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by jbuzbee 11y ago
" People can't save enough " Saving has not been a problem for me and my family. Of course, I've forgone many purchases that others consider essential and we always look for bargains, use coupons, never carry a credit-ca
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
It's sad that you often see this overreaction on both sides of a conflict. You mete out disproportionate punishment that outrages people who would have otherwise stood on the sidelines drawing them into the conflict as well. Not to mak
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
" Raise taxes and meet your obligations " And watch revenue and job generating companies move to locations with lower overhead making the situation even worse. It's not so simple as just raising taxes. For every action, there
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
>> the rich stole all the productivity gains since 1970 (this is literally true Literally? To Steal, from Websters: " to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force "
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Of course I grew up in a time when everybody's name, address and phone number were published in phone books that were widely distributed. I remember it was unusual to have your phone number "unlisted". And the phone company c
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
I named it. I called it the "Digital Application Map Manager" or DAMM. That way my boss had to ask "When will those DAMM maps be ready?". We had a sub-contract with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory but the ultimate customer
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Oh yeah. I remember when Google Maps first came out. Nobody thought that this degree of interactivity was even feasible in a browser. It was really revolutionary.
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Microsoft invented it? I recall working on a digital mapping system in the late 80's that was very similar. We had a very large drum scanner that we used to scan paper maps and imagery at various scales. First we'd rectify the res
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
" Unless of course they start using force rather than negotiation, or begin to hold a monopoly " But that's the typical form of negotiation from unions. Unions often take advantage of their exclusive/monopolistic access
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but as far as yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, I obviously wouldn't recommend it but it's not so simple: " Oliver Wendell Holmes made the analogy during a controversial Supreme Cour
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Clickbait use of "Fired" - It's a pet peeve of mine when headlines used the term to create more drama. The correct term for terminating an employee due to business reasons as opposed to "cause" is laid-off.
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Hyperbole. In actuality, the money isn't "missing", it's just not feasible to track down and total up every expenditure from the top all the way down to the money spent to fill a pothole in some remote military base. For
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
His complex, Two Nine North, likely chose the lowest bidder
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
He doesn't live there anymore, but the complex was Two Nine North. I suspect that the transmitter was not on the complex itself, but instead was at some location the complex's ISP leased. He was having intermittent/nightly dr
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Yes - I was surprised when my Son found out that his apartment complex in Boulder Colorado linked to Denver via a microwave link of 30 miles or so to get on the Internet backbone. Fiber abounds around here, but It must have been cheaper tha
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
My wife's 2015 Mazda 3 has it. It's kind of liberating to know it's there for situations like in the video
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
As someone who remembers 300 baud modems used in a trans-atlantic connection, I also remember that you could get stuff done if you set your expections accordingly.
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
T-Mobile's free international roaming has been great. I used to always pick up a sim from a vending machine at Heathrow, but now I don't bother. 2G is fine for email, light web browsing and navigation.
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Maybe we should compensate workers based on responsibilities (ie dependents I was following you up until this notion. Compensation has nothing to do with a worker's responsibilities. Compensation is based on how much the job is worth
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
I don't have a good answer for bridging the gap between what it costs to live somewhere and what low-end jobs pay, but I'm of the opinion that in aggregate, supply and demand tells us the correct wage for a particular job in a par
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Regarding #1 - I drink a lot of craft beers. And I also like Blue Moon and couldn't care less what others think. And I have no problem with the big brewers branching out beyond their standard, bland brands and calling it whatever they
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Disagree - Adaptive cruise control has been liberating for me to know that if heave traffic comes screeching to a halt at just the minute I glance away, the car will recognize it and brake accordingly.
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
My wife's 2015 Mazda 3 has this feature as well although for some reason, it doesn't come to a complete stop. When needing to completely stop due to a car in front, it drops down to 2-3 MPH then beeps to let you know you're o
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to call these predictions of the year 2000 from 1900. In reality, these were likely just a fun way to put cartoons on cigar boxes in order to get people to buy the next in the set. I don't think 1900's
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I've been using them for at least 10 years as the sealed top is a very convenient way to carry a drink in a lunch bag. I was a bit self-conscious about it, but now I find that I was a hipster all along!
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Making a profit doesn't mean you can't claim fair-use: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140909/15564328465/big-w...
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
To repeat, from an active participant in this economy: for the first time in years and years, I felt joy. Joy!
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
The author of this article has an obvious bias or slant she's pushing and tries hard to paint a picture of doom and gloom and of evil corporations out to take advantage of employees, e.g. when talking of self-directed 401K retirement f
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Yahoo's list was my inspiration to put The World's First Internet Connected Bat House on the Internet back in '95 (20 years? Wow!). It was a big day for me when I made Yahoo's list The page is still online, with that &#x
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Saudi Arabia - Been there, done that on a family vacation sponsored by my brother who was posted to the US Embassy. It was a unique experience! My wife had to wear the head-to-toe covering, was not allowed to drive, had to eat in restaurant

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