obmelvin

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by obmelvin 5y ago
I feel your point, but obviously not every work environment is the same.
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by obmelvin 5y ago
The other day at Costco (a big box store) I saw some bio-degradable dog bags - advertised as having no plastic!! But, you could only buy them as a pack that included two plastic dispensers to put the bags in..
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by obmelvin 6y ago
> Assuming that it could be mass producible at a price similar to premium house paints I can't see the problem in bringing this to market. Unfortunately, that's the whole point of this little discussion, right? GP is saying ho
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by obmelvin 6y ago
So, it's ok to steal from people as long as most of them are rich? And, it's ok to steal as long as you only steal 25% of it?
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Oh, please. Madoff ruined plenty of "normal" people's life savings. Say what you will about other bankers, but please don't try to elevate someone who destroyed the life savings of others. EDIT: Yes, non-profits and pens
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Yup, friend moved back to Puerto Rico after finishing his PhD and can no longer legally watch most cycling. I know there's a whole history of PR/US whatever-you-want-to-call-it, but it's honestly absurd to me that he can&#x27
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Riding on the sidewalk is dangerous. Cars do not look for you when moving between the street and a parking lot/driveway/etc. I have had more close calls with cars riding on at most 10 miles of sidewalk (and that's being gener
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by obmelvin 6y ago
I understand where you are coming from and am not trying to suggest that these smaller actions are enough, you should keep looking for more, but still the smaller choices you make do add up.
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Just noticed your reply. Thank you!
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Considering he said in 2017 [0] that he would fire anyone trading Bitcoin for being "stupid", yes, the GP's astonishment about Jamie Dimon is well placed. [0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles&#x2
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by obmelvin 6y ago
How did you find your recruiter? Do you mind sharing the rough process that unfolded? Not asking for you to share them, just wondering if there are any takeaways you would have for others on the process.
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by obmelvin 6y ago
If I understand your question, the cache GP is referring to is not meant to help across users. Rather, when someone sends you an email the images are pulled into a cache [0]. When you view the email you aren't seeing the resource loade
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Very fair. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the math as well - my understanding was 24B was the cost to decommission 350 platforms which comes out to about 68M a piece. I can't claim to know enough to judge whether it could be done dr
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Thank you for sharing!! I'm very fascinated by these huge engineering projects/machines.
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by obmelvin 6y ago
>It’s not my fault their business model is failing for a particular ticker on a particular day. As I see it, regardless of how it should be, one needs to accept that trading with RH has limitations/trade-offs compared to a "pro
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by obmelvin 6y ago
I certainly think you are asking a fair question, but I also think it is understandable that such operations would be considerably expensive. The equipment to remove oil rigs is not cheap [0] and I would assume the demand for such ships is
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by obmelvin 6y ago
> However, if you're paying attention, you'll notice the flaws easily. At least you can tell yourself that your setup was worth the money because you can hear the difference ;) [comment meant to be mostly tongue in cheek - I ag
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by obmelvin 6y ago
I'm a little surprised by the reactions to this. I mean, your location data is already sucked up by so many sources and re-sold [0]. That is what we should be fighting, not systems meant to help preserve a city that is deteroriarhting.
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by obmelvin 6y ago
YouTube also now has the ability to toggle Autoplay from the player, whereas that setting is more hidden in Netflix.
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by obmelvin 6y ago
I didn't say that. The GP specifically asked about Apple and Netflix phrased in such a way that Google was already assumed to be 'evil'. I was just giving my 2 cents about how even benign seeming services have their own consi
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by obmelvin 6y ago
I'm not really trying to come out against Netflix here, but I personally think their desire to compete with every other way one could spend their time doesn't have human's best interests at heart. I recognize the agency (most
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Trump's voice has hardly been taken from him. He has chosen to be less public in recent months/weeks. Presidents have communicated via TV and radio for much longer than they have via Twitter.
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by obmelvin 6y ago
How was that amateurish? Acquiring and handling such a substance would not be easy.
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by obmelvin 6y ago
I don't know enough about material science / manufacturing engineering. Obviously, the specific item being talked about here matters. If this was a purely aesthetic item that is trendy the QC matters a lot less. I would assume com
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by obmelvin 6y ago
My understanding from earlier reading of HN was that it takes months (closer to 1 year than 1 month from what I remember) to standup a new production line for N95 masks. With the supply chain constraints & presumable demand for such thi
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Messaging like yours is why some people (i.e. my grandparents, a certain ex-roommate) think "why should I make any change in my life?" How do you propose magically fixing everything at once without making any steps along the way?
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by obmelvin 6y ago
As you point out he could've chosen elsewhere to move. Seems likely the aforementioned developments helped him pick where he did.
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by obmelvin 6y ago
just for other people's context: "entry level" in netflix is not the same as entry level even at other big companies (i.e. FB or Google), they only take experienced engineers
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Perhaps my impression of the state of agricultural yields [0] and fealty payments is incorrect, but I don't think most peasants had enough food to be considered well nourished by today's standards. Sure some grew their own food, b
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by obmelvin 6y ago
> Peasants ate very well, they had to, in order to work the fields. If one doesn't care about the health of their workers, actually, one doesn't really need to feed them much.

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