war1025 6y ago
> Many parts of the US prefer the aesthetics of brick At least around here, if you want the aesthetic, you go for wood frame with brick facade. How does brick work for modern wiring, plumbing, insulation needs? Most of that stuff is trad
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by war1025 6y ago
> Public utilities are supervised by the public I have municipal fiber, which is not common, so I guess that's a fair point.
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by war1025 6y ago
This seems fairly unsurprising to me. Internet is a utility. Most people also don't have a choice in who they get electric, water, gas, etc. from. It's unfortunate that internet service quality is so varied from location to locati
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by war1025 6y ago
My father in law had a running gag about wanting to do this for a couple years. Replace all the cabinets with dishwashers and just cycle between them.
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by war1025 6y ago
Are there still places where brick construction is common? Any semi-modern building I've seen in my area is wood-frame with maybe a decorative brick facade on part of a wall. I can't imagine the cost of building a brick house make
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by war1025 6y ago
Would you be equally confused if it was phrased the other way? "How many trade workers are even capable of going to Stanford?" People like to talk about "grit" in white collar circles. If you want to see real "grit&
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by war1025 6y ago
Twitter is a much more niche product in my experience. Everyone and their literal grandmother is on Facebook. Twitter is mostly restricted to news junkies and the tech crowd.
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by war1025 6y ago
As a Trump supporter, I agree with everything you wrote except the part where you call Trump a tyrant. The US shouldn't be the world's babysitter. Countries need to work together and not look to a single country for leadership.
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by war1025 6y ago
> As a European I can say that the only people who still look up to the USA as a great country are the people who base their views on Hollywood instead of the news. For many in the US, the opinions of Hollywood and the major news outlets
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by war1025 6y ago
I'm a dedicated Debian user, and any time I have a question about something, I hope to find the answer on the ArchWiki. They've got their shit together in terms of documentation.
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by war1025 6y ago
And the stock market is doing great. And we haven't gotten into any new wars. And we have significantly scaled back our existing wars in the Middle East. And, whether its to his credit or not, health insurance prices have stopped spiki
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by war1025 6y ago
Believing that you know me based on a few sentences you read online is pretty naive, to be honest. Edit: My email is in my profile. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to have an actual conversation instead of just name calling.
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by war1025 6y ago
Since Iowa is pretty high up on that list of "states that are run by mini-Trumps", I'll just throw in my two cents that for a state that is supposedly doing "everything wrong", life is basically normal here. We wear
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Iowa Derecho: A Historic Failure in Journalism(linkedin.com)
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by war1025 6y ago
You didn't ask why you would like him. You asked why I would like him. Obviously we disagree. What's it really matter?
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by war1025 6y ago
Accurate. At least someone pays attention.
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by war1025 6y ago
> How can you like him? Consider that all major US media outlets are driven by ad-spend, which is in term driven by views. Views are driven by outrage. Trump is a great target for outrage. The media love to hate him. He loves to let them
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by war1025 6y ago
I like Trump in general, but the USPS is also basically my favorite government organization, so this irks me. USPS has always provided superior service for us compared to UPS or Fedex. I am hopeful they'll be able to fix their budget i
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by war1025 6y ago
> - making bad decisions so people jump off Ubuntu and go back to Debian, my beloved distro Amen. Debian is the best.
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by war1025 6y ago
Semi-related: Does anyone else feel like Ubuntu has lost a lot of its momentum over the past few years? I don't hear about things they're doing nearly as often anymore.
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by war1025 6y ago
Iowa
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by war1025 6y ago
As someone who owns a townhome, I feel that this is a misinformed, but common, view of the situation. > You probably can't put in a workshop because the noise would bother the neighbors. We hear far more noise from the neighborhood
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by war1025 6y ago
I guess that was more what I was wondering. Was the all-female cast intentional or just incidental to the team that worked on the ad? I think it's perfectly fine either way, but I was curious.
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by war1025 6y ago
Wrong thread, fyi.

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