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by psim1 6y ago
During Pennsylvania's red phase, groceries and hardware stores were kept open (to name two examples). Mom and pop groceries and hardware stores were allowed to be open as was Walmart, which sells both. Pennsylvania has a lot of state-l
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by psim1 6y ago
Please use the original title rather than editorialize: Apple catches electronics recycler illegally reselling over 100,000 iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches
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‘Super Healthy’ College Student Dies of Rare Covid-19 Complications(nytimes.com)
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Microsoft 365 Outage(status.office365.com)
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Verizon to Buy TracFone in Deal Valued at Up to $7B(wsj.com)
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Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages(wsj.com)
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Japan’s Entry in Flying-Car Race Takes to the Air(wsj.com)
46 points by psim1 6y ago|60 comments
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by psim1 6y ago
I read this and remembered a plan I had journaled when I was 30 years old. I was working in a stratified IT department that I liked pretty well and had mapped out a plan to be at director level by age 40. I left that organization at age 33,
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by psim1 6y ago
OK, I did misunderstand. The numbers make more sense now. I believe step 3 "enroll, get that cheap insurance" should make this a little more clear. (It's not just the act of enrollment that gets you the insurance.)
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by psim1 6y ago
I might be misunderstanding this chart, but it appears the author is saying that by enrolling for the minimum number of credits, you will receive the associated insurance for free. For at least one university listed -- Penn State -- that is
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Covid lockdowns are overly blunt and costly(wsj.com)
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An Introduction to Profitable Business Models for Recovering Hours Peddlers(daedtech.com)
1 points by psim1 6y ago|0 comments
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by psim1 6y ago
Near me, there is a bike shop owner with this same attitude, which is respectable. However, along with high prices, the shop’s service is slow and poor, their brand selection is unpopular, and their knowledge of current bike technology is l
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by psim1 6y ago
The film is the origin of the “brat pack” and the John Parr/David Foster song that the lite FM stations play every other day.
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Hong Kong Publisher Jimmy Lai Arrested Under New National-Security Law(wsj.com)
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Did the scramble to remote learning work? (Survey results)(chronicle.com)
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by psim1 6y ago
Still very much in use: the E6B! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
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by psim1 6y ago
Fine with me. I pay Amazon $129 per year for Prime service and if this is one of the ways they arrange it, great. What else comes by mail? Junk, or bills that are due in 3-4 weeks, or statements. First class mail was always kind of variable
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by psim1 6y ago
This makes me sad because I'm sure I am doing about ten times as much work as you of a similar nature and getting paid one half of what you are. And there is not much either of us can do about it.
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by psim1 6y ago
Yes, at ATC’s discretion. Which you won’t receive, at least not cheerfully, at a busy airport.
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WSJ journalists ask publisher for distinction between news and opinion content(wsj.com)
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by psim1 6y ago
I understand the point being made here, but what are those affected supposed to take away? Cloudflare made a mistake that caused (x millions of dollars of lost online commerce revenues, y number of missed telehealth sessions, etc.) and sinc
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by psim1 6y ago
Reparations would show an actual sense of responsibility. Firing someone would be appropriate if they were negligent. Other measures might be more appropriate. Is it enough that any time there's a Cloudflare incident, all we get are le
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by psim1 6y ago
What responsibility and reparative measures has Cloudflare taken for Friday's incident? Was anyone fired for the mistake?
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Private Pilots Get Their Chance to Fly into Major Airports(wsj.com)
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by psim1 6y ago
NAT breaks certain things, and broken NAT breaks them further. The specific thing I can speak of is VoIP or more accurately SIP. SIP was designed for the public internet and so there are NAT workarounds, such as: if my interface has an RFC
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by psim1 6y ago
Thoughtful questions like these, and the thoughtful people who ask them, do indeed lead to truth. My concern is more with intellectual dishonesty and naive, shallow understanding. An uneducated person who knows he is uneducated has more tru
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by psim1 6y ago
I'll acknowledge the psych aspect with a nod but otherwise want to move on and say this: The value of truth is more important today than ever before, and modern society's interest in it seems to be lower than ever before. That sca
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by psim1 6y ago
I so miss 4:3. I still think it’s the right ratio for the kind of work I do. Widescreen is for movies!
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A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts(wsj.com)
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