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2y ago
| no reason not to hike up the prices Because they're happy with the income they're making from it probably. Not everything has to make the absolute maximum amount of profit possible.
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What percentage of books get a second print run on a printing press? And what's the process for that? Do they have to reset each word for the second run? I genuinely don't know how a physical process like typesetting can result in
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2y ago
Not sure why you have something against the flyover states. I'm sure there's more shoddily constructed condos in Florida/California/New York per capita than there is in the Midwest. Same goes for cheap high calorie food.
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2y ago
I've backed most of GeekClub's previous KickStarter campaigns and received everything I had put money towards including an extra set of kits for one of the campaigns for some reason. The kits are generally pretty good although the
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2y ago
You may also like Will Wight's Cradle series. It's an american style of Xianxia/Cultivation novels but very good. The audiobooks are also highly praised.
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2y ago
Absolutely not. It should be abstracted out enough that it can be applied to all purchases and not just ceiling fans. Otherwise, you're going to be duplicating effort for the next purchase and you don't want to have to repeat your
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2y ago
WebOS was absolutely amazing. The Palm Pre on the other hand felt like plastic trash. I was young enough when it came out that I was dependent on my parents to buy and pay for my phone still and I dragged my dad to a Sprint store at 5:00am
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2y ago
> We really shouldn't be trying to go any further until and if they can predict the island of stability with high confidence. I don't know much about chemistry since I haven't done anything with it in the last 20ish years.
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2y ago
> it still take the same amount of work to produce what we consume Does it? Seems like if we don't have excess value going to shareholders, less work could be done to provide the current level of value for things people are consumi
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2y ago
> As an extreme example, imagine trying to find a stable husband and raise a family in a world in which every other woman treated sex as being valueless and beautiful women wandered the streets naked and giving it up to passers by. Sound
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3y ago
It's also highly toxic to aquatic animals as well and does come off a bit when put in the wash.
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3y ago
> he separation machine is powered by employees on their break time Did they finally allow warehouse workers actual break time? Weren't they were peeing in bottles or something for a while because they didn't have time for brea
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> Nb: I recently took a trip to the USA and was appalled that they play full volume video advertisements while you’re filling up with gas. At least that’s not a practice that’s caught on elsewhere. On most of these pumps you can push the
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3y ago
Oh there's way more than just the big three too. For instance, many online payday lending companies run a credit check through alternative credit bureaus. There's quite a few of these types of niche credit tracking companies that
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3y ago
I know of two companies that provide this. My experience is with software written for government entities by a third party. Every time we cut a new release, we would have to go through an escrow process to provide the services with a VM ima
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3y ago
One of the McDonald's near me has been using the order taking software in one of the drive thru lanes for a while now. It's such a better experience compared to probably 90% of the employees that have been taking orders there. It
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4y ago
There used to be a service called CDARS that would do this. It's now known as IntraFi Network Deposits and covers some other services as well. https://www.intrafinetworkdeposits.com/
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4y ago
Health issues cutting his career short ensured he won't be in consideration for most people. That said, he truly was phenomenal. Absolutely one of the most amazing to ever play the game.
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4y ago
Per https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accreditedinvestor.asp#... the requirements to be an accredited investor are well within reach of quite a few software developers. Apparently I qualify despite being in the
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4y ago
One of the things I always heard when getting into software development is that the hard part isn't writing the code but rather figuring out what problem to solve. Now the hard part is going to be figuring out what problem to solve and
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4y ago
Many small businesses use their FB page exclusively because they aren't big enough to bother with a real website. There will be a lot of pain for many small employers and their employees if FB software were to go away.
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4y ago
I've been fired once in 15+ years of writing software. Nobody has ever asked me why at any interview since then. Additionally, as someone who has been on the hiring side, unless you're getting let go from multiple positions in a s
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4y ago
And the banner asking you to install their PWA because you wanted to read one article on their site. Also don't forget to enable push notifications so they can tell you when they post a new update.
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4y ago
Pretty sure the Supreme Court has ruled that only US citizens, regardless of jurisdiction, are afforded rights laid out in the Constitution.
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4y ago
> just chess Ah yes a game that reinforces that lowly peons should be sacrificed in battle so that the 1% can come out on top. No possible conflicts in morality there /s
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4y ago
Tears of the Sun for me. Bruce Willis and his unit made them seem absolutely badass.
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4y ago
I would think that any positive effect could be reversed by essentially giving the opposite. Want to decrease inflammation? Get a younger gut biome. Mess up and get an older gut biome and you probably end up with increased inflammation. The
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I know this was a joke but there's quite a few medical conditions that recent research seems to think can be cured by a poop enema. There's surely a market for a company to do screening, storage, and sales of feces in a similar wa
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5y ago
This is only the second time in fifteen years of professional development I've seen someone say they work with DataFlex. What makes the language attractive to you compared to all the other languages that are around and see significantl
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5y ago
If you're willing to print enough cash to pay for the smart people to come to you, you can probably import them. It seems to be more the exception than the rule that people dislike a country so much that no amount of money could get th
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