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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Someone in South America had a subscription for a US company. The only way to cancel was to call a US 800 number. I don't even know if you can call 800 numbers from outside the USA.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Like the companies where "meets requirements" is the kiss of death.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
It's what the rest of the industrialized world calls "a train".
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> deleted all his real icons Everything else you've described is amusing but if your recovery had failed, that's close to a fireable offense.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Friend told me that Indiana not adopting Daylight Time until quite recently was due to a struggle between broadcasters, who of course wanted to match their networks, and drive in operators, who wanted it to get dark earlier so they could st
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Western China has some kind of adjustments, only they don't call it a time zone. Don't know the details.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> How will you know which stores times need to be adjusted and which don't? There are a number of libraries for this, usually updated by the unpaid volunteer in Nebraska. Or else your company has staff whose job it is to follow this
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Most suburbanites don't have the room for a dirt bike track in their backyard, or a playground with room for archery practice.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> “I’m going to go meet my friends on this summer day, I’ll be back before dinner.” The parents are practically committing a crime if they let their kids do this. > more kids . . . New York City Or any big city. Even in wealthy neigh
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
My experience of YouTube was transformed. I can watch a group of videos and they just run right after each other. The worst was when somehow I would get one of the 1 hour videos and I wouldn't realize it until several minutes were do
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Indeed. It's not as bad as mapping address => sales tax (no ZIP Code isn't good enough), but only because it doesn't change as often and tends to follow county boundaries when it doesn't follow state boundaries. Anot
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Reference opening time to local time on each day of the year, and then refer that back to UTC. Like California is -8 in Standard, -7 in Daylight, so a 9:30 AM opening in the Winter is at 17:30 UTC, in the Summer, 16:30 UTC. It's a hass
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
To some extent a compromise between solar time and political and economic realities. For example, the Eastern Time Zone in the USA stretches almost to 90 degrees West, reflecting the East Coast's powerful pull on that part of the coun
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> which is the status quo in tech Even severance is usually not much. Typical is one week for year of service, minimum two weeks. Given turnover in the industry, very few people are going to get 20 weeks severance.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Not streaming precisely but I finally gave up and got YouTube Premium because the ads were getting unbearable and I know it gets a bit of money to the creators, who certainly deserve some, unlike ad blockers.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Prices in Swedish McD's are comparable to US prices, even though minimum wage there is about US$22/hour.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> identify proper talent Those are the ones who've left the country. Easy criterion to apply.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
I've read that some of the FAANGs hire a certain percentage of people who don't qualify normally. This helps them calibrate their screening criteria.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Suing customers isn't a way to make friends, though.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Often hot items in short supply can be resold immediately for significant profit. So let's avoid that by suing our customers.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Good that you realized it. Far too many managers have the impulse control of a puppy that just had a double espresso. Every hour a new task that "has priority".
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Sometimes it can be done faster but that requires a deep discount to attract professional flippers.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> illiquid assets Such as a house that has popped up above $1 million in recent years, which includes many tens of thousands in the Bay Area alone.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Not quite the same thing but many people report when a hospital bill seems high, and they ask for an itemized bill, magically the charges get reduced.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> Santa Clara County If in Palo Alto, it might only be 1/2 hour. But further south and you are approaching an hour for sure.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Years and years ago I saw a TV show about the Boston Marathon. One of the people they interviewed was the last runner to finish. A physician, I would guess around 45 to 50. It was already dark out! So he was not fast, maybe not much more
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
From the major population centers in the Bay Area, getting to San Mateo is easily an hour. SF, Oakland, even Hayward with the San Mateo Bridge, a delight at commute hours, San Jose, or anywhere in Santa Clara County really.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
The disappearance of RSS didn't help much either. Instead of being able to follow 50 or 100 blogs and just see the new stuff daily, I tend to rotate through the same five or ten blogs hoping for something new, or else look on Twitter a
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
As another proof there were electric cars in the early era around 1900, which clearly did not and could not have phone-home capability.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
You can still get pseudoephedrine, for example Claritin D, the D for decongestant. It's not by prescription but you have to sign for it at the pharmacy desk, present ID, and I believe it's reported to FDA/DEA and there are l

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