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by jimt1234 2y ago
I just wanna throw this up here, because I found it to be a fascinating take on 'Fight Club': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHE7oBvOk9U
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by jimt1234 2y ago
ICE: Insufficient CEO Error
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by jimt1234 2y ago
I'm not so sure New York City is a valid comparison with other cities (in the US) wrt "downtown" living. NYC has a long, solid history of this kind of living that most other cities just don't have. For example, transport
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by jimt1234 2y ago
Sorta related: My boomer mother is experiencing cognitive decline, probably the early stages of dementia. Her doctor said that as we age, blood vessels in the brain can get starved for blood and eventually dry up, making them useless. This
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by jimt1234 3y ago
How does Amazon operate in countries outside the US. Does Amazon apply the same anti-competitive business practices? Is the workplace equally cut-throat? Just curious.
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Wildfire control. The biggest killer with wildfires, or any fire, is the smoke inhalation, and I guess this robot would be immune to that, which is pretty cool. (I got caught in a small house fire as a child. All I remember is not being abl
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I majored in philosophy. Descartes is at the center of the only philosophy joke I ever heard. Socrates, Kant and Descartes were sitting in a bar, talking about baseball: - Socrates: Dodgers are gonna win it all this year. They're unsto
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by jimt1234 3y ago
> We know this attack has caused concern and been disruptive for consumers and providers, and we are committed to doing everything possible to help and provide support to anyone who may need it. Translation: One year of free credit monit
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by jimt1234 3y ago
> UnitedHealth likely paid around $22 million in bitcoin to the attackers $22-million???!!! I'm guessing they'll recoup through some sort of insurance for this type of thing. But honestly, what insurer would pay out for that? I
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Never rented a Tesla through Hertz, but I did rent one through Turo once. The owner did stipulate that I return the car fully charged. However, he pointed out hotels in the area that offered charging. So, I just charged the night before I r
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by jimt1234 3y ago
> Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews. I can verify this was true at least a few years ago. My friend's company had some bad (but totally honest) re
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Exactly. I always thought there was a presumption of privacy when renting any residential space, long or short term, and that presumption was legally binding. And I just assumed that interior cameras violated that. For example, I've re
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Yes, please!!! ^^^
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I paid my college tuition with my Discover card (back in the mid-90s). I was waiting in line at the student loan office, with my stack of paperwork, when I glanced over and saw a Discover kiosk in the student center. I filled out an applica
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Classic movie scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=60&v=l3jQhV2CFzY BTW, War is still touring. I saw them in concert a few weeks ago. And yes, they played "Low rider", last song, place went nuts. There were
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by jimt1234 3y ago
And stewardesses (before they were called "flight attendants") would sometimes ask if it was okay to be seated in a smoking section. I agreed once when I was around 16 years old. Big mistake. I sat next to a dude that chain-smoked
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Can confirm. My first snowboard trip was to Mount Hood, Oregon, in the late 80s. I only went because something came up and my friend couldn't go, so he just gave me his plane ticket. The person at the ticket counter just asked me, &quo
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I embraced this mindset a number of years ago, and I've also found it to be liberating. I always felt like I spent so much energy trying to find "meaning" or "purpose" or whatever, but eventually came to the conclus
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by jimt1234 3y ago
When I lived in China years ago, I had a Chinese/local girlfriend whose brother-in-law owned a factory that "manufactured" small mechanical parts, like bolts, screws, springs, wire - stuff like that. She said that all the man
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Quit complaining. If your personal data is leaked, and your credit and financial life is ruined, at least you get a year of free credit monitoring. Sheesh. /s
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I think it's the opposite of Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to stupidity/incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice/evil-intent .
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by jimt1234 3y ago
For me it's like trying to cut out junk food and replace it with healthy alternatives. I'll eat healthy for a while, then find myself returning to junk - youtube, imgur, reddit, x, instagram, etc.
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by jimt1234 3y ago
> When you are working for a company, privacy isn't to be expected outside of the bathrooms. For better and for worse, that is the case ^^^ Back in the 90s (before cell phones), I had to give a training to a bunch of managers to tea
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by jimt1234 3y ago
One potential use for VR is concerts or other big events. I think it would cool to experience a concert with a VR headset. I mean, it wouldn't replace the real thing, but it might be a cool, less expensive alternative, slightly better
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I find myself balancing two conflicting attitudes: "face computers are the future" and "face computers are a solution looking for a problem". I honestly can't decide. Often I look to young people to help me decide -
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I'm unsure, but my gut tells me there's regulations/building codes that require landline cabling in (new) residential homes, and of course, not data cabling. Like I said, it's just a hunch, though.
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I feel like the retail grocery industry as a whole is opposed to anything that doesn't get people into the stores, which are designed to maximize profits based on impulse buying. The industry dies without impulse buying. And I'm s
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by jimt1234 3y ago
During my powerlifting days, me and my fellow meatheads used to get ephedrine powder from Mexico and mix with Mountain Dew before contests. I almost had a heart attack once, but I totaled over 1700 pounds that day, so it was all worth it. N
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Same here. I worked at Circuit City during college, and had a similar interview, although it was more like an interrogation. I was asked the same question multiple times: "Is it okay to take stuff home from work, even something simple
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Side note that I've always found interesting: sudo is almost entirely maintained by one dude: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors

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