GuinansEyebrows

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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
> when i'm doing large presentations to prospective clients my company gives me what they call a "look book". This is a deck with information about every person in the audience all the way down to personality traits, trigg
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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
> This seems like a pretty normal thing to do sorry to the rest of the esteemed hn community for the low-effort reply, but... gross.
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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
hmm, an argument against expertise is not something i expect to see often on hackernews :)
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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
i didn't read that as snark. they're just saying compressors were/are used to maximize the broadcast range of a source over AM radio. without them, the broadcast range is shorter, which means fewer people hear the ads on the
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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
it could simply be that you value owning the object in terms other than money. sentimental reasons, completionism tendencies, novelty, some other "non-rational"/emotional reason; any of these can have a stronger pull on the m
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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
if you have to ask...
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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
the netherlands is far from perfect but unless you have a specific grievance with their government, you really have no idea how much better it can be. it's night and day when compared with places like the united states. things can be
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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
> It's not so amazing when you realize the Neo is an iPad's innards with a keyboard glued to it. $250 for a keyboard and a hinge. that's cheaper than a Magic Keyboard, depending on the iPad :)
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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
create a new account elsewhere. set up a forwarder from gmail -> new account. create a filter/label in your new email. when you get an email at your new account, update the service to use your new email. this way it doesn't all
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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
BonziBuddy says buy Dole and Chiquita stock now!
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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
> It's not like police unions are making life better for citizens. which is precisely why many union advocates argue that police should not have unions. the police exist as the physical arm of the capital class in direct opposition
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by GuinansEyebrows 4mo ago
Whoever wins, we lose.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
yes, of course!
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
> All other users on our US cloud instance are opted in by default This is slimy.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
blue jeans with an embroidered logo and 3 liters of hair gel.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
hey, this is actually Not Good
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
> Spotify is always my example. Spotify (and Apple Music I assume) is far more convenient, for a modest price, than pirating music. streaming services do provide some conveniences over manually managing one's own library of music.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
this is some of the most insipid dreck i've read in a long time. the only thing illuminated here is the author's complete lack of understanding regarding ability and worth and total inability to think beyond a system imposed upon
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
> There's really nobody for normal people to root for in this battle. his name is Luigi Mangione :)
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
i don't think you appreciate the degree of cynicism required to become a billionaire.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
respectfully, i disagree. if they want labor representation they should not operate in service of the capital class.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
> Police unions can ask for unreasonable things, but when they do our governments should be telling them to fuck off instead of rubber stamping whatever they ask for. the rub: police unions are highly political machines and heavily invol
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
i haven't seen this since the flash days. so cool. glad you ported it so it's still accessible!
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
cute!
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
why would i want a toaster rendering anything but hot bread?
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
perhaps not, but cynicism in kind is understandable when you have no real power to effect change.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
> The old adage that the people elect the governance they deserve; comes to this idea has always bothered me. i think people (even ones i disagree with) deserve better.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
the longer i stay, the more i think "amen to that". ...yeah, yeah, greener grass, i know.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
hmm, not quite OpenDyslexic. looks a little like Comic Mono but maybe a little rounder? the "l" is a lot curvier than most comic-like fonts. almost reminds me of one of the annoying Samsung fonts :)
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
openbsd has a funny cultural meme around comic sans. i've seen other writings on it but this might be the origin: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00025.ht... some of the openbsd folks use

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