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In San Diego, we have a discount store called GTM that buys Costco closeouts and scratch-and-dent items and resells them for less. It has a loyal base of bargain shoppers, and it f…

I agree with you on hip-hop. It's very important to me. And it's great that it's become so ubiquitous. But it wasn't always like that. Early hip-hop was just music created extempor…

These forms of media were work-for-hire projects owned by the publisher, paid at a rate per word or page. Assignment turned in and paid for (or not) and on to the next assignment. …

Comic books, original paperback books (crime/detective stories, westerns, science fiction, etc.), hip-hop,... all intended as disposable entertainment—the commodified, created cont…

This was my first computer. I got it for Christmas when I was 9 or 10. Can't remember if it was 1983 or 1984. Mostly used it, and its particular flavor of BASIC, to create graphic …

Standard Ebooks is my go-to for beautiful, well-formatted Public Domain books. The 2025 page is a wonderful gift to start the year. I'm off to read Red Harvest and The Dain Curse. …

> The news isn't going to mow my yard, politics won't change a single thing about my life which couldn't be changed through more hard work. Ain't that the truth.

Indeed they do. At least the Debian-based distros, like Ubuntu and Mint.

Every general purpose Linux desktop I setup gets Simon Tatham's puzzles and all of Kenta Cho's and Jason Rohrer's games.

https://www.freetaxusa.com/ and their parent company https://www.taxhawk.com/ They charge $14.99 for the state filing. Usually a coupon code available. Or go to the state's website…

This is up there with one of my favorites from Hacker News: The Microhydro Plant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075110 https://…

https://outline.com/6yf9UP https://archive.vn/YylTa

Usually we think of history as what happened, but it's really more historiography, the story we tell about what happened. In college we would read 4 different academic sources abou…

My favorite Hacker News story of all time, about a guy who builds a small, water turbine power plant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895582 https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbin…

Previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13366216

This reminds me of a story I read about 10 years ago of a Japanese manufacturer of a very specific type and format of scientific lab notebook that ended production. I think about t…

My daughter (13) is a juggler. I am not. I'll just leave this here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap

Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.

There's a great documentary about Frank Frazetta called Painting with Fire. Later in life he suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right hand. He taught himself to paint and draw ag…

When ever I want to learn something on my own, especially a comparative study, I include the search terms "syllabus' and 'reading list'. I figure there must be a class somewhere th…

That's funny. I also use NoScript, just to be extra cautious, and when I go to Brave.com, I don't see ANYTHING. I would hope that somebody claiming to want to fix the web would be …

I work a cubicle job in the financial services industry, a large back-office for one of the largest independent broker/dealer networks in the country. Attending to email is essenti…

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It's the same with eyewear. Check out the 60 Minutes story on Luxottica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdq2rIqAlM They control over 80% of the global market, from manufacturing,…

Source, Lessons from a Successful Counterinsurgency: The Philippines, 1899-1902, by Timothy K. Deady http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Ar...