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by plandis 5y ago
What is Apple doing that’s anti-competitive? How have consumers been harmed?
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by plandis 5y ago
Apple doesn’t even have 30% of the smart phone market globally how can they have a monopoly on apps? Developers can just stop developing for Apple based systems if they chose.
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by plandis 5y ago
This is my problem. I have video footage of a man walking out of his tent (that he is illegally camping in, btw) , walking across the street, coming to my car and removing the catalytic converter and then walking back to his tent. The polic
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by plandis 5y ago
Yes it was in my case. I didn’t realize that fact until I started working at 13 and was seeing the prices all the time though.
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by plandis 5y ago
Even with the higher cost of living in SF/NYC/Seattle, tech pay at FAANG is pretty high. Senior software positions are pretty much start at $300k/yr across all of those companies. Plus these companies generally have excellent
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by plandis 5y ago
The last content added to Overwatch that wasn’t new character skins or balance patches was in April of 2020 when they added the last new character to the game. The last new non-death match map added to Overwatch was in 2019. Correct me if I
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by plandis 6y ago
The PPU is definitely complex but the NES has the benefit of being much, much, much better documented than the GB which is honestly a huge advantage. The NES also has a bunch of complex cartridge mappers but you don’t necessarily need to im
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by plandis 6y ago
I have never been on a train in the US that is faster than driving and certainly not on a train with food I’d actually want to eat. Perhaps west coast trains are total crap compared to elsewhere in the US but your description doesn’t fit my
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by plandis 6y ago
I would honestly recommend not trying to emulate the gameboy if you’re doing emulation for the first time. I did this and it didn’t go very well (but perhaps I’m a below average person) Chip8 or the NES (6502+PPU) are probably better places
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by plandis 6y ago
I certainly wouldn’t, and I’m willing to bet people like me are in the majority. Why waste a day in a train when I can drive for way less cost and stop wherever I please or fly and get there much faster? Not to mention that if I drive some
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by plandis 6y ago
Maybe I’m crazy but if you’re really lonely I don’t know how planning an event nobody will show up to because you have nobody to invite helps. That just seems like bad advice. Or even if you do have people to invite if you’re not super clos
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by plandis 6y ago
I think this is misleading since Jeff Bezos’ adoptive father (adopted when he was 4) was a petroleum engineer, and his grandfather was a director in the Atomic Energy Commission according to Wikipedia.
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by plandis 6y ago
The two unions I’ve worked for before getting a job in tech were terrible. At one I was physically threatened with violence for being too productive and the other allocated work times/roles by seniority instead of ability. If you happe
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by plandis 6y ago
That’s literally every publicly traded company, not just Amazon.
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by plandis 6y ago
They pee in bottles too, why would you think it’s any different for them?
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by plandis 6y ago
I grew up knowing several people in long haul trucking / delivery and this problem isn’t uniquely Amazon. Chances are if you’ve bought products that are shipped somewhere in the US you’ve been paying for pee labor. I also don’t think m
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by plandis 6y ago
It’s not the cost that’s the issue but rather that you either need higher energy density batteries which will typically be heavier or you need many batteries or you need to take breaks to charge the batteries you have. Now, this isn’t so ba
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by plandis 6y ago
Yeah I actually initially started out with a reel mower when my wife and I first bought our house, they are definitely pretty good, assuming you can work around the caveats you mentioned. I should try doing it before a run that’s a good ide
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by plandis 6y ago
I have an electric weed trimmer, lawn mower and leaf blower. They are quite a bit less noise than gas equivalents I used growing up. The one huge downside is that these devices are pretty big energy consumers and battery life is horrible. M
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by plandis 6y ago
The fact that you can go buy many different copies of Mein Kampf off eBay but not Dr. Seuss is.. interesting? I suppose they can do whatever they want on their platform but that just seems a bit arbitrary to me.
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by plandis 6y ago
Blaming the intern instead of root causing it as a systemic failure just leads me to wonder if they will actually take the correct steps to prevent this from happening in the future. Fwiw this is a good archive of mostly well done post mort
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by plandis 6y ago
What law does that violate?
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by plandis 6y ago
> If we want people to have a certain quality of life at work, I don't see any purpose directing any energy at certain large employers. All efforts should be direct to politicians, who we can vote in, to provide that quality of life
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by plandis 6y ago
Amazon used to offer corporate employees the opportunity to work in an FC for a few days. Have you done that program? If so how were the working conditions?
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by plandis 6y ago
That’s literally every company though. Amazon is no different than any other company with respect to fighting against things they perceive as not being in the companies benefit.
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by plandis 6y ago
> Is this really such an important thing for people? Yes. Ideally, I’d buy things and get them instantly but to my knowledge nobody has created a teleporter for general goods.
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by plandis 6y ago
Which European countries provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who have lived in that given country for 5 years?
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by plandis 6y ago
> My perception is rather that Americans have very high tendency to assume they are the greatest country in the world. And because of mostly learning about their own country and history in school it is harder to hold themselves to higher
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by plandis 6y ago
> Countries (notably the US) didn't work through the past year to build out socialized manufacturing capacity for additional dose production I was under the assumption that Project Warp Speed explicitly directed funding from the US
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by plandis 6y ago
> The expectation going forward is that something like 80 percent of new households that will form over the next 15 years will be these one to two person households. A lot of them would prefer an apartment or a condo—smaller units. I don

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