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by radpanda 1y ago
> You could look at this as an abitrage opportunity where a business throwing out bulk waste has to pay for it, but if you distribute it to individual citizens whose trash bin still has a bit of room in it, you can throw it out for free.
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by radpanda 1y ago
> Nobody ever cared where anyone worked from Was it really this way in general or just with some little startups who didn’t mind taking risks? As far as I remember employers always cared where remote workers were for tax and other reason
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by radpanda 1y ago
Another reason in favor of reliance on contractors, at least in a couple of federal agencies I’ve worked with, is to improve diversity metrics. For agencies that require lots of technical workers, the reality is that means a heavily male wo
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by radpanda 1y ago
That’s how I feel about present day humanity with regards to computer tech. I was born around the time of the 8086; my parents never really became fluent with computers. I was a nerd and got into computers as a teen, soon enough I had inter
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by radpanda 2y ago
Sure, there’s the math, but there’s also the human nature part of it. If you’re sitting in the right lane doing the speed limit, watching dozens of cars consistently zip past, it feels like you’re “falling behind” all of that traffic. I w
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by radpanda 2y ago
Waymo rides are also potentially slower because they strictly follow speed limits. Not really problematic in downtown SF but it’ll be interesting to see how it’ll be received by riders when they expand to highway driving where most people g
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by radpanda 2y ago
Buy back the Mavericks (probably for less than he sold them for), fire Nico Harrison and trade to get Luka Dončić back. Oh, you mean about 18F? I’d just keep trying to draw public attention to what appear to be hasty decisions made by this
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by radpanda 2y ago
I’m not a big George W Bush fan but this quote of his has stuck with me for years: > Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions
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by radpanda 2y ago
Seems like it might be the exception proving the rule. People say “every” restaurant these days needs to use something like Toast to provide online ordering and needs to play nice with DoorDash for delivery and needs to host ghost kitchens
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by radpanda 2y ago
> Alternate title: Lack of Government Interference Allows Properties to be put to Highest and Best Use From the article: > Arizona even passed a law in 2016 making it illegal to regulate short-term rentals at the local level Does stat
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by radpanda 2y ago
I wish the NYT would have asked a follow-up to this question: > Q: Could airlines close this loophole, if they wanted to? > A: Yes, it’s their own prices that allow this. > If they want to shut down skiplagging, they could do it to
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4-Way Waymo Standoff Is Autonomous Vehicle Comedy Gold(roadandtrack.com)
9 points by radpanda 2y ago|2 comments
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by radpanda 2y ago
I’m not the commenter that you’re replying to but I always get a different “feel” when using a native application like Excel than a web app. I can type as fast as I can think, switching cells, typing values, invoking keyboard shortcuts, etc
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by radpanda 2y ago
I don’t know if we fully understand the human psychology there. It seems to me that when there are more options available, not only does our perceived value of each option drop, but our perceived value of the whole drops as well.
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by radpanda 2y ago
Any idea what percentage of their sales are actually hidden city itineraries? Every time I’ve searched with them I’ve seen few or no hidden city results, but I guess it’s neat to be aware of the option if it does exist.
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by radpanda 2y ago
Agreed. I like the idea of being hostile to the airlines so I’ve used Skiplagged to search for flights before but I’ve never found a hidden city itinerary that I actually wanted to take. I’m guessing it probably makes sense with certain air
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by radpanda 2y ago
I'd also note that Ford's attempt to dodge the tariff here wasn't successful. The US DOJ sued and Ford coughed up $365 million to settle the lawsuit: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford
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Gamebaby – Phone Armor with Retro Gaming Superpowers(bitmolab.com)
1 points by radpanda 2y ago|0 comments
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by radpanda 2y ago
Same reason we have TurboTax instead of a government website to type our taxable income numbers into.
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by radpanda 2y ago
I’d imagine somewhere there’s an engineer-artist putting such a print in a brightly lit locked box, which is programmed not to open until the interior light has shined long enough to eradicate the image on the print. (No idea if we have cir
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by radpanda 2y ago
I get that, that’s one way of looking at it. But other folks look at train vs plane for more utilitarian “getting there”. Depending on your situation and what you consider the train ride to be, the value offered by the train can be consider
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by radpanda 2y ago
Yeah, I felt like the “you have to be wealthy” hand-waving in the quoted section wasn’t very explanatory. Are lenders giving the ultra-rich great interest rates here as a loss-leader to try to attract other business from them? > First, t
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by radpanda 2y ago
On the other hand if taking off work means forgoing income, taking the slower rail journey is even more expensive. Instead of taking 6 days off work to fly and take a cruise, maybe now I need to take 8. For retirees or folks who can work on
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by radpanda 2y ago
As a native Marylander I always find myself forgetting about Cumberland, which is a shame. As someone who has mostly lived in and around Baltimore, you head west to Frederick (aka Fredneck) for the small city in the middle of rural farmland
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by radpanda 2y ago
> Because Elasticsearch is not a reliable data store, organizations that use Postgres typically extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from Postgres to Elasticsearch I’ll admit haven’t kept up with this but is it still the case that Ela
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by radpanda 2y ago
FYI the article was about a find in the Republic of Ireland, not Northern Ireland. No idea about the relevant rules in either case though.
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by radpanda 2y ago
> a GS-12 getting paid around $68,000 per year (or $99k in very high cost of living areas like DC) One valid sounding concern that I’ve heard is that the WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE-ARLINGTON, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA GS Locality Area underpays folks in
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by radpanda 2y ago
Deferred compensation plans exist partially for this reason (although obviously not every employer offers them).
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by radpanda 2y ago
> most car rental contracts via insurance will only cover up to 30 days, so you end up being on the hook for the car rental That’s if your insurance is covering it right? My Volvo C30 got rear-ended a few years back and it took about 6 w
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by radpanda 2y ago
> Basic ICE cars are essentially sold at cost, sometimes as loss leaders, because the manufacturers make a long-tail of money supplying parts and maintenance for the cars over their lifetime Not just that but fuel economy regulations, (l

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