EarlKing

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by EarlKing 5y ago
They do. That sort of thing is tracked internally. There are some neighborhoods we know to not leave things laying around because they'll get stolen. OTOH, in most any suburban environment as long as its out of sight from the street an
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Given the sheer number of products they ship, yes, they don't and can't reasonably support returns for most things. It's one thing if you're returning a pair of pants that didn't fit. It's quite another if you&
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> What if abandoning entire cartons of merchandise, and then shipping replacements, just has plain-old higher ROI for Amazon, than does peeling a driver off their route to get those parcels fed back into the system for re-routing? This i
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> This is Amazon/Bezos' fault, not the driver's. Well, in the case of your apartment complex and its package locker, it could be either/or. If it's an Amazon brand locker and they're just dropping the packag
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> Arbitrary geographical lines don't define classes. No, but urbanization does, and some states are more suitable to dense settlement than others. > Lots of mythology around the motives of the founding fathers and their supposedl
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> Rural voters work the same types of jobs that their urban counterparts do. Really? I don't know many people working in the tech industry or high finance that live in suburbia or out in the country... DO YOU? This is just an excuse
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by EarlKing 5y ago
What you call a 'tyranny of the minority' is in fact an equal representation of classes... that the rural proletariat is represented in government rather than yielding all decisions to the urban bourgeoisie. The American form of g
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Careful... that's how you summon Tony the Pony.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
It works only as long as you don't care how long it takes to download a video. youtube-dl has had a problem with bandwidth throttling on Youtube for some time now. yt-dlp does not.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Being required to do a thing and actually doing a thing are two completely different things. Having the money to turn around and sue somebody for not disbursing your accrued vacation time is a third thing altogether.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Great! Then we can spend six months arguing about the color of the bike shed while the crops die.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Link currently returning 502 Bad Gateway. Probably should've wrapped this in an archive.is link.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
This is well timed. I was actually going over the Internet Archive's collection just the other day. It's a bit sad to watch the decline in quality as you move through the volumes. Somewhere around 1985 - 1986 BYTE shifted towards
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by EarlKing 5y ago
I suppose I could mention the city-states of Mesopotamia such as Sumer, Akkad, and Babylon. They left behind a rather rich literature which survived to this day (thanks to having been written on clay tablets instead of papyrus), though much
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by EarlKing 5y ago
I'll save you a click: It never explains why.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Honestly there's nothing particularly novel in this thesis. It's more a less a restatement of anacyclosis or the principle behind Hesiod's Ages of Man.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
At this point you might as well buy a Pinephone. It's about as close as you can get to privacy-respecting. Just don't ask too much of it and try not to mind the price.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
...is even further from breakeven than deuterium+tritium fusion.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Vaccines do not pay for themselves. The proposed tax is literally about paying for the vaccines. So you're literally talking about giving out corporate welfare. Want to silence this talking point? Abandon the effort to tax people to pa
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by EarlKing 5y ago
LizardKing - Desert Dawn Moby - Elekfunk Also shouts to Sklathill, whose stuff I can't find in Mod Archive otherwise I'd recommend him too.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
...a wealth transfer to Moderna. There. Saved everyone a read.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Empathy is something that is sorely lacking in a post-COVID world. Apparently some people decided that certain groups are simply vermin to be exterminated and have been quite open about their abuse. Empathy, for them, simply isn't on t
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Except that she didn't, and this is well documented by Martin Tournoij[1]. Caldera OpenDOS preceded her coinage along with a dozen others. [1] https://www.arp242.net/open-source.html
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Well, more precisely: Lawmakers will do absolutely nothing until a combination of a sufficient number of organized voters and pissed off businesses being discriminated against decide that lawmakers need to do something or be replaced by tho
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> traditional media Moss media. Spread the meme.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
In fact I'm pretty sure it's in the job description.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Thanks to Facebook we know this theory to be falsified. It's not anonymity that makes people total fuckwads, but rather a lack of consequences for their actions. A Facebook luser who posts political drivel that just happens to agree wi
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by EarlKing 5y ago
So... is this Grindr for conservatives?
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by EarlKing 5y ago
I'd say Star Citizen is more of a cautionary tale about putting blind faith in someone just because of previous results. Chris Roberts has previously delivered, but in all cases where he has it's been where he's been under so
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> When the stock goes from 200 to 3500 in 10 years, and consistently goes up and to the right, you won’t find too many of the workers complaining no matter how bad the job conditions are. Tell that to the guys in logistics who don't

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