horsestaple

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by horsestaple 3y ago
True if you look at the cities, but it misses the bigger picture. There was also a trend of people moving into the surrounding suburbs and smaller towns, and commuting to the inner city. If you look at the metro area, both have actually gro
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by horsestaple 3y ago
The US is the largest country with english speakers, but it does not have the majority of speakers [1] (just India plus Pakistan have as many). So your assumption would be wrong, even based on statistics. [1] https://en.m.wikiped
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by horsestaple 3y ago
WebClient predates pattern matching.
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by horsestaple 4y ago
I've had many people try my VR headset and people experiencing motion sickness is pretty common. However you can easily train yourself to delay the onset substantially, or even completely cure it. The best thing to do is immediately ta
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by horsestaple 4y ago
Xiaomi also has working home assistant integration. I have mine set up to start vacuuming when everyone leaves the apartment.
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by horsestaple 4y ago
Of course those suburbanites love their hard won individualism, the point is, that this kind of life is built on externalities that make it unsustainable for the majority of people to live this way.
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by horsestaple 4y ago
Because it's not 10 000x harder to manage SpaceX than Joe's Plumbing. Sure the compensation should reflect in some way the effort and difficulty. But these earning ratios between the top and bottom or big and small are out of whac
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by horsestaple 4y ago
Yeah I don't think you need to spend so much when these second hand T-series get you 95% of the way there for less.
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by horsestaple 4y ago
I couldn't finish the book, it just had too much unexplained fictional techno-jargon to be able to enjoy for me. I know thats the style of immersion he was going for, but it didn't click for me, even though I'm a big sci-fi r
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by horsestaple 5y ago
He didn't do it to 'fix a disequilibrium', he ruthlessly exploited an opportunity for personal gain at the expense of an entire country. You can argue about the positive long term consequences, or the responsibility of the pe
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by horsestaple 5y ago
Yes, if you convinced a lot of people to transact in cans of beans, you would be undermining the control of the government. Just look at countries that don't have a (viable) currency. They are using dollars or euros and are subject to
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by horsestaple 5y ago
Would be pretty easy to do in this eastern EU country. We have laws that require stations to separate ads from content, so there is always a short animation announcing the start and end of ads.
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by horsestaple 5y ago
All of it matters, as a lot of what you find enjoyable about music is learned. Today's music might sound dissonant to someone a few hundred ago. Eg. a particular interval the _tritone_, also known as the devil's tone was considere
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by horsestaple 5y ago
You should watch this: https://youtu.be/BH-jVncTJbg Great explanation of how the modern set evolved from military marches up to the Beatles.