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I browsed HN [dead] comments to see Terry’s comments. Sometimes, in between the random quotes and other things, he would write something brilliant.

Family and friends.

Tonight was wonderful. Every year is better than the last.

Vintage Steinway is my dream piano. Sorry that you have to get rid of it.

I lean very libertarian, especially when it comes to criminal justice and sentencing reform.

Private prisons can be seen as a byproduct of over-criminalization and over-enforcement. These red light cameras are in the same world where government sees the tightening of enforcement as a valid revenue model.

This is really well written.

I do this too. Fantasy universe works best for me. Always asleep after a few minutes doing this

Czech Texans tended to settle in Central Texas which traditionally doesn't use sauce on their meat.

East and South Texas use sauce.

Get some hot sauce or salsa instead. Tons of local brands.

It seems like a quick fix to get halfway to where they want to be. Now they need to solve for the other half

Garage doors in general are a pain. I have installed and repaired a few and that is one thing that I pay someone else to do now.

I don’t find it fun to tinker with a garage door at all.

Just out of curiosity, which super hero did they pick? I would imagine that Superman wouldn’t have to be too bright but I don’t know much about his character.

I love Blood Meridian. I read it at least once a year.

I just picked up the audio book and am listening to it now.

Are you from South Texas?

I have a hybrid (well, I did before the flood) and it got 17 miles on a charge. It handled most of my trips to the store, errands, etc.

I will probably subscribe for that reason. Disney knows this about parents. They are one of the few companies that could put together their own offering

Grocery stores in Houston already offer this. HEB, Whole Foods, Central Market, and a few others have prepared meals. It is also inexpensive and the meals tend to be good

Is this in other cities?

Please write about being a woodsman somewhere and submit it. I would love to read about it

Growing up in Texas it seemed like most C-level people had at least one tattoo. A lot of them were vets so they would typically be eagles or flags.

I have a theory that the mainstreaming of tattoos comes from the greatest generation. They were the generation who fought the Nazis and came back with markings showing their loyalty to their country and the people they served with.

I am the same age as you. I don't remember any boomer parents with tattoos. I wonder if our kids and grandkids will keep getting tattoos or if it will fall out of fashion

Thank you so much for linking this video. I had no idea it existed. Watching that lecture was so much fun.

I wish that there was a camera pointing to the crowd when he said the more controversial things.

I didn't know that Sussman hired Stallman. Their work changed our lives.

My Steelcase Gesture - it is the first chair that I can ignore. It feels so natural.

Oculus Rift - for the first generation, it is surprisingly comfortable.

Oculus Touch - I can see my hands and it feels natural.

Lexus es350 - great car for sitting in Houston traffic. I wish that I could pull back the steering wheel a bit more so that I could stretch out my legs, bit it is still really comfortable.

Ibanez Jem - my luthier makes fun of this guitar, but it is a dream to play. Flat neck, large fretboard. It sounds amazing.

Nest - just works. Took 5 minutes to install and it just worked

This was long time coming, and hopefully they'll do a lot against the black market as well.

Thanks for writing this. I often find it difficult to wrap my head around some of these crates if I'm unfamiliar with the problem space. Often times if you haven't tried building a server before you won't know why you would use a crate like this. Having a high level overview of what you might use it for and a simple walked through example is really helpful.

This wasn't upvoted enough. PIA has put in a lot of work for privacy along the years! Great company!

I wonder why Twitter doesn't do consulting. They have developed a lot of the big data frameworks that we use today and understand how to scale.

They have the talent and are in a unique position of being Twitter.

These things should exist outside of revenue. If it was more to have a free society does should we rethink freedom? It feels silly to attach a monetary value to individual liberty.

Tax revenue is used as a benefit for legalization. It feels like a flawed argument, but it still aligns with where I would like to be.

The slippery slope argument applies here too: should our freedom be tied to tax revenue? Sure, it works for some drugs. Does it work for our other inalienable rights?

Maybe the idea of communities in tech should just go away. People who share similar ideas on tech should just get together to share those ideas without having to setup a bunch of arbitrary rules and gatekeepers.

Some brilliant people might also have offensive ideas. Why not have a system that allows that brilliance to shine through?

The larger problem here is that these are not communities of hobbyists. Saying something silly or having someone misinterpret what you are saying within the community could cost you your living. Crockford will be okay because he is already well established, but what if he wasn't as well established?

Those homes are beautiful, but Seattle might be a bit tough with the flat roofs. I grew up in a house like that in a rainy area and we had standing water issues on the roof.

It was a beautiful design that was completely inappropriate for the region.

This whole article reeks of magical thinking (as do many of the comments here).

I have been looking for information on what constitutes a McMansion vs a non-McMansion and the arguments parallel the same sort of stuff that made Feng Shui so popular: there are magical rules that make things right or wrong.

Would love so see a real test done on these assumptions. If there are real rules that are being violated with these homes, then an unbiased test should be easy to put together.

Is there is RT-like distinction between All Critics / Top Critics / Audience Score?

I would love to see a site which gathered reviews from professional food reviewers.

It might work with Reddit. The cost of creating a new subreddit is zero, so people can move from poorly handled communities.

Reddit is struggling for money, but they have an amazing platform to test out ideas on. Out of their millions of users one person should be able to come up with a way to monetize the platform. Google did this with their ads: the most popular ads get rewarded.

If I was a moderator and I was given a list of options to generate revenue for Reddit (and myself or my community) I would have to consider it. Maybe I have a community that reviews widgets and I can link to stores that have the best deals for highly reviewed widgets. It is transparent to the community, gives everyone a good deal, and pays for Reddit.