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by jacurtis 4y ago
Space. The fins take up very little space on the boat and is worth 100x the value of the meat. So they'd rather keep one small shark fin than the whole shark.
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I am not saying that factory farming is perfect or even good. But to compare it to shark finning is a huge leap. Are factory farmed animals stuffed with antibiotics, force fed obscene amounts of food, and shoved into crowded environments? Y
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I am not saying that factory farming is perfect or even good. But to compare it to shark finning is a huge leap.
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by jacurtis 4y ago
As a fly fisherman I have to agree. Most fly fishermen put a lot of effort into saving fish. The general rule is to use barbless hooks and to never remove the fish from the water and to handle it with gloves to improve its chance of surviva
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Can't say the same about LEGOs. The LEGO company just raised prices 10-25% across the board. Glad to see Hot Wheels resisting the temptation to gouge customers and stay timeless. Top-selling LEGO sets (those between $20 - $70) got hit
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Yes, because it is worth noting that there is a tangible investment being made by the scammer here. They have to know that there's a decent chance that the victim follows-through on the scam. At a minimum there is the cost of the fake
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by jacurtis 4y ago
They offered 12.5% above asking, and never actually did an interview. He filled out a questionnaire and got no feedback from it.
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by jacurtis 4y ago
internal-autonation.com is available right now for $10. autonation.inc is also available. I could generate 100 more like this that would fool most of the American population. Tech workers might be smart enough to avoid them, but the average
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I almost hate to say this to not give scammers any ideas, but it seems pretty obvious to me that you can buy look-alike domains that most people wouldn't think too much about. For example, autonationusa.com, autonationcorp.com, autonat
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by jacurtis 4y ago
At least your daughter went through a full interview, which does add a layer of legitimacy. The most shocking element of OP's story is that he never actually got interviewed by a real person. He filled out a questionaire, received no f
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I mean, its not all that common. I don't get checks that often, almost everything is handled electronically. But checks are still a way to distribute money physically that isn't cash, so it serves some purpose. Most Americans (esp
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I agree. Conspiracy theories are fun. But the fact he experienced chest pain for days leading up to his death, does seem to imply it was a true medical issue. It’s very possible his heart was moving in and out of AFIB for a few days and the
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Saying that the cloud provider was “shocked” or didn’t believe how low costs were is not revealing anything proprietary. Almost everything on the list that was specific to a technology or accomplishment had a public url attached to it.
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Yeah I called BS when I read that line too. I pay for plenty of dev tools. Similar list to you. * JetBrains (PyCharm professional, DataGrip, and Goland) ~$250/yr * Lucidchart (Diagramming) ~100 /yr * Paw (HTTP Client) ~$50 /y
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by jacurtis 4y ago
> [we] use copilot basically a line or three at a time as a smart autocomplete. I think this is the best way to think of CoPilot. GitHub is selling it like its going to write all your code for you, but in reality it is just next-generati
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Test are always mostly boilerplate and rarely include anything crafty. 95% of tests are: instantiating a class, running a method, and then asserting that the result. Tests do not or should not be crafty creative code snippets. They are bori
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I have a 2022 BMW X4 and it handles it really well. It actually prevented me from rear-ending someone earlier this year. I have never had it kick in "accidentally". The lane departure can be slightly more aggressive. It generally
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by jacurtis 4y ago
The title is a tiny bit misleading. Here are the stats from the article: Automatic braking has demonstrated the ability to: - reduce rear-end automobile crashes "in half" (technically 49%) - reduce Rear-end crashes with injuries b
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I think more startups need to consider building monoliths first. Micro-service architecture definitely has the advantage at scale, but the advantage of monoliths is the speed that you can build and improve them. Microservices require much m
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by jacurtis 4y ago
This was EXACTLY the problem Mighty was encountering. They were targeting customers who didn't have powerful enough computers and offering a way to make their computer effectively faster while browsing the web without needing to upgrad
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Services+Arbitrage definitely works. But Mighty didn't solve a painful-enough pain point. The arbitrage was how Mighty made money (buy a cloud VM for $10/mo and sell it for $20 with a software wrapper). But customers need a reason
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I interviewed at a very successful startup last year that was basically doing the exact same thing as mighty. But they were selling it as primarily a security advantage (since its effectively an air gap computer) with additional advantages
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I really like the positioning of "a project management suite for solos and small teams". That to me is very appealing because these don't really exist very well. Most project management tools are designed for tons of people.
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Do the crowd demonstrate a preference or behavior difference when fed the different nut varieties?
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by jacurtis 4y ago
And there’s plenty of other companies ready to scoop up the talent. Most these laid off employees will have job offers within a month.
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I should add. Which identity center (previously called AWS SSO) you can tie it into your G-Suite or Microsoft 365 and just have it create AWS accounts for new hires as you onboard them by making email accounts. When they leave it automatica
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by jacurtis 4y ago
A lot of these tools actually make your life easier and faster in the long run. ControlTower for example. Takes about 30 mins to setup on normal AWS (on GovCloud it was much more complicated, took me half a day). But then setting up new ac
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by jacurtis 4y ago
This used to be the case, and most people think this without ever actually confirming this while traveling. The hotels have been working hard to incentivize away from this mentality with very tangible perks for directly booking with them wh
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I’ve had a bakflip for years. Exactly ZERO problems. One of the best tonneaus ever made. I still get truck owners asking me where they can get one.
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Probably an incentive for people to upgrade every two years instead of lingering to 3+ years for phone upgrades.

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