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by matwood 1y ago
I have an LG. They look to cost a premium in the US above heated air one. They also seem to be gentler on clothes since they pump in warm dry air vs. super heated air.
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by matwood 1y ago
I recently bought a heat pump dryer and it's pretty cool. No exhaust vent, just water drain. It also doesn't need the heavy duty power plug since it pulls so much less electricity than a typical heated air dryer.
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by matwood 1y ago
> ..and 3 years later has a combined valuation with xAI of $113B. Haha...ok. I gave a bunch of stock from one of my companies to another one of my companies and made up a value during the transaction.
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by matwood 1y ago
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T. S. Eliot
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by matwood 1y ago
Work long enough and a person will screw up. That's how things go. And if you never screw up, then you're not really pushing yourself. Personally, I've deleted customer tables, updated the whole table when meaning to update o
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by matwood 1y ago
"Sexy indifference" is how I've heard it. Don't be a jerk about it, but also give off the DGAF vibe. It works.
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by matwood 1y ago
> Give plenty of credit to the juniors when they do good work, even if they were reliant on support, with no need to take credit myself This is one of the most effective ways to lead because it builds goodwill and trust on the team. It a
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by matwood 1y ago
> Don’t let yourself be gaslit that it’s all mental. This is a big problem women have around menstrual cycle pain. "It's normal" is what many doctors say - particularly men. A woman I know was basically bed ridden for a co
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by matwood 1y ago
You left off the 'if you don't need it'. Even back specialists will tell you that surgery is typically the last resort because of the risks of not fixing the issue and/or making it worse. It's not like fixing an ACL
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by matwood 1y ago
> that friend told me if I wanted to check it out be sure not to make any friends or join any guilds. They said it's the social obligation that's the addiction. I mentioned in another comment this is what got me in DAoC. I actu
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by matwood 1y ago
> Everquest was my first warning about game addiction. I didn't play EQ, but got started on Dark Age of Camelot right when it was released. There was a confluence of life events that caused me to start playing. Three years later, mu
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by matwood 1y ago
IME, employees are on committees and boards (though not public company boards all that often) all the time. The issue here taking multiple full time positions. A CEO being the CEO of multiple companies at once is not common, and when it doe
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by matwood 1y ago
If safety was the real goal the police themselves would announce checkpoints and speed traps. This gives people a chance to not drink too much or speed in the first place. I've lived in places where DUI checkpoints were all announced a
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by matwood 1y ago
Or sympathy among the US military itself.
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by matwood 1y ago
I said a large portion and not most. Trump was very clear what his intentions were and people voted for him anyway. SCOTUS has zero ability to execute on their decisions - that's up to POTUS. Congress is also voted on by the populace,
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by matwood 1y ago
At an individual level you are correct, but that's not what the 2nd amendment was about. An armed populace can stand up to a government. All you have to look at are the wars that the US has lost - Vietnam and Afghanistan come to mind.
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by matwood 1y ago
I would be amazed if much of the US didn't have a similar building code that there must be a railing if there's a possibility of easily falling out the window/door.
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by matwood 1y ago
It depends. I've gotten good prices from CarMax before, but like the other responder said, you have to research. The other thing is that it's not always low IQ, but many people value simplicity. Do I want to show a car, deal with
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by matwood 1y ago
To make them illegal and thus deportable - doh!
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by matwood 1y ago
> Investors don’t want to put money in a place where saying the wrong thing or associating with the wrong person could negatively impact your ability to transact in that country I don't think people understand how fortunate the US i
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by matwood 1y ago
Great comment because I wondering the same thing. Do people not do any of those things on their own anymore? At a minimum, changing the oil was something I did with my dad as a kid. The hardest thing I've done was probably change a sta
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by matwood 1y ago
Italy is a lot like most places in the EU where tourists visit a few Instagram sites and nothing else. I think it’s incorrect to say it’s ruining southern Italy when the reality is it’s a few areas. I was just at the Louvre where the wing w
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by matwood 1y ago
I feel you. I’m selling my house and I joke that I’ll give someone a better deal if they just take everything in it as part of the sale. A suitcase for my clothes, my computer, and some physical mementos is all I need to keep. Even the clot
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by matwood 1y ago
I was wondering about this the other day. Do people even steal car radios/amps/subs anymore? When I was a kid in the 90s, having your car radio stolen was typical.
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by matwood 1y ago
> The one where these people don't have work papers, so they can't work the kind of above the table jobs you need to work to fully support yourself so they wind up being a drain on our social safety nets. Legal immigrants and
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by matwood 1y ago
> Without freedom of association people stop socializing when you get a plurality population, you can see this everywhere in the US. What does this mean? Why would people stop socializing? > If the immigrants were a net benefit things
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by matwood 1y ago
"takes out several Americans" is a Tuesday in the US right now [1]. The main people attacking Americans on American soil are...other Americans. The US has decided to do almost nothing to address the issue. [1] https://e
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by matwood 1y ago
> No idea how you can motivate people. As market driven as the US is, I'm surprised they haven't adopted more EU ideas to keep things tidy. The euro to get a shopping cart tends to keep parking lots clean. I went to an event in
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by matwood 1y ago
So if I don't pay and I don't want to watch ads then what? I'm not going to jump through mental gymnastics to not pay creators and Google for offering the service. If you truly don't want to reward Google, then don'
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by matwood 1y ago
As a Google shareholder, I would love for YT to be spun out.

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