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by jen729w 6y ago
I go the other way. I think if we started telling people that Jeff Bezos was worth two hundred thousand million dollars [0] more of them would say, what the fuck?, that’s disgusting. The b in billion has become meaningless. Nobody has a
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by jen729w 6y ago
Yo, Canberra here. Yep. I always find these posts from Americans amusing. “Yeah right, nice vision of some ideal world there, but it can’t possibly exist.” Get a passport, kids.
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by jen729w 6y ago
To what end?
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by jen729w 6y ago
Dude I sleep at least 7.5 hours a night. I just go to bed early: see the last sentence in my post. (Edit: just checked AutoSleep. Average is 7h:58m. Edit edit: And that’s 90% weeknight sleep as I don’t usually wear the watch on the weekend.
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by jen729w 6y ago
Hey! Yeah this sounds familiar. We’re definitely in at the early restaurant sitting! We do drink (weekends, a nice cocktail on the front porch), we don’t play video games (I used to when I was younger, but have no desire now), and we typica
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by jen729w 6y ago
I do those things after 4pm when I knock off work, which is at home in the small city that I live in (which happens to be the capital of Australia), so at 4pm I’m done. No commuting. I also do them through the day, because I work flexibly a
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by jen729w 6y ago
Throughout the day, whenever it fits in. Yesterday (I don’t work Mondays - getting up at 5am means I fit 36-40 hours in to Tue-Fri) we cycled to then walked up the hill after breakfast. That plus a couple of walks to town and back did me ri
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by jen729w 6y ago
You’re gonna hate me, but I have the answer: get up at 5am. I know, I know, I sound like a douche already. I used to hate early mornings. Then I met my partner, and she’d get up early, and slowly it just happened. Now it’s me that sets th
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by jen729w 6y ago
You might be like me – also a contractor, happily and for many years now, because I have no particular desire to “climb the ladder” at a corporation. Zero desire whatsoever to be the CEO of anything that’s not mine. That’s not to say that I
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by jen729w 6y ago
This is what I came here to say. As usual, arguments (just in the general) are polarised: it’s either in the office 40 hours a week or work from a beach in Thailand and nothing in between. How about the sensible reality where we have an
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by jen729w 6y ago
I run 2 addresses, both at my own domain (using Midagu for hosting). One is my actual address that human people who I know have. The other – referred to as “the sluice” – is everything else. I don’t really care what goes in it. A rule marks
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by jen729w 6y ago
Ah, apologies. My mistake, yes, 2 digits was fine. Actually I wonder then if it was 2, 3, or 4. I think it was, because I remember thinking that .wiki would have been okay. Either way. Arbitrary and stupid.
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by jen729w 6y ago
I gave up using mail@<nickname>.network because of the significant percentage of sites that refuse the .network TLD. One large financial services provider even told me that their "policy" was to allow 3, 4, or 5 characters a
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by jen729w 6y ago
Just started doing this for RSI reasons. Not having to constantly reach down to those arrow keys is fabulous .
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by jen729w 6y ago
Yeah except this can’t actually “be used anywhere”. > Over 500 businesses in Utah were contacted and asked if they would take gold as payment. Sure, if you call them and set up the pitch and go through it all, I can see how 50% of people
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by jen729w 6y ago
Wow, this page takes me back. Match Day! What a game. https://worldofspectrum.net/features/warajevo/Sshots4.html I don’t remember how it came to be that my mam & dad bought me a ZX Spectrum+ – probably because
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by jen729w 6y ago
Hey. Johnny-as-in-Decimal here. Thanks for the mention, I'm always happy to see someone making use of the system. There's lots of work in progress on the site and the system, I just need to find more time. In the mean time, always
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by jen729w 7y ago
> Did you mean for "Average Consumer" just to be your name? Because an average consumer certainly did not pay $1000 for their phone. I should have made it clear that I am in Australia. AU$1k ≈ US$700.
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by jen729w 7y ago
Hi! I’m Johnny Average Consumer. Nice to meet you. > Ok, 3.5" headphones are objectively: cheaper, I don’t care. I’ll pay for convenience. This phone was a thousand dollars! > simpler mechanically, Why would I know or care? >
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by jen729w 7y ago
> I was too impatient to test it out lol And you want me to give you money? C’mon.
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by jen729w 7y ago
I also closed my PayPal account today. Honestly. They’ve had 20 years and billions of dollars to make their site, their whole experience, great. They failed to do that. I’ve had enough. Same with eBay. Enough is enough.
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by jen729w 7y ago
Constructive feedback: I’m not giving any money, no way no chance, to a website that can’t line up its elements or put a bit of padding in its CSS†. This might be a great idea (I’m not sure), but basic layout is table stakes before I even t
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by jen729w 7y ago
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing... http://www.boeing.com/commercial/737max/737-max-software-upd...
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by jen729w 7y ago
My apologies, dang. I’d had a long day and a few too many beers.
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by jen729w 7y ago
I don’t see how, in 2020, any conscientious member of this site could justify their use or advocacy of Chrome. It’s an evil product peddled by an evil company for evil means. The alternatives are as good if not better from a usability persp
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by jen729w 7y ago
If you’re checking 38,000 over the course of a week, how thoroughly are you checking them by 4pm on Friday afternoon?
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by jen729w 7y ago
> Shouldn't the default assumption be that humans are affecting the climate Yes. > and there is an underlying natural trend, Yes. > and that adds significant uncertainty to the magnitude and sign of those two factors? Ooh you
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by jen729w 7y ago
It’s more complicated than it appears. Europe, for instance, may indeed get colder as a result of the warm ocean flows from the west being cut off by melting ice from the Arctic. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/
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by jen729w 7y ago
For me – scientifically-minded layperson, but not a climate scientist – the issue seems to be that people have conflated & confused two issues. One: that the climate was, without argument, different in the past. Two: that we are now, wi
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by jen729w 7y ago
Either HN bans paywalled links, or it bans downvoting people asking for a back channel to the linked content. Seeing this same pattern every time is getting really boring. I get it. I agree. Content isn’t free. But I can’t sign up for every

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