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by hiram112 5y ago
Bingo. I thought I finally had the procedure down last time around. I found similar models, sent them my terms over email, and let them know I wouldn't put up with games and would walk the minute I detected any BS. Several dealers seem
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by hiram112 5y ago
Yep, this is what I've experienced last two times around looking at Acuras, Lexus, etc. Maybe it's different with trucks, SUVs, and non-luxury brands, but the new cost of a mid-tier Acura is at least 50% more than one with 20K mil
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by hiram112 5y ago
> As seen in renowned system distributor Puget Systems' statistics, AMD has risen from a 5% share in systems sold since June 2020, up to a dominating 60% as of June 2021. Wow, maybe this stat is misleading or only referring to some
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by hiram112 5y ago
> Is it really wrong to request that if they want to use our health care system they take basic care of themselves? At least in the US, there is no "our" health care system. My employer and I pay about $500 / month in prem
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by hiram112 5y ago
> - Nic never held a clearance, and as a result was never actually involved or aware of most of the programs that he intended to impact I honestly don't know how he'd ever expect to succeed in a job like this without a clearanc
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by hiram112 5y ago
> I wonder how do you solve the technical problem if there was driver issue in Windows. This just doesn't happen that often in Windows, at least for the majority of hardware. Yeah yeah, I know everyone has an anecdote of some graphi
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by hiram112 5y ago
I read a few articles in the past year, since supply issues first began showing up, praising both Apple and Toyota for being less reliant on supply chains out of their complete control. In the last week, I've read several more doomsday
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by hiram112 5y ago
Everyone is wondering how Reddit can be valued this high despite the fact they don't data mine as much as Google or Facebook, and a good amount of their users aren't even using the official site or app, and instead use alternative
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by hiram112 5y ago
Thanks for the tip. I will have to take a look. It'd be nice if there were some github repos out there that leveraged this to make experimenting with Linux distros (including Desktop environments) as seamless as it is with VMWare Works
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by hiram112 5y ago
> Do you Linux users just apply random advice like that off the internets without seeing what every line means? This isn't just a Linux issue. I've used Windows many years, and the vast majority of solutions to problems is inse
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by hiram112 5y ago
Are you talking about total compensation where you add base salary, payroll taxes paid by employer, health & benefits, 401K contribution, possible bonus & equity, etc? I see $160K salary ceilings for general "senior engineers&q
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by hiram112 5y ago
Does Mac have any sort of built-in VM framework like Hyper-V? I did not know that running basic Linux VMs was something you could do without downloading VMware or Virtual Box - which isn't as easy as just running a few scripts (especia
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by hiram112 5y ago
Sounds like another diversity grift which will be used as a political tool, and won't improve the fed gov't's ability to leverage techology or improve security. Maybe I'm in cynical, but I'm very familiar with some
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by hiram112 5y ago
When is it legitimate to "punch of Googler"?
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by hiram112 5y ago
Would be interesting to know if big manufacturers then only sell their most dependable models in the NZ market, in order to avoid the costs that they can avoid in more business-friendly markets like the US. It would be a good way to decide
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by hiram112 5y ago
Yep, I feel bad for many of the less technical "rubes" who still believe they're somewhat anonymous on the internet if they, e.g. use Incognito (which Google went out of their way to market as such), or buy some dubious VPN s
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by hiram112 5y ago
I wonder if we'll ever see some sort of Apache Accumulo as a service in the AWS commercial offering. Also, kind of interesting that the former NSA chief Alexander was recently given a seat at Amazon's corporate board. I'm sur
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by hiram112 5y ago
Even more appropriate comment as gold did just take a huge dive tonight, lol.
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by hiram112 5y ago
> This happened in Japan in the '60s and '70s where unions demanded 5% annual wage increases to keep up with the inflation caused by every industry getting 5% annual price increases caused by union wage increases... As a gov co
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by hiram112 5y ago
Similarly, while there is an explosion in the markets we all know the most - equities, real estate, "commodities", etc. - there are many other markets out there that are, in fact, at a bottom. And like you said, nobody is paying a
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by hiram112 5y ago
It might just be my state or store, but most products do, in fact, include a price per item or prize per unit of weight or volume in very small print on the price labels. I'm guessing this was introduced as a law, in good faith to help
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by hiram112 5y ago
> If you get a $20k increase every 2 years starting from $160k by hopping jobs, that's way more than your yearly 2%. This isn't how it works. The $180K is the max I could get in my industry, and that's because the previous
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by hiram112 5y ago
Maybe in FAANG world, salaries really do increase linearly like the graphs from the blog showed, but in the F500 corporate and contracting world, the slope starts leveling out after 10 years of experience. A decent and ambitious dev can def
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by hiram112 5y ago
I’m neutral on the vaccine itself, and I don’t believe Google and FB are doing this for any valid health reason. It’s more political signaling. Since it’s really one “side” of the culture divide who’s pushing this, I just want to ensure we’
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by hiram112 5y ago
> Among Silicon Valley circles, a fun parlor game is to ask to what extent world GDP levels are held back by a lack of computer science and technical training. Typical Silicon Valley hubris. Imagine how high GDP would grow if we had mill
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by hiram112 5y ago
That's not how the math works out, at least in theory. There are several principles going on: 1. You defer consumption today to instead spend it tomorrow. If you create $100K in value in a year, but only spend $50K of it, shouldn'
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by hiram112 5y ago
Are you saying that in the 70s, there was 7-10% real inflation on everything from gas prices to groceries to home prices, yet wages just stagnated (e.g. here's your 1.5% raise for the year!)? Due to exponential growth, that would becom
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by hiram112 5y ago
Wow. 70 rupees / US dollar. That's some devaluing in the last decade.
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by hiram112 5y ago
Wow this article wasn't extremely partisan at all.
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by hiram112 5y ago
I hear this trope all the time, that if I just avoided my Starbucks and IPhone, Netflix and Spotify subscriptions, I could live like a King on 10 hours per week job, in our modern land-of-plenty utopia. But that's baloney. A 3BR averag

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