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by dixie_land 3y ago
I wonder if this will backfire and make it a land grab for developers to build new luxury vacation homes/resorts for the express purpose of Airbnb them out
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by dixie_land 3y ago
So in a sense they do care :)
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by dixie_land 3y ago
The takeaway is as far as labeling is concerned, any food is zero calories if the serving size is sufficiently small.
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by dixie_land 3y ago
It is not when you look back and realize Dan has been WFH whenever he wants all this time, even before the whole Covid thing
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by dixie_land 3y ago
my 2 cents: w3schools tend to oversimplify the concepts to the point of technical inaccuracy. and the tone of the articles read more like tutorials instead of reference manuals.
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by dixie_land 3y ago
that's exactly what I was picturing https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dsq_jZiB1_U&t=47
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by dixie_land 3y ago
Yup. That aligns with the intention of the visa too: getting highly skilled workers. And compensation is the most objective measure of that.
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by dixie_land 3y ago
I like how See Also links to another interesting article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_and_the_Internet
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by dixie_land 3y ago
I've seen them on a recent flight on a Delta A339. When the flight attendants send meals to the pilots it comically looked like a prison for them.
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by dixie_land 3y ago
> As a partial mitigation, Apple is enabling an alternative way for advertisers to measure campaign success, with Private Click Measurement ad attribution now available in Safari Private Browsing mode. Private Click Measurement allows ad
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by dixie_land 3y ago
Don't forget Super PACs! /s
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by dixie_land 3y ago
John Oliver had an interesting segment on timeshares and argues timeshare exit companies are even bigger scams: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd2bbHoVQSM
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by dixie_land 3y ago
I could agree more! Irregardless of what words actually mean we should just use whatever we want.
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by dixie_land 3y ago
Bellevue === Little Peking
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by dixie_land 3y ago
Now do <blink> :)
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by dixie_land 4y ago
> Americans like their property private and would even guard it with a rifle There's a reason we call our abode our own "neck of the woods" :)
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by dixie_land 4y ago
I'm a bit surprised no one has brought up the issue with App Library support (or rather, the lack thereof) yet. When you "install" an PWA, you can only keep it on the Home Screen, while native apps can be removed from Home Sc
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by dixie_land 4y ago
Your observation about the culture being worse is accurate, but none of them are caused by tech.
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by dixie_land 4y ago
It's time, let's send in Bruce Willis
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by dixie_land 4y ago
Who put them in charge? Like literally, the institution of a central bank is unconstitutional
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by dixie_land 4y ago
also why would you ever _want_ to access work from a personal computer to begin with
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by dixie_land 4y ago
One of reasons WeChat and WhatsApp became popular in low income countries first, was that in those countries SMS were/are charged PER MESSAGE
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by dixie_land 4y ago
Because we're better than them. We're a free market and that is that. We don't judge people by where they come from.
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by dixie_land 4y ago
Yup we saw the exact same symptoms with some GCLBs getting 100% 502 ( our upstream QPS graph looks scary with 5 mins of 0 QPS )
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by dixie_land 4y ago
Are you implying Java or Python is somehow better than C?
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by dixie_land 4y ago
> The homeowners are the ones getting rich. If it's not an investment property then homeowners don't get any benefits from higher home value other than a larger tax bill.
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by dixie_land 4y ago
Then let the market decide not the government
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by dixie_land 4y ago
You can plead 5th even in a civil case since what you say might lead to future prosecution.
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by dixie_land 4y ago
My observation is that recent layoffs affect engineers with different seniority very differently. Senior devs I know who got laid off are just enjoying their time off (with pay! if you consider the severance) after the rocketing market in 2
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by dixie_land 4y ago
I've recently had some misfortunes in the romantic department. It is objectively a better experience being depressed in my hilltop hot tub over looking acres than the 1bd apartment the 20yr old me had.

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