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by jimmydddd 9mo ago
--[not] remotely a good person? Depends on the metric I guess. Adams-- helped and cheeredd up thousands (millions?) of people, said racist stuff. --You (probably) or me --helped maybe one or two people, didn't say racist stuff.
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by jimmydddd 9mo ago
--absolute lunatic. To paraphrase Adams, he always said manifestation was likely not "magic" but that when you tried it out for yourself, it *seemed* like it happened by magic.
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by jimmydddd 9mo ago
Even in early (20 yrs before Trump stuff) interviews, Adams said that one of the reasons he tried various businesses out (like the comic) was that his coprorate manager told him that the manager was being strongly discouraged from promoting
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by jimmydddd 9mo ago
I wonder if the power line could be damaged if they dry to take out the drone?
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by jimmydddd 9mo ago
Not sure "comparing A to B is 100% totally useless because A and B have some differences" is a good strategy?
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by jimmydddd 10mo ago
Just do your job. Don't stress out trying to do your boss's job. Your department is likely to be off shored or made redundant in a merger anyway.
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by jimmydddd 10mo ago
I share this view. I didn't feel like my life began until I graduated college, got a job, and moved out on my own.
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by jimmydddd 10mo ago
Surely you mean the Berenstain Bears. --Just a shout out from the alternate universe before we split off.
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by jimmydddd 10mo ago
It was a metaphor. It's not meant to be literal. It helps to prompt questions like -- "why do we create the fiction that every job from janitor, to scientist to marketing requires precisely 40 hrs per week, every week?" It
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by jimmydddd 10mo ago
It seems to offer interesting opportunities for young recent high level MBA's.
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by jimmydddd 10mo ago
"It does that sometimes." I guess for some reason the minimum wage cashier was not fully invested in maximizing the customer experience.
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by jimmydddd 11mo ago
Not wanting to help the rich get richer means you'll be fighting an uphill battle. The rich typically have more money to spend. And as others have commented, not doing anything AI related in 2025-2026 is going to further limit the bu
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by jimmydddd 11mo ago
This! A "silver lining" from the current adminstration is that we've become aware that we've left way to much to custom. It's time to put some laws in place to act as hard guard rails. Or, as another commentor men
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by jimmydddd 11mo ago
My grandfather was a mechanic and told me how replacing a dashboard light in some models required removing large portions of the engine to access the socket.
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by jimmydddd 11mo ago
I remember being in a Mercedes in France in the 80's and noticing it had manual crank windows. My dad in the US (even then!) hated added electronics in cars so he went to a Mercedes dealer and they explained that in the US we could on
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by jimmydddd 11mo ago
greg.technology is a great person for putting time and effort into this. Faith in humanity restored!
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by jimmydddd 11mo ago
They want to to shut down large portions of the government. For example, they want to completely eliminate all public education, not make it more efficient.
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by jimmydddd 11mo ago
What is it supposed to do? When I click on a country, I get a pop up with a flag and a link to Wikipedia?
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by jimmydddd 11mo ago
---innovate instead of litigate. Agreed, but there has to be a balance. In some cases, it could also be looked at as favoring marketers over innovators. On the copyright side, you could also argue about why ChatGPT should have to be slow
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by jimmydddd 11mo ago
During the 9/11 attacks in NYC, the folks in the second tower were instructed to stay in the building after a plane struck the first building. Also good advice until a second plane struck.
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by jimmydddd 11mo ago
In NY city, I've noticed that taxi drivers will get agressive when we are stuck in traffic. They will start honking, yelling, or changing from one almost stopped lane to another almost stopped lane. I always thought it was theatrical
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by jimmydddd 11mo ago
My wife had high cholesterol numbers, so her doctor wanted to give her statins. She asked about a scan, he begrudgingly said well, I guess you could do that. Her scan showed 0 plaque.
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
I agree. He's always constantly testing limits, exploring gray areas, bending rules and "breaking" gentlemen's agreements. We should take this opportunity to limit the rights of presidents. Apparently, the president ca
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
I think what folks are getting at is that it might not have been an outright scam. Just a third-party company that charged for its help desk. Many folks are willing pay for services like email that they could have otherwise gotten for fre
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
In the 1980's IBM had some marketing promotion in the US and distributed brochures and posters at different computer seller chains. The prominently displayed phone number had a typo and it was instead my parents' land line. Surpr
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
A family member helped start up a call center for UPS back in the 90's, for their shipping software. The problem she was working on was that the average time for a call to be answered was 60 seconds, and they were trying to get it to
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Youtube as we know it will probably be dead in a few years anyway. Tiktok has shortened everyone's attention span. I shockingly found myself clicking away from one of my favorite classic rock songs from my youth because I didn'
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Agreed. It seems like a supposed quote? If my elderly mom wrote that she went to a NY Mets baseball game in 1960, and Wikipedia says the Mets weren't formed until 1962, is a newspaper supposed to determine that the quote is not legit
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
My dad tried out a 24/7 IV for a heart medicine. The pump and a bag with a 1 week supply of the medicine fit in a fanny pack sized bag. It worked well, but he's 90 and pulled out the IV line in the middle of the night. He didn&#
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Another issue is that super wealthy folks don't get their money from regular wages. They borrow money from banks using their assets (e.g., stocks) as collateral. They pay back the loan at relatively low rates. The borrowed money is n

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