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by djrogers 6y ago
The link you provided does not in fact back up that claim. It shows a demand for 15.1m new homes, with 8.4m of those being one or two person. That’s barely over half - nowhere near 80%.
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by djrogers 6y ago
What exactly do you think you could want to do with this that would be illegal?
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by djrogers 6y ago
I disagreed with this - although it may be a matter of expectations. We use our vacuvin to keep partials for a day or two, and they keep much better with it than with a cork. I’m not trying to keep wine for a week, and I prefer to keep re
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by djrogers 6y ago
A lot of comments here about ‘overreach’ ‘privacy violations’ and such as if the FBI is showing up and accusing these people of crimes. If you actually read the story, the one person who they quote explains they weren’t suspected of anythin
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by djrogers 6y ago
Your linked article is about a company data-mining Twitter. TFA we are discussing is about the FBI getting location data from phones. These are two very different things...
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by djrogers 6y ago
This isn’t my definition, it’s the literal dictionary definition.
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by djrogers 6y ago
> I would appreciate a more standardized practice around, "If Slack says you are available, we can expect you to respond relatively quickly" than seeing a green dot and not hearing back for hours or a day. No. Slack does not k
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by djrogers 6y ago
> Is COVID to blame for the economic costs that you mention, or are the pre-existing conditions? I fail to grasp what you’re getting at here - what pre-existing conditions could possibly lead to millions of people losing their jobs becau
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by djrogers 6y ago
To say that we have no mechanism to pay for unemployment or health care for the unemployed is disingenuous at best. The poor are exactly the people whose healthcare the government does pay for. And the CARES act largely just expanded exis
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by djrogers 6y ago
It’s also tragic that the changes we made cost 20+ million jobs, and dramatically increased income inequality.
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by djrogers 6y ago
> There's no way this truck is going to last that long. I agree with everything you said up til this point. Unless you crash into a brick wall, a modern pickup will last at least 20 years. Look on Craigslist or FB marketplace for
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by djrogers 6y ago
> That stretches the meaning of the word beyond anything useful though. No - it’s literally the definition of the word censorship: “suppression or prohibition of speech”. It really sounds like you’re trying hard to redefine the word to m
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by djrogers 6y ago
3mm? Based on my measurement just now, the lid of my 16" MBP is just about 4mm thick - so no, after the case and front glass there's enough room for even the sensor, let alone a lens.
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by djrogers 6y ago
Fortunately this is the Internet. You can see those parts plenty of places - like ifixit for example. Yes, the front facing cameras on iPhones are thicker than what would fit in a current MacBook display. Honestly though, I think the real
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by djrogers 6y ago
> I suspect that gas stations will start swapping pumps for chargers, and that will motivate people to switch too. This may happen some places, but I expect the charging infrastructure to ultimately look very different from the refueling
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by djrogers 6y ago
> So long as screwing people too poor to justify a new or new-ish car is politically unacceptable there will be some resistance. Sadly, that (admittedly sound and good) argument will run headlong into the resounding cry of 'for the
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by djrogers 6y ago
> The people who buy new obviously tend to be well-off, and are often older. One might think this to be the case, but the breakdown of new car buyers shows about the same % of buyers make <50k as those who make >100k (roughly 1&#x2
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by djrogers 6y ago
> That's a 12 inch medium pizza I don’t know what kind of barbaric society you hail from, but here in civilization 12” is a small pizza. ;-)
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by djrogers 6y ago
> email before Gmail or maps before Maps Hotmail and Mapquest would like to chime in here...
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by djrogers 6y ago
GP is under the (incorrect) impression that censorship is only possible if enacted by a government entity. That’s blatantly and provably false, but nevertheless comes up in many discussions of censorship.
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by djrogers 6y ago
Slight clarification - they are replacing their delivery employees with contractors...
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by djrogers 6y ago
Note he's salaried, that's not contract rates. Salaried employees also get health, 401k, ESPP, and other benefits that contract workers have to cover themselves - not to mention self employment taxes etc. He may still be underpai
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by djrogers 6y ago
> so I am not keen to do it again until I have more free time Aww man, I'm really sad to here that RecipeFilter won't be coming to Safari anytime soon. I really got my hopes up after it was in the keynote! Since Apple distribut
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by djrogers 6y ago
> My only wish is they would implement a "family" option where I could easily share my library of recipes with my girlfriend without having to share them one at a time. My wife and I work around that by simply using the same pa
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by djrogers 6y ago
Setting aside that the problem with AV had nothing to do with Apple, for the most part nobody was working at either of those offices over the summer (2020, remember?). Also, which of Apple's 130+ Silicon Valley offices are you going t
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by djrogers 6y ago
Ok, fully aware that this is a really tiny problem, and does not in any way apply to 99% of people, but my mailbox is ~500' from my front door, and on really rainy days I'd love to have a drone bring my mail back the the house. Fo
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by djrogers 6y ago
I'm sorry, but that's revisionist history. Ariel Atkins - Chicago BLM leader: "That is reparations,” Ariel Atkins, an organizer, told NBC Chicago. “Anything they wanted to take, they can take it" She said that about a ri
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by djrogers 6y ago
This is a bad link, not sure how it got upvoted when following it fails (there’s a trailing . after the domain). That’s kinda fishy... Correct link should be https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/18/the
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by djrogers 6y ago
> A lot of the cases of blacklisting that I found while researching this issue were caused by SaaS customers unknowingly uploading malicious files onto servers. This is terrifying - what business is it of Google’s what party A uploads to
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by djrogers 6y ago
> The fact of the matter is that when joining a new institution one lacks the contacts and the context to discern normal institutional behavior That was the case for me at a couple of very early jobs in my career, but hasn’t been the cas

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