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901.
by a3n 7y ago
I'm a long distance trucker and all things being equal I try to choose stations I know or guess to be clean.
902.
by a3n 7y ago
I guess the Fourth Amendment doesn't protect you from capitalism.
903.
by a3n 7y ago
> Work is what we do to support our expensive hobbies and because we like nice things. Ask the person cleaning your corporate bathrooms tonight, who doesn't work for that corporation, if that's why they're working.
904.
by a3n 7y ago
Did Amazon put nets on the building after that one guy jumped off? https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-share-thoug...
905.
by a3n 7y ago
Google is entirely recognizable, as a modern, amoral hyper-corporation whose entire purpose is to service its giant self-aware pile of cash. They used to make money by making information available. Now they just make money, and how they do
906.
by a3n 7y ago
That was interesting, thanks.
907.
by a3n 7y ago
Has any racist uncle ever been turned? Or is that also a waste of time and effort? I do agree that a responsible citizen must stay informed. But you need to direct your efforts to the possible and impactful.
908.
by a3n 7y ago
> As another commenter stated, you can mince statistics any way you want to paint any picture you want. That sounds like something lawyers would study rather than engineers.
909.
by a3n 7y ago
Save taxpayer dollars with fewer inspectors! Less burden on industry! Win-win! :-( As I've mentioned elsewhere, more self-inspection at packing plants, combined with higher line speeds "for worker safety," is why I recently w
910.
by a3n 7y ago
There's a "theory" about moving residences: If there's a box that you haven't opened a year after moving, you might not need the stuff in the box.
911.
by a3n 7y ago
I had the same thought. If I was subject to that noise for long enough I'd be rocking back and forth too. But, maybe that's not a sign of stress in chimps.
912.
by a3n 7y ago
Within a company, revenue/person, weighted by one or more of: salary Number of colleagues performing the same function Percentage of revenue due to a department
913.
by a3n 7y ago
Just like the best camera is the one you have.
914.
by a3n 7y ago
Analyze the jobs you've applied to or would like to apply to, and build an interesting portfolio using those technologies. Ideally useful to yourself in some way, for motivation and that it solves a real rather than a contrived problem
915.
by a3n 7y ago
I completely swear by the app that my employer provides so that I can photo and submit my paperwork for pay. :-) Also Snapseed, an image processing app, that I use to increase the contrast and readability of paperwork images when the origi
916.
by a3n 7y ago
Only 8700 RFCs to run the internet.
917.
by a3n 7y ago
Is it common for site developers to test with ad blocking and other usability tools?
918.
by a3n 7y ago
A hyper-corporation like Boeing must make billions merely to operate. They will not be allowed to fail. They will therefore make billions, one way or another.
919.
by a3n 7y ago
> there's a steep learning curve, the initial stages of which will find you unable to type much of anything at all for the first few months of use, vs almost instant, if plodding, output on standard QWERTY. That's because most
920.
by a3n 7y ago
> This caught my eye. I find it curious that "government intervention in the private market" seems to be treated as de facto harmful. The current administration and Senate is the target of that sentence.
921.
by a3n 7y ago
There's something sadly dutiful about being asked to accept cookies on such an announcement page.
922.
by a3n 7y ago
The table of contents is the last three pages. (Is that normal within some community?)
923.
by a3n 7y ago
Ahem. Semi truck driver here. Enough drivers to notice leave their brights on when approaching me from behind. I think that they think I can't see the lights because I have no rear window and a big trailer. I have six big side mirrors,
924.
by a3n 7y ago
Go to Kentucky and look at any still. Look at the inputs and the outputs. Does the liquor look anything at all like the corn or rye that went into it?
925.
by a3n 7y ago
What's it made of, wheat? Does it look like wheat? No? Then it's been ground up and reformed. And there's a bunch of other ingredients, but the grinding is the major culprit. It's basically predigested, and slams glucose
926.
by a3n 7y ago
Yes. The best ingredient list is limited to, or as close as possible to the thing you think you're holding. Yogurt is "milk cream and cultures." What could be wrong with fruit added to yogurt? Nothing if you add it yourself.
927.
by a3n 7y ago
I run sshd on termux, and log in from my laptop.
928.
by a3n 7y ago
It doesn't matter what group was materially at fault, internal or external. It says "Boeing" on the tin. It's Boeing's responsibility to ensure integrity of all supply inputs, hardware or software. Disclosure: I was
929.
by a3n 7y ago
> Most open source is barely usable and empirical inspection of Github will show that to be true. There is no barrier to entry on GitHub or similar repositories. It's quite another thing to contribute to the Linux kernel, or gnu, or
930.
by a3n 7y ago
> Making yourself look like an eight-year-old is amusing. This was a little disturbing, since I'd just read the other HN story of a mom posing as an 11 year old girl for predator hunting. You could pose for the purposes of grooming

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