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by dml2135 9mo ago
I think it's less about that farmer's market produce being healthier, and more about it being tastier. I've encountered plenty of people saying things like "I don't like tomatoes" when it turns out all they&#x2
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by dml2135 10mo ago
If your goal is just to easily sync your own ebook library with a Kobo device, I've found that something like this isn't really necessary. There is a config file on the stock OS that you just need to change, and you can point the
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by dml2135 1y ago
People “just don’t work that way” when they have to exercise will power, because they can obtain what they want. That’s not really the case when discussing school meals though, when kids will generally be eating what is put in front of them
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by dml2135 1y ago
Every time I’ve gotten a large bill that hit my deductible, going back to the provider and asking to pay cash without insurance has resulted in a lower bill.
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by dml2135 1y ago
I think your observations about tense and mood are very true, but you are undervaluing the extent to which someone can do something automatically and out of habit, especially when their paycheck depends on it. I absolutely believe that a jo
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by dml2135 1y ago
If you only bake cakes I guess it makes sense — but you can make many other baked goods with flour.
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by dml2135 1y ago
Is Sysco a name that you associate with good food? In my mind they mostly supply chain restaurants and prisons.
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by dml2135 1y ago
Baking may not be easy but it’s not that hard. If you bake from scratch, then maybe your results won’t be as good at first, but like anything else you will get better with experience and improve with time. Like, would you suggest people o
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by dml2135 1y ago
Well this is why it makes sense to bake from standard ingredients like flour that have many different uses, instead of a processed box that can only be used to make one thing.
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by dml2135 1y ago
I found that using bags for compost isn’t really necessary at all. I just dump the container out each night and clean it along with my dishes. It’s nice this way because then nothing is ever actually rotting in my indoor trash. Having a sta
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by dml2135 1y ago
> You are asserting that a free market is unstable and will inevitably lead to a monopoly. No, I am not asserting that. I think the first thing to clear up is our definitions. My main point would be that a market that is controlled by a
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by dml2135 1y ago
I understand being annoyed at a sales pitch, but this sounds like about 3-4 hours of work for the contractor, which comes out to about $80/hour. That doesn’t sound so unreasonable to me.
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by dml2135 1y ago
I think you missed the parent comment’s point. They are not saying that a free market had it’s downsides, but rather that a lassaiz-faire approach often does not even result in a free market, but rather in a market that tends towards monopo
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by dml2135 1y ago
> Do what you like, just don't take away my means of being able to achieve a little bit of solitude. I’m not sure why you have a right to solitude while out in public. While I sympathize with your desires, your need for a private bu
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by dml2135 1y ago
Wow I’m surprised at the heavy downvoted here. I don’t think mandating cameras on and insisting on 100% is the right move, but I definitely think you want to aim for a team culture where camera-on is a default and most people have them on
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by dml2135 1y ago
I would challenge you to find statistics that show that any public transit system in the U.S. is more dangerous than driving.
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by dml2135 1y ago
It was a long time ago but from what I remember it wasn’t that simple. We needed the IT guy to set us up with individual accounts, and we could never get a straight answer on when he would show up.
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by dml2135 1y ago
> Also, who believes politicians campaign pledges? People who actually understand politics and who realize that the extent to which politicians keep their campaign pledges is usually related to how their parties end up performing in the
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by dml2135 1y ago
This is everything in Italy, not just banking. I remember studying abroad there, it took us a week and a half of “domani” to get the wifi password for the dorm!
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by dml2135 1y ago
It's funny that you mention CVS. I went to use the human checkout at CVS last time I was there because the line for self-checkout was so long, only to be told "in order to check out at this register, you need to have a CVS extra-c
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by dml2135 1y ago
What is your definition of "evidence" here? The evidence, in my view, are physical (as in, available computing power) and algorithmic limitations. We don't expect steel to suddenly have new properties, and we don't expec
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by dml2135 1y ago
It's a logical fallacy that just because some technology experienced some period of exponential growth, all technology will always experience constant exponential growth. There are plenty of counter-examples to the scaling of computers
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by dml2135 1y ago
Getting rid of checkout clerks, forcing customers to use self-checkout, and then surveilling and policing said customers to make sure that the unpaid labor they are now performing is done flawlessly is just so dystopic. IMO, if you want to
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by dml2135 1y ago
This was not my experience on the NY exchange but that was several years ago at this point. So I guess it's possible that things improved.
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I qualified my initial comment with "for professions that do not provide a salary that could pay for said tuition". And my comment is not about people thinking they'd be getting rich -- it's about people making a (or wha
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I'm not talking about worthless schools -- I'm talking about the Ivy Leagues. Worthless degrees, yes, but why are we not holding our most prestigious schools responsible for charging outlandish prices for worthless degrees? They a
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by dml2135 1y ago
But that means nothing if you can't find a doctor -- these plans have paltry networks. They are better than nothing if you qualify for a subsidy, but if you don't and you live in a HCOL area (which the subsidies are not adjusted f
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They are not the same plans. Most employer plans are not available to the individual market. The marketplace plans often have vastly reduced networks, higher premiums, higher deductibles, etc.
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Others have replied saying why this may not be the case, but even if it is — you also need to balance efficiency with other values, such as independence and resiliency. I would gladly trade a bit of efficiency to not be dependent on the gri
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That $6,000 would be about $13,000 today. That is a very manageable amount of debt. Many people have student debts that are 10-20x that, or more. Minimum payments of thousands of dollars a month, and no ability to discharge them through ban

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