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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
I'm a huge fan of this. Have done it many times, and it's an important exercise. Keeps you in the moment. Related: See FullContact's Paid Paid Vacation policy: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-v
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
> It is objectively, quantitatively true that weather disasters are getting more frequent and more severe. From the article, storms may be getting slightly more severe - but "more frequent" is incorrect: > Scientific st
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
"Delivery Service Partner"
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
Yep. The real question is how prevalent these "skimping on safety" companies are. When taken individually, no doubt it looks bad - but when considering that there are thousands of delivery partners, each having 20-500 trucks, deli
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
IIRC, it's all independent contractors. Whether it's an independent company contracted by Amazon (which is the bulk of it), or a direct Lyft/Uber-style gig economy model of sourcing contract drivers. Here's a (somewhat s
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
The same reason someone who is deaf would buy a VHS tape (back in the day), when they could just see the film in the theater. I'm not saying it makes sense - you and I agree on that front. But as I mentioned, this is the world we live
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
Agreed, on the surface (and given current legislation/IP legal climate). One thing that may also come into play - what about accessibility and the Americans with Disabilities Act? In this age of "slippery slopes be damned," I
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
Case in point - they appear to be short. https://www.dropbox.com/s/g7q4injeb2w8du8/Screenshot%202019-...
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by lloyddobbler 8y ago
Agreed with the other user's assessment of pumps. I've had T1D since 1990; been wearing a pump since 2004. My A1C has averaged 6.3 since 2000 (so I was in control before I started on the pump) - and I lived in Los Angeles from 200
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by lloyddobbler 8y ago
> Talk about stress levels going through the roof! (Which, of course, is EXACTLY what you want to have happen when you have no way of monitoring your BG.) Yikes!
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by lloyddobbler 8y ago
> As for comments to the effect, "physics hasn't changed since the concorde failed," no, but materials and manufacturing really have. Turbine engines have evolved a lot since then. That companies like Boeing do not build s
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by lloyddobbler 8y ago
...and you're apparently being downvoted because there are more people on here who agree with the author's ideology than who disagree with it. Sad - speaking as someone who subscribes to neither the Right nor Left political leanin
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by lloyddobbler 8y ago
Point of information - the progressive taxation ("tiered") method from the UK is the same as in the US. You pay in tax bracket A up to $X, then the next tier is taxed at tax bracket B, and so on, and so on.
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by lloyddobbler 8y ago
I largely agree with your perspective - with a couple of differences. Most importantly, while I see what you're getting at with #2, I don't think disproving the SPE makes it so you can't explain things like neonazis, etc. T
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by lloyddobbler 8y ago
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rediscovering-love/2...
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by lloyddobbler 8y ago
Not everyone has a domain name, they cost actual real money. The question comes down to: is owning a domain like owning a computer (a commodity)? Or is owning a domain more akin to owning a phone (landline), or real estate, or a business? I
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by lloyddobbler 8y ago
I'm finding myself upvoting a lot of your comments on this thread. (Perhaps that's why I'm a customer - moved most of my domains from name.com over the past year). That and your attention to social media marketing/commun
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by lloyddobbler 8y ago
When you put it that way, I nod in agreement. But at the same time, I reflect upon the days of the phone book, which most people on this board likely never knew. Your phone number and address would be listed by the phone company as part of
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by lloyddobbler 9y ago
Agreed. Further along those lines, how does one reconcile the fact that Google still powers search for a number of other entities (including some libraries, academic institutions, etc)? The "right to be forgotten", in that case, b
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by lloyddobbler 9y ago
Definitely brings back memories - although I was never into the AOL or IRC scene. I was mostly into the BBS world before that, and remember groups like Razor 1911 & THG. Would love it if someone would put together a doc like this about
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by lloyddobbler 9y ago
Sure. That was 2011, at the bottom of the recession - at which point CA's school funding was at the bottom of a dip. As the article also showed (& as you pointed out), its ranking improved dramatically in 2013. Since then, the per
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by lloyddobbler 9y ago
And yet... https://calmatters.org/articles/how-much-has-californias-edu... (Seems that per student spending is up almost 50% over the past 5 years.) ETA - Not to mention that (with the exception of 1 year in the past 5
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by lloyddobbler 9y ago
Also a large-scale wind farm in the hills W of town, near Tehachapi, interestingly enough.
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by lloyddobbler 9y ago
Yep. I started my skydiving career in California City. We used to skydive into Central Park every 4th of July before the fireworks show. It was an amazing place to learn to skydive, because if you happened to land out (happens a lot with ne
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
IIRC, this is on a company-by-company basis. Only some companies offer early exercise (i.e., exercising your options prior to vesting). It's a great practice to do, if you believe the company is going to do well. Goes a long way toward
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
He does - last thing he leaves the reader with.
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
...so those who are part of the <20% who get into those top schools are "lucky," and that's why they get in?
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
I think your hangup may be more about the words Brad used to describe the 3 machines than their actual functions (which I totally understand. I had the same initial reaction to Brad's post. Across the board, every part of the org shoul
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
One of the true gems of Wikipedia. As a Denver resident, I couldn't help but think of Blucifer - our Demon Mustang of the Denver airport that killed its creator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mustang
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
A good move - especially as the supply of superchargers begins to struggle to keep up with demand from all the new Model S & Model 3 owners over the next few years. (Yes, they've announced that supercharging will incur a fee for ce

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