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by nimbius 5y ago
"The rich world is used to wages and prices growing slowly. " the minimum wage has not increased in a decade and real earnings have declined precipitously since the sixties for most americans who work longer hours for lower pay th
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100k workers take action as 'Striketober' hits the US(bbc.com)
4 points by nimbius 5y ago|0 comments
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Zillow stops home buying as it struggles to manage its backlog of inventory(cnn.com)
21 points by nimbius 5y ago|2 comments
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by nimbius 5y ago
is it just me or is about 65% of the AWS customer experience dealing with cost and implementing clever workarounds to reduce spending? wouldnt it make more sense to just shop around and use a different cloud provider? vultr? ramnode? alic
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by nimbius 5y ago
Ouch. I work on diesel trucks for a living and ive also been a professional driver. I never had a problem driving, but like all jobs, you gotta find something that fits. the highschool things nothing new really, as ive personally seen some
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by nimbius 5y ago
Unpopular opinion on hn here but Dave's trans skit hinges on his audience not knowing enough about trans people for him to get away with creative character assassination. He openly condemns their argument against Rowling as goal-posti
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by nimbius 5y ago
A better question: could you find ten thousand qualified people in 2021 who really want to go through 4 rounds of interviews with a company that's quantitatively proven to promote human misery?
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by nimbius 5y ago
Looking at the image in the article, the 'fast fire accellerator' looks suspiciously like a traditional waste gas flare common for the past 50 years in petroleum refining. Its common to try and redefine these as the EPA cracks dow
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by nimbius 5y ago
Governor Parson, While in the Army, attended night classes at the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaii, without completion of a degree. Its not hard to see how someone with only a rural sixties highschool education might conf
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U.S. crude oil price tops $80 a barrel, the highest since 2014(cnbc.com)
47 points by nimbius 5y ago|73 comments
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Covid No. 1 cause of death for 35- to 54-year-olds in September(abcnews.go.com)
2 points by nimbius 5y ago|0 comments
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by nimbius 5y ago
Its far more concerning to remember that the US Federal Reserve cannot combat this round of inflation using the prime interest rate, as it never fully abandoned QE or Quantitative Easing from 2008. since the corporate lending market is now
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by nimbius 5y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dslul.open... OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.
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by nimbius 5y ago
i work on heavy equipment such as tractors, diesel trucks and excavators in the USA. this is an excellent start, but its a long way from a tractor. some of the pitfalls that need to be addressed: "Modular Power Unit" is undefined
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by nimbius 5y ago
just for clarification, the speaker has a newsweek peace that rails against diversity, equality, and inclusion as a sinister regime that actually works against diversity and actually hurts the public trust. he then goes on to insist univer
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by nimbius 5y ago
If i were to describe the Assange case in a word, it would be myopic. once again the US has decided this is the hill it will die on. instead of reforming intelligence agencies, challenging the doctrine of mass surveillance, revisiting the
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by nimbius 5y ago
occhams razor here. This increase in recent collisions (including training jets) is probably due to the Navy's "five and dimes" sleep schedule that basically guarantees every squid mustang and sardine is a combat worthless zo
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by nimbius 5y ago
somewhat related, but can anyone tell me why PCEngines specifically use Intel nics in their ALIX systems? surely realtek and other players have caught up to them by now for the performance envelope of the board.
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by nimbius 5y ago
Unpopular opinion but I think a talent exodus and turnover are likely at fault here as well. The people who stood up this juggernaut are no longer here, and Facebooks ability to consistently attract talent that is competent enough to maint
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by nimbius 5y ago
War fighter showed up to replace soldier about the same time the space force was announced. It's meant to be a blanket term to satisfy categorization from rifle carrying traditional soldiers to drone pilots in an Idaho parking lot.
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by nimbius 5y ago
Missile interception technology like aegis relies on other ships detection and coordination with onboard defenses in an aegis fleet network. Faster missiles mean a solution may be coordinated or countermeasure plotted too slowly to have any
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Evergrande misses second offshore bond payment(reuters.com)
2 points by nimbius 5y ago|0 comments
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by nimbius 5y ago
I think this is important research if only for the fact that it illuminates the states of CPU as they apply to threat models for users. It wasnt too long ago that many state sponsored Android hacks were revealed to work due to 2 separate u
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by nimbius 5y ago
>I think we have to ask if this won't have a chilling effect on open discussion by moderate voices first, youtube isnt where open discussion by moderate voices happens. Its a cavalcade of endlessly random videos promoting everythin
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by nimbius 5y ago
the agent that prevents its separation is most likely soy lecithin.
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by nimbius 5y ago
id go so far as to say this is more a one-time 1.9 billion dollar bailout for the telecom industry. the bitter truth is nobody in the USA made it to market as fast as Huawei with 5G for a number of reasons. AT&T and others rested on th
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by nimbius 5y ago
Mini has always struck me as a gimmick on wheels. In the US The cars sole purpose is an ego stroke for insufferable anglophiles... the kind who refer to every bar as a pub and flog the premier league like some sort of religious talisman. I
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by nimbius 5y ago
I know its an unpopular opinion but for those who were hoping for a roaring 20s comeback from covid, I believe this will prove to be a huge damper. Remember: no forgiveness means eviction and bankruptcy, which disqualify you from renting pr
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by nimbius 5y ago
so if i understand this correctly through the dark veil of my millennial cynicism: the 35 year grass-roots collaborative effort between medical professionals, scientists, and civically minded enthusiasts to modernize and legalize recreation
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by nimbius 5y ago
translation: the microchip shortage has finally become exhausting enough to begin picking low hanging fruit.

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