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by ejb999 4y ago
I agree - I like when people disagree with me - as long as either I learn something from them, or they learn something from me - if we both dig in our heels, no one learns anything.
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by ejb999 4y ago
I think the joke is "a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into"...also, the two happiest days of a boat owners life - the day he buys it, and the day he sells it.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>You have 20 years of experience. That means nothing (and I say that as someone with much more than 20 years of experience) - unless all that experience is in exactly the area the hiring company wants - someone with 20 years of the w
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>It's sad to see people again and again sell their life. Why? I don't find that sad at all - some people really enjoy their work, and it becomes a big part of their identity. What better way to spend you life than doing som
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by ejb999 4y ago
yes and no - unless companies laid off everybody, or an entire division/location for example, they already made some sort of decision on who would stay and who would go - if you find yourself in the 'let go' category, than so
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by ejb999 4y ago
taking them back is good, I guess, but if they take them back and then throw them into a landfill, what has been accomplished?
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by ejb999 4y ago
yes, amazingly it really is - built in the early 1950's and still works perfectly. Not pretty enough to keep in the house anymore, but still hums away day after day. They truly don't make them like they used to.
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by ejb999 4y ago
perhaps in theory - not in real life.
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by ejb999 4y ago
my led bulbs in the house are burning out every 18 months or so - no way they last 10 years - not even close.
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by ejb999 4y ago
baloney - what is the cost to the environment of producing, transporting and then throwing away a refrigerator every 7-10 years? How about the gas used for the service calls? My old fridge is running perfectly, and costs me less than $10-$1
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by ejb999 4y ago
same here - airbnb had its day in the sun for me - its back to hotels for me whenever I can.
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by ejb999 4y ago
no, not really - they (vegas) did briefly after the mass shooting from the resort window, but before that, and since then I always leave the DND sign up, even if I am there for a week, and never had a problem.
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by ejb999 4y ago
I have a 2nd fridge in my garage, an old philco one - still running perfectly, 365 days a year for almost 70 years. Never needed a repair in the 25 years I have owned it.
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by ejb999 4y ago
Yep, bulbs are now all complete crap - they used to last decades. Was having my house painted a few years back, I have a triple set of spots near the very top of the roof (so about 30 feet in the air) - painter helpfully suggests - do you w
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>The rest are drained of everything they spent their life building, and denied the opportunity to share that with their loved ones. But why shouldn't they be drained of their life savings if they move into a nursing home and nee
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>No one wants to tax wildlife reserves. So we should ensure that animals are only allowed to live on government approved 'wildlife reserves'? Where do said animals get their permits, and the directions to where they are all
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by ejb999 4y ago
This is certainly good news, but have a hard time reconciling it with the frequent posters here on HN that propose that vacant land be taxed so high it in effect forces it be developed (i.e. the taxes are so high, nobody can afford to keep
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>However federal law does not prevent discriminating on other grounds. Such as political affiliation or profession. For example landlords can choose not to rent to lawyers, and every so often someone gets fired for political views. I
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Your totally ignore the key element here: a new technology is allowing denying entry at a whole new scale I actually don't see that as the key element at all - Doing something that is already legal, faster, doesn't make it
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by ejb999 4y ago
Do we really want a system where a very elderly person, with say millions in assets, gets all their nursing home care for free in their final years, just so they can leave a bigger inheritance to their kids? I don't. Going thru this no
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by ejb999 4y ago
thats an understatement....
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>They should have had a plan for uninsured fires nearby, and been able to execute it. They did have a plan, and they did execute on it - exactly as they advertised. ...and if they decided to risk it, and put out the fire anyway - and
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>So is Russia, they don't have these problems. Really, Russia doesn't have any similar problems? You want to rethink that by any chance? because now you are making yourself sound quite ignorant.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>> But the hospital won't/can't allow it for bullshit reasons. Bullshit reasons like they don't want to go bankrupt and not be able to serve anyone at all?
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>In the short term yes, in the long term, that is not known. Same can be said about the vaccine. The full story has not been written yet. Investigate everything, make it available to the public, let people decide for themselves what
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by ejb999 4y ago
the 40x is possible, and even likely - but that is often twisted to suggest that if there were (for example) 10,000 reported deaths in vaers, then it must mean there were 400,000 actual deaths from the vaccine - yes, there is a lot of under
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>So the stacked Supreme Court issuing absurd rulings is not actually corrupt, but just appears corrupt? People ruling against what you want is not corruption.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>They also commented at the utter disrespect for Congress by starting off written testimony with the phrase “I fucked up”. There’s no need for language like that and including it in written testimony is beyond stupid. While I agree t
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>My first introduction to this way of thinking was many years ago when I worked on a software development project and the project manager was extremely concerned about a single cent being wrong in the calculations On one of of my pre
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by ejb999 4y ago
Used to use rackspace all the time, it was my 'go to' platform of choice a decade ago. AWS poached all the actual talent, and rackspace is left with the 2nd and 3rd stringers at best. Now I wouldn't trust them to host a stati

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