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by maerF0x0 2y ago
People living in Austin will drive > 10 miles to go for a 3 mile run.
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
> Presumably it doesn't matter that much and isn't worth spending money/manpower on? Well, if they think any of the $20B of shareholder value lost recently has to do with the quality issues... Then perhaps they should reco
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
> Why is it some shock-horror thing that people worked less? Working less is not so bad, but their income (before transfers) also went down. That means they did not replace poorly paying jobs with better paying ones (or they did with net
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
It feels funny to say "Hacker" when it was just someone one using something on the open internet the way it was (defacto) designed for, and just used it a lot. Like if I crawl hackernews and download all the somethings am I a &quo
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
Not financial advice: Also having an investor base that demands removing as much equity compensation as possible. (Whilst, IMO, not being aggressive enough to cut executive compensation) But it's no surprise that when you ask managemen
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
“Patient dies of congestive heart failure, not due to pig kidney transplant” Also would be more apt.
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
First of all.. RIP Pioneer. Thank you for your service to humanity. > The hospital said it had “no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant.” A major issue, at least in Canada, is that the system will let you get too s
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
or as I like to tell my product folks "I can build you anything a computer can do, but you might not like the cost"
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
> A professional developer does thorough work when it matters, and cuts irrelevant corners that aren’t worth wasting time on. Extremely productive developers don’t have supernatural coding skills; their secret is to write only the code t
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
It balanced itself to firewood (at least in part sufficient to be news) https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/germans-turning-to-wood-to-h...
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
> but I couldn't force the local power company to stop using coal Perhaps the legislation either excludes inputs (meaning it's the power company's responsibility to be net zero), or it allows you to simply purchase the car
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
And somehow the US gets painted as a bad guy for helping...
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
> President Joe Biden set a goal of reaching 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035 and signed into law the nation’s largest investment in clean energy and climate to date with the Inflation Reduction Act. Perhaps a nuance
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
As I understand the gross summarization of Chinese culture is that they're extremely family oriented. Anecdotally I've heard of grandmas acting like their homeless to earn a little money to give to a grandson which drives a Ferrar
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by maerF0x0 2y ago
It's rooted in societal culture and what people incentivize (ie assign the highest multiple to). Until Americans take on a mindset of longterm/family (as I've seen many Chinese families express), they'll be doomed to mak
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
> Now we are spoiled for choice but are yet still made to feel ashamed if we are not consuming the newest and discarding the oldest. As Actually I've found Gen-z's to have surprisingly wide listening patterns. As a few datapoin
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
I would guess there's a strong correlation with trait openness to someones ability to integrate new music into their collection. IDK if its a lot, but I listened to 90 genres in 2023. I do find myself frequently liking music that is ab
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
I'm not always a democrat, but I do like the FTC under democratic presidency.
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
Sierra/Vivendi/Activision/Microsoft should revive the Space Quest brand and make something like this. Edit: also have you considered doing a how I made / tutorial series on youtube ?
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
We need an amendment to the constitution that says governments aren't allowed to corrupt technology for breaking privacy. I'm tired of a variant of this sort of bill coming up over and over again, rallying effort to block it, only
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
The claim is they play marketmaker (they hold stocks for short periods of time so your trades execute faster), they obviously want a profit incentive for doing so.
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
They're already working on the ticket? (assigned to them) This is about people stopping by for help on their assigned work, and at the end of the day I get no credit for the contributions to their work or leeway on my own.
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
On one hand she's right, and on the other she's completely off base. This really should be titled about exploitation of young men who feel they have no real opportunities. "To make a fortune, coach young men to their benefit&
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
Lots of people talking about dopamine as the reward "drug" but few seem to understand that the very anticipation of a thing releases dopamine. You get some dopamine just thinking about opening a tab to that site, not just from fol
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
We need to re-label modern gambling (like the lottery and casinos) into what they are. Cons. An entertaining gamble is one in which you have a real shot. Heck the carnival games at least involve a reasonable skill. Whereas casino games the
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
and legally able to work in the USA.
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
Can you tell me more about how it changes? (either your perception or anecdote)
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
Curious what you have in mind, how so?
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
I've felt similarly about tattoos. I've never understand someone complaining about their student debt when they've been to a dozen or so countries, or have $20K of tattoos on their body, or spend more on door dash per week th
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by maerF0x0 3y ago
> Your brain shifts into "work mode" by default. I never found this to be the case in office. However I would agree with you on the shift out. 30 mins into the gym or drive home and I was able to stop thinking about work. Where

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