Thriptic

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by Thriptic 8y ago
To be fair, paying with cash at a gas station is annoying if your objective is to fill your tank completely rather than spend X amount as it forces you to guess your prospective spend.
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It all depends on the product. Once you start getting into niche products which cost thousands or tens of thousands per year to use, the assumption is that the customer is a serious business with funding that has a known problem to solve. T
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People want more things and they want to be better than other people. People want a higher quality of life. People want the social status and personal gratification that comes with performing higher status, skilled work well. It's not
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I can't point to specific suits off the top of my head, but I've seen a few from inside my former employer and heard my friends tell of instances where someone wasn't granted a position and sued on the basis of descrimination
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This is what happens when you over regulate hiring practices in the name of inclusion, fairness, and fighting bias. I've seen numerous issues with this in academia as well where someone will be a proven candidate who you know will exce
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Is your suggestion really to spend hundreds of dollars on something I rarely use so someone on the street who I don't know won't be transiently offended by a discretely placed piece of small, biodegradable plant matter? Sorry, but
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Very high workload with long hours, high performance demands depending on the stage of training you are in, oscillating shift based schedule, minimal time off to decompress, cultural pressure and competition.
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I smoke cigars occasionally and this is exactly why I don't carry remnants home; they smell bad for several hours after use and I don't want to stink up my clothes or apartment. I try my hardest to dispose of them in a socially co
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I'm not sure why you are being downvoted because there are very clearly benefits to smoking in the form of stimulation and relaxation. Many people get started with smoking because it provides these benefits. People shouldn't do it
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This EHR data problem is something I've pondered for a bit. One "simple" solution is to have departmental standardization of note format with thoughtful inclusion of what fields are typically pertinent. This doesn't solv
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by Thriptic 8y ago
Surface supports Ubuntu 18 out of the box pretty well for regular use. The caveats are the touch screen doesn't work, I had to make a one line fix to get WiFi to stop failing randomly, and setting up luks at install time can't be
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by Thriptic 8y ago
I agree that our primary schooling in general is suboptimal and inconsistent across regions. Where I disagree is that we are happy about that at a population level or somehow intentionally undermining education because we enjoy being ignora
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Being able to regurgitate the locations of countries doesn't mean you are educated; it means you sat down with a map for a few hours and did some memorization... Saying the entire United States population is proudly uneducated is rough
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Additionally, focusing in on the cruise ship response time isn't really logical. Sure, it could be faster than 15 hours to catch an accidental fall (which it sounds like basically doesn't happen), but in the cited example of a bla
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Interesting. Lastpass works perfectly for me on Debian based Linux, and I have friends that use it on arch. I can't speak to use on other distros though.
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bcrypt is one example: https://auth0.com/blog/hashing-in-action-understanding-bcryp...
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It is totally true that we have wasted trillions on wars we will never win at the expense of improving our infrastructure which is very clearly inadequate. It is true that our education system (pre college) sucks. It is true that we don&#x2
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Luckily most other emerging integrations (payer - provider for eligibility checks and coverage decisions, provider - provider for real time medical record transfers, etc) are decentralized by design with a number of large aggregators. While
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It’s the Worst Time to Make Money in Markets Since 1972(bloomberg.com)
2 points by Thriptic 8y ago|0 comments
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I'm surprised the article doesn't mention this, but one of the reasons restaurants are so loud is that many modern restaurants pack people in like sardines to maximize revenue. Many places I have been to lately give you about a fo
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Yes, they do
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Agreed, I've even had apple fanboy friends rage about the price of apple hardware and then go right out and buy the latest thing. If you're willing to pay sticker price for a product, it is clearly not overpriced. If you want the
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This is my exact situation. I live across the street from two auto repair shops and it is spectacularly annoying to be woken up early in the morning by people blowing horns, grinding metal, or having inventory replenished by loud trucks. I
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> More people should learn how to negotiate their employment lives better. I renegotiated my salary immediately after graduating because (A) I knew the market values college grads higher and (B) I wanted to try to raise my pay just to se
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How I Accidentally Wound Up Running an Outlaw Biker Gang(medium.com)
3 points by Thriptic 8y ago|1 comments
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I'm not complaining about the implementation. The problem isn't just how features are implemented, it's that many users lack the mental models to successfully use these devices at even a basic level. Sure someone can Google &
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Most people don't even know that they have a problem because they are unaware of what they should be able to do. They think that any preventable annoying behavior is the natural state of the machine. I was spending time with my parents
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Get domain expertise in something other than programming and make things to solve real business problems for people that aren't technical. Alternatively, partner with people who aren't technical. There are a million developers wor
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Agreed, it's very silly. No one attacks people in the upper middle class for using mortgage deductions, tax advantaged investment vehicles (ie 401Ks), education accounts, tax loss harvesting etc to minimize tax burden; however, wheneve
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Being viewed as a cost center rather than a revenue generator if you're not in a tech centric company. Having best practice and common sense ignored by management in the name of expediency and then being blamed for the results (going o

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