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by Kluny 7y ago
Too right. The expenses listed were very similar to my own, with two glaring exceptions: My rent is not $600, it is $1250. And my income is not $5000. Without going into detail, it's less than that, pre-tax.
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by Kluny 7y ago
Probably the headline in the article, "Minimize your Taxes".
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Show HN: Awkward Conversations, a Card Game(awkwardconversations.ca)
1 points by Kluny 7y ago|0 comments
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Yes, that's a big target as well. Food containers are a more accessible problem for most people, but we are working with organizations that lobby for improved fishing regulations. One of the things we do is monthly beach cleanups. Whil
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by Kluny 7y ago
There are many different standards available. They are useful for petrochemical engineers, but not generally for laypeople. If you want to make an environmentally friendly choice, the safest bet is always going to be bring your own dishes.
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... every single time.
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by Kluny 7y ago
Agreed, VIP is good for enterprises, the paid tiers are okay for personal sites... But as soon as a medium sized business gets into customizations, they have to move off WordPress and onto one of the many dedicated WordPress hosting compani
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by Kluny 7y ago
Look, this is my organization (Surfrider) and we put on a talk to learn about compostables. Two of the others were professionals who run industrial composting facilities. If you want a better source you can check out the 5 Gyres report link
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by Kluny 7y ago
Biodegradable plastics are not more environmentally friendly than normal ones. Here's some more info about that. https://vancouverisland.surfrider.org/compostable-plastics-1...
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> muscle memory makes for very easy pickup of intuitive gestures; The problem with muscle memory is that the gestures vary between operating systems or even different devices on the same OS if the user has changed settings. Your muscle m
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by Kluny 7y ago
> merely part of an attempt to boost their environmentalist cred and blunt the impact rival environmentalist parties while in actuality doing the absolute minimum Yeah, it fully is. The major parties in Canada are slowly, and much too la
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by Kluny 7y ago
I figure older kids can use tactics like social hacking -- ie, whine at mom until she unlocks it.
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Awkward Conversations, a Game(awkwardconversations.ca)
1 points by Kluny 7y ago|0 comments
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by Kluny 7y ago
iPhones have kids mode that prevents the kid from using any app on the phone. That will probably only deter toddlers, but it's something.
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by Kluny 7y ago
There are plenty of other cruise lines. If one is thrown out, others can increase their business in the same area. There's no loss to any of those cities.
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by Kluny 7y ago
People need to wake up to the fact that "littering" is no longer a minor crime in the world we live in. I see it as tantamount to murder, given the environmental damage it causes.
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by Kluny 7y ago
This is more or less what I recently told a client who wanted search on a utility I built him. He wanted rich search, like using quote marks and database operators, but his budget for the whole project was about $1500. I told him that I cou
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by Kluny 7y ago
I can't believe how fast that website is. I actually wrote to their contact address to ask how the heck they managed that.
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by Kluny 7y ago
Yes. I only recently realized that fruit juice is just as sugary as soda with hardly any benefit.
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by Kluny 7y ago
Right here! Started working for a PHP shop straight out of college, and have never been able to get hired for anything else since then.
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by Kluny 7y ago
In my city, it took a long time to get a plastic bag ban passed because of strong opposition from plastic manufacturer lobbyists who pretended that they were taking the side of "local businesses".
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by Kluny 7y ago
I was thinking the whole right-click to paste, while Ctrl-V does some random other thing.
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by Kluny 7y ago
How about a place where you can go to get food and socialize with people without being required to buy something? A bar, but for those who don't want to drink. A coffee shop for those who don't want to pay 3 dollars for burned cof
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by Kluny 7y ago
Maybe it wasn't basic.
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They were very heavy shoes, made of low quality materials, glued together with cheap glue that often peeled before the soles wore out.
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Ask HN: What do to about a boss who assigns the same task to multiple people?
3 points by Kluny 8y ago|5 comments
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by Kluny 8y ago
Why do you have a flat roof on a house that's surrounded by trees?
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by Kluny 8y ago
$30 worth of lentils. Mmm, tasty.
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by Kluny 8y ago
He's 14 - do you think you're the first person who ever suggested that?
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by Kluny 8y ago
Only in that those who aren't getting support are left behind, and feel like failures because they're not able to match the success of their peers, not knowing that they're working with significantly less resources. Also coul

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