kjdal2001

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by kjdal2001 9y ago
I agree. I think they are both comfortable and sound good, but the leather (or faux-leather) starts to flake and fall apart quickly.
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by kjdal2001 9y ago
It looks like there might be a movie in some stage of production. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959300/
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by kjdal2001 9y ago
I think he is paraphrasing a quote from Kurt Vonnegut. "America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor..." http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/158414-america-is-the-wealth...
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by kjdal2001 9y ago
I personally just got around to accepting my antilibrary as a good/ok thing to have. In the past I would refrain from buying new books if I still had some unread ones on my shelf. But it now seems to me that it was a greater waste to
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by kjdal2001 9y ago
I haven't seen Inherent Vice, but I totally agree about No Country for Old Men. One of the differences there might be that both of those movies were made by very accomplished directors, Paul Thomas Anderson and the Coen brothers respe
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by kjdal2001 9y ago
Yeah. Barbecue sauce in particular gets used in the same situations as ketchup, and is usually also tomato based. I feel like ketchup is almost just synonymous with Heinz. When I want ketchup I basically am looking for the taste of Heinz
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
If you are referring to gydfi's post as the "daydream", I don't think you interpreted the tone correctly. I didn't read it as a description of a utopia. The last sentence gives away that the preceding ones don&#x2
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I absolutely agree. Your point about Samantha Bee reminds me of a podcast that Malcolm Gladwell did recently about satire. In it he criticized SNL's portrayal of Sarah Palin back in 2008. Tina Fay's impression of her was funny
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I like a George Carlin quote as much as the next guy, but this doesn't make sense. If gourmet means it costs more, then there absolutely is gourmet coffee, rolls and pizza.
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
Yeah, I didn't get it either. It feels to me like he had this Italian election analogy in his pocket and couldn't wait to use it. It feels very forced.
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
Tone and facial expression aren't conveyed at all in non-emojied text. Comparing emojis usage to spoken conversation doesn't make sense because they aren't used to augment or replace speech.
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I wasn't a huge fan of The Circle. It did a decent job of presenting the creep of surveillance powers that come along with ever more useful social media features. But it didn't have a coherent argument against them. It was sort
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
Its not. Its probably more accurately described as "science which has political implications" rather than "politicized science."
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I agree. That assignment was one of my favorites. It was a lot of fun because it was fairly easy to get something that functioned, and as you came up with ideas for making it better (or just got ideas from reference implementations), you
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
Having different priorities than you is not the same as corrupt.
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I originally replied to a child of this post, but if you are interested in the book, I think its "But What If We're Wrong" by Chuck Klosterman.
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I think hes talking about "But What If We're Wrong?" by Chuck Klosterman. Sorry to spoil the secret! edit: Its highly recommended. Also, its not an argument about quality. The author speculates about what kind of art prod
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I totally agree that the transferred images don't have the power of the originals. I know nothing about art (well, painted art), but its striking how the transfered images seem like cheap imitations in the style of the originals. And
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I can see how that happens. The thing that impressed me most about Infinite Jest is the incredibly deep introspection that the characters had. But the passages were very long, and because they weren't about actual stuff happening, it
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I love Infinite Jest, but its not for everybody. If you do want to read it, I wouldn't recommend reading it on a commute. Its very dense and requires a lot of attention, and I don't feel like it would work well if you are in a p
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
Its a parody of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises".
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
More likely its a complication of the fact that ice is slippery.
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
"For Excel users, this should be a good story to keep in mind before sharing results of an Excel model." Shouldn't this be an argument for sharing your model before drawing conclusions and sharing those? Also, maybe using Exc
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
If you don't like the series, why are you still reading it? If you don't like the first 3/4 of the series then I think you can be pretty confident that you aren't going to like the final 1/4.
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I do like the architectural diversity in the Loop, but it goes beyond just downtown. One of the things that I love about my neighborhood is how you'll find 2, 3, or 4 floor walkups built anywhere from 100 to 1 year ago right next to e
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
You might want to track down the primary source of that saying. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
It not a big deal. Calling something a political cartoon isn't an insult. Political cartoons are meant to illustrate a position, not support one. An infographic is a visual presentation of data that supports an argument. Political
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I agree. Thats a political cartoon, not an infographic.
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
He means the first people who studied computer science, not the people who invented it.
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by kjdal2001 10y ago
I agree. Other than maybe an giving a subconscious association with wine coolers, it seems less wasteful in addition to being simpler and easier.

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