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by ptaffs 1y ago
>>The laptop workers using Badge pledge a minimum spend. Badge gets a commission of that minimum spend. Cafe owners get more people and revenue, so they are happy to pay that. A user books a space using Badge, and promises to spend, a
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by ptaffs 1y ago
Yes customers over-staying, complaining, not spending enough seems to be the problem Cafe owners have. One near me had a threatening sign that "if you're sitting, you need to be sipping" (you're welcome, but not for long
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by ptaffs 1y ago
DIVX/XVID is ambiguous, it is a video format and separately a crappy DRM ecosystem from defunct Circuit City. The format DIVX would compress a full length movie to about 700MB (a CD capacity), where VCD MPEG-1 only got 75-80 minutes. L
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by ptaffs 1y ago
I agree and piling on. Capitalism is good for those with capital, the wealthy few. Then wonder where they got the capital, and mostly it's something environmentally bad, like the extraction industry such as coal and oil.
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by ptaffs 2y ago
It's behind a paywall, I think. Do they talk about money laundering? https://alessa.com/blog/real-estate-money-laundering-red-fla... https://trustforlondon.org.uk/research/faulty-towers-unders
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by ptaffs 3y ago
As an atheist, mention or quotes from the bible are interesting to me because they help explain our current culture. I'm just challenging your proposal that (all) atheists are not curious.
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by ptaffs 3y ago
maybe off topic but home ownership is one good and common way to build generational wealth (opinions/citations below) but renting or lease-holding does not realize as an asset which retains its value to be passed to children. (leases c
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by ptaffs 3y ago
This is great until you find a website which requires or disallows select special characters. With so many sites allowing a password reset via email, I wish we embraced the password-less login email "magic" link such as used by Sl
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by ptaffs 3y ago
I think you know Bard doesn't. These systems literally make things up in a convincing way. The lawyers who were prosecuted "believed ChatGPT had greater reach than standard databases." https://www.nytimes.com/
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by ptaffs 3y ago
well, that needs to be a t-shirt.
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by ptaffs 4y ago
i think this helps explain why "you can't tell people anything" problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35282293 in that "most people aren’t very good at visualizing hypothetical, at imagining what
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by ptaffs 4y ago
rent and maintenance if they have branch property, salaries and benefits for staff at least. Banks have a lot of regulation and audit requirements which take work.
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by ptaffs 4y ago
I had the local solar reseller estimate for installing on my flat roof house. I would like to think I am keen on going green, but after three visits, some hard sell and spreadsheets showing when and how I would break even, i really felt lik
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by ptaffs 4y ago
i remember my dad would ask that our non-smoking family of four was seated in the restaurant smoking section (if it's the same room), as we would be taking seats away from the smokers and reduce the smoke in the room.
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by ptaffs 4y ago
Blogger and now author about the experience did something similar, reviewing pizza slices in NY, 2009-2011 http://www.sliceharvester.com/ https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Slice-Harvester/Coli
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by ptaffs 4y ago
i think to kill you either there needs to be enough power to burn organs, which still may only affect one limb and not be fatal, or to pass through your heart, say from one arm to another, or arm to opposite leg, and for your heart to be di
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by ptaffs 4y ago
Health Insurance companies will follow-up with determining if the property/land owner is responsible for the accident and try to sue. Months after ER treatment, I've had to respond that my child's cycling accident on a camp s
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by ptaffs 5y ago
Here's a training video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enJBk8TKV9Q ) for creating CICS Screens, which are the type of thing I think the poster was referencing. My first job was writing CICS CoBOL. There was a steep le
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by ptaffs 5y ago
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/derided-by-critics-trick...
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by ptaffs 5y ago
My wife and i had kids at your age and 15 years on we're all doing very well. We know older parents, also doing well. We were told there were some risks increased for an older mother, but with hindsight these were small percentage chan
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by ptaffs 5y ago
This is as much to do with their content license agreements as it is BBC being disinterested. Material BBC licenses to distribute, they are limited to the UK, and content BBC licenses to foreign TV presumably can't be also distributed
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by ptaffs 6y ago
Does anyone else get sarcastic "what's the point?" comments when ordering or serving decaf? How do you deal with it? I would drink coffee during the work week and have nausea headaches at the weekend, once i established the c
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by ptaffs 6y ago
In this situation the other person believes they are correct and a high performer and you, the manager and your advice, is wrong. Your advice is wrong and your expectations are wrong. You can't have the conversation until you've d
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by ptaffs 6y ago
totally agree with this comment, help the person; we all bring different skills. Also, the person might just need a prompt or remind, someone telling them mid afternoon on Friday that a form is due before going home.
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by ptaffs 6y ago
...agreeing with you, there is a lot of Government Required consumer fraud protection built in to Credit Cards.
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by ptaffs 6y ago
one thing i love about using Vim, may only apply to using it in a text based terminal, is that the input cursor is not the text select cursor. This may also apply to emacs. Useful in many instances to select text from one portion of a docum
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by ptaffs 6y ago
"The media has...", really? There's no coordinated media, there are several media corporations (like Twitter, BBC, News Corp (NY Post owner)) with their own bias and their own audience.
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by ptaffs 6y ago
i am not a lawyer but have moved from the UK to the USA. The visa is permission to cross the border, but there's the i-94 stamp which is visitor residency, so if your visa expires but you are still good with i-94 dates, you're fin
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by ptaffs 6y ago
Yes exactly! and maybe why can't it show me when my audio is breaking up on the receivers computer, it could be their system or mine, either way i'd like an indicator of dropped audio.
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by ptaffs 6y ago
All true, so maybe it's more concerning for something targeted like evidence in a trial where a judge and jury are shown some undeniable and incriminating, yet fabricated evidence. The amount of time it takes to produce these makes the

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