BobAliceInATree

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by BobAliceInATree 1y ago
Diamonds definitely chip.
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by BobAliceInATree 1y ago
Synthetic diamonds are so cheap now that even de Beers closed their online store. https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2025/05/09/de-be...
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by BobAliceInATree 1y ago
You're a few years too late, as this trend has been been happening for a decade at this point. You can find many articles online about how millenialls and now gen-z are ditching diamonds.
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by BobAliceInATree 1y ago
You're giving a MFA number to someone that called you?!
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by BobAliceInATree 1y ago
That ship has long since sailed. OED dates the first known use of "to reduce drastically or severely; to destroy, ruin, devastate" to 1660.
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by BobAliceInATree 1y ago
When I’ve closed down an LLC, I’ve received a document from the Secretary of State certifying such.
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by BobAliceInATree 1y ago
The vast majority of stars don't supernova. Also, we're at the tail end of star-forming era. about 95% of all the stars that will be formed, have already been formed. https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/li
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Not even a mention how this is deeply unconstitutional in the article. The media is failing us.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
This is why many states base the sales tax of used cars sales on the market value, not the actual sales price.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
It's relatively easy to make a thick leather wallet that will last a couple decades. It's hard to make a thin leather wallet that will last a couple decades. Most of the online leather brands that popped-up in the past 20 years ar
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Well-intentioned? This is I’m just anti-homeless legislation.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
The author should redact the face of the woman whose photos were stolen
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
That's not what loss leader means.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
What if you lose the private key to the NFT? What if you sell the NFT with a fake item? What if the blockchain splits and there's now two NFTS? What if people collectively think that NFTS are stupid and forget about them, so now the ph
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
> (just the OS updating?) "Just the OS updating" is not insignificant. Software developers, in general, are not known for making sure latest versions of their software run smoothly on older hardware. Also, performance on iPhone
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
On the most recent episode of ATP podcast, an anonymous person wrote in to say that when they worked at Apple until ~2013, there was effectively no QA team on macOS. Granted that was over a decade ago, and "no QA team" doesn'
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
It's all very superficial. When you get up close to it, you can see it's not built very well. And if you just walk a block or two away, it gets significantly more dirty and grungy. I wouldn't be surprised if 20-30 years from
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
SwiftUI is a joke when it comes to performance. Even Marco's Overcast stutters when displaying a table of a dozen rows (of equal height). That being said, it's not quite an apples to apples comparison, because SwiftUI or UIKit can
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
I live in the middle of Manhattan not near a park. There is zero grass near me that I would touch.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Who said a free market must be cheap or accessible?
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Yeah, the USA (in general) won’t do anything at all. A few medium-sized cities like Austin are the exception to this.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Better cold water and not PFAS/firefighting foam edit: apparently Canada banned PFAS in firefighting foam.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
My washer/dryer had to be replaced, and I was able to convince my landlord to split the additional cost of a heat-pump dryer. (The QoL improvement is great since there's no vent in the unit, though it's unclear if my energy b
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
NYC buildings now have an "efficiency" rating they're required to post on the front of their building. Doesn't give you a $, but maybe a gist of what your energy bill might be like.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
He sounds like a prig to me /s
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
I'm looking at you The Verge's homepage.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
State Farm is a mutual insurance company, so it's owned by its policy holders. It's not quite non-profit, but it's in the same ballpark. I've gotten money back from State Farm one year when they ( we , I guess) made too
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
You know what’s more unsafe in than the subway in NYC? Walking across a road in NYC. You sound like you don’t live in the area.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
It’s not a tax.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
1) They're novelty collector's items. 2) Selling individual sheets has a lot more overhead per sheet/bill than selling fresh stacks of bills to banks.

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