Scoundreller

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by Scoundreller 1mo ago
Took wayyyy too many hours of tech support to find someone that clued in that I had an 8250 uart. A surprisingly crappy piece of hardware on an 486. and that’s why my $$$ 33.6k performed like garbage until I bought a 16550 card. I also only
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by Scoundreller 1mo ago
Does the bot include the rider when identifying bicycles? When is an ebike a motorcycle/no longer a bicycle? The support structure for a traffic light or just the coloured light bits?
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by Scoundreller 1mo ago
the bug-a-salt salt gun will never fail
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by Scoundreller 1mo ago
or people that lived 5km from the airport and mostly stayed at home or nearby shops, but lived under a flightpath: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9027149/ or 2km away: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih
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by Scoundreller 1mo ago
Similar story from an academic that developed symptoms upon return to the US. First hospital brushed him off. Second one, got the right infectious disease doctor/professor to diagnose and treat it. Professor had as many med students&#x
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by Scoundreller 1mo ago
big GLP-1 has gone a bit too far
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by Scoundreller 1mo ago
there were other dumb factors pushing people to do border runs, like your paperwork says "expired" but your status still being valid while being processed. Except you had zero paperwork to show to an employer and they had no way t
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
> It's strictly better for the government to make getting benefits as hard as possible. iunno, even when they bother to do means-testing in my jurisdiction, they exclude any slightly illiquid assets, regardless of size. Have a paid
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
I'm going to get a lot of packages packed in a cat box, aren't I?
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
nonono, it's 3 Euro per tariff classification. a 0.05 EUR spring, a 0.05 EUR bolt and a 0.05 EUR LED in the same package = 9 EUR fee https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/ensuring-fa...
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
As a small-time Canadian ebay seller trying to pivot to not-US... it's not a good time. What I find funny is that all of my packaging is re-used. I guess it's still "bad" that I'm sending non-EU packaging to EU, but
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
For a while (like a year+ ago), the shares were trading around cash value. But they were burning through cash. Happy it’s worked out for them!
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Also in Canada. Ontario would blast the province for technically “abducted” children that were typically joint custody disputes. There was one exception case where children were actively harmed, but already murdered by the time the alert we
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
We need louder sirens to counteract the hearing damage caused by our old sirens.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
That interpretation would require me to believe that a Canadian pays, on average, only 12% less out of pocket than an American. $2483/yr vs $2186/yr.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
The fun part is when you break those numbers down between government and non-government expenditure. You’ll find that US governmental spending on health care per capita is higher than every other country’s entire (gov and non-gov) spending
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Probably through a “broker” like abebooks (an Amazon subsidiary) or Amazon itself.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
> A Canadian buyer was sending multiple book orders to Book Haven in Newtown, sometimes minutes apart, for niche texts on New Zealand specific subjects. Canada is one of the few “western” countries without annoying customs duty/tari
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
> Blood pressure benefits too. Speak for yourself, if mine goes any lower I’m going to pass out
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
RIP corporate users that can't install their own browsers but can install extensions
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Thanks for the link. In ‘96 I only had text-only/Lynx, so rarely/never got to see what the early versions looked like with a “real” browser.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Maybe in absolute numbers but the situation for the ma and pa operations is worse: “Independent pharmacies, often excluded from networks by pharmacy benefit managers, were more than twice as likely to face closure compared to chain pharmaci
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
> They need a name they can trademark, and common words can't be trademarked Iunno, pretty sure a car manufacturer will sue me for trademark infringement if I try to manufacture a Beetle under my brand name. The bigger answer is reg
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Even in the industry… the names are sometimes pronounced in much different ways.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
> That wasn't actually true. A new debit card to replace my expiring one ended up being sent to the old address a couple of months ago. Oh, I’ve had this before. Apparently there was some background “registered address” and I had on
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
> I wonder, what changed in America? Why is the mom and pop pharmacy not viable anymore Deregulation at every level = small/low leverage players get squeeeeezed. Most likely in Spain (and much of the world), you have controlled pric
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
What’s better for a manager/executive wanting insight into “how happy are my customers” other than their accounting numbers?
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Store count seems to have peaked in 2018. Yes that data goes to 2021 but I doubt it got better after that. https://schaeffer.usc.edu/research/pharmacy-closures-united-... The bigger thing is consolidation and independe
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
I suspect a lot of big orgs don’t care if they lose high-need/low-margin/negative-margin clients that need a couple chains of humans to fix their issue. If they were otherwise high profit customers, they wouldn’t/shouldn’t ha
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
It’s probably how their payor measures performance. But I thought the issue with customer surveys was how biased they could be toward negative experiences cuz nobody else is angry enough to respond.

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