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by 988747 4y ago
Which basically means that you pay credit card charge even for cash payments.
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In my country parking spaces for residential buildings are all underground, outside parking is considered subpar, thanks to the climate. I've seen residential buildings with 3 underground levels, to accommodate all the parking requirem
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Yes, and it's also funny that they will re-pave the street, and then few months later it turns out that some water pipes need to be replaced, so the freshly re-paved street is torn up again. Then, few months later, new fiber cables nee
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> What better giant finger to that neighbor than selling your multi-acre estate to be replaced by a 30 or 100-unit apartment complex? You really do not realize how big (or small, rather) apartment complexes are. 100-unit building is the
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>> I dont think it's surprising that they make trade-offs to support that model. Just think of how many support staff you'd need to support 1.5 billion users! Google has a shitload of money, they can afford hiring enough st
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by 988747 4y ago
No, it actually makes sense: burn all the oil now, to keep yourself warm in winter, and the future generations will be kept warm by the fact that climate change raises temperatures, so there are no winters anymore :-D
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but I think the point of Land Value Tax is that it is set based on the value of the things that could be built on that land, not ones that currently are located there. So, you have a lot of land wit
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> A better problem, some may say, than having a thriving market for stolen laptops. Some may say that, because having their laptop stolen is a problem they actually experienced. Having your device remain owned by a vendor, who only &quot
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Credentials are not the same as license. For example, software engineers do not need to pass any certification exams to practice software engineering, but companies still look at their education, years of experience, etc... Yes, it would ma
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> As a side effect of medication, I've had to increase my calorie intake to maintain my weight. Is it a medication that increases energy expenditure? Something that boosts your metabolism?
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"I am a beautiful and unique snowflake, there aren't really any people like me" is a wrong answer here :) We are not talking about people exactly like you, we're talking about people taking a lot of unnecessary trips jus
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Thanks for the details :) Seems like Amex Hilton Aspire card is the key here, just not sure how to get one, not living in the US, and having no credit history there. I assume they require some exorbitant income level as well? Anyway, seems
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You know, if there are enough people like you then you can generate a lot of additional demand for flights, and an airline will actually add flights to their schedule to accommodate that. The law of supply and demand still works here. Havin
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How do you manage to get 20-25% on Hilton hotels? True, I never accomplished anything more than Silver membership, but I also read the analysis that one Hilton point is worth like 0.6 cent. It takes a while to accumulate even 100.000 points
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by 988747 4y ago
I have different take on this: even big American cities have this thing called "suburbs", which give them all a small town feel. Americans have an obsession with living in single family homes, apartment are considered the dwelling
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by 988747 4y ago
> If you truly want to raise the birth rate, at any cost, you would reduce education levels, make people poorer, raise religiosity, and ban contraception and abortive services for not just women but everyone. I think it is simpler than t
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by 988747 4y ago
The solution to that is called Snowflake
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Most use cases currently served by Apache Spark clusters would run 10x faster on a laptop with fast SSD (Macbook perhaps), and an ad hoc cat/grep/sed pipeline /s
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Fat people should not be running anyway. First, it's ineffective for weight loss, second, your extra body mass puts stress on your joints, resulting in injuries. To lose weight you need a diet, not exercise. And if you want to exercise
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by 988747 4y ago
They are also "too big to fall" - any economic sanctions against China would hurt the West equally (if not more) than them. China produces half of everything you buy.
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by 988747 4y ago
Followed the comments thread and I wonder: can this https://twitter.com/DurvidImel/status/1615374036820697089?s=... be considered a legally binding contract? Because if so, then someone named Alec Ploof just made
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> I never really got the appeal of the Mini, because it wasn't specced much better than a MacBook. The appeal is in the form factor: you buy Mini, so you can hang it behind your TV using VESA mount, and you use it to watch Netflix o
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by 988747 4y ago
It's crazy that you basically cannot do your taxes in the US without purchasing commercial app...
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Actually, I know many people who do this: create a temporary email address, register for a Netflix trial, and cancel it after you watched your favorite show. It's not really that much of the hassle, other than having to type in your cr
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"Binge watching" is also weapon of Netflix demise: they drop the whole season at once, you watch it in a day or two, and then you forget it, and you never log in to Netflix again for several weeks. HBO dropping one episode at time
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You simply cannot. Unless you want to go Richard Stallman path, and work on a laptop from 2008, with only open source software, unable to use Netflix, banking site, etc.
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Apple produces iPhones, Goldman Sachs does financial engineering - its Asset Management division, in addition to $1.5T of their own assets, also manages $2.5T of customer's money. If necessary they can use those assets to further their
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> if the US can survive $31 trillion in debt How can you be sure it can? $31T is the current value, but it has only been at this level for maybe a year, after sharp increase during COVID pandemic. It's entirely possible that this de
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Businesses have such cost-cutting ideas all the time, the problem is that most of those ideas involve firing people. If the deal is: "we will fire 20% of staff, but those who remain will get 5% raise" no union will agree to it.

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