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elf25on Modern decor may be straining people's brains

Rich is a mindset. My kitchen has three spatulas. One i bought when i moved out, mom’s and grandma’s. I don’t NEED three but can’t afford to throw two away. Rich see two extra and toss two because it’s just a damn spatula and they KNOW that if they ever need two, they can afford to run out and buy one. Now expand that thought process to everything you own. Declutter becomes easier.

elf25on Bifurcation: The secret giant islands formed when rivers split

Bifurcation occurs at the Great Lakes, where the Mississippi flows into the gulf and the St. Lawrence empties into the Atlantic. This forms the “great loop”, a circumnavigation course known by many power boaters . This makes about half of the United States and island by your definitions.

elf25on One Million Checkboxes

No. I want the world to burn.

elf25on 'I should not have written 'A Clockwork Orange''

My what a boring media landscape it would be if all characters were goodie little “Mary Poppins” types.

Just because a minority wrongly take inspiration from an ill behaved character is no reason to temper a fictional character actions. Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid lead to an increase in bank and train robberies?

elf25on Should we let cars use the road as a projection screen?

'79 Lincoln TownCar did that with a single photocell, worked about 80% of the time. The tech is there and it's not expensive and I'd say could easily be improved with multiple low cost sensors.

elf25on What does happiness at work mean?

go watch about two years worth of 'Dirty Jobs' and you'll find a bunch of happy blue collar workers who fit what you describe. Possibly more of them register happier than white collars.

elf25on Ask HN: What did you do after quitting the IT industry and how have things been?

purchased a c-store. loosing money, working my ass off. weather is a problem, landlord isn't fixing equipment fast enough (latest is our UPC scanner has been down since Christmas, every day I hear, 'it's been ordered' Well, yea? what's the tracking #) I'm rather stuck and short on capitol. It's tied up in Real Estate which, listing agent hasn't shown the property once in 4+ months. It's going to hell. :-( I fucked up. Nobody will hire an old geek. Not sure what's next.

elf25on Static Website Generators Are the Next Big Thing

I'd be happy with a wordpress plugin that rendered static pages. 95% of client sites I've ever done have little to no reason to be dynamic. I know there are valid reasons for a dynamic site however IMHO those are rare.

elf25on Oliver, a New Apartment-Finding App, Cuts Out the Middlemen

Is it this broker usually the property mgr. to begin with?

elf25on Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity

Fuck you Larry Page you evil Bond-villainesque bastard.

elf25on Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA

why are there a lot of links in this article referencing cialis? Site been hacked?

elf25on Hum

Looks like another closed communication system that won't work for me until all my friends DL the app - and they won't.

elf25on Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?

Working Christmas Day at the Liquor store (before cameras were everywhere) and drinking Tanqueray and Mt Dew ALL day. WHEEE!!

elf25on When marketers try to have me clean up their mess, I try to bill them

So, how much you been collectin' ? Y'all must have money comin' out the wazoo.

elf25on Does Your Mom Pay Your Phone Bill?

wtf, I pay my mom's phone bill.

elf25on Coin

I love mine and get comments all the time about how cool or smart it is.

I carry Discover, MC (as backup) a bank debit for Mom's care, business debit, DL, Work ID card, medical, dental, and a couple paper cards like voter registration. No vendor loyalty cards, I give 'em my phone number and if that's not good enough, they can't track my purchases. Business should recognize ME when I walk in. Not the other way around.

elf25on Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

Nice but where's Dark Castle? My disk won't fit in the slot.

elf25on Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

Brilliant!

elf25on Interactive Resume

quite possibly the dumbest thing i've ever seen. yet, uniquely brilliant. still, only a might hire in my book.

elf25on My Friends and I Bought an Island

just blog about this - a lot! Congrats on building your dream! I hope it works out great. 10 different people with ten visions have to come together... wow. Could be real fun or...

elf25on Show HN: Send Your Favorite Articles to the Future

Spam the future you.

elf25on Data Broker Lets You See Their Dossier About You Starting Today

Submitted new user form at www.aboutthedata.com/... "We'll fix the error soon!" WTF? Is this a phishing site?

elf25on Do you know of an alternative to gmail for business?

google does not care about you. John C. Dvorak says he "gets no spam." Might be worth a shot.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2003193,00.asp

elf25on Mystery Aircraft Parts and Atomic Clocks

so, what's it good for?

elf25on Filing taxes: It shouldn't be so hard

household income less than $100k/yr

I work, wife works, own a (very) small business, rent two houses = 40+ PAGE 1040