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by WWLink 4y ago
> The corporations are now able to invisibly offload those costs onto their workers like never before. Remote workers love sitting at our kitchen counter with a laptop, and being able to go pick up the kids or do laundry in-between shift
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by WWLink 4y ago
They also usually have the most asinine single button interface and the most likely person to get strobed is yourself lol.
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by WWLink 4y ago
There are building codes that were implemented before most buildings in the US were built for stuff like that. There are variances in like, knob vs lever handle, but yea they mostly work the same and are in the same spot. IMHO a smart thing
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by WWLink 4y ago
I'm surprised they didn't say "why don't you just use Windows with WSL? We're trying our best to make sure your IT department forbids you from using anything else anyway"
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by WWLink 4y ago
To send starship to the moon takes 5-10 more starships to refuel it first. Of course, comparing orion to starship is like comparing a dragon to the space shuttle. Starship is enormous and that's why it needs so much fuel lol. I'm
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by WWLink 4y ago
Right. Anything beyond that nobody is obligated to provide. However, if you're in that level of dire straits there's almost always a way to get it covered. In most states, anyway.
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by WWLink 4y ago
Yea some employers are already getting uppity like they expect the unresignation to happen lol.
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by WWLink 4y ago
> To answer your question of "why don't they change professions?", I think that's rather naive. Not everyone is on the path of trying to optimize financial independence and minimize time spent working. Why do folks go
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by WWLink 4y ago
Sad thing is, in my experience, they're still one of the best when it comes to service lol.
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by WWLink 4y ago
I'm not sure what happened, but out here every single gas station got rid of that. Especially the screen above the pump.
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by WWLink 4y ago
It's not necessarily a good thing. A coworker of mine hates having an endless queue and prefers to get handed a task, finish it, and have another task handed to him at that time. I guess having too many freaks him out. There's no
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by WWLink 4y ago
So the argument I see proposed again, again, and again here on HN, is that companies are paying programmers too much money and they should all agree to offer <$100k or something. Are you guys all bitter business owners?
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by WWLink 4y ago
SMH it feels like a lot of people here _want_ another dot com crash. Why? Like, you really want to make less money?
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by WWLink 4y ago
They're probably whining because landlord-tenant lawsuits are usually expensive and the tenants might not have the money to pay back. Like, you might spend $10k trying to get back $15k and only get back say, $3-5k of that money. Doesn&
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by WWLink 4y ago
lmao whoever wrote that sounds pretty far up their own ass.
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by WWLink 4y ago
Some parts of the east bay are really friggin windy. I used to live on top of a hill near the carquinez strait and during windy season they'd easily exceed 60mph during a storm. Like once every other year a bunch of fences would get de
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by WWLink 4y ago
The only time I've ever seen it be a problem was someone who had a like 20 year employment history on their resume and in that 20 years, they NEVER ONCE stayed at a company more than a year. Naturally, their most recent jobs were all c
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by WWLink 4y ago
At this point, they should be offering the highest salaries of any company in the aerospace industry to recruit the best talent, same way google does. But they're not. That's... the whole problem really.
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by WWLink 4y ago
How dare they overstep their bounds and hurt small businesses!!! /s
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by WWLink 4y ago
I'm still reading it as such.
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by WWLink 4y ago
I was never compensated in stock, but I did get a 5.6% raise. Exciting I know. WOOO!!!!! My compensation is hot garbage compared to a top tech company, but the work is really fun, so there's that! Like seriously, there are some top tec
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by WWLink 4y ago
> It should go without saying that the various internet connected and smartphone enabled locks are a security comedy if you care about security as well. Are they really though? Having something tell me that my front door was unlocked whe
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by WWLink 4y ago
A laptop from 20 years ago would almost certainly have USB ports. The first computer I saw them on was a Sony VAIO in 1997. Compaq was also sporting them at the time, and of course Apple heavily adopted them in 1998. By 2000, practically ev
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by WWLink 4y ago
Can you imagine if they changed it so that you had to get those actions by doing a 5 finger swipe while hovering over an app (on the trackpad) or clicking 3 times while moving diagonally across? Ugh I hate gestures. Such a stupid stupid non
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by WWLink 4y ago
The thing I really hate about not owning content is the access is so damn unreliable. One day I have an album in my playlist, the next day it's gone because licensing or whatever. Then I randomly have to log back in. Maybe on a device
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by WWLink 4y ago
How about buying a preowned DVD? If we decide that what you're paying for is the entertainment and joy of watching a movie, are we not stealing from the content creators by reselling and purchasing used DVDs? Edit: I'm making it c
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by WWLink 4y ago
In CA when you vote, there's a tracking mechanism you can use to see your vote was counted. A few years back I remember the ballots had a receipt you could tear off and use to verify it online later. What would be cool is if you combin
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by WWLink 4y ago
This is what I really expect. Just like the oil companies that jacked prices up and then claimed record profits lol. Ultimately I think this might be an around-the-block way to cut fat, get rid of remote workers, and a desperate attempt to
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by WWLink 4y ago
I don't buy it, dude. In the towns around where I live in SoCal, it is totally legal to raze a single family house and build up to 4 units in its place. The problem is the extra capacity gets built out at such a slow pace that it'
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by WWLink 4y ago
Yea, I admit, Framework makes an extremely compelling selling point here. If I buy a Framework laptop I can buy my own replacement parts and not have to ever deal with warranty service ever again. I can buy Rev 1 and then a few years later

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