patrickburke

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by patrickburke 10y ago
the doc death by china covers some of these issues... not free trade by a long shot, more like an ongoing trade war
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by patrickburke 10y ago
or Columbia the hippos like it there
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by patrickburke 10y ago
I've observed strong bonds are formed during hardship, so enduring the teenage years/military service/some other hardship with others will result in a deeper friendship, but people are moving around so much that even if you h
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by patrickburke 10y ago
Reminds me of the 4ds: Disrupt, Degrade, Deny, Destroy
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by patrickburke 10y ago
You have coins on both block chains now
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by patrickburke 10y ago
Nearly all political persuasion is framed as a moral argument and dissenters are publicly shamed. Eg. You are a bad person if you drive a SUV. This is not just a property of the left
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Will wasm defeat adblockers?
2 points by patrickburke 10y ago|1 comments
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by patrickburke 10y ago
Try high contrast chrome extension choose increased contrast
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by patrickburke 10y ago
One ingredient is missing, some innovation to secure the bike against theft, since $1000 electric is a target.
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by patrickburke 10y ago
In a conversation about the death of the west, you express shock that there remains some vestige of Christian morality, and without a hint of irony.
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by patrickburke 10y ago
The narrative in this country is people who dont agree with the liberal establishment are mentally ill in the form of racism, sexism, etc. This is the level of political discourse we put up with.
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by patrickburke 10y ago
Beergardens were common until WWII, at which point they were associated with Germanism. Most parks I see get very little use, one empty baseball field after another, it wouldn't take much to liven them up.
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by patrickburke 10y ago
I think whats missing is greenspace with a commercial element. If you attach a beergarden or cafe to a greenspace people will spend much more time there
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by patrickburke 10y ago
The Frontline on this issue was good. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/league-of-denial/
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by patrickburke 10y ago
This is about the NSA, not the CIA, but still a nice link. "As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, w
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by patrickburke 10y ago
This reminds me of this fine map, "List of writing systems" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/World_al...
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by patrickburke 10y ago
This might be true but the option for Americans is the American city or the American suburb. A lot of bloggers who rail against the suburbs juxtapose it against some beautiful European city. I think there's a handful of American citie
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by patrickburke 10y ago
Seems to be somewhat true. https://www.redfin.com/city/10943/MN/Minneapolis/filter/prop...
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by patrickburke 10y ago
60 mins did an episode on face blindness, and apparently the psychologist Oliver Sacks couldn't even recognize himself in the mirror.
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by patrickburke 10y ago
I think it's more the case that American cities are just not that great especially compared to European cities. The proposition for city life in the US is not that compelling unless you are taking about very few cities. So the averag
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by patrickburke 10y ago
Political agitators exploit a situation with buzzwords to create headlines, meanwhile real students go to class.
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by patrickburke 10y ago
According to a recent Frontline, maybe we are moving on: "A searing, two-hour investigation places America’s heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light -- telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemi
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by patrickburke 11y ago
If you live in the city, the compelling use is that you never have to park. And on long enough timeline, if a enough people were doing this, much of the parking footprint of the city could be liberated. "The right to access every buil
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by patrickburke 11y ago
Imagine there's a vending machine, and a group of young people learn that if you it hit in a certain way, a soda pops out... so they stand around hitting that vending machine...popping out sodas... 'Offendedness' is that way
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by patrickburke 11y ago
Ruinenwerttheorie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruin_value
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by patrickburke 11y ago
Jakriborg is a city built in 1990 designed for people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakriborg I think we wasted all our capital on freeways and cloverleafs
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by patrickburke 11y ago
Isn't this standard operating procedure these days? Big companies have the leverage to negotiate their tax situation, Walmart and NFL teams come to mind.
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by patrickburke 11y ago
The terms right-wing and left-wing are as meaningless as the term fascism.
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by patrickburke 11y ago
I'm using a spreadsheet to organize the job listings before I apply. Some columns include Job, Title, Industry, Salary, Notes, Distance from my house... If a job search portal was combined with a 'job application organizer'