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by prewett 6y ago
"Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed" is the usual phrase, creatively altered by the parent. (See https://wordhistories.net/2018/07/01/brighteyed-bushytailed-... for an in-depth etymology)
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by prewett 6y ago
The companies are required to pay their workers at least minimum wages if wage + tips is less than minimum wage. As far as I can tell, tipping is justified by guilt-tripping everyone by saying "the food industry doesn't pay its wo
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by prewett 6y ago
I refuse to shop at Safeway if I have any other choice. The Safeways I've seen display their discount as $1.00 off their (excessive) price, and then expect me to believe that I'm getting a discount instead of getting the real pric
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by prewett 6y ago
"Free market" just means that the prices are determined by the market, not by government-sponsored monopolies, artificial scarcity, regulation, tariffs, restricted information flows between buyer and seller, etc. It is in contrast
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by prewett 6y ago
I'm assuming by "this" you mean "Ant's IPO gets shut down because of Ma's comments". This "rule by law", which is different. In rule of law, the king is bound by the law. In rule by law, t
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by prewett 6y ago
This article reminds me of what I think about houses: modern houses are so cheap, ugly, no architectural sense, poor construction, etc; those old Victorian houses are so nice, robustly constructed, beautiful, attention to ornamentation, etc
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by prewett 6y ago
I strongly recommend finding a good counselor or something along those lines for the flooding-thoughts. Self-medicating will help you survive, but it will not enable you to thrive. I've been doing what is effectively group counseling f
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by prewett 6y ago
You get a pretty high exemption for salary earned abroad if you paid local taxes on it and the country has a tax agreement with the US, which most do. You're still taxed on income earned within the US normally, but it seems reasonable
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by prewett 6y ago
As a sample size of 1, I do not drink alcohol for the effect. I don't like the disoriented feeling. But I do like the flavor of a good beer, wine, or single-malt Scotch.
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by prewett 6y ago
If you want a linked network of documents, HTML / semantic web is great. Problem is, sometimes you want interactive elements in your document (like navigation menus), and sometimes you want a layout that is precise but is also responsi
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by prewett 6y ago
Some ideas have demonstratively poorer outcomes, or more succinctly: "bad". Some ideas are demonstratively at odds with the observed behavior of the world: "wrong". If you can't say "person X is wrong about ide
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by prewett 6y ago
I don't think Buffett said anything about full-time trading . Considering he's kind of the opposite of a trader, I think his point was if you can't devote yourself to the kind of research necessary, buy an index fund. Buffet
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by prewett 6y ago
A monopoly is not necessarily profitable. I have a monopoly on the distribution of my blog content, but that does not make any difference in my annual income. Assuming that the parent's assertion that airlines have a monopoly on the ro
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by prewett 6y ago
In my experience VPNs are used by everyone I’ve interacted with, including very tech unsavvy users.
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by prewett 6y ago
The fires are the worst in wet years, generally. It rains all winter, at least in the north part of the state, so lots of underbrush grows. It doesn't rain at all in the summer, so all the brush dries out, providing fuel for the fires.
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by prewett 6y ago
I'm really curious what open source software an oven uses? I would think all it needs is timers and a temperature monitoring loop.
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by prewett 6y ago
The author is critical of Islam, but that is hardly "islamophobic": at no point in the article does the author indicate any fear of Islam, which is what the " -phobic" construction means. " -phobic" does not
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by prewett 6y ago
Argh, I thought this was a (potential) new take on "The Great Gatsby" but it turns out to be some web framework I haven't heard of. Could we maybe name things so that tech things sound like they are tech?
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by prewett 6y ago
I think Oracle v Google concerning Java still hasn't been resolved...
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by prewett 6y ago
Japan seems fairly adaptive. Unlike China in the 1800s, they recognized that they had to open up to the West and did so, taking the West at their own game. They were pretty successful at that for about 100 years, going from feudalism to a m
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by prewett 6y ago
Characters have a defined way of writing the strokes, so you look them up by number of strokes and radical. ("Radical" being, usually, the bit on the left or the top) You can see a web-based example at [2]. Click on the "Radi
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by prewett 6y ago
And it actively prevents the brand from doing quality control.
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by prewett 6y ago
I don't think all the ML PhD's in the world can fix a system with misaligned incentives. Anonymous seller says this product is the same as that name brand one, oh we believe you, we'll co-mingle them. This right here is undoi
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by prewett 6y ago
Investing $10k a year at 6% (average stock market returns are 6-8%) gives you $368k after 20 years (net increase of $297k over inflation at 2%). Even if you just saved it for ten years that's $100k. Neither are enough to retire on, but
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by prewett 6y ago
> Honestly it pisses me off how casually you just assert that most millenials think this way. He never asserted anything about "most millenials" and specifically talked about his friends. If someone talking about their person
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by prewett 6y ago
Python is "batteries included", but this sounds like a pretty hulking-big battery!
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by prewett 6y ago
Their whole UI is written in ObjC, they've got two decades of Mac apps in ObjC, and they wrote a whole new language to interface cleanly with ObjC but with nicer semantics, so I'm guessing ObjC isn't going anywhere. But even
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by prewett 6y ago
Apple is still pretty innovative, but it hasn't been as visible as a new product for a while. They already shrunk computers down to the size of a watch, it's not obvious what more they can do, and the technology is probably not re
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by prewett 6y ago
I think the term "midwest" came from back when "West" meant "west" of the Mississippi. Ohio, is definitely not East, and definitely not West, but is pretty mid-west from that perspective.
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by prewett 6y ago
A bit off-topic, but frankly, I think trying to use the Windows source code would be a liability for everyone but something like WINE. Just building it would be a trick, last I heard a full build of Windows took an entire day. I'm gues

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