amyjess

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by amyjess 7y ago
My experience has always been that dealing with a large PMC like IMT or Greystar is far preferable to dealing with some guy who's renting his property out.
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by amyjess 7y ago
And of course there are exemptions for mom & pop landlords in the law. This is why I'd rather do business with big megacorps than with small businesses; mom & pops are straight-up allowed to hurt their customers and their emplo
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by amyjess 7y ago
> Up until a year or two ago, the drivers would then see where I want to go and then call me on the phone to say they didn't want to go there, telling me to cancel the ride they had accepted. I systematically refused every time so t
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by amyjess 7y ago
> The issue is whether doing so would drastically deteriorate the quality of the service for riders. This is the exact reason I want Uber to lose this. Anything that would keep drivers classified as contractors is harmful to the actual c
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by amyjess 7y ago
> to help you grind an axe about your boss or something. I like my boss just fine. Please refrain from personal swipes on Hacker News.
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by amyjess 7y ago
I'm okay with this. Software development contracting, as it is right now, is intensely problematic at pretty much every level. Hiring closely-managed contractors to work on-prem basically creates an underclass in the industry: they&#x2
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by amyjess 7y ago
I don't know if the French Revolution is a good example. It certainly didn't produce a stable democracy. The First Republic quickly turned into an empire, and they didn't get a long-lasting democracy until the Third Republi
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by amyjess 7y ago
It should also be pointed out that while MLK wasn't interested in engaging in violence himself, he had rather harsh words for people who cared more about non-violence than civil rights (see: Letter from a Birmingham Jail ).
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by amyjess 7y ago
For example, we still don't know a lot about how wine aging works. Like, we really don't know exactly what chemical reactions the tannins go through as wine ages in the bottle.
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by amyjess 7y ago
"Progressive" in this case means it uses progressive enhancement: it'll work even if your browser doesn't have those additions (though QoL won't be as nice), and it also uses responsive design such that it's ju
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by amyjess 7y ago
Several years ago, my mom ran low on money, so she decided to sell her old wedding ring. She hadn't worn it for years because she and my dad got divorced long ago, so she figured she'd at least get some liquid cash by selling it.
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by amyjess 7y ago
I would also recommend hanging out on subreddits like /r/uberdrivers, /r/lyftdrivers, or /r/lyft and look for every instance of drivers using "we're independent contractors" to justify abusive be
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by amyjess 7y ago
> It's not such a favorable outcome for engineers It's a favorable outcome for people who want stability. There is huge value in knowing that you're not going to get fired unless you do something actively malicious. Some
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by amyjess 7y ago
> buy a collection of Linux distributions + the Sunsite archive on a 5-cd set that was released quarterly and available at computer stores. I don't remember those collections, but I do remember boxed commercial distributions being
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by amyjess 7y ago
You mean deaf organizations, right? In any case, I agree with you. Some people would say "If you're deaf, just buy the regular book, it's cheaper", but there's a significant use case that's not covered by that:
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by amyjess 7y ago
> What's really shocking to me here is this revelation that there's actually "global mailing lists" within the company where political talk is happening. This, I cannot imagine ever seeing at any of my prior employers
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by amyjess 7y ago
It's not quite 100, but I get 75 Mbps on VDSL in Dallas.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Specifically, Amazon was cash-flow positive but deliberately chose to reinvest all their profits into the company instead of paying out dividends, so that appears on the books as a loss but it really isn't.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Body-on-frame SUVs are also big in Australia. Most of the major companies there make one: Ford Everest, Holden TrailBlazer, Toyota Fortuner, etc. Oddly enough, in the US body-on-frame SUVs are basically dying. They're only viable in th
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by amyjess 7y ago
The Subaru Outback comes to mind.
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by amyjess 7y ago
I've never met another American that uses it. I use Facebook Messenger for talking to real-life friends and a couple of online friends, Discord for talking to people I only know online, Slack for work, and SMS for talking to my parents
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by amyjess 7y ago
Y'know, I'm aware that the "Kevin" meme originated with an askreddit story (which someone else linked below), but I'm wondering if the reason it took off the way it did had anything to do with Kevin from the US vers
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by amyjess 7y ago
> and make an announcement in a news paper with a certain amount of readers And even that depends on what state you're in. For example, Texas doesn't require it (source: I legally changed my name in Texas in 2014). And some sta
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by amyjess 7y ago
This alone is the reason why visiting Thailand is on my bucket list. They're still grown there.
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by amyjess 7y ago
So it's an acquihire then.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Back in the '90s, Yahoo! owned some of the hottest properties on the Internet. But by the end of the '00s, those properties were all Web 1.0 dinosaurs that had long been surpassed by modern platforms. They wanted that old relevanc
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by amyjess 7y ago
My assumption is that two things are happening: 1) Tumblr has turned into such a disaster that Verizon is looking to dump it ASAP, and they're asking for fire sale prices. 2) Automattic thinks they can turn Tumblr around. They will pro
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by amyjess 7y ago
The most annoying thing about that naming scheme is that Chevy also makes the Spark, which is 100% gasoline-powered. What was their rationale in greenlighting that name?
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by amyjess 7y ago
Back when I used to play Ingress, that was really common. The Enlightened in Dallas had a ton of barcode names.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Not really, but from what I remember it wasn't uncommon for news magazine shows like 60 Minutes , 20/20 , and Dateline to cover stories like this.

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