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by ggg9990 9y ago
When you’re running from the police and angry victims, you have to NEVER screw up. You can’t ever use a credit card, call your family from a regular line, look up something on Google that could identify you, etc. that’s a hell of a lot of s
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by ggg9990 9y ago
A waiter would miss work a few times for court proceedings and be fired without knowing the reason. He’d fail his background check when he next sought employment.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Not necessarily — I know several people who grew up in even more privileged households and never did anything useful with their lives.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s a question of mindset, but often correlated with scale. A rich person is a successful car dealership owner who has a net worth of $50 million, drives a Lamborghini on the weekends, lives in an 10,000 square foot mansion, has a sweet pr
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What do the CA refugees do for work in Oregon? I thought the demand for housing in CA is because so many high paying jobs are in CA.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Thinking that Bezos wanted WaPo to advocate for Amazon and trash Musk is to treat him as a rich person, not the wealthy person that he actually is.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Not really, since libraries are not laid out randomly, and few electronic display experiences allow the kind of massively parallel visual scanning that humans are good at.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I’ve found that good freezer pizza is usually better than any delivery.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I think they are talking about when Dell made serious profits in PCs.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I have never used an app to call a taxi. I used taxis for decades, and when Uber came out it was such a night and day difference that I have taken exactly one taxi in the last five years, when my phone battery was dead.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
So by this author’s estimation, the Apple App Store is the worst and the Microsoft App Store is the best. I can tell him that from the user’s perspective, it’s the exact opposite, and I have exactly one app from Microsoft and hundreds from
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The SEAT Ateca is almost 1000 pounds lighter than the XC90.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The Audi Q7 3.0T is $7k cheaper and does 0-60 in 5.7 seconds. The XC90 is a completely drivable and enjoyable car, but people who care about performance are likelier to choose a different SUV and likelier to get into an accident in that SUV
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Drive one. The throttle is leaden.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Another reason the XC90 has a great safety record is that it’s a 4500 pound car with a 4 cylinder engine. This isn’t safety enhancing in itself but does ensure that it is only bought by people with the most sedate driving habits.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The Corvette isn’t a “luxury” car like a Mercedes S-Class, even though it’s in the same price range. It attracts a different group of people and those who pay for this program and go to Kentucky for a weekend are probably >80% going to a
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Having ridden in thousands of cabs, and hundreds of Ubers, calling Uber a “taxi company with an app” is like calling an airplane a car with a crossbeam.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Snowden became one of the most famous people in the world, and a hero to millions, and a villains to millions. Without knowing his personal utility function it’s hard to say whether he feels that this was a net positive for him, but some pe
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I find JIRA also pretty “brutalist” in the style of Craigslist.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
But randomly guessing Cambridge is not that likely. A bit of a pointless exercise though since security questions are dumb.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I worked at a company which was like this. All emails were delayed until the hour to make sure you only got one interruption per hour. You could mark the email as “high importance” to get it through immediately, as were emails from external
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The problem they were trying to solve is someone typing in “Woodbridge Lane” as the answer and then later typing “Wood Bridge” or “Woodbridge Ln” or “Woodbridge Ln.” when prompted. This was the wrong solution.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Oof! My number may even be 0, and I’m married.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s not really as bad as that. Practically, the EU lawyers are not going to prosecute some dumbass no-revenue “Tinder for cocktails” or similar. They are out for money and only going after the guys who are big enough to pay but haven’t com
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Hard to do exact change and I don’t want to owe anyone or be owed anything. We go out to dinner and the bill is $71.53 split four ways — would rather not use cash for that.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Reptiles need much less food than mammals.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
In the midst of all this, one concrete action you can take is to give your kids common names that are hard to Google.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Some of us just really like nice cars without signaling wealth. I recently bought a Hyundai Genesis even though I liked and could afford the better Mercedes Benz because I preferred to have a non-luxury brand. It's a New England thing.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What drawing apps do you use, on what devices, and what is worst about those apps to you?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Not per year, but in total over the last 100 years is believable.

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