joncrane

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by joncrane 6y ago
He apparently filed for bankruptcy because he "owes" $179 million to Google? My question is, how is he paying his (presumably very expensive) lawyers?
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by joncrane 6y ago
To me this is exactly what the FIRE movement is about (Financial Independence, Retire Early). I know some people just want to live on the beach or run a hobby farm or foster 10 rescue dogs at a time, but many will have the time, desire, an
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by joncrane 6y ago
It sounds like you are in a great situation, by why would you aggressively pay down a 0% interest loan?
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by joncrane 6y ago
Yes but who orders a shiny new utility bill and obsessively tracks its progress until it's finally delivered and they can joyfully unbox it? Who orders their mortgage statement and medicare form and forcefully complains to the ombuds
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by joncrane 6y ago
I think the idea is, if you take the vaccine, and either it doesn't work, or before it works, you contract COVID-19 separately, they will help treat you.
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by joncrane 6y ago
I'm with you. I love a carefully crafted single-origin pourover. But I also have a weak spot for 7-11 coffee. Appreciation of the two is not mutually exclusive.
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by joncrane 6y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by joncrane 6y ago
I just saw an article that indicates that cruise ships plan on resuming service August 1st, but it was just a headline. I did not read the article to see what country/ies that date refers to.
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by joncrane 6y ago
I just saw a post on reddit where at a wedding, the wife gave her husband some similar glasses. Lots of crying. Many of the comments were similar to here where colorblind people said they don't help. This makes me wonder if some new
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by joncrane 6y ago
So apparently Fukishima's power failed and the generators were damaged by the tsumami. Why can't nuclear reactors at least have the option to power themselves?
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by joncrane 6y ago
>Everyone I know would choose their entire retirement fund over a one time check of $18,000 We live in a bubble. There are VAST SWATHES (millions and millions) of people whose ENTIRE NET WORTHS are less than $18,000.
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by joncrane 6y ago
>About 50~ police officers die via guns per year. The police kill about 1,000 citizens per year via guns though[2]. There's a KD ratio joke in here somewhere.
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by joncrane 6y ago
>Self-driving tech may be close to cruise control 2.0 - that is highway exit to highway exit navigation This is why the main first application of autonomous driving is going to be long haul trucking. The current regulations about duty ti
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by joncrane 6y ago
Only thing missing is the blaring radios.
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by joncrane 6y ago
I'm doing OK. At first I loved the isolation, lack of traffic, and lack of commute and having to be at work. I realized I have strong social anxiety and the part of my brain that has to work extra hard to get along with people finally
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by joncrane 6y ago
Pretty sure the E-Ink on the snowball devices are set up for UPS tracking label format.
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by joncrane 6y ago
That's what makes those systems so great. It has a positive effect on the people that DO care, and essentially no negative effect on anyone else. It's a free win.
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by joncrane 6y ago
It is when a spate of egregious murders by police of innocent citizens has spurred unrest in the (now under-employed) masses.
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by joncrane 6y ago
Have you ever heard of Muddy Waters? The famous stock shorter?
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by joncrane 6y ago
>I can't wait for ~2 weeks when everyone's going to go back to their lives like nothing happened I hope we never go back to our lives like nothing happened and I feel a responsibility to make sure I never do.
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by joncrane 6y ago
The way it works at my workplace is that in meetings with more than one person, we just say "times are tough and thanks for coping with the hard times and still getting the work done. We also recognize that times may be especially har
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by joncrane 6y ago
I understand that the vast majority of reviewers on the internet, and certainly the sites that come up first in search engine results, are compensated by the manufacturers via kickbacks. I believe it's colloquially known as a "rac
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by joncrane 6y ago
Based on the scanned catalog page from 1911 and an inflation calculator, it looks like those fans set you back anywhere from the equivalent of $800-1000 in today's money. Is my math correct?
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by joncrane 6y ago
At least it still avoids all the other problems, not to mention the domain squatting, misrepresentation of search results, and of course the upcharge on your end and the downcharge on the restaurant's end.
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by joncrane 6y ago
This is what I don't get. As soon as I started reading about all the unfair business practices by delivery companies, I just started picking up my food. Gets me out of the house, removes the middle man, supports local business while
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by joncrane 6y ago
>they might suspect something is up if they have a lot of mug shots coming through Can AWS see the images used with Rekognition?
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by joncrane 6y ago
It's still gaslighting if you are threatening to fire people but not actually firing anyone.
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by joncrane 6y ago
Specifically the Ekans ransomware, which apparently targets industrial control systems.
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by joncrane 6y ago
Also note that Flightradar allows rich/famous people to pay to have their airplanes omitted from the display on the website.
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by joncrane 6y ago
>And the open floor plans that had become hallmarks of the modern office are going to be scrapped, with desks repositioned farther apart. >“All of those amazing open spaces that we created?” Ms. Katsoudas said. “We’re now going to hav

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