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by jaco6 2y ago
I work at a Dominos and we of course accept and expect tips on delivery, because without tips the drivers would make <$5 an hour after paying for gas and their vehicle’s depreciation. But at checkout for carryout orders the card terminal
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by jaco6 2y ago
The service was intentionally left unnamed to avoid driving traffic to it.
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Tech employees don’t engage constructively with tech criticism because of self interest.
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It’s the modern hatred of hierarchy at work. People today so desperately want to believe in equality that they deny the plain and simple truth of intellectual hierarchy. The problem is actually worse in the world of work than in school. Eve
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by jaco6 2y ago
The article is about alphabets. There was writing prior to alphabets, but it was done in hieroglyphics, cuneiform, and characters. Alphabets are easier to learn and therefore more widely used.
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by jaco6 2y ago
An advantage of a pure EV over a hybrid is that you don’t have the maintenance liability of the combustion engine, cooling system, and transmission.
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by jaco6 2y ago
The list of deadliest cars is a mixture of compact cars and sports cars. Compact cars are less safe because they get obliterated in collisions with bigger vehicles. Sports cars are unsafe because drivers tend to drive them at high speeds an
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by jaco6 2y ago
New York City is the greatest concentration of wealth on the planet. The continuation of theatre there should come as no surprise. I am speaking of the cultural shift in entertainment, from a variety of local live options on most days of th
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by jaco6 2y ago
This is a technology problem. Media technology (radio, recordings, television, and movies) has essentially killed live performance of all kind compared to what it was once like. Bars and hotels that used to rely on gig musicians can now pla
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by jaco6 2y ago
What makes you say that? California had a problem with attracting homeless drifters as far back as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Why did all those homeless former farmers from Oklahoma and Arkansas trek all the way to California? Why not stop
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by jaco6 2y ago
The chaos of California is not the outcome of some mysterious Yankee vs Scots-Irish cultural battle. It’s simply the weather. Bums and drug addicts from all over the country descend upon California because they can comfortably sleep rough a
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Consumer software industry
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by jaco6 2y ago
I agree, it’s also irresponsible to name something that reminds many people of alcohol. I think they were trying to invoke the idea of the moonlight as reflecting the sun’s light, just as their software reflects the speech of the user. I th
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by jaco6 2y ago
I’m just as curious as to why some people are so willing to take numerous medications, while others go to any lengths to avoid them. Some people are happy to be on an SSRI, sleeping pill, statin, low dose aspirin, and a few others, and aren
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by jaco6 2y ago
The problem with American healthcare is the attempt to compromise between healthcare as a universally available public utility and healthcare as a commodity on the private market. (Arguably this is a legacy of pre-modern healthcare, where h
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by jaco6 2y ago
There is no such thing as capitalism. “The first countries to get rid of recurrent famine” were those that began using the steam engine and field enclosure. These are not “capitalism”, they are “capital”, in tge jargon of the economist Marx
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by jaco6 2y ago
My uninformed suspicion is that this is not a language or a script but a timekeeping or calendar system of some kind.
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by jaco6 2y ago
Can anyone identify and enumerate the "tests for genius" that Ramsey passed? Edit: Found them. They are Samuelson's own criteria: 1. Test of Time: Samuelson suggested that the work of a genius economist should stand the test
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by jaco6 3y ago
It is an investment. You build brand loyalty by selling a safe device. Train kids to only use your OS. Then when they're 18 hopefully they stick with your OS. Furthermore, OS makers could lobby for additional age gates. I.e. a child ph
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by jaco6 3y ago
Safe content header is a relatively weak solution. Strongest solution is either Microsoft or Apple stepping up to develop a child designed device from the ground up. It would have access to a limited walled garden of the Internet. The devic
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by jaco6 3y ago
Apologies, my above remark was a bit unclear. When I said "will OS developers see it the same way" what I meant was whether OS developers will lobby against this law or be in favor.
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by jaco6 3y ago
You're right. Safe content header is a relatively weak solution. Strongest solution is either Microsoft or Apple stepping up to develop a child designed device from the ground up. It would have access to a limited walled garden of the
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by jaco6 3y ago
This solution is the lowest cost solution and I am in favor. Will OS developers (because their market power is obviously more relevant here than the viewpoint of web developers) see it the same way?