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by pandaman 4y ago
>Was there with my wife and child and tried to go to a cool wine bar at like 5pm It's everywhere in California: minors (under 21 y.o.) are not allowed into bars except on legitimate business (e.g. making a delivery) at any time.
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by pandaman 4y ago
>I don't know anyone that leaves their home for three separate trips on transit a day. Two tops, and usually it's just one. Is not this the problem with transit? Your traveling is so cumbersome that you seem to be restricting y
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by pandaman 4y ago
>so say around 40% of the energy potential of a natural gas power plant makes its way to your house as electricity. Combine those and it means that every 1Wh of electrical energy generated takes the equivalent of 1.5Wh worth of natural g
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by pandaman 4y ago
The US Code vs the Carnot's theorem, who would win? The answer might surprise you!
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by pandaman 4y ago
What if these companies did not hire some concrete number of people but had a pipeline set up to pass a certain fraction of applicants? Seeing how people get hired by Google, for example, and then get into a "team assignment" it c
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by pandaman 4y ago
You can get power tools with replaceable batteries. I do prefer electric tools because they don't need as much maintenance as a combustion engine and weight less but batteries are too expensive for this to be feasible for professional
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by pandaman 4y ago
Sorry, it's a typo.
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by pandaman 4y ago
"Cache buyers" does not really mean people buy houses with their disposable funds. It means only that the deal does not involve a mortgage contract. The deal can still be financed through a loan, just not a mortgage. During the hi
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by pandaman 4y ago
"Full time perm" means that the employer does not know for how long the job is needed, not that the job will be needed forever. If there is no obligation for the employee to work forever, then there should not be an obligation for
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by pandaman 4y ago
People by and large do not exercise loyalty to their employers. This is why companies pay "sign up" bonus, so people could switch jobs over a relatively small bump (otherwise you'd lose a month or two of salary, which would p
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by pandaman 4y ago
I don't think the theory that an intermediary contract creates an employee is well thought through. Consider a property owner who contracts a property management company that has a lease (contract) with a tenant, who complains about br
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by pandaman 4y ago
Per-capita number counts everyone, not just drivers, I imagine. More people drive in the US so it's natural per-capita travel will be more. The "wash" part makes no sense to me. Somebody shopping for a car when gas is 8 dolla
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by pandaman 4y ago
Gas prices and taxes on the engine's displacement lead to the euro cars having smaller engines.
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by pandaman 4y ago
This is not different from sending physical goods via mail: a 3d party is involved but you will be laughed out of the post office when you demand to return items you sent. And there is no guarantee too: authorities may retrieve your items,
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by pandaman 4y ago
This reminds me of one time I had a co-worker explaining to me how awesome is the logging system he wrote. I expressed my skepticism about using a complex one-off system for debugging purposes on the basis that the said system itself needs
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by pandaman 4y ago
>Somehow it's fine to pay half the salary in rent, but not fine if it's financing the mortage. Where is it fine to rent for half of the salary? Last time I rented a couple years ago, the corporate landlord wanted to see either
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by pandaman 4y ago
I don't recall any slowness on the PS2 development, I dreaded touching anything graphical on PC though as the graphics bugs tended to BSOD the whole machine and rebooting 20+ times a day was not speeding up anything (all the Windows to
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by pandaman 4y ago
I was also involved in game graphics at that time (preceding DirectX) and do not quite remember that as you do. Debugging graphics on PC was a pain, you had to either use WinDbg remote mode (which was a pain to set up to get source symbols)
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by pandaman 4y ago
Cars are better to drive on a nice dry road. They suck in unplowed snow or in the flood, pretty bad even in just a heavy rain. Many places where people live in the US get either or all of the above. Significant number of people die stuck in
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by pandaman 4y ago
Section 8 pays their entire rent less 25% or 30% of their income (AGI) so they can afford anything, provided it fits Section 8 requirements.
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by pandaman 4y ago
From what I understand those are for the Section 8 tenants.
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by pandaman 4y ago
Games, just as movies, have anything from dogs to the people who kicked in $2 on the Kickstarter in credits, there has to be more to this story than this or there is soon going to be a massacre of some "rogue" catering driver taki
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by pandaman 4y ago
Many cars have adaptive headlights, which can attenuate parts of the light field containing other cars ("matrix"/adaptive/glare-free etc lights). They have to be disabled in the US because it's against regulations.
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by pandaman 4y ago
People are not afraid of losing the job. People are afraid that the job they will get next will be much worse (in pay, in conditions, in work etc.) $200-300k is not normal in the US and if you are getting fired from one of the few firms pay
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by pandaman 4y ago
>What part of redirect is confusing? Your whole argument is. Heat pumps need a secondary heat source because at the temperatures around 0C they accumulate ice on the heat exchanger outside. To melt the ice they reverse the energy flow so
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by pandaman 4y ago
"Redirect some heat" from where? In the installs I've seen they did it from inside the house i.e. literally cooled the house down. The alternative heat is needed to keep the inside temperature up and work against the pump coo
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by pandaman 4y ago
There is no need to be upset to the point of making up quotes, if you don't even know that your performance is being measured you are obviously not in a position to change WFH/RTO policy anywhere so just accept whatever is coming
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by pandaman 4y ago
Yeah, like for example when they talk about NSA collecting data all the time on this same website... Performance drop figures is not something a company would like to publicize for everyone to know, it's usually shared internally but I
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by pandaman 4y ago
I have not given any links. Real life is not Reddit, sometimes you need to use your brain to figure things out and get ahead.
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by pandaman 4y ago
At the companies that had employees in the states that went into lockdowns and had to switch to WFH.

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