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by greedo 4y ago
Librarians aren't just people who like books. They have specialized skills, and usually have a master's degree. Librarians in many school districts have a teaching credential in addition to a Masters. The idea of hiring a person a
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by greedo 4y ago
Ha. I'm on a team of 23. And our manager expects us to all have roughly identical skills so we're interchangeable. Retirement can't come soon enough.
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by greedo 4y ago
Stack ranking sucks because it's extremely difficult to evaluate performance in IT other than broad company wide goals. Determining which developer had the greatest impact is a fools game. Determining which sysadmin was responsible for
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by greedo 4y ago
I had my daughters when I was 38 and 40. The youngest heads off to college today. I've had plenty of time to contemplate life in the last 20 years. In fact, raising two daughters has made that seem even more important. Around the age o
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by greedo 4y ago
It's not like tickets on these planes are going to be cheap anyway. You could double the fuel cost and I doubt that would double the ticket cost.
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by greedo 4y ago
I use water and soap every day cleaning mine. If you get something really stuck you can heat the pan up, then add hot water to it. It basically boils the stuck stuff off. You just need to be careful not to crack the pan.
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by greedo 4y ago
Apples and Oranges? Is the Rigid using HEPA filters? Are the settings consistent on both vacuums?
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by greedo 4y ago
The idea that Dewalt is "one of the most premium high end tool brands" is ridiculous to anyone with even a modest understanding of tools. I wouldn't even consider Dewalt to be middle of the road when it comes to consumer hand
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by greedo 4y ago
It's because they're collecting rents from having state legislation pretty much guarantee they're the only way to buy a car brand (other than Tesla). And though collusion might be hard to prove, it's pretty obvious to a
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by greedo 4y ago
Uh, despite the best attempts of credit card companies to hide the fact, their card processing fees do raise the price of gasoline. Before they held as much power over gas retailers, gas stations used to list a cash price and a credit price
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by greedo 4y ago
I think you're underestimating the effect of racism in the US. The economic and social chances you're using as a remedy for poverty are absent for many minorities, and the CRT discourse is all about why. There's a huge contin
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by greedo 4y ago
Exactly. Having a sclerotic space launch industry has really hampered NASA in many ways. I have hopes that Starship will be able to change this.
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by greedo 4y ago
Because your death becomes an externality that others have to pay for.
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by greedo 4y ago
This displays a fundamental misunderstanding of CRT.
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by greedo 4y ago
I think you might be underestimating the complexity of the JWST. A publicly funded project of this complexity will almost always have budget overruns and delays.
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by greedo 4y ago
I'm pretty pro-military, but "70 years of peace" is ridiculously inaccurate. We had the Korean War running until 1953 (which involved the following: USA, USSA, PRC, AU, Canada, the list goes on). Shortly after, the US begins
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by greedo 4y ago
NASA is not defense funding. It might benefit from some military technologies, but its funding is not under the DoD.
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by greedo 4y ago
Funny how that happens after a pandemic.
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by greedo 4y ago
"Don't try to catch a falling knife."
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by greedo 4y ago
The world is littered with dead companies that had great products.
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by greedo 4y ago
Staffing a reactor is expensive and risky compared to electric tech. The risk to reward ratio is too skewed for this to be economically feasible.
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by greedo 4y ago
This is the type of web content that I love coming across. Well-written, clearly focused, and with minimal if any ads. No javascript popping up a subscription prompt for a newsletter, and no complaints about running an adblocker. Just great
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by greedo 4y ago
Flying was definitely better back before de-regulation. Google Pan American and look at how big the seats were and the food served. Much better, but roughly 4x the price (comparing LAX to Heathrow).
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by greedo 4y ago
Even McDonalds had "whales" (yes I know that sounds horrible in context). In the 80's, they were very aware of customers who frequented the restaurants 2-3x a week. Of course, they didn't call them whales, instead using
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by greedo 4y ago
I only went to Disneyland once in my life. My uncle took me, and this was probably in the early 70's. You bought a book of tickets for the rides, and of course the best was the "E ticket." I was probably around 7 or 8 and onc
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by greedo 4y ago
I have a family. I could afford to go to either DisneyWorld or DisneyLand. I would never do so since the value proposition is negative in my opinion.
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by greedo 4y ago
Yes, because programmers etc just love to build tools that squeeze every last nickel out of people by using dark patterns etc. It's the suits that are always pushing pricing efficiency in my experience, not the nerds.
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by greedo 4y ago
I remember as a young man in San Diego, being able to go see a day game or doubleheader. It wasn't cheap if you wanted good seats, but you could often find someone scalping their tickets for a decent price. Once, in 1984 I was able to
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by greedo 4y ago
I love my VW CC (2013) when it runs, but geez I've had engine trouble, the faulty suspension that leads to tire cupping drives me nuts, and the VW dealer in my town sucks. I swore off VW a few years ago, but the new VW bus replacement
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by greedo 4y ago
Shipping issues undoubtedly were an issue with Australia.

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