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by acuozzo 4y ago
I started working at 14 at a telemarketing firm. During this time I did a stint at an ice cream parlor. At 16 I worked at Toys я Us and a local pharmacy named "Drug Fair" and, at 17, I worked a non-union demolition job. At 18 I wo
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Yes, if EVs are produced with standardized modular battery arrays. Stop by the "gas" station, open up the hood, grab your drained battery cell cards, bring them in, and pay for fully-charged cell cards to swap in. The "gas&qu
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Defense Contracting
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> That suggests that they are motivated by something other than the entertainment of fantasy. My father purchases multiple tickets, but he has no system and is clearly doing it for the high of hope.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> I view lotteries as taxes on those that don't understand probability and money investing. I did too until I realized what the purchasers of losing lottery tickets receive in exchange for their money: hope. They're purchasing
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I like this, but my issue is that the ideas I have are exceptionally hard to vet since I'm such a weirdo¹. My dream would be to start a so-called "micro-startup" selling B2B software for $10+K/month in revenue. I have th
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> The salient question is what conditions changed in the economy so that they can increase prices. Agreed. > If your point is simply that businesses are choosing to maximize profit, that of course is correct. My point is pedantic and
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> the cash would just flow into whatever could be still be bought, probably housing How would this decrease the value of the currency? It would certainly reduce asset availability, but— to use your example —there's an absurd surplus
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Are there no humans involved in the process of raising prices?
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I'm saying that the root cause of the problem is speculation. Price adjusters within companies are using the news of the increased money supply to gamble that customers will pay more and they've been right, so far. There's qu
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Would inflation occur if all companies decided to act together patriotically and not increase what they're charging in response to the increased money supply? > it is the definition of inflation Doesn't the definition of inflat
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I'm not sure I follow your line of thinking. The cause of inflation is an increase in the cost of goods and services. This is a choice that individuals within companies make. It is not a natural consequence of increasing the money su
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This is exactly what happened to ChaCha.
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> Why can't people just... meet others offline like they did 10+ years ago. Because dating apps have distorted courting even if we elect to ignore them. They alter expectations and make the proverbial sea seem much more filled with
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by acuozzo 4y ago
AFAIK 50-80% of our oxygen comes from Phytoplankton in the ocean.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> But I cannot shake the feeling that something significant has changed in the last 30 years. Anecdotal, of course, but I got my first cavity at age 30 several months after dramatically improving my oral hygiene.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
The US Sensodyne (sans Novamin) or the regular Sensodyne that every one else gets?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Check out vogons.org to see which ones are valuable, if any.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> If anything, they are more likely to develop appropriate filters than we are. I thought so too, but the data seems to suggest that they're not. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02206-9
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Going from "not the best" as a high schooler to "not the best" as an adult is... fine? Its no major difference. No matter how hard I try to improve the way my eight year old thinks about things, he always approaches
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> What do you mean by "better"? I believe the OP is referring to e.g. Salieri vs. Mozart.
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What worries me about this is the impact it has on teenagers. My hunch is that this is behind a great deal of the mental health problems we're starting to see them have. Growing gusto depends, in part, on naïveté since it's so eas
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by acuozzo 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrrdFvXu1-o
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by acuozzo 4y ago
This is why the documentation I always write (especially in rushed cases in which I write no other documentation) is a "where do I start?" guide for newcomers to the codebase I'm leaving behind. I usually call it TREASURE_MAP
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by acuozzo 4y ago
This is worth a read. Don't get turned off by the flowery nature of the prose in the beginning. The idea(s) presented at the end are a fascinating start to solving the "two party problem" in the US.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> They seem obsessed with simulated really bad CRTs. I think it's quite the contrary. They seem obsessed with simulating high end CRT studio monitors like the Sony BVM line which were very sharp and had a highly pronounced negative
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> I remember a scene in an hbo series where one of the characters had an audio-how-to-tape of doing a cajun accent for actors True Blood
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Where do you live? US? If so, which coast?
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> and refuse the flight if it is moved to a 737 Max I don't fly often, but I go further. I just don't fly Boeing unless it's a 747. 747 || Airbus || Embraer My airline of choice is American. I can see what a particular rou
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Meh, I see value in both The Magnificent Ambersons and the French atmospheric cinema of the '60s. Film, as art, should not be forced into a box. There's value to film with no plot at all. Consider Koyaanisqatsi.

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