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by indymike 3y ago
I bought the best product available at the time. Since Iceland is the only nation on earth that has successfully kicked the fossil fuel habit (11% of energy is produced by burning fossil fuels), I suppose you are suggesting I move there to
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by indymike 3y ago
I'd love to have gas forced-air as the emergency heat on my heat pump. Best of all worlds.
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by indymike 4y ago
> Not true, heat pumps are widely used as primary heat sources in environments as cold or colder than NY, like in Montreal and other parts of Canada. As the owner of a 5 year old heat pump in a milder climate in Indiana, I can tell you t
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by indymike 4y ago
This is not a problem. The sign was clearly made by the raccoon.
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by indymike 4y ago
> There's never really going to be such a thing as a thriving small social network. Says the post on a thriving discussion forum that isn't even a social network. Quality has a quality all of its own.
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by indymike 4y ago
> What is wrong with these people? How can anyone, let alone an educated, well-traveled leader, be so obtuse about the implications (and for that matter, the realism) of any such scheme? Never underestimate the appeal of making one'
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by indymike 4y ago
One of the hardest problems in marketing is making the uninteresting interesting. So instead of solving the hard problem (being interesting), a lot of marketers focus on tactical stuff like increasing subscribes to the newsletter.
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by indymike 4y ago
> Whenever I run the numbers to decide between an EV or an ICEV, I get payback periods in the hundreds of years. (I can't charge at home. YMMV.) That was the eye opener for me: the cost of charging and eventual battery replacement m
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by indymike 4y ago
> On a more constructive note, MS-DOS and Windows operate on a fundamentally different philosophy from UNIX Not sure I follow. There are many concepts in DOS that are the same as Unix: pipes, redirecting output, stdout, stdin, and stderr
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by indymike 4y ago
I just spent a week with a Chevy Bolt while one of our family cars was in the shop. The good: nice small car, everything is pretty easy to use. The meh: without hardware installed in my home, keeping the car charged up for regular family u
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by indymike 4y ago
This is partially correct. FUTA is a federal payroll tax that in part funds unemployment insurance and is fixed and a pretty small amount. The other part, SUTA (State Unemployment TAx) is usually only fixed in the first few years of a busin
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by indymike 4y ago
Easy way to not be found is to not emit energy be it sound, heat, light, radio frequency, etc... until we discover a passive sensor that works underwater that can see static objects that may not emit energy, seamounts and other things that
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by indymike 4y ago
Having been there in the 80s I seem to recall the fear was global cooling, and that we'd all be dead before the turn of the century. Glad they were wrong then. Hopefully, we're wrong now.
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by indymike 4y ago
This is correct, unless there's a reason why they should... and if they are smart, the severance will include setting the term date to the severance date.
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by indymike 4y ago
> given at-will employment, this was at best a confused HR employee trying to help US centric advice: Most states will automatically award unemployment to the employee if they are termed before the resignation date. In some cases, a date
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by indymike 4y ago
So... does that imply that it simply fails to cite where it's quoting from closed source projects?
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by indymike 4y ago
For the right to call me about past business, and a guarantee I will help.
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by indymike 4y ago
> It’s not the date you put in the letterhead. That would be insane. Clarification: I put in the body of the letter the effective date I will be leaving. Something like: "My final day will be December 12, 2018." The date in the
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by indymike 4y ago
> The App Store already is doing a poor job at trying to prevent copycat apps, this makes it so much worse. Perhaps, but if it is like Android, users will get plenty of warning when they try to turn on side loading, and every time they
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by indymike 4y ago
> But now when I "give notice" and they don't even let me try to work the next 2 weeks, I'm grateful. Life hack: Put your resignation in writing with a date in the future. In many states, if the employer attempts to m
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by indymike 4y ago
There are none.
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by indymike 4y ago
It is not. If I pay a worker to frame up a house it is an expense. If I pay a swe to frame up a mobile app it is R&D. Again NOT a loophole.
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by indymike 4y ago
Actually, we do tax machines that do manual work with property tax.
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by indymike 4y ago
How about we just stop the madness on software patents, period?
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by indymike 4y ago
Having deployed Chromebooks into corporate and education, there's less ad content there than on a Windows machine... by oodles. In fact, the only place a stock Chromebook has ads is on websites, in the browser and I believe on a person
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by indymike 4y ago
No… there’s a sign on the door saying you aren’t allowed to bring food or beverages in with you. So you have to pay $9 for a Diet Coke.
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by indymike 4y ago
The toilet is in the bathroom where I live. Only the local rustics say warshroom.
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by indymike 4y ago
It depends on how much of a knock-off the model's output is, no different than a human artist. Taking Disney's Aladdin and putting a cyborg eye on him probably will be a legal issue that the user of the art and seller of the AI ou
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by indymike 4y ago
> That's not to say they failed and the president is a king, but the president is not entirely un-king-like either. Since a king is literally all of the functions of government, there is really no way to argue that any part of a gov
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by indymike 4y ago
This law will literally freeze software development in place, much like the US FAA did with civil aviation in the 1970s. Suddenly going from 100% disclaimed away warranty to a statutory warranty doesn't work. This may even be less inte

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