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by gknoy 9y ago
My reply would be "around five dollars, and if you want more let me whip out my phone's calculator". :D Now that I use a calculator, the tea adds up to just under $14, lower than my estimate of 15, but the taxes we non-Oregon
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by gknoy 9y ago
The windows 10 Netflix app seems to have a good compromise: When the credits (opening and closing) of some shows (maybe only ones produced by Netflix?) start there's a "Skip credits" or "Skip intro" button, but it&#
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by gknoy 9y ago
Insider trading requires inside _knowledge_. Deducing it oneself is not a defense. Just like classified information, it doesn't matter how you got it, it matters what you do with it.
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by gknoy 9y ago
The return history image he presented seems to corroborate it.
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by gknoy 9y ago
The text of the warning seemed to indicate that, for the next 365 days, no returns would be allowed. I suspect that is intended to be interpreted as any returns, even if it were for something already purchased.
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by gknoy 9y ago
Wow, that document is really informative. Thanks for sharing that. Great point about not-liking-it being an insufficient threshold for returns. If I were blocked from returning things due to returning, say, a camera or a trio of phone cases
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by gknoy 9y ago
> The moxious will call their credit card company right at the returns desk and ask if they need a photograph of the posted return policy. Thank you! That's an excellent suggestion!
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by gknoy 9y ago
So, in order to prevent fraud, companies like Best Buy contract out to companies like Retail Equation to evaluate (and deny) returns. While I can appreciate why they feel it's necessary, this seems like the kind of thing that credit
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by gknoy 9y ago
> A real ID may be required for you to post comments in all websites. [I]t would drastically reduce comment trolling, if your real identify was viewable and searchable by all you know. But at what cost? The cost is that it would prevent
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by gknoy 9y ago
Personal information is not something with which I can buy my groceries or pay my pediatrician, so it's pretty understandable why people would not consider it on the same level as money or other assets.
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by gknoy 9y ago
I think it would be neat if HN were updated to support Markdown formatting, except that links could be auto-converted to a footnote-link as is the convention on this board.
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by gknoy 9y ago
I go months at a time without seeing my friends.
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by gknoy 9y ago
Your expectations were probably influenced by having been a subscriber to their DVD service, for which they _did_ have nearly every movie you could imagine. Their streaming service is only a subset of the movies they had (have) on DVD.
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by gknoy 9y ago
Tavis Rudd uses voice recognition to do his editing (in Emacs, no less): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI The key is that he basically made up his own language to handle some things like special characters.
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by gknoy 9y ago
I realized profound joy when I realized that an above-average number of the parents at the [non-mainstream sport] studio to which I take one of my kids were people who shared a _lot_ of my nerdy-interests. It was one of those rare "I&
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by gknoy 9y ago
Well done! I normally use Spectacle, but I played (very) briefly with this. It has a slick installation and setup workflow. I like that it leverages the `WSAD` and arrow keys, and its options for composing those to get quarters of screens w
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by gknoy 9y ago
When I look it up, it doesn't seem to imply an unintentional effect: > _work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value_
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by gknoy 9y ago
Oh, wow, thank you for sharing that!
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by gknoy 9y ago
The typical HN convention seems to link directly, or use a zero-indexed footnote. For example, if all you are doing is providing a link, there's no need for extra markup: A PDF of "A Disneyland Dilemma": http://peo
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by gknoy 9y ago
I read a really interesting article on this in my undergraduate software engineering course (an excerpt from Tufte's excellent "Visual Explanations" book dealing with the shuttle Challenger mishap). The main takeaway was not
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by gknoy 9y ago
> you can almost always negotiate down to 10% or less of the original. How does one do this? Where do you learn it? Is there a book you suggest? The fact that I'm even asking this feel weird (I'm insured).
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by gknoy 9y ago
Facebook's "X years ago today, you posted this ..." has been amazing. I don't usually re-share it but it really brightens my morning or day to see photos of my kids when they were 4-5 years younger, and marvel at how mu
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by gknoy 9y ago
How true! However, there are some at state levels. For example [0]: (2018) Under California law (which is much more generous to employees than federal law), if you are a non-exempt worker, you are entitled to meal and rest breaks: a 30-minu
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by gknoy 9y ago
Let's imagine that my child is at a party or other social engagement and they want deniable reason to escape. [0] There may be excessive peer pressure, illegal activity, or any other pre-arranged reason they may need to bail on somethi
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by gknoy 9y ago
If a fire breaks out and I have to evacuate a venue, there is a _distinct_ difference in the effect on me if I have to have had my phone locked up. In one case, I leave the facility, get to safety, and then _go home_ (eventually), at which
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by gknoy 9y ago
Let's just say that the decision for who to play James Bond will be even more interesting.
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How do you hold people accountable for bad behavior (e.g. police behaving poorly when making an arrest or traffic stop) when the video evidence is viewed as "easily faked"? I mean, eyewitness testimony has been proven many times t
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by gknoy 9y ago
For non-salary workers, in your "8 hour" work day there is a certain mandated amount of break time. X minutes per Y hours, for example, plus time for lunch. They might have taken 8 hours and subtracted two 15-minute breaks. I&#x
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by gknoy 9y ago
I've enjoyed burgers at the Habit, and at Five Guys, and I still love In-N-Out. It's even possible that 5 Guys or the Habit have tastier burgers. However, In-n-out burgers are almost half the price, and the drive through service
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by gknoy 9y ago
When I viewed it in Chrome, it offered to translate it automatically, and it was pretty decent.

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