Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> This certainly doesn't posit that all white people live perfect lives. However, using a loaded term like "White men" is unnecessary and just serves to distract people with polarized culture war stuff.
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> Is it just me, or does Hobby Lobby seem to go out of their way to remind their customers that their values aren't the same as the customers? Seriously, they should go out of business. It's probably just you (or more precisely
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> The "et" -> "&" lineage is even more visible in certain fonts Also in some of the handwritten forms like this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ampersand-handwritin... It&#x27
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Can someone explain how the YubiKey and TOTP support is supposed to work? I can't think of a way those could work with a local password manager like KeePass.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I used to live in an apartment building and park next to one of the cable distribution boxes. One day, while was sitting in my car, I saw a Comcast technician walk up to the box, open it, clip one of the wires with wirecutters , close it
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Most people find it hard to read books with long s, for example, or even know what long s is or where it occurs. That's not old-fashioned spelling or hyphenation: that's old-fashioned typography.
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You're in luck! They have a whole series of 43 cartoonxplainers: https://www.vox.com/explainers/2016/10/27/13435798/alvin-car... Why should children be the only ones who get to have things expl
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Maliciousness probably costs money, and Amazon's looking to spend as little as possible on these warehouse resources.
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> If only Wal-Mart had better branding... The only way that has a chance of working is if they never let this brand touch one of their stores or their logo. Otherwise the association will wash away any kind of cachet the brand originall
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>> Shit, for $120 you can get a near perfect fit tailored shirt shipped from HK > For $20 bucks you can get an nice dress shirt from Costco. That is not at all comparable unless you happen to be shaped like a Costco shirt-rack.
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What's the archival permanence of this stuff?
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> Fresh water used for industrial processes generally makes its way to the oceans. We have essentially no way to deliberately replenish our ground water sources and the natural process is extremely slow. Then industrial processes shouldn
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> Walmart currently uses groceries as a way to get people in stores and when they're in the store they buy other things as well. Walmart groceries is a sad and pretty recent phenomenon. It got people in the stores just with cheap p
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It took literally two seconds to find: https://www.google.com/#q=amazon+ambulance+warehouse https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/inside-amazons-ver... > In a lengthy and heavily repor
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> I mean keeping an ambulance outside the doors to a warehouse because its cheaper than cooling it is a tad inhumane. Just a tad, but the financial analysis told us inhumanity was the right direction to move in. /s
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> The problem with 'conscientious capitalism' is that a competitor will take the idea and run with it, save for the 'conscientious' elements, and push out the original from the market. That's not a problem with &
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> Maybe, but the fact that they were just acquired by a company notorious for abusing its low-level employees shows the limitations of this model (as did the pressure they began to face from investors to tighten up on that front when the
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> The Microsoft judgment occurred in 2007 That's wrong. Microsoft was ruled a monopoly in 1999, the settlement occurred in 2002, and it expired five years later in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S
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> If someone is going to put their capital on the line, why wouldn't they put it in a higher growth industry? It happens. My parent's neighbor was involved in starting up a new small local bank a few years ago. Now they have
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
But your assertion was that banking is an "industr[y] that require[s] a large amount of startup capital" such that it will "lead to natural monopolies or duopolies." The fact that you can have a small, profitable bank d
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> I believe it is widely accepted now that the pundits/regulators were dead wrong then as they are wrong now. > We should trust that the markets will work their magic. What basis do you have for that assertion? It's kind of
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>> That's what happens when you centralize banking... > Nah, it's just the nature of capitalism. Industries that require a large amount of startup capital lead to natural monopolies or duopolies. But is that true of bank
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> This may just be my general observation but I feel like Silicon Valley hegemony has a grudge against crypto currencies and I'm not sure why. For an industry that has constantly tried new things... There seems to be a pretty strong
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
But if you're just storing random data, like text, it probably offers little to no fitness benefit to the organism. So it could all be lost with a random deletion and no one but you would care. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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> AMO will continue to support listing and updating legacy add-ons after the release of 57 in order to have an easier transition. The exact cut-off time for this support hasn’t been determined yet. I'm not familiar with the release
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If your device was built to need a "cloud," it's pretty safe to assume it will be bricked long before you'd expect. Because who doesn't want to continuously buy $150 smart devices. The sad thing is the cloud is t
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Try a Zeo Sleep Manager /s
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> Trade dress is a legal term of art that generally refers to characteristics of the visual appearance of a product or its packaging (or even the design of a building) that signify the source of the product to consumers. I'm aware o
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> he designed to mimic a Trader Joe’s So what? The mimicry occurs in Canada, where Trader Joe's apparently does not operate. I thought the whole point of trademark law was to prevent customer confusion, not to give a party propert
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
My favorite one was the last one: ----------------------------------------------------------- > Login to Change Volume > You'll need to log in before you can modify the volume. Remember: Be nice or else. > Login -------------

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