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by derekp7 3y ago
Pensions are a tricky subject. In cases where a pension job paid less than prevailing wages, that pension is in reality deferred payment for time already worked. So taking away the pension is wage theft. It would be similar to if an orga
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by derekp7 3y ago
A softer way of renegotiating the contract is to pay the parking enforcement officers out of the parking meter revenue. The less revenue submitted back to the city would mean less enforcement, and therefore less meter compliance, which is
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Which basically means that unless a new word is invented to differentiate between the two types of vegetarian options, then this will lead to more confusion (is this dish on the menu a meat simulation, or a traditional vegetable dish that h
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by derekp7 3y ago
After reading through the article, I was wondering if something like the Coca Cola depiction of Santa is an example of this? Or Elf on a Shelf?
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Biggest reason for me is ice. It is very difficult to drink a soda with crushed ice keeping the ice out of your mouth without a straw.
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There is most likely something to this. A dramatic example I've seen is where you take a picture of a head, and invert the mouth and view the picture upside down (so the head is pointing down, but the mouth is still right side up). I
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by derekp7 3y ago
I think that no matter what definition one comes up with, it is possible to have counter examples (i.e., is fire alive, seeing as how it reproduces, consumes food (fuel), etc). One of the indicators of life I like to use, that seems to be u
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But is the captain shielded from liability if they make the wrong judgement call when deviating from the rule book in an emergency, and protected when following the rules? Or are they judged for making the wrong decision regardless if they
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I think the free market idea can work somewhat at the individual level, assuming proper tools are in place. What would have to happen is variable rate based on the amount you consume -- you get the first X KWh for the base price, going ove
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Just like there is a federal law that says you have a write to receive over the air communications, yet there are some states that stop you from driving while receiving those radio communications (i.e., they make radar detectors illegal in
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by derekp7 3y ago
Speaking of checkouts, there is a chain of mega-sized employee-owned grocery stores in the upper Midwest that has the perfect checkout system. You pull your cart up to the register, and they pull items directly out of the cart to scan&#x2F
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Don't you end up with the same problem with the automation that has been running fine for 5 years, then suddenly breaks? And the person that set it up is either gone, or has no clue how they did it 5 years ago.
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I wonder if general education had a factor in hiding some cases in the past. For example, is there much visible difference between an under-socialized / under-educated yet neurotypical person vs someone who is neurdivergent with that
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by derekp7 3y ago
I've always wondered if Ariel was named such so that it sorts at the top of the list of fonts. Thereby making it the default. Then, that brings the question -- is it default because it is the first in a sorted list? Or did they name
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by derekp7 3y ago
I used that exact method to clean out a long dryer vent, except using the dryer blower to push the bag and string through.
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At the Walmart self checkout, scanning items and putting them in the bags. I noticed that one item scanned, got the normal beep that it scanned correctly, put it in the bag,the bagging area weight check passed, but there was a message in s
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by derekp7 3y ago
I'd say it is more about removing intrusive disruption from our site. Ads in magazines or newspapers never bothered me. TV commercial breaks did. Billboards kind of fade into the background, but areas without billboards seem more pl
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by derekp7 3y ago
The way I recall it explained, is no they aren't -- they aren't preventing you from redistributing (or doing whatever you want with the source), but if you exercise that right, they cancel your RHEL entitlement. Nothing in the GP
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by derekp7 3y ago
A few years ago RedHat limited access to the detailed (broken out) kernel patch set they use, to RHEL customers, and only publish the combined blob for anyone else. It was discussed if a RHEL entitlement holder would then be able to share
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by derekp7 3y ago
There are a number of shops where it is advantageous to have a paid RHEL subscription, mostly when there are non-technically-focused management involved. When there is an issue I've had managers in the past say "Quit dicking arou
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by derekp7 3y ago
Here's an idea -- there is already a sizeable number of users that get to Reddit via third party apps. Would it be feasible for a would-be Reddit alternative to form by having all the third-party apps switch over to the new platform o
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by derekp7 3y ago
Would it be possible for third party apps to have an API key input prompt, and users get their own individual API from Reddit? (that users would then probably subscribe to, but it is easier for a user to decide that $20 per month is worth
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by derekp7 3y ago
To clarify your second point -- you can maintain security fixes for 10 years without having to worry about random changes that may break your installed apps and workflows.
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by derekp7 3y ago
What about getting whatever works for home base, and then renting a car for road trips?
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That's what I call "synthetically offended". It is where there is no offense intended, and none actually received, but the potentially offended party (or more likely a third party) can string together something to make it lo
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But you then increase the weight of the shoe. Which affects running and, more importantly, jumping.
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One explanation I've heard is that this specific court already hears so many patent cases, so they have a well oiled machine for getting them through which makes it a bit cheaper to litigate in this court. So the moment that is alread
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by derekp7 3y ago
Digital Cable / TV. It used to be that you could sit back with the remote and flip through the channels to find something good on. Now it takes a few seconds for the next channel to "start up" that you can't quickly sc
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by derekp7 3y ago
I agree that it is a hard problem -- which is why I said it was lazy to implement the simplest form of the solution that is so deficient and just pretend that all is well. It is basically trying to solve problems in software that is in act
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by derekp7 3y ago
This issue makes me unreasonably angry. First, it is very discriminatory -- people can't help what their name is, and in most instances of this problem there "bad" word embedded in the name is hard to find. For example the

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