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by meowster 6y ago
How is it different from a squat? Are people not spreading their cheeks? Your body is still aligned the same way when you rest your elbows on your thighs.
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by meowster 6y ago
They processed the return and shelved it faster than he could walk from customer service to the shelf? They had CPUs sitting on the shelf for anyone to grab? Fun story, but maybe your coworker was pulling your leg?
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by meowster 6y ago
Not recently but as a kid: wooden blocks, LEGO, a pad of graph paper, a pad of blank paper, ruler, mechanical pencil. Ocassionally as an adult, the pads of paper and mechanical pencil are great for doodling. For kids, those items alone aren
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by meowster 6y ago
> poop stool Doesn't just leaning forward (resting your elbows on your thighs) accomplish the same thing?
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by meowster 6y ago
I think it would be useful in the classroom when learning about maps. Everyone will learn and become familiar with the other projections, but this projection shows how distorted the others are. It would be good to know the (more) true siz
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by meowster 6y ago
Item #5 in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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by meowster 6y ago
If anyone else can answer: What is the best smartwatch that maintains privacy? I have a Pebble Steel, but it will not sync with Gadget Bridge no matter what settings I try.
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by meowster 6y ago
I don't remember where I read it, but apparently one person was successful with stopping a free weekly paper from being delivered by reporting littering to the police (they tried telling the newspaper first, but they didn't stop).
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by meowster 6y ago
I just say, "Cancel my subscription." Don't play their game, don't give them an inch, if they ask why, just repeat "Cancel my subscription". If they say something else, just say "cancel" and nothing
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by meowster 6y ago
I bought a new vehicle that came with a free year of SiriusXM, but I never activated it because I've heard how scummy the company is about canceling. Once a month they mailed me a postcard to sign up, I called them to ask them to stop
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by meowster 6y ago
It's the Internet Of Things. Microsoft was just trying to be ahead of the curve (post was from 2014). Afterall, there are now IoT dishwashers, refrigerators, coffeemakers, etc. Whose to say there won't be an IoT toaster?
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by meowster 6y ago
You might want to read about what this person did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast I lost 70 pounds (nearly a third of my weight) through just restricting my intake to two tiny meals a day. It su
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by meowster 6y ago
Previous discussion 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113655 (83 points, 124 comments)
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by meowster 6y ago
Unintended recipients don't know it will only be a single, one-time email. To them, it looks exactly like spam. Don't look at it from your perspective, look at it from a random stranger's perspective.
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by meowster 6y ago
The resending emails after a few years after I unsubscribed happened to me once. I marked it as spam, and it still shows up in my spam folder. It seems like a noble company, but as far as I can tell, they broke US law while spamming me, s
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by meowster 6y ago
I've only run into that once personally. It was a major US business that I signed up with. It violated the CAN-SPAM law, so I marked it as spam. I'm not sorry if I threw anyone's metrics off, they broke the law, they spamme
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by meowster 6y ago
Sellers also leave negative reviews for products from competing sellers.
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by meowster 6y ago
"National treasure" is a common/colloquial phrase in the United States.
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by meowster 6y ago
I'm not opposed to using a standard that's somewhat different, but I need an enter/return key.
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by meowster 6y ago
Smart and intelligent people, interesting and insightful articles and discussions. Maybe only half of the articles and comments I read here are tech-related.
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by meowster 6y ago
Yes it is a money grab, but there are industries where every player does this, so you have no choice but to play their game if you want in.
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by meowster 6y ago
Did I piss off an architect? If anyone wants to see what I'm talking about, I think there are some examples here: https://McMansionHell.com Some of them aren't really that bad, but there are some definite atrocities.
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by meowster 6y ago
OP doesn't seem mean at all, just accurate that open floorplans these days are built poorly. When I was shopping for houses, I never saw a good open floorplan. They all had weird angles, flows that didn't make sense, and zero sy
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by meowster 6y ago
The link in the original discussion is dead, here is it archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20200722155031/https://www.gizmo...
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by meowster 6y ago
It's all in the head and how you perceive the world. They're strangers, the average person is not trying to develop any kind of connection with you (and the unaverage person who is, isn't going to let clothing stop them). Wh
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by meowster 6y ago
What would be the downsides of being naked in front of a bunch of strangers? To answer your second question: the sense of freedom, peace, and comfort.
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by meowster 6y ago
> learned a lot I've learned to not write my opinions down where someone can use them against me again, or say them where they can be recorded. - Zuck, probably
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by meowster 6y ago
If I had the choice of losing my sense of taste for the rest of my life in exchange for being phycially-fit, I would do it in a heart beat. There is so much more to life than tasting food, and a lot more exciting things in life become more
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by meowster 6y ago
I saw one in a Best Buy. I tried to check it out, but it needed to be reflashed (I don't remember what was wrong with it, it was months ago). I was there to buy a phone, and they might have made a sale, but someone dropped the ball.
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by meowster 6y ago
The problem is such lists become obsolete after the next update when Microsoft introduces a new privacy-invading feature or they revert some of the settings that you previously changed. The only winning move is not to play.

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