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peg_legon A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

I'd love to go out playing music.

peg_legon A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

All due respect and condolences but THAT is the way to go out.

My wife INSISTED … NO DIAMOND. Her engagement ring cost $70 at JCPenney.

peg_legon Borrowers Are Going Underwater on Car Loans

I'm underwater on my car loan. But my credit rating was low and I got to get a new car without anything down, extended payments. The interest rate is a bit high, but now my credit score is good. It works out. At least I got a car that will last as long as the loan.

peg_legon We were supposed to be living in pod houses

One of these is used as a Champaign Room at a strip club in Tampa, FL

peg_legon Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem

Paper ballots?

peg_legon His mission: Meet 10k people, one at a time, for an hour at a time

It's America. In the immortal words of Dr. Detroit: ALL FOR SALE

peg_legon How I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram

Sounds like a social marketing job and he's underpaid.

peg_legon WOW! Bundle all of your monthly bills. Pay them in 1 or 2 installments per month

I do this using my credit card

peg_legon Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B

There are so many people that listen to their ONE favorite artist all the time...I don't think that music is as fungible as you think.

peg_legon Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It?

I had a dream that Alexa recognized my voice when I was visiting a friend's house. Won't be long for that one.

peg_legon Why Is U.S. Health Care So Expensive? Some of the Reasons Turn Out to Be Myths

1) Profit

peg_legon What Airbnb Did to New York City

Air BnB is terrible for smaller, more touristy towns as well, like Traverse City, MI where housing prices and rents have skyrocketed. Used to be able to rent a granny flat as a service worker...those are all Air BnB'd now.

peg_legon Review: Tesla Model 3 lives up to hype

"Unless you’ve been living on Mars, you know the Model 3’s production launch has been a pickle "

And if you're living on Mars...your Roadster is on its way

peg_legon OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000

It reticulates splines

peg_legon What Makes This Song Great? Everything She Does Is Magic, by the Police

First of all you have three amazing musicians and an impeccable performance.

The song starts nice and easy and quickly ramps up to the chorus. The chorus is upbeat, forward-thinking, borrowing from the trends of the day of ska/punk stylings.

The bridge is a nice musical breather that lifts up --- even has a synth riser sound and stop before a drop. This technique is used a lot in dubstep today. Back into a chorus with more elements tossed in adding more energy.

The tag and outtro are a nice, afterglow, kind of feel with new melodic and lyrical content. As if the climax had been reached and it's time for a cigarette.

That's what makes it great. It's musical sex.

peg_legon Tesla’s apparent model plan: S 3 X Y, what next?

-1? The submission begged the comment.

peg_legon Tesla’s apparent model plan: S 3 X Y, what next?

4 5 $ ? B o 0 8 5 ?

peg_legon What makes the US health care system so expensive

It's simple and the article misses the reason: Profit

peg_legon Ask HN: Inexpensive windows machine for tinkering

I'll save you a few clicks

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1683426...

peg_legon Ask HN: Inexpensive windows machine for tinkering

Buy a used one on Newegg, great value if you shop right. HP business laptops are really good. Spent most of their time on a desk, lightly used.

peg_legon Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology including testosterone production

I disagree. People regularily take 800mg of ibuprophen for regular/tension/miagrane headaches. These can be quite regular and chronic occurances.

peg_legon On Testing the Simulation Theory (2017) [pdf]

This is the craziest thing I've ever read. Well worth the relatively short read.

peg_legon What's Causing SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Delays

It has also been unusually cold in Florida recently.

peg_legon Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawyer Disagrees?

If the mitigation of guilt is a not guilty plea then it's rather simple.

peg_legon Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (1943)

Perhaps with microgram amounts - common dosages. He was working with a huge amount ... milligrams. The idea that a microgram may transmit transdermally is not inconceivable at that amount.

peg_legon Cities with Uber Have Lower Rates of Ambulance Usage

I believe the distinction should be made between laissez-faire and crony capitalism. The sytsem is as far as you can get from laissez-faire and completely crony

peg_legon Ask HN: Ones a patent expires after 10 years, does it become open source?

"Public Domain" is the term you want

peg_legon How Pixar’s Toy Story 2 was deleted twice [] (2012)

An excellent story on how to get past the one big mistake. Everyone makes the one mistake. You have to keep going and build so that it can't happen again.

peg_legon Desperate Bitcoin Investors Resorting to Hypnotherapy for Password Recovery

Well, at least that's one more problem I won't have.