0_____0

21 ms·

331.
by 0_____0 1y ago
It's not clear to me that private aviation (2% of total) is more damaging than pet ownership. Is that 2% more or less impactful than the 90 million dogs people own in the US? And 74 million pet cats?
332.
by 0_____0 1y ago
More copper is bad for cars, because it's expensive, and it's heavy, in that order. Fiber isn't cheap to work with. Termination is involved, whereas copper wire is terminated with a crimp that costs on the order of a cent or
333.
by 0_____0 1y ago
There's a little button called "hide" next to each post on the frontpage.
334.
by 0_____0 1y ago
Oakland had some boarded up windows for a while around then. The destruction of the window of the Chase branch in downtown was indeed complete, I think people might have broken it twice.
335.
by 0_____0 1y ago
same boat as you but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Thiel
336.
by 0_____0 1y ago
"eierlegende wollmilchsau"
337.
by 0_____0 1y ago
I believe it is good form to keep work and personal machines completely separate, including phones. If you ever have to hand over your devices for discovery in a law suit I think you will come to the same conclusion.
338.
by 0_____0 1y ago
Funny thing is that the model of citibike in that photo is an electric assist. That's an e-bike, right?
339.
by 0_____0 1y ago
Lael Wilcox used to drink half and half (easily found at convenience stores, high calorie, high palatability, fast). I tried this trick and found that it made me fart more than I found acceptable. Lael has since stopped doing the milk thing
340.
by 0_____0 1y ago
I ultramtb. For me it's because the fragments cause me to cough. My rule is no Snickers unless stopped and water afterwards to flush.
341.
by 0_____0 1y ago
You're not crazy. I think sometimes software people forget that perfectly happy industries sometimes have single digit operating margin.
342.
by 0_____0 1y ago
If you're not living in NYC and haven't visited recently, you should know that an incredible amount of e-bike traffic is Delivery Network Company (Doordash et al.) 'workers' who don't seem to abide by any of the sam
343.
by 0_____0 1y ago
I'd be less concerned about that than the fact that every car that drives by the playground is shedding pounds of tyre plastic into the air/water as a matter of course. At least the playground materials aren't designed to tur
344.
by 0_____0 1y ago
A simple urethane or even latex paint would suffice to protect untreated wood from the elements
345.
by 0_____0 1y ago
Sounds plausible, do you have a telephoto and a string instrument (or friends who own the aforementioned)?
346.
by 0_____0 1y ago
This is definitely true of the building department here. They're understaffed in part due to the inability to come to a new union contract agreement, which means that pay has stagnated.
347.
by 0_____0 1y ago
PCB manufacturing isn't that bad, semiconductor fab is very nasty. It was nasty an unmitigated way during the birth of silicon valley, check out a superfund site map if you're bored. https://www.arcgis.com/home&#x2
348.
by 0_____0 1y ago
A lot of the cost of silicon valley labor comes down to extremely high housing prices. A lot has been made of how the tech boom was simply a wealth transfer from investors to bay area real estate + homeowners.
349.
by 0_____0 1y ago
I love this anecdote, it honestly feels like satire.
350.
by 0_____0 1y ago
This is a benefit of having ultra dense industry specific zones like the Shenzhen SEZ. Physical vendors get the volume to warrant operating and reasonable pricing, buyers get components on short notice. Suburbanization set up the US for fai
351.
by 0_____0 1y ago
Labor rates where I am are among the highest in the nation. People in the trades largely live in the outlying suburbs and pick up the lucrative work in the urban core. A lot of the companies I deal with will jerk you around, not return your
352.
by 0_____0 1y ago
My partner and I ended up sleeping on an air mattress while we waited for the one person at the building department who could sign off on our project to come back from vacation. They were in fact completely unresponsive between thanksgiving
353.
by 0_____0 1y ago
In the private sector, the burden of a shirking employee is borne by owners, investors, shareholders. In the public sector, the weight is borne by our collective dollars, and shirking represents money that could have gone into a playground,
354.
by 0_____0 1y ago
Hah! When we renovated we found century old liquor bottles in the walls. Some things don't change.
355.
by 0_____0 1y ago
I was in New Zealand a couple of months ago and today something crystallized about my experience there - I consistently encountered people who were good at their jobs there. They've got a shortage of people in the trades, but their tra
356.
by 0_____0 1y ago
I was wondering if maybe this is the result of a tight labor market. A lot lf what I see kind of lines up with what happens if you have to make do with underskilled or otherwise sloppy staff. The throughline I think is that there's no
357.
by 0_____0 1y ago
Yes, and... I had my renovation stall for 6 weeks because someone at Mass DEP couldn't be arsed to approve an asbestos abatement work plan. My contractor called the guy's boss and it was approved the next day.
358.
by 0_____0 1y ago
I was just kvetching about this to my partner over breakfast. Not exactly, but a parallel observation, that a lot of people are just kind of shit at their jobs. The utility tech who turned my tiny gas leak into a larger gas leak and left. T
359.
by 0_____0 1y ago
He works for MSFT evidently :) mentioned in one of the files on the "desktop"
360.
by 0_____0 1y ago
Oh man... I've definitely crumpled up and put a receipt in my mouth before... probably even eaten one at some point, probably to horrify a girlfriend in my younger days. I know, I'm a gremlin.

More ›