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by ebg13 7y ago
"hold these for me until I get there" is exactly the same as "don't let someone else buy them before I get there". Whether you pay before you get there or after doesn't change the fact that the item is being he
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by ebg13 7y ago
"bank error in your favor" is not a real thing and a bank will definitely hold you accountable for that. But I honestly read your description as HD just giving you the extras as a gift for your hassle.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I'm not aware of an option to reserve things for pickup at the store, only to purchase them and pickup at the store. Those two things you just said are the same thing.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Support refuses to do anything about items delivered from a local store. Partially true. Support may actually contact the store and negotiate a refund for you. Allegedly I'll be refunded for the from-store delivery fee for my fi
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by ebg13 7y ago
One of the items I tried ordering that was cancelled showed 34 in stock at that store while I was on the phone with them (immediately after the delivery person left) trying to find out why they cancelled my items and they were saying the
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by ebg13 7y ago
I tried ordering some things from Home Depot the other day, and they silently cancelled half of my order while still charging me the same amount for delivery from the store and while saying that some things can only be delivered from a ware
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by ebg13 7y ago
> The only thing that gets me is wind. Wind is wicked bad for calls. Even for music. The wind makes a very loud sound when it hits the over-the-ear cups from the rear. Switch from High to Low cancellation mode in wind and the static po
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by ebg13 7y ago
s/Anymore/Temporarily
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I wouldn’t call it configuration. I actually agree with you. Elsewhere in the comments I say that the OP article failed to name this properly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788696 But it is what the article
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by ebg13 7y ago
> If you feel the need to put code in your runtime config, that means your design sucks. Hello from every plugin system ever. True fact: not all configuration is basic.
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by ebg13 7y ago
I do this all the time in projects at work and it's extremely useful. Most importantly it pleasantly separates core logic from configuration-specific niggling detail logic (now, for instance, you can generate that thousand entry list o
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Does that imply that steroids suppress the immune system in some way? Yes. This is the reason why they're used in the first place. > steroids in an asthma inhaler Yes, but an entire year's worth of asthma inhaler is li
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by ebg13 7y ago
"It was much more exciting than I thought" is a great opening line.
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by ebg13 7y ago
The writing is so good, I had to double check that it wasn't written by Derek Lowe.
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by ebg13 7y ago
Got any screenshots?
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by ebg13 7y ago
If the ideal state is perfectly flat and the proposed mechanism is to place individual atoms one at a time, why are they still talking about glass and not crystal lattice sheets? > ideal glass are theoretically packed together in the de
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by ebg13 7y ago
But in order to get them you have to congregate. :\
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by ebg13 7y ago
> It's not really about entitlement. The tone of your opening sentence fooled me then. > why not make it more accessible? Maybe because he doesn't give a shit about mobile users.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Hey look it's Mr "it's 2020 but I still don't give a shit about mobile users". Nobody owes you their site behaving a certain way on your phone.
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by ebg13 7y ago
As someone with metal implants, my experience is that metal causes extreme scattering in CT imagery which makes the modality often useless if you need to get anywhere near the site even with state-of-the-art computational filtering techniqu
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by ebg13 7y ago
> you cannot just drop this comment without elaborating That's false.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> A chest x-ray is about 5x less radiation exposure then a transatlantic flight.[1] The more important measure is CT, not flat x-ray.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> jumped the ship shark
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by ebg13 7y ago
Ok, how does Steve Keen feel about the USA reverting to pre-1792 colonial currencies?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> The Euro was a massive mistake. Economists can barely agree on how monetary supply works in a single country's economy, why not stitch a bunch of them together and see how it goes? EU members are exactly like states in the USA
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by ebg13 7y ago
90% is a vast majority.
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by ebg13 7y ago
Different virus, but still https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21058-w "We show for the first time that far-UVC efficiently inactivates airborne aerosolized viruses, with a very low dose of 2 mJ/cm2 of
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by ebg13 7y ago
You're misinterpreting that sentence. They are talking about data missing from _prior_ work there. The title of the article is literally "Chronic irradiation with 222-nm UVC light induces neither DNA damage nor epidermal lesions&q
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by ebg13 7y ago
Yes AND, despite the mongering in this article, UVC wavelengths below 222nm have been found to be safe to mammalian skin. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552051/ https://journals.plos
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by ebg13 7y ago
> It won't penetrate deep into the skin, it will continuously cook the top layers. > Frequent exposure WILL cause damage to skin This report seems to say that that is not true for 222nm https://journals.plos.org&#x2F

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