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by htag 4y ago
1. I think you're overestimating the amount of time the average US worker will spend laid off. 2. If you're worried about being laid off the best thing you can do is build an emergency savings account. It seems perfectly reasonab
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by htag 4y ago
Three quarters of highway and road spending is done by state and local government [0]. I'd be interested in seeing if rural spending has a higher ratio of federal spending than urban spending, but unless data is provided I will doubt
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by htag 4y ago
> every minute of cycling increases expected lifespan by at least one minute I just found a hack, I'm going to spend 12 hours a day cycling and extend my lifespan by at least 50%. All joking aside, cycling as travel is a fantastic
334.
by htag 4y ago
As an employee you don't have a lot of say in that decision.
335.
by htag 4y ago
Try to stick your laptop ram in a phone and you'll see why the direct comparison isn't fair.
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by htag 4y ago
> Overall CEOs work for the board This is ultimately why I support board-level employee representation and why I think it's a good idea for employees to collectively own a non-trival amount of corporate stock. Providing jobs to gene
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by htag 4y ago
I love that the header "hidden in plain sight" has a photo of a person with an ear bud with a coiled phone wire heading into his jacket. It's 2023. You'd be more hidden in plain sight with a pair of headphones picked u
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by htag 4y ago
The National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party has a history of just over 100 years and resembles other modern democratic structures like the Democratic/Republican National Conventions in the US. Voting is used to various degree
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by htag 4y ago
> Apple released an iPhone, cannibalising their iPod market. This is a terrible example. Everyone knew cell phones were a bigger market than mobile MP3 players, Apple was using this mobile expertise gained in iPod to move to a larger ma
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by htag 4y ago
1. An operating system should only display something on the screen if it is in service of the user. This is in service to Microsoft, and a full screen display. 2. The two 'yes' buttons shows Microsoft is really shaky on the conce
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by htag 4y ago
Thanks. I look forward to reading what data you can find and your commentary on them.
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by htag 4y ago
I think this is an ideal we are heading towards in comparison to ~1970 but we are far from there yet. There are a hundred TV channels where before there was less than 10. There are more newsfeeds, movies, tv, books, music than ever before,
343.
by htag 4y ago
That's a choice you are making. You could go to the gym, take a class, wework, meet friends, visit family, grab coffee at a cafe, or a dozen other social activities.
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by htag 4y ago
The author talks about three data points: 1. Is there less restaurant business? 2. Does it hurt city real estate? 3. People spend more time with family. I'm much more interested in other points about how remote work has an impact on th
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by htag 4y ago
On the second point it's not the airline that it suspicious but the individual on the list. Their actions might be under investigation, and that might include attempting to buy an airplane ticket. What happens if they never actually
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by htag 4y ago
I think you might be underestimating how different package management is between Debian, Arch, and Fedora. This also ignores the many other differences. Debian stable will have packages that feel very out of date. Debian unstable (sid) ma
347.
by htag 4y ago
It's strange that every commercial airplane passenger has an interaction with a federal employee. This isn't true for busses, trains, ferries, cabs, or any other mass transit system. It feels like something more appropriate for
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by htag 4y ago
> This still has some problems like being able to enumerate over time. 1. There are eight billion people. Even if you had everyone's first name, last name and DOB you couldn't ask for more names (or more foreign names) then t
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by htag 4y ago
Here's how it happens. Step 1. Buy 640 acres of land (square mile) outside a growing and sprawling US metropolitan area. Step 2. Wait 10-30 years, until the metro has grown to the edge of your land. Step 3. Make friends with the nea
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by htag 4y ago
> Also open to government agencies if they’re in Austin. If you are career focused and doing this type of work then relocating near the capital is a no-brainer. It's the difference between being in finance and working on Wallstreet
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by htag 4y ago
< The risks of "messing with" security personel, at least for middle-class-appearing white guys, was very definitely a lot less back then. I don't think this jives with your comment that law enforcement use to be reasonabl
352.
by htag 4y ago
I think the author missing the biggest reason for these styling differences. This is their function. A long term dwelling serves a different function than a hotel. All of the residential buildings have more personalization on the outside
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by htag 4y ago
Sometimes brining joy to people is enough.
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by htag 4y ago
> Still, though, for grid stability it is probably much better to use dedicated batteries as part of the grid itself than to use car batteries. Why? Every kwh we can store using car batteries is a kwh of dedicated grid storage we don&#x
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by htag 4y ago
I'm feeling a little gassy. This is communication from my gut bacteria to my brain.
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by htag 4y ago
A nationstate could hack a competing nationstate by spiking food exports with brain fog causing microbes.
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by htag 4y ago
Microsoft subpoenaed Sony. Imagine what sort of questions they plan on asking.
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by htag 4y ago
I have heard of people using nicotine gum, patch, or lozenge for situations like this.
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by htag 4y ago
Yes, our magnetosphere has had extended periods (~hundreds of years) of being in a weakened state without disrupting all life on Earth. Our empirical evidence on the size of the impact is limited, mostly due to how long ago it was. It was
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by htag 4y ago
I'll agree with you that I like the GPL License (I think you meant that, when you mentioned GNU) more than the MIT. I think we, at least broadly, agree on the definitions of Guild, Union, and Company. You haven't convinced me tha

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