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by brewdad 1y ago
Comfort will get you one free alcoholic drink. It's an expensive one however.
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Please create your own ShowHN thread rather than spamming this one. While you're at it be sure to explain how your Chrome extension will fix the problem of a major carrier not properly maintaining its equipment.
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No airline wants passengers up and about while on the tarmac. Once they get clearance to move they need to get going almost immediately and can't move if passengers aren't seated. That doesn't excuse the flight crew for not h
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More likely is he paid a ticket incorrectly. Someone said he paid the same ticket twice instead of paying each ticket once. Then the city racked up delinquency fines while making little to no effort to inform him of these fines or the outst
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Portland does the same thing since most blocks in the older parts of town are 200 feet. Reserving 20 feet at either end would take away a huge chunk of street parking in residential areas built before driveways were common. It's also w
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I can understand why they wouldn't cut you a deal. It would be virtually impossible for them to rent that space the other 16 hours a day. They want to capture its full value.
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Relative to most other transit options that never fully recovered after COVID? Yes. Amtrak is even doing better than airlines.
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I do love that the floppy lives on in the Save icon.
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I've been getting multiple of those a day too. It's pretty annoying. I'd love to treat them the way other junk mail gets treated but I don't want to inadvertently end up auto-binning legit mails from GMail or Google in t
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Not necessarily. Ours would work down the list of numbers she had for me, my wife, and other emergency contacts without leaving a message. My wife got pulled out of a meeting at work once despite me being the parent at home because I missed
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I could easily see someone like a contractor calling from the road or otherwise not paying full attention to their phone. They likely never realized you answered and needed the "hello" to refocus their attention.
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I had to call Chase about an issue with my credit card. I called them and knew I was talking to a legit agent. At least as sure as one can ever be. Still, at one point she asked me to read back the code she texted me. I started to do so the
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People have had a mistrust in authority as far back as when nomadic tribes were the norm but somebody had to decide where to hunt or gather that day or to move on. Good luck changing human nature.
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Chatty Kathy could only share her moonbat ideas with a couple people at a time. Now she has a TikTok and the ability to go viral. Even folks sharing her video to mock it are spreading her message.
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The first iPhone was the "early-adopter" model. Later phones learned from its flaws and stabilized the pricing schemes for the general consumer.
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As usual the problem is Americans. We won't learn metric and refuse to use the 24 hour clock. It removes ambiguity and solves so many issues but since it would require people to stop and think what 1600 means for the first few months i
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Zorin is great for users where the computer is an appliance. It was too dumbed down for me but I am not their target user. It would be perfect for my Dad or my brother.
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The rest of the world, outside HN and similar techy online communities, largely doesn't know Linux exists . They know Windows and Mac. Macs are expensive and unfamiliar. Windows machines are cheap and can be bought at Walmart.
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Absolutely. My kid just finished an engineering degree from a well respected institution. Early on in the intro programming classes, about half of his class was unfamiliar with file system structures. Chromebooks and iPads in school and at
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The tax advantage is only available for people that itemize. Only about 10% of taxpayers do so. Inflation protection is very real and important though.
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I keep a Keepass vault with my 2FA secrets and a separate one with my passwords. This reduces the biggest fear I have where one compromise reveals everything. These are both offline backups of my Bitwarden, which is my daily driver. Bitward
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Stop paying your property taxes in the US and see how long it takes before the government forecloses. It is effectively rent under a different name. In exchange the government will protect your property ownership rights so that you don&#x27
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All employees receive minimum wage regardless of whether they receive tips. Tips are not there to backfill the required wages nor can they be used for that. So this isn't the $2.13 min wage that must get to $7.25 when tips are added in
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My biggest complaint with my Apple Watch is that I have to choose between sleep tracking and being able to wear my watch all day.
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It's a litter filled community with limited trash service and no public receptacles.
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Much like extending the workday past 10 hours there must be a point of diminishing/negative returns to expecting multiple hours of study per night. Also, those times you list seem indicative of elementary school kids. Most high schoole
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Prepare to build a fuckton more prisons then. Most kids can get turned around from a bad path if they get the right support early on. I don't want to live in a world where we write off 7 year olds forever.
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They are allowed to screen prospective students up front. They also won't kick out under-performers for getting Ds. They will find a disciplinary reason to do so. Every one of us could have been kicked out of school at one time or anot
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At least near me the biggest problems facing the "urban" district compared to suburban ones is declining student populations as long time homeowners age in place and the maintenance costs of 100 year old buildings compared to 10-2
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One approach I've seen, aside from zoning related laws, is to give ag land huge property tax breaks. Want to convert it to some other use? Expect a 90% increase in property taxes. It's far from perfect since some large landowners

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