klatchex_too

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by klatchex_too 2mo ago
>> “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” Steinbeck never said or wrote that, as far as I can tell. He did write a passage th
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by klatchex_too 4mo ago
>> Literally no single person has produced "a billion dollars value". How has someone like Taylor Swift not produced a billion dollars value? Some of her tours have brought in more than 2 billion in revenue, she makes many m
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by klatchex_too 4mo ago
That mrlonglong is not an US citizen.
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by klatchex_too 4mo ago
It was like 30 years for me. A couple months ago I got a text in our dev channel around 4 PM on a Friday afternoon asking me to take a look at a 4,000 line AI generated PR. The guy said he was told it needed to be in production by the end o
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by klatchex_too 8mo ago
> People want to get rich quick What about Amish people? Or Buddhists?
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by klatchex_too 8mo ago
Where I live none of the storage companies will let you pre-pay 1 year of rent let alone 5. A major part of their business model is giving low initial rates and then raising the rent over and over knowing what a pain it will be for the rent
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by klatchex_too 8mo ago
That's why if you're a poser like me, you buy them used in poor shape.
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by klatchex_too 9mo ago
All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. It's really just a question of your honesty.
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by klatchex_too 9mo ago
Fastest: U.S. Marine Corps expeditionary units. This could be done tonight.
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by klatchex_too 9mo ago
Buying something that is being sold for less than it is worth and then immediately reselling it for what it is worth is what I would call "arbitrage". So someone doing that would be an arbitrageur. In your opinion, what is the dif
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by klatchex_too 9mo ago
> In the times of the Pony Express it was probably ok to accept the death of a few riders here and there That made me curious so I looked it up: "There is historical documentation that four Pony riders were killed by Indians; one wa
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by klatchex_too 10mo ago
I would build a replacement for a piece of software that I use.
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by klatchex_too 10mo ago
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I was in elementary school when the arcade game craze happened, PacMan, Donkey Kong, etc. I would wander the streets looking for games to play. There were arcade games in every grocery st
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by klatchex_too 10mo ago
I think the parent poster is correct that it depends on the water. I have a couple ultrasonic humidifiers, if tap water is put in them it immediately sends the AQI on my air quality monitor into the "Dangerous" level. I have the m
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by klatchex_too 10mo ago
They mostly do. They just can't log in or comment. Anything that you can see without logging in, they will still have access to.
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by klatchex_too 10mo ago
Boredom was real when I was a kid, pre-internet. Now I never get bored. Things have changed, but yeah, boredom used to be a real thing that people experienced no matter what their personality traits were.