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by chrissnell 5y ago
You’re absolutely right and to be clear, my dad also pours over data roll-ups, charts, etc., but he’s never stopped looking at receipts. It’s a habit he’s had since the 70s. Back in the day, he used these electro-mechanical cash registers
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Here’s a real example that happened to him a few years ago. He was out of town on business and there was a big sale, around $15K if I recall, to a customer from Mexico. The sale was done just before closing (something he saw in the review
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by chrissnell 5y ago
My dad is not next to me to reply, but your rebuttal patterns a conversation that he and I had many times over the years, when I was first getting my start in business and tried to tell him he was too old fashioned in his business methods.
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by chrissnell 5y ago
One more thing to add to this: scrutinizing transactions isn’t just for catching bad stuff. It’s also a way to spot the good. For my dad, it’s a way to spot up-and-coming salespeople who are punching above their weight, for noticing high-
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by chrissnell 5y ago
My dad owns a successful chain of bicycle stores in Texas. He’s been in business for almost 51 years and he’s one of the largest bike dealers by volume in the country. He has nearly a hundred employees and a bookkeeper. Despite having a
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by chrissnell 5y ago
P.J. O’Rourke played a huge part in the formation of my world view and my transformation from an idealistic, liberal college kid to a conservative grown-up, as he might say. I stumbled upon him while reading the “Best of American Travel Wr
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by chrissnell 5y ago
I remember it like it was yesterday. I lived in northern Virginia and was working at AOL as a sysadmin. I was young and a little flaky back then. I overslept that morning and when I woke up to take the dog out, it was a beautiful, crisp
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Great comment, particularly your summation of the 1980s Cold War zeitgeist. It was very real for our generation and nuclear war drills and fallout shelters were part of the life for school kids in many places, especially my South Texas tow
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by chrissnell 5y ago
I love this one, KNDN. It’s located in Farmington, NM and it’s a Navajo station. They don’t have words for everything in their language so you’ll hear random English words like “Walmart” and such dropped in. http://radio.garden
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by chrissnell 5y ago
This is indeed a problem. We have major news outlets who function as propaganda mouthpieces of regimes. They're happy to carry the water for the regime and declare "nothing to see here!" and these days, they often do it wit
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Even an atheist commanding officer will tell you: meeting the religious needs of servicemembers is very important to the U.S. military. It's a morale thing and morale is critical for a high-functioning force. There is an entire milit
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by chrissnell 5y ago
That's a great question, seriously. In a world where Omicron is as deadly as, say, SARS or Ebola, and the vaccine is super effective, you would not have to institute mandates to get people vaxxed. They would gladly get it or they wo
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Because we are free individuals and can make medical decisions for ourselves and our abilities to feed our families should not depend on upon our willingness to take a medication that does not appear to stop the spread of Omicron COVID. Th
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Oh, believe me, that wasn't the worst. The worst was an undergrad in a university computer lab who harnessed many dozens of workstations to DDoS us off the net when he got into an IRC argument with someone.
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Thank a whistleblower. They're the only check we have against these types of infringements on our liberties.
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by chrissnell 5y ago
SLIP was a problem for us when I worked at an ISP in 1995. Cheapsakes would buy our barebones "shell access only" package and then run SLIP on our shell server. We eventually wrote a cron job to kill their processes when we foun
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Came for it and did not leave disappointed. EMAW I love to see this kind of stuff, especially when the books are used in the curriculum. Textbooks are a racket and K-State, like so many state schools, struggles to be affordable to the stud
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Just did some DDG noodling. Turns out, Flickr themselves have open-sourced this! https://github.com/flickr/justified-layout Now to look into porting this to Hugo.
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by chrissnell 5y ago
That's a work-around, but not ideal. What I'd love to find is some CSS/JS that can build the beautiful Flickr-style[0] photo grids that I could integrate into a Hugo generator. [0] Flickr, for those who haven't used it
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by chrissnell 5y ago
This is the Flickr-style photo layout that I love, but I want it in a static site generator. Does such a generator exist?
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Yes. It’s all rooted in narcissism. Calling something “evil”, makes you a hero when you fight it, whether that means going on patrols in the streets of Raqqa or calling out a shitty SaaS pricing scheme on an internet bulletin board.
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by chrissnell 5y ago
How are these transactions conducted? If I wanted to buy some IPv4 and an ASN, where would I go and how much would, say, a /28 cost me?
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TuringPi's funds have been frozen by PayPal for almost a year(twitter.com)
39 points by chrissnell 5y ago|2 comments
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by chrissnell 5y ago
It's sad that you are being downvoted. Nothing that you said was factually incorrect. People just want to squelch you because they don't like these facts and what they imply. Ideology is making things terrible for everybody.
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by chrissnell 5y ago
That's a very crass thing to say when you're not the one out on the street at night, tasked to deal with violent, sometimes psychotic sociopaths, who are often under the influence of methamphetamine [0] fentanyl. [0] see recent At
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by chrissnell 5y ago
It's not actual de-policing, as in "firing cops". It's a sea change in what cops are willing to do while on duty. They have watched the televised trials of cops who have--for whatever reason, just or unjust--been prose
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Los Angeles, one of the largest school districts in the USA, where there was no in-person school for over a year.
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by chrissnell 5y ago
If HN turns into the thought police when it comes to COVID, that would be a very bad sign for this site. Don't you understand where all of the animosity from so many people comes from? It comes out of disdain for people like you, who
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by chrissnell 5y ago
This. Millions of workers, "essential" or not, went to work day in and day out in 2020. The only reason that so many teachers did not is that they have strong unions, who turn out in droves to donate and vote for politicians that
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Declaring a name “offensive” to an entire race of people is a stereotype and also offensive.

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