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by kgermino 5y ago
Worse, many companies can't even do that reliably.
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by kgermino 5y ago
That's not strictly true. It doesn't cost them _much_ but holding and tracking other people's money has a cost. That said, I think the better answer is to send it to the state as unclaimed property.
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by kgermino 5y ago
Those are some crazy numbers. I could build a garage apartment for a bit over 100k in Milwaukee. I could divide my house into 2 units with a few walls and electrical work. Lots of houses have unused or underused attic/garage/condi
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by kgermino 5y ago
Form 8-K filed with the SEC concurrently with a Press Release and interviews announcing his successor and explaining why this will be a "good thing." The 8-K is functionally a legal requirement for this and the rest is just making
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by kgermino 5y ago
The commute seems like a huge part of it (but maybe I'm biased, always hated a driving commute). I have a few coworkers who (when talking about housing, this was always in good taste) would nudge me to move out by them, because I could
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by kgermino 5y ago
I’m in Milwaukee, WI. Houses in my neighborhood are a bit expensive - starting around $300k for a SFH - but you can live a very full life without a car. For myself: we have a car for visiting people outside the city and going to the lumbery
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by kgermino 5y ago
Interesting. I wonder why - it seems like more trouble than it’s worth. The controls aren’t complicated: a button to turn A/C compressor on and off, one for the rear defogger, a mixing valve for temp and a four notch thing for fan spee
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by kgermino 5y ago
I don't disagree, but it makes the car much more complicated and expensive which are valid negatives. Small cars with low hoods and good visibility don't need those systems nearly as much as large SUV's with dangerous hood de
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by kgermino 5y ago
I'm pretty sure my 2019 Honda's HVAC knobs are physically connected to the flaps they control. You can feel/hear the dampers moving with the knobs.
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by kgermino 5y ago
They don't sell them in the US anymore, but I drive a 2019 Honda Fit and it's great. Very versatile (holds four adults, 8ft lumber, 36" doors, etc). The base trim is very tech-lite: bluetooth radio but nothing fancier than t
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by kgermino 5y ago
I think you missed my point. I'm saying that holding Tim Cook accountable for this case is like sending the CEO of the Clorox Company to jail because someone put bleach in their girlfriend's drink. It's a legitimate product w
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by kgermino 5y ago
You want to send Tim Cook to Rikers because Apple make a legal product (which competes against other offerings by Tile and Samsung), someone used it illegally, and the victim found out thanks to countermeasures Apple voluntarily included in
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by kgermino 5y ago
> There's tons of trackers that can use any nearby iPhone If you're limiting the conversation to "any iPhone" then there's a few, such as the Chipolo One, which also use Apple's network. However, Samsung has
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by kgermino 5y ago
>Apple needs to be held accountable for this How? There's tons of these tracker products out there. Are we going to make the entire category illegal?
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by kgermino 5y ago
The tag will eventually start beeping, but I agree it'd be ideal for the phone to get an alert too. Not sure how you'd do that though, maybe a 'tracking device standard'?
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by kgermino 5y ago
> nobody uses ACH payments for anything routine in the US. Water bill, electric bill, mortgage, and property taxes are all ACH for me. Many people pay rent that way. I don’t think it’s commonly used for day to day interactions but a lot
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by kgermino 5y ago
Not for nothing: so is yours. The email field isn’t publicly visible, so you need to put it in the about field.
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by kgermino 5y ago
Ohh does WA respect time zones in searches? A regular complaint I have with google is (simplified example) converting EDT to MST. Google will “helpfully” correct me and convert EDT to MDT instead, which is explicitly not what I asked for. I
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by kgermino 5y ago
That’s an interesting term for “profitable customer who pays their debts”
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by kgermino 5y ago
I’ve been thinking about the same since I saw your comment. I think a comma after Tobago: “Trinidad and Tobago, and in Suriname” would make the sentence easier to understand but it also might add meaning that isn’t there. Does the added com
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by kgermino 5y ago
You wouldn’t have an Oxford comma in a two item “list”. It’s for a series of three or more items.
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by kgermino 5y ago
That's seriously a lie. There are a number of people charged (and some convicted after guilty pleas) of felonies such as assaulting police officers.
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by kgermino 5y ago
Yep I think the writer intended it as a joke, or at least a comment on how bad the butterfly keys were. The butterfly keyboards didn’t do much except help make a laptops a bit thinner. That had the effect of reduced key travel (often seen a
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by kgermino 5y ago
Interesting input from the ai, but reduced is definitely intended to apply to both "key travel" and "keyboard reliability" in that sentence.
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by kgermino 5y ago
Your parent isn't saying they favor Google being untouched by regulators. It's assuming that Google prefers being untouched by regulators. Assuming Google doesn't want to be broken up, poking the bear with publicly anti-com
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by kgermino 5y ago
I suspect they’re working off outdated information. Taxi hailing has gotten _massively_ worse for me over the past 5-10 years. It used to be I could walk out in Streeterville any time of day (when it’s not raining) and get a cab in under 5
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by kgermino 5y ago
> [I] can't remember the last time I felt like resorting to "!g", because I can't remember resorting to Google ever actually solving my problem. I use DDG by default and it covers most of my searches, but I do have 2
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by kgermino 5y ago
I suspect there are people who want to do 3D rendering on a laptop, and these devices are probably a good option for them. More broadly, that's why I put 'everything' in quotes. There will always be cutting edge workflows tha
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by kgermino 5y ago
I'm not bothered by the notch, but I understand people having different aesthetic preferences. Thickness seems like an odd complaint though. As far as I can tell they are about the same thickness as the previous models (1.55 cm). Am I
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by kgermino 5y ago
>all of my high computation oriented use cases are offloaded to a desktop. That's very unusual. If you want a laptop for the easy stuff you're usually looking at a MacBook Air or iPad in the Apple ecosystem. These laptops are f

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