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by jimt1234 3y ago
The fact that excluding health insurance actually lowers the price makes me wonder what the point of health insurance is anymore.
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by jimt1234 3y ago
There's an A-12 Blackbird at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park. Not an expert, but my understanding is the A-12 was basically the beta version that eventually lead to the SR-71. https://sandiegoairandspace.
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I'm a Gen-Xer, so I'm kinda Switzerland here, but I have to admit this is not without some comedy value: 2015: Millennials: The rent is too damn high! Boomers: Stop whining, you entitled babies! I bought my first house when I was
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I've been told since childhood that the main obstacle to inexpensive public transit in the the majority of US is racism - keep those people in their neighborhood . I've never done any sort of research or anything, and even th
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Hackers claim it only took a 10-minute phone call to shut down MGM Resorts(engadget.com)
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I'm a dude in his 50s now (that still feels weird to say), and I have to pee all the damn time. Going out in public always involves studying the restroom situation ahead of time. Even so, I've pee'ed in countless alleys, side
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Love it. Please scale this to other cities and call it "wannapee.com". I'd always assumed an app like this already existed, like Yelp for public restrooms. I never actually looked, though.
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Sorta related: A community near me recently experimented with "automated" parking enforcement. Basically, cameras around a parking space detected if the same car was parked longer than was paid for, and if so, the system fired off
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by jimt1234 3y ago
AWS Elastic Icon Identifier is just a fork of Open Icon Identifier. AWS does this shit all the time. LOL
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by jimt1234 3y ago
That's my feeling, too. It reminds me of a scene in "The Founder", the movie about McDonalds: "You're not in the burger business. You're in the real estate business."
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It's pretty much impossible to get your free annual credit report these days. It used to be relatively painless, but now you get slammed with ads for credit monitoring or whatever useless products. Or, the website just doesn't w
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Here's a related question that I should be embarrassed to ask: How do I actually purchase my own copy of music these days? I mean, my own file that I can store on whatever file system I choose. I honestly don't know if it's e
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by jimt1234 3y ago
My girlfriend runs a medical provider company that bills through most major health insurance companies. One of these companies (a large, well-known insurer) will only accept payment requests by fax, M-F, 8am to 5pm. Yes, I'm serious. T
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by jimt1234 3y ago
A kid in my neighborhood growing up got hit by a car pretty bad. It was a pickup truck with wide mirrors on the side. The mirror somehow hooked onto the kid and dragged him for some distance. Apparently, the driver didn't even see him,
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by jimt1234 3y ago
For me, it was Magic 108 in St. Louis, Missouri. However, I was so far out in the suburbs, Magic didn't always tune-in very well. I had lots of tapes with static. Also, in the early days, they played rap only late at nights, for a few
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Back when I first started listening to hip hop music (around 1982; i'm old), it wasn't easy to get your hands on it if you lived in the suburbs. Record stores in the suburbs didn't stock hip hop until the Beastie Boys' &
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by jimt1234 3y ago
You might get a kick out of this: https://www.youtube.com/@djkennyparker/videos
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The Teacher!
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I bought my first HDD in the mid-90s: 850MB. There was a 1.2GB model, but I thought, "Why would I ever need that much space?" This was before videos, before mp3s, and images were all low quality jpegs.
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by jimt1234 3y ago
My dad worked for Yellow on the loading docks from the day he returned from Vietnam to the late-90s. He earned a good wage for a guy who only graduated high school; provided a solid middle-class life for his family. And it was all because o
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by jimt1234 3y ago
The DEA?! Well, I guess that makes sense considering how well things have gone with the so-called War On Drugs. /s
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by jimt1234 3y ago
As the article mentions, Donald was featured in a documentary called "In A Different Key". I highly recommend it. Very informative about autism in general, the good, the bad, and everything in between.
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I'm confused. Why is this program necessary? If building owners are sitting on vacant space because the demand for office space has dropped, while the demand for housing continues to rise, aren't they already incentivized to conve
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I lived in San Francisco for the summer of '92. I couldn't get friends/family to visit from Modesto; everyone said basically the same thing as today: too expensive (even to visit), too much crime, too many "crazy people&
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Where did this recent-ish "hellscape" reputation come from? San Francisco has always been a "hellscape"; there's always been homeless, crime, drugs, etc. I've been going into San Francisco since the 80s and it
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I'm something of a construction-ist myself. Just kidding. I've gone through 3 major home renovations in different parts of California - clearly not an expert, but I'm confident in saying that the biggest obstacle to real es
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I'm reminded that my city used to have red-light cameras on major intersections. Each year the local newspaper would publish a list of intersections with the most red-light violations, and each year the list was almost identical to the
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Short story about Lotus Notes: Back in high school, a friend of mine started writing "code" for Lotus Notes; can't remember what the "code" was called, though - templates, plugins, something like that. Anyway, he st
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Not sure of OP's source, but a friend of mine worked there for several years and can confirm. He got let go, too.
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Didn't Evernote precede Notes? My understanding is that Evernote was the first "notes" app, but I'm old; I could be making shit up in my head.

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