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Just want to agree, the film Crumb is a wild documentary,and totally worth watching for adults who have any interest in counter culture.

The buckets in the Brat were strictly to get around the "Chicken Tax": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax A protectionist law that favored small trucks built in America. Aus…

I remember they pitched Mongolia as a place this would be used, but I fail to see how it actually would be. I haven't been back to Mongolia since this came out, but I would bet goo…

So you're saying it's "'Nextdoor' for work"?

"Desus and Mero" on Viceland.com. Infectious level laughter from commentary.

If you're in the USA, Home Depot also rents them by the hour/day if you don't want to spend the whole amount for something you won't use too often.

I'm definitely an amateur at understanding biology, but having studied engineering; the inputs and outputs of the human body vary so widely that I have a hard time narrowing down o…

A hammer drill (even a Harbor Freight one will do fine for a one time project) and masonry bit will drill through brick just fine. Put the line through, use raintight fittings, and…

Roadkill did it with both multiple leaf blowers ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U81_0waqEWA ) and a full small block Chevy engine on a trailer supercharging another one in the ca…

https://soundcloud.com/bodega-sushi/ Only podcast I listen to, the Bodega Boys, to guys from the Bronx that started out as amateur comedians on Twitter and ended up with a TV show:…

50 Cent is another guy who himself has made lots of money [0], and been technically bankrupt [1], but somehow did fine [2]. [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/50-cent-tweeting-abou…

The subreddit[0] for this is not even remotely veiled cannabis farmers. Every once in a while someone posts tomatoes. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceBuckets/

Chuck Yeager is surprisingly active on Twitter, answers lots of questions. His replies can be pretty funny, too. https://twitter.com/GenChuckYeager

They're cheaper than that, if you're willing to deal with shady(ish) companies: lowendbox.com

You're talking about the 'Mansfield bar'[0], or 'underride bumper' named after a famous case of a celebrity killed by rear-ending a truck. [0] http://www.sparebumper.com/index.php?…

Isn't that what Blue Apron is for? https://www.blueapron.com/ Still kind of pricey at $10/meal.

It's a well known phenomenon called the "UNIX beard" [0] [0] "The length, bushiness, and unkemptness of the Unix beard are all directly proportional to the owner's expertise." Sour…

As someone pretty close to this camp, it comes down to your last bullet point - needing to do it, in my opinion. A smaller subset of those people will also learn VBA for the same r…

This is the best way to describe just about any diet or exercise ideas floated on HN.

lowendbox.com has been reviewing cheap VPS providers for years, and has background on providers as well as current deals.

True, but again, that assumes they have a picture of the data. If the product was sold online through target.com, a picture may exist somewhere. Otherwise, most company's item mast…

There's no real way a turker would know if the data is bad. Really only the merchandiser at HQ who was checking with the supplier would have had the source data (dimensions, units …

This IIRC is essentially the story reported by investigative journalist Sy Hersh, relying on unnamed sources. See here for the full read: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-her…

For some reason, Coursera doesn't seem to have the page up any more, but there was a great MOOC about programming for musicians[0] that featured ChucK as the main language. They ev…