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by crazyjncsu 6y ago
Uber drivers pay taxes on earnings as contractors too. This at least partially covers ACA subsidies (if not fully). And we subsidize employer-provided healthcare also, hence its existence.
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by crazyjncsu 6y ago
Your whole comment seems insane to me. Do you actually think like this yourself? Or are you just positing that others do? You do realize that foreclosure has very negative long term consequences? You do realize there are available forms of
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by crazyjncsu 6y ago
Or go to the metal scrapyard instead, and leave with a few dollars more than you came with! (and get weighed) .. and if you have a pickup truck, you get to see them use this cool magnet to suck your junk out of the bed ;)
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by crazyjncsu 6y ago
This is already very much a thing that has driven improvements: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/22/705914833/epis... In fact, there have been many such forces, technology being o a b
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by crazyjncsu 6y ago
And many here are too young to remember the hellscape of competing search engines predating Google: Infoseek, excite, yahoo, altavista, etc. Their poor experience and dubious practices likely spawned Google's internal motto: "don&
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by crazyjncsu 6y ago
So I also have a 75kw whole-house generator that runs on propane, installed by the original owners. If you think don't think a portable deal is a PITA, try something 10x the size. My last encounter with it was discovering it was suckin
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by crazyjncsu 6y ago
Yeah, but generators are a PITA. Mine has at best a 50/50 chance of starting without having to go to the shop to clean the carb, etc. It would be quite nice to know I had quick, reliable power on tap that is regularly tested just in th
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by crazyjncsu 6y ago
> during development builds That's the key phrase in his statement. I'm not familiar with Rust, but if compilation speed is a major issue, and there are aspects of the compilation that are avoidable to trade-off for runtime per
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by crazyjncsu 7y ago
OVH bare metal is what we use when we need cheap raw horsepower. Mentioning them is usually controversial, which is why I refrained in my parent comment, but we’ve had nothing but success.
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by crazyjncsu 7y ago
> It's pretty crazy how cheap hardware is compared to the cloud these days By “the cloud” I’m assuming you mean aws/gcp/azure, and comparing them simply with on-prem is a false dichotomy. There are plenty of other cloud an
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by crazyjncsu 7y ago
C# 7 (2017) and higher also allows underscores in number literals.
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by crazyjncsu 7y ago
> Writing elegant and artful code that is hard to understand and debug does not make you a clever developer The whole purpose, to me, of artfulness in code is to take unartful, hard to understand code and make it simple. What other objec
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by crazyjncsu 7y ago
Absolutely yes. Dehumidification typically involves a full refrigeration cycle. It's like leaving a refrigerator running with the doors wide open, the only purpose being to drain out the few drops of water that drip off the condenser
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by crazyjncsu 7y ago
Thanks, but I'll stick with my Commando 450: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMITcQUe-9M But seriously, even I get concerned with the green movements when they seem to be coming for each part of my life I hold sacred--