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by dahdum 7y ago
I don’t think researching a $40k purchase and valuing reliability is “boomer thinking”. It’s a side effect of people getting married, buying homes, and starting families.
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by dahdum 7y ago
I take photos of receipts to protect against those scenarios, I just don’t cross reference them unless something looks “off” when I categorize monthly. I suppose I could have fallen victim a few times on tiny amounts never knowing, but in t
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by dahdum 7y ago
Why do you need the receipt itself for fast food or gas? I categorize transactions once a month based on the statements, if something looked crazy I’d dispute it (never has). I do take photos of larger dining receipts, since errors can be m
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by dahdum 7y ago
I think we can use the track record of them shipping safe cars to assume they will do so with the truck. However, the truck that gets shipped is still years out, and Tesla has a history of hyping up bare prototypes for marketing / pr p
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by dahdum 7y ago
Those best practices are deemed too expensive by the CPUC, who has authority over the PG&E budget and retail rates. PG&E is legally allowed only a small profit as a percentage of revenue. Without it they couldn’t raise private capit
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by dahdum 7y ago
A friend of mine had two Envy’s failing less than 6 months after purchase with light usage. They are disposable printers, and the ink scam is ridiculous. We could never get the supposed override to work, and it would never print b&w if
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by dahdum 7y ago
My first install has been Classic Shell (now Open Shell) on every system since Windows 8 rolled out, thanks to their hard work Win 8/10 upgrades changed nothing about how I work. Only change I’ve made was when Win 10 multiple desktops
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by dahdum 7y ago
I wish more people knew this, PG&E didn’t take exorbitant profits for the past 30 years at the expense of maintenance. CPUC controls retail rates, and they are politically motivated to keep them as low as possible.
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by dahdum 7y ago
I see AR as having an enormous future impact, games only a small fraction of that. We jumped at the chance to escape reality into our phones, but AR is far more seductive. VR limits your mobility, but AR can be used every waking hour. I see
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by dahdum 7y ago
> Management has no business having an opinion on unionization one way or the other. If anything, most managers should be pro-union since they're as likely to get thrown under the bus to keep profits up as their direct reports. Unio
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by dahdum 7y ago
This hypothetical “real libertarian” would welcome far more than that, and most of it not for the benefit of workers. I’m simply stating it’s foolish to expect Google to actively work against their best interests. To provide material suppor
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by dahdum 7y ago
> In the email, Google said it was canceling the meeting because the company prefers to only host events on the topic organized in partnership with Google’s site leadership team. So this was a meeting organized solely by employees, usin
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by dahdum 7y ago
They can’t afford to manipulate the market effectively, they may have the lowest production costs but they’ve already spent / allocated the profits.
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by dahdum 7y ago
I agreee increasing labor supply can decrease wages. If we allowed uncapped skilled immigration for upper middle class professions like physicians, surgeons, dentists, engineers, scientists, and more their wages may go down or stagnate. Tho
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by dahdum 7y ago
Skilled immigration is an economic home run, those opposed to it are similar to the NIMBY’s in the Bay Area that vote down all new housing so their home values rise. IMHO, there is no conspiratorial reason politicians pushed the program, it
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by dahdum 7y ago
I’m not saying it’s causation, but the timing is amusing. Article > “Something changed starting around 2012,” said Gail Bolan, director of the CDC division of STD prevention. “We’ve seen dramatic increases each year in both males and fem
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by dahdum 7y ago
Might have been Oracle Web DB, it predated the APEX line but was roughly the same concept and released in the late 90's.
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by dahdum 7y ago
Used Apex when it first came out (as HTMLDB). I’ve never found anything that compared to its speed in rolling out web based forms for internal use. At the time, it was the best BI tool for ad hoc queries around. Nowadays I use metabase, but
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by dahdum 7y ago
First class and economy are different experiences. Airlines don’t change your price for economy based on your personal information. Would you like to have to pay more because you live in an affluent zip code, even if you aren’t affluent you
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by dahdum 7y ago
Looks like they use a JS library, so users will be able to detect the usage of this service in most cases. Few will do so, but those that realize it will be your most vocal detractors. Consumers despise dynamic pricing.
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by dahdum 7y ago
Capital gains are lower because because corporations pay income tax on their earnings already.
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by dahdum 7y ago
Malware will pull updates and commands from the internet, if they didn’t allow network access it would be near useless of a service. Attackers can make the binary pre-update look as innocent as they want.
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by dahdum 7y ago
Not the OP, but I’m pretty sure they are basing it on the same observations I have. The vast majority of motorcyclists I encounter are riding defensively, while the majority of cyclists I see in city traffic are aggressive and ignore most t
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by dahdum 7y ago
So far all we have his word that he was assured it would be a limit of 5 people and out of state. There’s no signed contract that he’s produced, and doesn’t remember how many times he donated. It was decades ago, he could easily be misremem
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by dahdum 7y ago
You’d hate my work, we shoehorn everything we can into the database, with a nice simple API layer of versioned stored procedures in front. It’s easy to test and enforce the business logic, and then it can be easily utilized across web, mobi
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by dahdum 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy#Classification Cognitive is the capacity to understand others emotional state, not necessarily react accordingly (affective empathy). I’m not surprised by this result, perspectiv
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by dahdum 7y ago
That was my first thought too. Unless they’ve done research on the future health impacts of climate change, including it weakens their argument.
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by dahdum 7y ago
The nuclear industry report cited in that article (WNSIP) is written by an anti-nuclear activist (Mycle Schneider). His whole career is defined by it.
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by dahdum 7y ago
The data linked doesn’t indicate that was the primary reason, there is a small dip in GDP per capita (-10%?) for India/China but it was basically flat. Looks like before industrialization the richest countries were only moderately bett
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by dahdum 7y ago
Probably because it’s a bit misleading as your link shows. GDP per capita was low everywhere, barely above subsistence. Their % dropped when others started growing rapidly.

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