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by stx 5y ago
Whats your plan to survive this possibility? Stick it out and just expect smaller returns once property prices deflate?
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by stx 5y ago
> Austerity measures will include wage and price controls (like Nixon did in 1970s), sky high interest rates. ^This is my biggest concern. Thus far real estate has been my favorite investment. I assume though if interest rates go up peop
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by stx 5y ago
The reality is that wages have not kept up with inflation. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
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by stx 5y ago
I think he was referring to this: https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-outlaw-protest...
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by stx 5y ago
Would cooling it help to reduce the amount of pressure the atmosphere has? Isn't the pressure on the surface something like 95 times that of earth.
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by stx 6y ago
>It'll be interesting to see if whoever replaces Ajit Pai holds a different view on public intercourse over the airwaves. I think the word you mean is discourse not intercourse.
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by stx 6y ago
I was at a school who was just starting to do some similar things. They had students register the mac of their devices (wired and wireless). So they identified students by mac. With this it was actually pretty easy for a bad actor to frame
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by stx 6y ago
I drink decaf coffee sometimes and still feel the same boost as drinking caffeinated even though I know is has much less caffeine. I guess its mostly in my head. Although decaf does have some caffeine.
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by stx 6y ago
Duplicate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24489165
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by stx 6y ago
The thing is we (the US) did do this at one point in time. When I was a kid you could buy a coke in a glass bottle and return it when done to be re-used by the manufacturer. For some reason we stopped. We should bring that back. When I was
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by stx 6y ago
Yep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_obscenity_statute Looks like its never been enforced though. Really though laws that are not enforced are a bad thing because some day they could selectively be enforced. Also b
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by stx 6y ago
> What triggers writing a test is what matters. Overzealous testers test for each new public method in a class. I have seen this before. At one company I forced by a couple of other developers to write tests for accessors(get/set) o
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by stx 6y ago
This is something that I suspect could cause another crypto boom even if a short lived one. If/when government decisions or some other forces cause people to want to move currency and avoid government scrutiny there will be a large amo
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Facebook Says It's Aiming to Make Lying 'More Difficult'(npr.org)
3 points by stx 6y ago|2 comments
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LA Mayor Shuts Off Power at Hollywood Hills House That Hosted Large Parties(npr.org)
45 points by stx 6y ago|81 comments
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Satellite Images Show Wakashio Being Towed Toward Antarctica as Mystery Deepens(forbes.com)
18 points by stx 6y ago|5 comments
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Dead in California Fire, as Lightning-Strike Fires Push Resources to Limit(npr.org)
1 points by stx 6y ago|0 comments
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by stx 6y ago
It could be cool for creating some equivalent of wifi geocaching. Small simple websites that you need to get within a specific area to access.
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by stx 6y ago
They just didn't use the right SD card. You need a class 11 Super ULTRA Extreme SD card made by some specific brand.
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Tug Boats Drag Split Japanese Cargo Ship Out to Sea Off Coast of Mauritius(npr.org)
1 points by stx 6y ago|0 comments
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California issues first rolling blackouts since 2001(npr.org)
125 points by stx 6y ago|237 comments
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Under Pressure: How Aluminum Extrusions Are Made(hackaday.com)
1 points by stx 6y ago|0 comments
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by stx 6y ago
This is a dupe. See the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146987
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1:150 Scale Micro RC Car(youtube.com)
1 points by stx 6y ago|0 comments
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by stx 6y ago
The author never mentioned using laundry detergent in a dishwasher. I checked before posting my comment.
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by stx 6y ago
Take it from someone who tried. You can use dish detergent in the washing machine (clothes) but using laundry deterge in the dishwasher has interesting results. You will get bubbles coming out all over the place.
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by stx 6y ago
> If they've been doing so much work, and it's just the "moderation is hard" problem that has slowed them, why do all of their sites make it so convoluted to report content? I think they are trying to narrow what can
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by stx 6y ago
This sounds pretty surprising to me since I thought I kept hearing that insects were in decline globally. This made me curious. One thing I often check is who the author(s) are and what their links to industry might be. For example if the p
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by stx 6y ago
Assuming I did bring in an 80mb js library into a web app wouldn't there be something in the build process that removes unreachable code? I mostly have backend and mobile experience with only a little frontend experience. But I agree m
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Without trial data, how can we trust Russia's Covid vaccine?(reuters.com)
1 points by stx 6y ago|1 comments

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