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by illumin8 9y ago
Isn't it somewhat like a fuse in an electric circuit? Let's say, for example, that you had perfect overvoltage protection implemented in firmware, and could disconnect the mains quickly enough to prevent damage or a fire. But, th
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by illumin8 9y ago
Bingo... I can't count how many restaurant meals I've eaten that could have been 500 calories, but have been unnecessarily inflated to 1500-2000 calories by adding butter/sugar/fat to improve the taste. I'm not say
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by illumin8 9y ago
+1 I would buy this!
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by illumin8 9y ago
Take-out is definitely easier to engineer - we know that, but the food quality is never as good when food has been sitting for 30 minutes before you eat it. Hot food becomes lukewarm; cold food becomes warm. Leafy vegetables turn into mus
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by illumin8 9y ago
Sure, but because a combi-oven can steam as well as bake and broil, you can cook things like vegetables, which would normally be dried out husks in a standard oven. Also, you can broil and get a nice crisp finish. It's just like a TV
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by illumin8 9y ago
I've tried BlueApron and HelloFresh. I enjoy cooking, and the quality of the recipes is great, but damn, it takes too long to make their recipes. Often, they promise it only takes 15-30 minutes for an entire meal, but apparently I&#x
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by illumin8 9y ago
He probably has several times that amount...
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by illumin8 9y ago
Good idea, but any government that can launch satellites can also shoot them down. It's actually much easier to shoot one down than it is to launch one in the first place.
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by illumin8 9y ago
It just shifts your traffic egress location to a cloud provider, but this is valuable because all of the last mile Internet providers in the US colluded with the government to get permission to use your internet traffic to sell ads, so if y
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by illumin8 9y ago
Yes, but it's fairly trivial to drop a "Seal Team 6" in and physically seize whatever they want, or just sabotage your equipment. Also, they could pressure your mainland circuit provider, or simply cut your cable every time
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by illumin8 9y ago
Not true. It's very hard for restaurants to find skilled cooks nowadays because the salaries they are willing to pay are not high enough. When an artisanal pastry chef can open their own business, setup a Stripe account, and make six
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by illumin8 9y ago
Thank you for saying this. WF needs a half dozen unskilled workers to stock shelves, and about 6 dozen skilled laborers in the trades you mentioned. Do you think a 21-day dry-aged steak can be made by someone that just showed up during a
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by illumin8 9y ago
Honestly, forget it. The point I'm trying to make is that nobody owes you a handout or an easy job. The fact that I've worked brutal fast food jobs for $3.35 an hour, yet you don't see KFC, McDonalds, Taco Bell, etc, being
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by illumin8 9y ago
Bullshit. You either take a job, or you don't. Nobody is holding a gun to your head. Nobody forced you to live where you do. Nobody forced you to choose a place to live that doesn't have opportunities. I've moved to half
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by illumin8 9y ago
Oh yeah, completely exhausted that route - it was over a year before he realized it and way past their retention period...
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by illumin8 9y ago
My brother accidentally deleted his wallet.dat from Dropbox a few years ago - he had given it a random filename and encrypted it with GPG so it was unrecognizable to hackers (and apparently him as well). It had 1,000 BTC in it! He had rece
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by illumin8 9y ago
I'm not going to argue with you. I'm just pointing out that many of us have relatively easy white-collar jobs that pale in comparison to the hard, manual labor that our grandparents did. Expecting a warehouse job to coddle you i
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by illumin8 9y ago
Fair enough, but keep in mind that in the 1800s, parents often made their young children work 16 hour days in the sun farming for them. Child labor, under harsh conditions. We've grown accustomed to a much easier life now, but it was
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by illumin8 9y ago
I've worked here for a year and have never seen that. I'm sure there are a few bad managers, as there would be in any company with 350K+ employees, but Amazon really tries to take a data driven approach to employee retention. If
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by illumin8 9y ago
Please see my other comment. I've worked a $3.35/hr. minimum wage food service job before and it's hell. If you took 1,000 average citizens and threw them into minimum wage food service, factory, or warehouse work, I would
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by illumin8 9y ago
Have you ever worked a minimum wage food service or warehouse job before? I have, and believe me, it's hell. I spent my high school years working as a cook at KFC. Hot summer days spent making $3.35 an hour standing over pressure co
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by illumin8 9y ago
A pastry chef is unskilled?
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by illumin8 9y ago
Not true. I know several people that have good careers at WF and would be offended by the fact that you think they are unskilled. Seasonal workers in the FCs literally get only 4 hours of training and are then filling orders. That's
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by illumin8 9y ago
Disclaimer: I work for AWS, but my opinions are my own. I don't think you have much to worry about if you're a WF employee. Amazon actually treats their employees very well. In my experience here, I've never seen any of the
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by illumin8 9y ago
This is not true. We use Chime for text every day. It doesn't have all the 3rd party integrations that Slack does, but it give you the same basic functionality. Disclaimer: Work for AWS.
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by illumin8 9y ago
To be fair, this is not "pay more or we'll delete your files." That would be a terrible way to treat customers. Customers will simply lose the ability to upload new files. All their existing content will still be there.
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by illumin8 9y ago
Wow, incredible story. I used to be a Sun SSE, so I can feel for you. I know hindsight is 20/20, but this was my approach when replacing failed hardware like memory DIMMs remotely (when the client wasn't there in the datacenter)
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by illumin8 9y ago
It's the autobahn.
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by illumin8 9y ago
I hate to break it to you, but if you enter the left-most lane of the autobahn doing 112 km/h, you DO NOT have enough time to plan. There could be a vehicle doing 250 km/h overtaking you in the left lane, behind a curve, and you
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by illumin8 9y ago
Ironically, the AHCA would significantly cut spending on drug rehabilitation programs. So, basically, the GOP are telling their constituents they are going to help them, and then passing legislation that does the opposite. It doesn't

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