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by lsc 8y ago
I'm assuming most people who are interested in the title are interested as part of the research one does to decide in what direction they ought to advance their career. If I'm choosing to train up for job A or job B, I mean, money
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by lsc 8y ago
It's relevant to nearly everyone who would be interested in the title of the article, though.
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by lsc 8y ago
That doesn't seem like an argument against it? I mean, if fission is the best base load (and I'm not saying it is, I don't know) but it takes 20 years to get approval for a fission plant, seems to me like you do some modeli
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by lsc 8y ago
>It’s like saying let’s use sail boats in the era of supersonic travel. the era of supersonic travel? I mean, sure, supersonic flight is /technically possible/ but it is exceedingly rare that the sound barrier is broken by tra
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by lsc 8y ago
as a teenager, I was a vegitarian. I remember once I was the new guy at a computer repair place, so it was my job to go across the street and get everyone's burgers. This was, of course, the late '90s, and burger king did not h
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by lsc 8y ago
>As someone who suffers from mild arthritis, the trip to the back of a Wal-Mart can be painful for me, and a walk or bike ride across a city block absolutely foreboding. I've heard this before... and maybe I'm not qualified to
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by lsc 8y ago
>parents allowing children to play games unattended with games they themselves have not played to vet? So, I'm not telling anyone else how to raise their children... but the fact that society has attitudes like this contributed to m
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by lsc 8y ago
If you eat 25% fewer calories than you burn every day, and you do this for a week, unless our physiology is dramatically different, you will feel hunger that is not related to habit. Interestingly, for me? If I cut down to the point where
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by lsc 8y ago
so, obviously, calories in and calories out are what controls your weight. But that doesn't conflict with the idea that your success at managing your weight in a world where calories in are increasingly cheap and calories out are incr
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by lsc 8y ago
$60-100K sounds really unlikely for engineering positions. A poster a bit down claims $127K, which sounds low but not unbelievably low for base salary. I can only really talk about my own experience, but I think the paysa total comp num
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by lsc 8y ago
well, yes. For a lot of reasons, I'm not likely to sue my employer. But, that doesn't mean I'm not curious.
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by lsc 8y ago
>So, if you make a lot of money, the city is great. If you don't make a lot of money, the city _would_ be great if you could actually afford to live there. I do think that there is a chicken and egg problem here, and it's part
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by lsc 8y ago
so... serious question, and I'm asking you, 'cause it sounds like you are implying that you've sued your employer. is suing your employer a seriously career-impairing move? I mean, I think most court proceedings are public
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by lsc 8y ago
There are efforts to build more. search for Scott Weiner if you are in California, and 'yimby' is another keyword. My personal opinion is that if you want to get approval to build an office building, part of that approval would b
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by lsc 8y ago
If you mean financial security, I think most Americans think you will work harder without financial security. It's just not a thing that most americans (at least once you factor in our privileging of rural votes) want our government
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by lsc 8y ago
yeah, come to think of it, I don't get a lot of blocked ID calls anymore, either. But I do get multiple spam calls a day, which is what I took OP's complaint to mean.
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by lsc 8y ago
>With that kind of logic, you could justify any kind of price/attachment gauging. Like selling expensive laptop without batteries: "You already paid $3k for the laptop, why are you cheaping out on the extra $500 for the battery
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by lsc 8y ago
I mean, yes. If you buy a mac laptop, they should include the usb c -> lightning cable as a courtesy. It's not a cheap machine. However, it's a small thing, I think, compared to the cost of the mac laptops. If paying $20 fo
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by lsc 8y ago
>I think a lot of people would actually be better off starting life with nothing and living somewhere cheap rather than starting with -$50,000+ and a huge rent bill every month. After all, we have the internet. But too many people don&#x
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by lsc 8y ago
this seems like the biggest problem. there are a bunch of spam call filtering solutions available from third parties that require me giving third parties a lot more of my data than I'd like; if apple would come up with a solution to
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by lsc 8y ago
>Sell me a £1k phone that can’t connect to the £3.5k laptop you sold me because the phone comes with a USB-A cable and the laptop only has USB-C sockets. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQGJ2AM/A/us
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by lsc 8y ago
>By sending bits, the interface changes and you aren't really burdened with UI navigation or UI mechanics like touch, drag, etc. Something like a phone would take on more roles that are currently filled by desktops and laptops right
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by lsc 8y ago
Your first sentence conflicts rather severly with your second. As an investor "better executing companies" are exactly what I want to invest in. But personally, I think "higher risk" is a better descriptor of 'tec
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by lsc 8y ago
I mean paradise lost is beautiful... but I'd really like an analysis of "The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates" - like, was it "written to reconcile men's minds," or was it, instead a craven and ill-timed attem
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by lsc 8y ago
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=3086 (I mean, I'd totally read that, too) But yeah, I really enjoyed reading Paradise Lost; I mean, I read everything on the kindle, but I think I need to find a nice bound editio
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by lsc 8y ago
is 30% waste a lot for a restaurant? What is the industry standard there?
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by lsc 8y ago
> Technically, there is no such thing as a tech company. They are all selling something, usually software directly or better software-powered versions of existing industries. Oh hush, you. You know how much extra they're paying us
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by lsc 8y ago
can't you sample way more than 8 bits a second from my brain through the keyboard? I mean, I don't think it'd take much work to get to 8 bits a second using a twiddler or something with one hand. I guess what I'm saying
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by lsc 8y ago
How do you define 'useful'? My keyboard and monitor are brain-computer interfaces. I'd argue that they are pretty useful. I can imagine a way to consume information that is dramatically faster than the 500 or some odd words
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by lsc 8y ago
>Most people own more than one PC (easy win) What's interesting is that I think most people own just one general purpose computing device these days, their cellphone. Yeah, they maybe also have a TV that can play netflix or a game

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