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by ipqk 2y ago
hopefully at least electronics recycling.
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by ipqk 2y ago
cool story, bro.
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by ipqk 2y ago
> Thanks to Austen Allred, Trevor Blackwell, Patrick Collison, Christine Ford, Daniel Gackle, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, Elon Musk, Harj Taggar, and Peter Thiel for reading drafts of this. Such great company he keeps.
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by ipqk 2y ago
I think a lot of people have been abusing chargebacks (e.g. "I didn't like the item, so I chargedback rather than returning it") and they clamped down on it, and it affects us normal people moreso.
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by ipqk 2y ago
Multi person approval, especially two that don’t work together.
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by ipqk 2y ago
Who do I send the bill to when I'm stuck in traffic for 2 hours waiting for them to mop up the ejected person?
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by ipqk 2y ago
I started taking a beginner woodworking class which actually had a bit of a waitlist to it. After the first day (all safety), I decided it wasn't worth it for just a minor hobby. Improved safety gear may have changed my mind.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Is it morally wrong to take somebody's money for taxes? You never have an absolute right to your land. e.g there's eminent domain, or talk to the Texans that have oil rigs next to their McMansions drinking their milkshake.
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by ipqk 3y ago
But it's double what he gained, which seems reasonable.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Many city/counties ban cashless retail.
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by ipqk 3y ago
What do you mean "of course". It's not legal in unincorporated Kings County outside Seattle. It's also not legal in NYC. I wouldn't be surprised in Seattle bans card-only retail in the near future.
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by ipqk 3y ago
It's also a tax on the people that pay cash (assuming the store charges the same rate for cash or card).
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by ipqk 3y ago
What claim is there that it was not Chinese? China claimed it as their own, ableit not a military one.
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by ipqk 3y ago
The vaccine protects men against a variety of cancers as well as genital warts.
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by ipqk 3y ago
from 2017
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by ipqk 3y ago
I just wish their designs weren’t so staid.
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by ipqk 3y ago
They had an “auto-encrypt” feature which, guess what, didn’t actually encrypt it or had a back door.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Sorry, I meant tires, but momentarily mixed it up with brakes.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Why do you think that was an excuse for ICE vehicles? That’s your own biases showing. I’m anti-car in general, and very pro public transit. EVs aren’t going to be the savior of climate change. They do some things better than ICE cars, but d
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by ipqk 3y ago
I just logged in for the first time in years to delete my account, and before letting me do anything they required me to add my full name and other employment info.
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by ipqk 3y ago
I think Yelp only survives through its integration with Apple Maps. If Apple ever decides to build its own review feature I can’t imagine Yelp surviving.
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by ipqk 3y ago
And EVs make some problems worse, such as tire dust because they're heavier than an equivalent ICE car.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Winter is standard time, so that's your "normal" time with short days, and most people are awake for all sunlight hours — so moving it around doesn't do much. Summer, you take an hour of sunlight from the early morning (
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by ipqk 3y ago
But is it worse than shifting our daylight hours for the benefit of (almost) everyone? I don't think so.
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by ipqk 3y ago
I'd hardly call a billion people getting to use an extra ~200-240 hours of sunlight a year absurd.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Mexico is much farther south, where the daylight hours are more consistent throughout the year. Virtually no countries around the equator have DST. DST is only useful in the mid-latitudes, which is right where the USA is, so comparing Mexic
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by ipqk 3y ago
The practical benefit is that, in the summer, you take an hour of sunlight that would normal be around 5-6am where almost no one is awake, and you append it to the evening where nearly everyone will happily appreciate it.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Cloth masks may be still be useful for RSV/cold/flu.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Yeah, so short-sighted that we now live in the worst housing crisis in history, with rampant homelessness due to lack of housing and people barely being able to afford to live.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Paint can flake off in other areas too (like corners where pets & humans brush constantly against it). For adults, this is not a big deal because we'll just eventually sweep it or vacuum it, but for babies or pets, they may eat it

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