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by jbob2000 8y ago
I agree, it is short lived, but I think it's more about the feedback loop of "collect/earn then build" that is attractive, not the permanence of the creation. Whereas shooters typically were about the adrenaline rush of
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Pure anecdotal speculation here - Fortnite lets you build stuff and customize appearances. In video games that have strong female followings (The Sims, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, etc.) both of these features are front and center. Couple tha
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Absolutely nothing. Some websites might be faster. Some might be slower. Users will attribute any difference to their internet connection, not the technology. A handful of developers will do something somewhat interesting with it, the rest
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by jbob2000 8y ago
You don’t even need to go that far, somebody has already studied where the garbage comes from: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs... Summary: China and India. We can and should curb our p
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by jbob2000 8y ago
They are increasing compensation, but the job is so shit, and so demanding on time, that it's still not worth it . I'd want to see $500,000 a year before I put long-haul trucking demands on my body. The industry has labour prob
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by jbob2000 8y ago
It's relatively low skill to be a drone pilot; No certifications, no education requirements, no professional organization with yearly fees, etc. You literally just need to buy a drone, get a bit of practice, and start advertising your
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> The USC education helped Mr. Meru earn $225,000 last year working for a corporate practice in Draper, Utah, 20 minutes from Salt Lake City Cry me a river, you're making bank, bud.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I poked my head in to see what the fuss was about when Amazon purchased them. $8 for a dozen eggs when other stores charge $3. Pure insanity. I laughed myself out of the store.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
A much more informative article, thank you for sharing!
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Dont' waste your time, this article is rife with speculation, all based off of a rumor that the new chip will be 7nm.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I'm not sure about the US, but in Canada, these companies would not be allowed to accept deposits or facilitate withdrawals; they could never "become banks". Our banking act and recent revisions are in place to protect a fore
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Who orders cat litter from Amazon? The delivery fees on something that heavy would cost as much as the item itself! Yeah, yeah, it's heavy and you might not have a car to pick it up from the store, I get it. But still. Knowing what we
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by jbob2000 8y ago
HTTP is not intrinsically tied to finance, though. This is specifically a protocol for financial transactions, for sure it would fall under AML laws.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> seatbelt laws What are you saying here? You've lost me. Seatbelts are good and the laws we have in place are there to keep ignorance about them from spreading (ie. if you've never gotten in an accident, why would you wear a s
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> I, personally, don't want HR to send the company an email congratulating me on losing 5 pounds, or for them to bring me to their office to talk to me about how I had 5 drinks on Friday and that's binge drinking and outside co
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> Smoking costs 45,400 lives, $16.2B in a year, study finds [1] It is the largest single expense to employers and to the [Canadian] healthcare system. It is not dystopian to want to track smokers on their journey away from smoking - it&#
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by jbob2000 8y ago
That is a dangerous position to put yourself in. AML and Terrorist financing laws make everyone responsible, you generally cannot claim innocence if you take no precautions and are involved in some kind of incident. Good luck.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
The top 3 banks all have this functionality in their main mobile app.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I work for one of the banks listed as supported by Plaid. I am intensely skeptical about the claims they say their API can provide, knowing how our systems work internally. Real-time transactions, for one, are not really real-time. There ar
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by jbob2000 8y ago
When it's a one man show, you can't afford these kinds of unknowns. And by afford, I don't just mean monetary, I also mean mental costs, like your mind spinning at night wondering of the ways you might be harmed, or the ways
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Hire a paralegal. $500 and they show up for you. Usually they are ex-cops who have good relationships with the judiciary and will do a better job of presenting your case. Sometimes they will ask you to show up to the court house with them (
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by jbob2000 8y ago
It’s unspoken, but it exists. Attended private school? Well-connected father? Donate to a political party? Yup, you’re good to do whatever you want! There is a trend in resume writing right now to include “rich people hobbies” such as skiin
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by jbob2000 8y ago
We do the same thing, we just create laws out of thin air first. Black people smoke marijuana? Make marijuana illegal! Now we can put them in prison!
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Considering it's nigh impossible to get police departments to be accountable (who watches the watchmen?), I'm siding with Bloomberg that if we want to solve this problem, we'll have to change the laws first (and hopefully acc
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Affordable Rent policies block the free market from increasing wages in the city. Instead of paying workers more, we've asked landlords to make up the difference between a living wage and a poverty one.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
You still need to make an HTTP request to get the ad data. Ad blockers don't just block the DOM elements, they block the HTTP request too.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Bad idea Apple. The only reason many of us use credit cards is to collect points. Without the incentive of earning points to spend on flights and merchandise, why would I use your card?
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Ha! I'm a full time Angular dev. It's full of the same kind of bullshit, but for some reason, I found it easier to "get".
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by jbob2000 8y ago
He didn't even get to the part that I find confusing; the naming of things. componentDidMount? componentWillMount? Wtf is mounting? This isn't a goddamn harddrive. Props? Do you mean properties? or arguments? Wtf is a prop? Reconc
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Mozilla needs to cut down on the noise on the sprint's issue board, take a look: https://github.com/search?p=1&q=label%3Amozsprint&state=open... There's so much baloney like this: - How can we solve X prob

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