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by kshacker 3y ago
I had a similar "delivery failure" experience in bangalore anomaly a decade ago and that too from courier company FedEx which kinda guarantees delivery times. When I talked to the guy the next day, he apologized and said there wer
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by kshacker 3y ago
This is a solved problem. Google may not care but in general companies want to know if one of their businesses is actually making money or just a perceived success because of the conglomerate. Of course a company may fudge the figures to le
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by kshacker 3y ago
Assuming we can post links, you mean this video: https://youtu.be/G7mihAy691g?si=o2KCmR2Uh_97UQ0N Also, maybe you can't edit post facto, but when you give prompts, would you not be able to say : two blue jays but no CN
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by kshacker 3y ago
I think the amounts are big enough to warrant a lawsuit. He is retired. The program is for retirees so they have nothing to lose in terms of future employment. The article hints at annual damages being 15-20K per retiree, and mentions impac
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by kshacker 3y ago
When was the last time we found same hotel prices across states or counties? Oh it is 300$ plus tax in new York and it is 300 inclusive in Philly but ... I am not going to Philly. McDonald's maybe but not a hotel since so much depends
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by kshacker 3y ago
But are all EVs built the same?
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by kshacker 3y ago
Ok. My perspective. I have owned 6 Toyotas, 1 Mazda and 1 Plymouth over the past 3 decades. Some of them were used but 5 of the Toyotas were brand new. For the first time splurged on a BMW earlier this year. I don't think I am a bad d
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by kshacker 3y ago
Most of the grassroots level opposition is because developers lie, bribe and threaten their way out of honest development. I used to live in Cupertino (left 5 years back) and you had to be there to see the heavy handed tactics. Developers w
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by kshacker 3y ago
> Crazy that humans have been around for at least 10x as long as the oldest written history. What were we up to during those times? A thought experiment, maybe slightly lateral to your question, but it is valid IMO. I tried this once on
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by kshacker 3y ago
I guess Musk does not talk to Zuck
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by kshacker 3y ago
Yes there are so many signs that what we have is a house of cards but like stock markets, even in real life, things can remain crazier way longer than they should. One one hand the law and order is missing and on the other hand the people t
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by kshacker 3y ago
I hear you, and I am trying to grapple with this myself. So the cost of bricks went up by X, and maybe the cost of electricity also went up by Y, and the labor costs are also higher by Z, but adding them all up, my costs are not up by X + Y
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by kshacker 3y ago
If the brick is more insulating, it should require less insulation and less heating / cooling costs, thereby reducing your expenses, no?
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by kshacker 3y ago
I think the 5% happens but is rarer than 5.5%. Maybe we need to negotiate better but amongst all my friend circle 5.5 seems the norm.
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CSS (Cosmetic Self-Care and Surgery) has come a long way over the millennia
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by kshacker 3y ago
Here's my hack for United's free messaging. Works on iOS, and makes the flight more useful than before, but not as good as paid internet. Messaging and Notifications basically follow the same protocol. Even though I usually have n
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by kshacker 3y ago
So if a mega-city had a billion people. Maybe that's too much, let's say a 100 million people. Let us say this may be possible this century with some innovations in our habitat. So with a 100 million people in this mega-city, how
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by kshacker 3y ago
Unicity? Because this will be the only city in the world :) Or not "the City", but "THE city". I am failing to come up with more ideas, maybe we need help from some crack marketing teams
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by kshacker 3y ago
So what do you do when - previous bundle exists, you upgrade raw OS, but the previous bundle is not compatible - you try to install new bundle, but did not install new raw OS I am sure this can be managed, but someone else may say they do
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by kshacker 3y ago
I am just a casual scroller but was moved by one of my favorite influencers to ask for help. Unlike many other people I have seen on Tiktok, her videos have always been clean, and I think same was the case on Instagram that I rarely visit.
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by kshacker 3y ago
Would be curious to hear theories on what succeeds in motivating people to produce more (kids). If our lifestyle has changed in a way that people do not want to produce, and I see it linked with wealth, it would be pretty hard to ask people
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by kshacker 3y ago
Lesson in how to take an L and move on
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The problem will not be so severe if the problem was not both ways, nimbys and developers. I remember Sunnyvale downtown projects were abandoned you can explain it but the reality is they (developers and city) did not meet their commitments
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by kshacker 3y ago
If the union was always taking 5% as their dues, then year over year, you still get 7%, no?
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Hmmm, let's demonstrate wordiness :) > I wish I understood what "wordiness" means. Perhaps it's restating the same simple point three times in as many loose sentences. Does wordiness mean restating the same simple poi
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by kshacker 3y ago
Would not SB9 (or some recent law whose name I forget) allow lot more housing to be built? Not tomorrow but surely over the next 10 years. And then there are so many condos coming up near BART etc. We may be a million short, but I think dyn
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by kshacker 3y ago
It may be a terrible thing but it has brought such a big change to the Indian economy. Imagine doing that in US which is a much smaller population and all you get is "choice" aka "freedom" to pay 3-5% credit card fee per
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by kshacker 3y ago
We really need "saved you a click" version of hacker news. Same UI just title recommended by users
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by kshacker 3y ago
My attention span is making me re-read your comment to decipher whether I agree or disagree. Jury is still out on this one :) Anyways, over a decade back, I was watching a recording of a musical artist from either the 70s or 80s, and was

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