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by howLongHowLong 1mo ago
I've lived in New Orleans since 2009, including several years at exactly the spot you mentioned. I don't understand why people insist on exagerating the violence to this level. It's not more unsafe than any American city (gra
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by howLongHowLong 3mo ago
If that jaded horse-cart builder worked at Studebaker (or Peugot or Durant-Dort which became General Motors) it would be bad advice, bc they turned into a car company. Many cart companies did, bc the people with the knowledge of suspensions
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by howLongHowLong 3mo ago
There are dozens. Search "mooc". Also some professors will release their lectures and homework outside of a "mooc" framework. I've even had professors respond to questions in the comments. The Internet can still be
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by howLongHowLong 4mo ago
Or the responsibility of the city government not to permit a project which exceeds the capacity of the system to handle
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by howLongHowLong 4mo ago
https://hellawater.com/why-is-my-water-brown-causes-solution... Here's one link amongst many a quick Google search that explains how low system pressure from increased demand can cause discolored water. (Check out the
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by howLongHowLong 3y ago
In New Orleans, I've seen it advertised as "cash discount." So I guess technically its not a fee on card transactions - it's a discount on cash ones.
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by howLongHowLong 3y ago
Very common, in small, independent shops, though it often seems to be as much about avoiding taxes as avoiding the fee for the credit machine
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by howLongHowLong 3y ago
We get something like this in Appalachian ballads and other isolated (Anglo)American folk musics recorded in the 20s. Little attention was payed to American folk music until the early students of English ballads discovered 100+ year old tun
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by howLongHowLong 3y ago
For one, because if there are enough people to pay higher prices, the market will reflect that and the locals will have to deal with the new costs despite the fact that there are no local jobs paying enough to afford these things. So yeah f
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by howLongHowLong 3y ago
This very much! I wasted so much time trying to "memorize" the fretboard. It comes naturally by practicing music. Almost all of it began from knowing just the low E string and applying first octave patterns, then other intervals a
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by howLongHowLong 3y ago
I'm a professional musician who makes a good portion of my "living" selling recorded music. You use the same mix for all mediums but need to master differently for vinyl. (Mix refers to levels of individual microphones, maste
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by howLongHowLong 4y ago
Totally agree with your comment. Just came in to leave for others: I believe "TTY" stands for "Teletype"(writer). Learned fun facts I didn't know when I hit google to double check: the original teletypes are descend
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by howLongHowLong 4y ago
It's almost a central theme of "Brave New World." I've always wondered why 1984 gets so much credit for prescience when Brave New World and Vonnegut's "Player Piano" seem to have (from this vantage point)
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by howLongHowLong 4y ago
Just wanted to chime in to say that it seems like all the puzzles are still solveable without the shift key. (I'm mid-way through the flip-flop section, perhaps there's moments you need it in the final level?) edit: I take it back
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
Music theory is descriptive rather than prescriptive. Its purpose is not to tell you what sounds good, but to have a common language to describe what you've heard.
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
Truth! Im a professional musician and in my experience, "naturally talented" generally means "enjoys practicing". No one produces moving music without practice.
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
Neither will you read the article, which is certainly not about water reclamation. (Other than the water saved by peeing into freshwater less.) Surely if it seems natural not to shit where we eat, it's reasonable to think about strateg
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
I'm assuming you've never tried to maintain a nutritious diet through dollar stores and food banks before. It's very difficult. Additionally, when you take into account special packaging made for dollar stores, some of the tr
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
It's sort of funny when the pro list includes "better for science" and there's still a need for a con list. There should be a scientific equivalent to the hypocratic oath; a lot of us laypeople imagine that scientist def
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
Sorry, just saw this. You're absolutely right about the etymology, but generally the suffix "-ity" in English serves to make an abstract noun out of an adjective. So it seems more likely to me that "facility" is der
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
I just want to comment to reject the equivalency of lab-leak hypothesis with absurd conspiracies. Humans make mistakes; it's known that contagions have escaped from labs. How does acknowledging these uncontroversial facts cause one to
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
Is there stronger evidence than correlation==causation to point to the market instead? I think that's what sends most people down the conspiracy kick. You have two seemingly reasonable explanations for a thing, yet one is considered ri
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
Yes, but they're not just from the same root, they're different forms of the same word . Ones the noun, ones the verb. They have exactly the same meaning (except for their grammatical function) but the connotations are almost op
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
It's interesting how the modern usage hasn't crossed over into it's noun form, "facility," which, though essentially the same word, has overtones of competence rather than laziness or ignorance. (Or maybe no one use
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
Its not too difficult to just ignore all search results that reference "bandit" or "overthewire", and thus have an identical experience to before. I suspect there were places on the internet in 2012 where people discusse
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
I think it's designed that way, i.e. figuring out how to find solutions generally is one of the skills its trying to build. The man pages from the "possible commands" and the linked articles generally have enough information
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
I saw this while taking a smoke break in the middle of playing "Bandit." It's definitely making a lot of concepts (especially ssh/ssl usage) clearer and more intuitive through use. I look forward to playing the other gam
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
I've lived in multiple small towns in America and the reality is the nice central amenities are too expensive for most working people, and at least half of the storefronts are boarded up, which means most people end up driving to the W
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
Possibly just an innate impulse to have "a job" and optimize it? Sort of like how our predisposition towards traditionally scarce foods like sugar and fat lead to negative consequences when they're close to infinitely availab
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
3 acres could definitely provide one with most enough to live on if one keeps animals, preserves surplus, and expands their definition of seasonal. "Four-Season Gardening" by Elliot Coleman, a great book on the subject, shows a g

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