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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
I had 5 spam calls this morning from various suspicious phone numbers, including one from Europe. That's more than I've gotten since I first got this phone number total . I guess it's unreasonable to expect the good times to
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
I received a rejection 18 months after an application, which was then followed by a notice soon after that the rejection was sent in error and that they were extremely excited to move forward with the process.
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
For a politics shifted perspective of this, sometime late last year before prayer before meal, my mom was talking happily about how she hoped Jeff Bezos got the guillotine. Just before "Bless us O Lord and these thy gifts...", &qu
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
I think some young people don't view family as obligatory if it negatively affects them. My sister and I would certainly classify ourselves as such. My sister rather intentionally after graduating college cut contact with my mom to a v
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
I think it's pretty clear that doing things that I truly believe lead to society at large becoming worse would make me a bad person, that's at least partially why I don't actually do them. Simultaneously, when looking at othe
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
I feel very, hopeless for lack of a better word, about this kind of thing lately. I feel strongly that we're sliding by popular demand into this kind of thing, that I'm well in the minority (not on this site but in the population
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
For me attempting to take cold showers is usally a few seconds of shock, followed by more shock, followed by me nearly cracking my skull as I trip out of the shower to turn the setting to something at minimum lukewarm. I did actually suffer
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
I agree with this, I made a list of things I wanted and held off on buying them until Monday, I don't think any of it was on sale. The most special thing that happened in the runup was a I bought a different item and got a 10 dollar cr
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
For me I drink anything I can get my hands on and force myself to burp it up. In rare cases water doesn't work and I need something carbonated.
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
> When Nguyen bought a new charger from RavPower, she received an offer for a $35 gift card in exchange for an Amazon review. That kind of manipulation has been against Amazon’s rules since 2016, and Sunvalley’s statement suggests that’s
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
> No it didn't. The only reason the vote was called was because the majority of that government demanded it. The current Conservative PM campaigned for it. There are a long list of senior tory party members who pushed it, dozens of
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
Trans-Racialism, I assume they mean ala Rachel Dolezal.
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
For anyone about to read the headline and jump straight to the comment section: The team found strong bipartisan support for a new COVID-19 relief package, with Republican voters favoring a hypothetical candidate who supports a $500 bi
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
This is news to me. Is it because you're in California currently? I just got hired by a California based company but I'm from Washington, I'll be remote and if I ever go to the office it will be in Washington.
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
I've been wondering about this lately. When I worked from home this year I just set up my station at my personal computer which is about 5 feet from my bed. This was due to a living situation that I really wasn't in a position to
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
I think you need to define "interview". I recently just got a new job and in the interview process I definitely did worse on the algorithms than I would've done right out of college, but everything else went great. "Here
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
Apparently without Denuvo lifting a finger, a major player appears to have been forced out of the game, not by the most secure copy-protection system available today, but by a self-perpetuating grass-roots clash of personalities with
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
I have to note, I help a friend with the online dating because left to his own devices he will reject 100% of profiles for dumb reasons. My experience with this is that there are very few women that he gets matched with that identify as any
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
In the context of me live blogging my life and looking at everyone else live blogging their life, absolutely not. In the context of "I have friends and I want to talk to them with cute stickers", absolutely. I just wish said frien
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
I think I forget sometimes because I'm working with this stuff daily now, but yeah the evolution of computing technology is just astounding in scale and pace.
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
A lot of job shit doesn't make any sense. What does make sense is I don't get to eat if I don't have a job, and I don't have a job if I don't put up with the job bullshit. For some people that's sitting through
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
Let's put it this way. I couldn't find a job out of college, despite having a CS degree. I ended up settling for a very shit job that pays 21 hourly, 40 hours a week. Because the dev team is very small, I ended up with my hands in
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
I would assume it's because winter in Texas isn't necessarily cold, at all. For example, Houston has average hi/low of 66/47 F in February, as opposed to 94/75 in July. In the first case, you're running the hea
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
It's even worse if its your surname like Poindexter or something, kinda hard to get a surname nickname.
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
After reading about it, I'm a little floored that Tatis Sr. was on board. Like he didn't have the most decorated career ever, but he probably made from high 7 to low 8 digits. Unless his relationship with his son is absolutely sho
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
It reminds me a lot of talking about meat reduction. Intellectually I understand there are a lot of fairly non-controversial reasons to have a less meat heavy diet related to health or the environment or w/e, just as I intellectually u
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
I flagged it because honestly I think it's off-topic for the site. I realize that HN isn't great about that in general but I really struggle to think of anything less geared towards intellectual curiosity (what this site is hypoth
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
What would this mean, digital advertisers just refuse to advertise in Maryland? Shit, sign me up for a plane ticket (or VPN bouncing from Maryland) right now.
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
I consider myself to be curmudgeonly about a lot of change, but honestly Coke in a plastic bottle already tastes different than Coke in an aluminum can already tastes different than Coke out of a normal soda machine already tastes different
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by polka_haunts_us 6y ago
$7.85 to $8.39, about a 7% increase. Keep that in mind when looking at what your registrar bumps the price to.

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