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ExcilSplofton No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)

Very interested in this company fyi in the "more to explore" section in https://goodfair.com/pages/about-us the three images are deceptively not linking to anything like the middle one says "our amazing blog" and is not a link. Not trying to nitpick but just something I noticed.

ExcilSplofton The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

vim

ExcilSplofton Used GPUs flood the market as Ethereum's price drops below $150

No and I take your point, but I guess the extrapolation is the anonymous nature of blockchain cryptocurrencies enable a class of crime that would be much more difficult with traditional currencies.

ExcilSplofton Used GPUs flood the market as Ethereum's price drops below $150

Is it that far fetched? Right now most disk encrypting ransomware demands bitcoin for decryption.

ExcilSplofton Many famous scientists have something in common: they didn’t work long hours

In tech/development culture, working smarter equates to something like "I did this in 3 lines of Node". God help the maintainer or ops person when left pad is pulled or the performance suffers.

ExcilSplofton Do One Thing

I suggest it is package manager. Everything has it's own little little plugin management tools, for retrieving, installing etc.

ExcilSplofton “I can't stop comparing everything to Black Mirror”

RE: The Waldo Moment

Having seen the show and reading your reviews just made me realize what I do not like about the cartoon South Park. While I realize that Matt and Tre have had excellent resolutions in their show and have occasionally tackled issues in a daring and unique way, I feel as if the net effect was to lower the level of discourse to potty humour and political cynicism.

ExcilSplofton The Myth of Charter Schools

"By the way, no one in America (besides anorexic rich girls) is starving."

This absolutely not true, some students only meal of the day comes in school with reduced or free lunch. Not every poor kid is accustomed to nothing but what McDonald's serves.

ExcilSplofton Do You See a Pattern?

sans buying the book (which I now would like to), can you provide an example of a well patterned home as you did for Colonial/McMansions?

ExcilSplofton Variable Cost Living Sadly Doesn't Work

Reminds me a bit of this article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.02/chiat_pr.html

(not because of the author's experience, but rather a pitfall I can see occurring)

ExcilSplofton 'Youth Magnet' Cities Hit Midlife Crisis

Just a note, fat tire is made by new belgium brewing out of colorado, and indeed it is on tap in many many places. However, it is a fair to middling beer compared with the hundreds of beers brewed in portland and oregon (IMO). Come for the fat tire on tap, stay for the really good oregon beers. Also as a tech interested individual, one should make it a point to go to Powell's Technical bookstore, it is 3 blocks from the original big Powells, but chock full of Math, Science, Engineering and computer books, my fave bookstore on the planet.