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by lr 7y ago
You obviously didn't read her blog post where she stated the following: "This kind of code change happens all the time. We frequently add things to make our jobs easier or even to just share hobbies or interests. For example, some
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by lr 7y ago
I do really feel badly for (mostly) young people who have no frame of reference for things other than Amazon and comparison websites. I would probably never go to Amazon for something like gloves (or most other things) because you have no i
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by lr 7y ago
> Nah. Let's keep ourselves honest. It was the suit; or, at the very least, it was what the suit represented--professionalism that separates private, personal life from work life. Yuck. Who has time for that when you're trying
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by lr 7y ago
> Don’t cheat: We believe in playing by the rules of the game, abiding by both their letter and their spirit. If we don’t like the rules, we work openly and collaboratively to improve them. I can't help but think this is a huge swip
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by lr 7y ago
The card reader on the ATM is frightening (but I always hide my PIN with my hand, but even then, it can be guessed by muscle movements). But Apple Pay is another positive to not having to put your card in the door. If the door doesn't
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by lr 7y ago
I know not everyone has a credit card, but as someone once said to me, never enter your PIN into anything other than a bank ATM, i.e., an ATM physically attached to a bank lobby. I was at a gas pump the other day with a never-before-seen-by
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by lr 7y ago
> Don’t talk to me about burnout without addressing universal healthcare and worker’s rights. I just don’t want to hear it (or read it, or listen to it, or buy it, or watch it). That is the real issue: people can't give up their job
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by lr 7y ago
LOL, Freudian, perhaps... Thanks for catching that! Given how much time I spent at school in Ames vs. Iowa City, I can't believe I made that mistake!
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by lr 7y ago
Articles like this remind me of this house, which was built in Iowa City, IA by a Physics professor (he was my professor for several classes). At the time this house was being built, ISU had an "active solar" research facility, i.
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by lr 7y ago
Go to UCLA in the morning and take Election Walk, and you will find 10+ different student groups reselling KKs, five days a week!
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by lr 7y ago
Still my all-time favorite web framework. To date, I still find so many other frameworks lacking the vision that brought about WO.
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by lr 7y ago
I think Twitter should add a “save” feature so that those who want to actually save a reference to a tweet don’t actually have to “like” it. I wonder how much this would change the “heart” counts for world leaders...
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by lr 7y ago
I wonder how the IMF would classify the amount of money the USA spends on military protection of the shipping lanes (to protect oil shipments) around the Middle East...
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by lr 7y ago
I find that, almost all the time, in all of the places I have worked, I feel worse when a higher-up tries to make myself or the group feel less stressed. They have always, almost universally, tried to make it sound like it is not bad. Or th
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by lr 7y ago
They continue to use the term "rideshare", which just boggles my mind. So, I guess "share" in this case means that Uber is "sharing" a "cut" of the proceeds with the driver. Maybe they should call it,
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by lr 7y ago
Honestly, would the, "three important points" have even been a remote consideration of Uber, Lyft, etc., if this legislation was was not even proposed (let alone passed) in the first place? This sounds a lot like someone apologizi
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by lr 7y ago
FedEx works on a franchise model. The franchisee may indeed need to classify its drivers as employees.
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by lr 7y ago
“Some of the companies are not done fighting the bill. Uber, Lyft and DoorDash have pledged to spend $90 million to support a ballot initiative that would essentially exempt them from the legislation.” And how may people who drive for these
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by lr 7y ago
Then that makes them too much (or exactly like) a taxi outfit, which would not go down too well.
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by lr 7y ago
And why is baby formula so expensive? And why has the US stigmatized breast feeding so much? Maybe the two are related...
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by lr 7y ago
Here are some infant mortality numbers from your link: 1947: Finland: 6.5% US: 4.3% 2013 (when the article was written): Finland: 0.3% US: 0.7% How can the tiny country of Finland be so much better at this than the US? It&#x
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by lr 7y ago
A sprinter is wasted after 100m. A marathon runner is wasted after 26.2 miles. Then there are the ultra marathoners. I believe the analogy holds.
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by lr 7y ago
Step 6 seems to be misspelled: ‘Select “Creative archive”.’
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by lr 7y ago
They can keep the $125 (although, I wish I could direct it to a charity). I don't want to submit all of this information to an entity who's data security is probably worse (hard to believe) than Equifax!
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Cargo ships are emitting boatloads of carbon, and nobody wants to take the blame(phys.org)
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by lr 7y ago
This generator is one of the top-of-the-line small generators out today: https://www.energyonthehook.com/Eclectic-Energy-D400-Wind-Ge... It is very pleasant to listen to (I know, because the huge yacht next to my little boa
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by lr 7y ago
As Steve Jobs would have said, "Boom!" Perfect example!
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by lr 7y ago
Unrelated to this "new" thing, but what is it with corporate blogs: They almost never have a direct link back to the product website! Why is there not a link to https://www.dropbox.com at the top of the page?!
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by lr 7y ago
Same story that is also trending on the HN homepage right now... My comment from that story which is from ( https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/the-us-govern... ): Quote from the article: “There should ne
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by lr 7y ago
Quote from the article: “There should never have been the ability to download a database like this off of government servers.” Sorry that I don't have a ton of links to support this claim, but "believe me" (as our Commander-i

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