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by phil21 10mo ago
This is the current norm. If you are parked in front of a fire hydrant or in a fire lane when the needful happens, the fire department will remove you with prejudice. My few volunteer fire department family members take a certain gleeful jo
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by phil21 10mo ago
Waymo doesn’t lock you into the vehicle does it? Would seem like kidnapping to me if so.
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by phil21 10mo ago
I was under the impression these laws have become much more common over the past decade or two when they were a rarity beforehand. My home state (MN) for example didn’t have one for the first 15 years or so of me driving. Much to my chagri
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by phil21 10mo ago
At least at the Home Depot near me, the day laborers sit near the parking lot exits on the boulevard. I go to Home Depot more than is reasonable, and I’ve never been approached by them. You typically would need to solicit them yourself. In
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by phil21 10mo ago
> I’m surprised home many technically knowledgeable people on Internet forums still think IPv6 is some niche, unreliable thing. The more technically knowledgable you happen to be on the subject, the more you realize IPv6 is some unreliab
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by phil21 10mo ago
> are people in Colorado leading such hugely different lives from the rest of the nation? Yes, absolutely. I've spent time in very obese locations in the midwest, and spent time living in Colorado and have relatives there. The lifes
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by phil21 10mo ago
History is a pretty strong indication that it’s clear to me. I find it exceptionally hard to believe populations at scale went from relatively “normal” weights to obese as the majority due to an emerging novel metabolic disorder. All within
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by phil21 10mo ago
Medicare is a form of welfare, just branded differently. It's a means-tested benefit funded in a pay-as-you-go manner via income tax just like any other. The means are just different amongst various programs. Are there any actual cases
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by phil21 11mo ago
A giant datacenter of AI scale will have a dozen or so contractors for physical plant on-site pretty much every single day as long as the thing is in operation. More if a refresh project is ongoing, which after a few years will be more less
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by phil21 11mo ago
For the business jet one, ATC vectored the private jet directly into the crossing traffic. Clearly a giant mistake.
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by phil21 11mo ago
Everything here other than Metals and Tires are basically only useful in the extremes where your inputs are exceedingly clean. Sure, if you somehow have 99.9% cleaned and sorted plastic it can be maybe worth recycling at the margins. Same
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by phil21 11mo ago
If you mean the difference between the top line capital gains vs income tax rates, I generally agree but also understand the math does not. You could reset realized long term capital gains taxes to match income tomorrow and it would not be
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by phil21 11mo ago
Modern society has gotten so “efficient” and expectations so insane that yeah, anyone at that level of a professional career - especially with a family - I would in no way expect to have time to read anything. Every last inch of their life
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by phil21 11mo ago
I was driving to my first “real” tech job about 500 miles away from home at the age of 18. All my assets in my beater of a car, and about $120 in my bank account at the time. My car broke down at a rest stop due to overheating and would not
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by phil21 11mo ago
That’s just an excuse to upgrade to the new hotness!
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by phil21 11mo ago
Yep this is me. I get super pumped whenever we get a snowfall large enough to justify pulling out my ridiculously overkill snowblower. The entire block on both sides plus the alley gets done those days. Neighbors here at first were skeptica
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by phil21 11mo ago
It’s the going from zero to 100 that gets folks it seems. Deep, heavy, wet snow is called heart attack snow for a reason. It sneaks up on you - a driveway you just cleared for years with normal snowfalls is all of a sudden a 10x workout fro
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by phil21 11mo ago
What does this mean exactly? Pretty much any reasonably modern ALPR system also records make/model/type/color of vehicle along with the plate reading these days. Obviously some are better at this than others, but even my Unif
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by phil21 11mo ago
My wife is nearing 40 and she had these things delivering food at her midwestern college town back when she was still in school. Limited rollout and obviously an ideal environment, but these things are nowhere near new.
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by phil21 11mo ago
> I had guessed it was stopped because it came to an unshoveled portion of the sidewalk. If it can't traverse that, it's not made for this city Have them partner with the city and collect evidence of unshoveled sidewalks. Auto
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by phil21 11mo ago
Because social security tax is simply a tax like any other, and social security is a pay as you go means tested entitlement program like any other. Current workers pay for current retirees. There is no account anywhere with your name on it
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by phil21 11mo ago
Explain why rural customers prefer the dollar store to the grocery store? Are they just stupid and don't know what's best for themselves? Perhaps the rural grocers are not carrying the appropriate product mix for their current (ne
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by phil21 11mo ago
Costco purposefully targets the upper middle class to nearly the point of exclusion of everyone else. By charging membership fees, product selection, and the bulk pricing. They could care less about the bottom 50% of the market.
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by phil21 11mo ago
The lack of customer density over time drove out all the fabric stores - medium sized or not. At-home sewing has been declining since I've been alive, and it was just barely hanging on when I was a kid. The demographics simply cannot s
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by phil21 11mo ago
This was not always the case. 30 years ago the customer base for bulk co-op places were lower-middle class/poor folks who had a decent amount of financial acumen. You'd go there with your own containers and buy staples by the poun
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by phil21 11mo ago
Sounds like the grocery stores were not serving their customer base well if they couldn’t compete with “overpriced” dollar stores. Carrying cost of produce does not add up. If produce is going bad at that spoilage rate the store management
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by phil21 11mo ago
Spices might be the most universal ripoff anywhere in the US. You can get it so much cheaper either at ethnic stores, generic plastic bags at certain grocery stores in the ethnic aisles, or restaurant supply stores for spices that don’t ha
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by phil21 11mo ago
Why are we taking this whole “the $5k fine is nothing” thing at face value? A long time ago I used to help manage a couple retail stores. A $5k random expense would have put that location into the red for the month. Perhaps not the volume o
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by phil21 11mo ago
Probably doesn’t apply for most app pricing, since those are typically advertised as “digital coupons” or the like in the fine print.
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by phil21 11mo ago
First few dozen cuts would suck. After that it gets pretty easy, just time consuming. Keeping an old school saw sharp would be far more challenging. I grew up in a household without power tools, and helped gut rehab a few friends houses. Ce

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