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by wespad 4mo ago
In San Diego, we have a discount store called GTM that buys Costco closeouts and scratch-and-dent items and resells them for less. It has a loyal base of bargain shoppers, and it feels a bit like a treasure hunt. You can buy normal or even
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by wespad 1y ago
I agree with you on hip-hop. It's very important to me. And it's great that it's become so ubiquitous. But it wasn't always like that. Early hip-hop was just music created extemporaneously at a party or a park jam. It wa
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by wespad 1y ago
These forms of media were work-for-hire projects owned by the publisher, paid at a rate per word or page. Assignment turned in and paid for (or not) and on to the next assignment. A volume game.
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by wespad 1y ago
Comic books, original paperback books (crime/detective stories, westerns, science fiction, etc.), hip-hop,... all intended as disposable entertainment—the commodified, created content of its day.
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by wespad 2y ago
This was my first computer. I got it for Christmas when I was 9 or 10. Can't remember if it was 1983 or 1984. Mostly used it, and its particular flavor of BASIC, to create graphic images, pixel by pixel. I remember making a fantasy swo
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by wespad 2y ago
Standard Ebooks is my go-to for beautiful, well-formatted Public Domain books. The 2025 page is a wonderful gift to start the year. I'm off to read Red Harvest and The Dain Curse. Happy New Year!!!
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by wespad 2y ago
> The news isn't going to mow my yard, politics won't change a single thing about my life which couldn't be changed through more hard work. Ain't that the truth.
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by wespad 2y ago
Indeed they do. At least the Debian-based distros, like Ubuntu and Mint.
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by wespad 2y ago
Every general purpose Linux desktop I setup gets Simon Tatham's puzzles and all of Kenta Cho's and Jason Rohrer's games.
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by wespad 4y ago
https://www.freetaxusa.com/ and their parent company https://www.taxhawk.com/ They charge $14.99 for the state filing. Usually a coupon code available. Or go to the state's website (CA at least), and f
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by wespad 4y ago
This is up there with one of my favorites from Hacker News: The Microhydro Plant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075110 https://ludens.cl/
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by wespad 6y ago
https://outline.com/6yf9UP https://archive.vn/YylTa
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by wespad 6y ago
Usually we think of history as what happened, but it's really more historiography, the story we tell about what happened. In college we would read 4 different academic sources about an event, and try to determine why they were so diffe
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by wespad 7y ago
My favorite Hacker News story of all time, about a guy who builds a small, water turbine power plant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895582 https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html
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by wespad 7y ago
Previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13366216
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by wespad 7y ago
This reminds me of a story I read about 10 years ago of a Japanese manufacturer of a very specific type and format of scientific lab notebook that ended production. I think about the story every now and then and go on a deep dive, but can n
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by wespad 8y ago
My daughter (13) is a juggler. I am not. I'll just leave this here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap
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by wespad 10y ago
Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.
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by wespad 10y ago
There's a great documentary about Frank Frazetta called Painting with Fire. Later in life he suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right hand. He taught himself to paint and draw again with his left.
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by wespad 11y ago
When ever I want to learn something on my own, especially a comparative study, I include the search terms "syllabus' and 'reading list'. I figure there must be a class somewhere that has already covered this ground.
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by wespad 11y ago
That's funny. I also use NoScript, just to be extra cautious, and when I go to Brave.com, I don't see ANYTHING. I would hope that somebody claiming to want to fix the web would be able to serve up a page that doesn't need per
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by wespad 11y ago
I work a cubicle job in the financial services industry, a large back-office for one of the largest independent broker/dealer networks in the country. Attending to email is essentially the crux of my job. The entire corporation is held
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by wespad 11y ago
No mention of Hip-Hop?
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by wespad 11y ago
It's the same with eyewear. Check out the 60 Minutes story on Luxottica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdq2rIqAlM They control over 80% of the global market, from manufacturing, to opticians, retail stores, and bran
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by wespad 11y ago
Source, Lessons from a Successful Counterinsurgency: The Philippines, 1899-1902, by Timothy K. Deady http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Ar...
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by wespad 11y ago
The article cites an academic book, Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State, ( https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780299234133 ) by professor Alfred W. McCoy ( https
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by wespad 11y ago
Georges Lemaître: Priest & Scientist; Father of the Big Bang Theory; He was the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927,
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by wespad 13y ago
You mean, like this? http://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html