rainyMammoth

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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
You are spot on. The one other thing I cannot take anymore with Airbnb is the hosts making it sound like they make us a favor to stay at their place. It feels like every other booking ends up with an email like "this is our childhood&#
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I never find anything cheap on Airbnb. Actually in my mind, Airbnb is always more expensive than a hotel. Each trip I end up checking both options and I'm amazed at how expensive Airbnb ends up being after you add all the hidden fees.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
If I read those graphs correctly, except during the peak of each waves, the death rates seems very similar to other years? ie, people dying of covid are people that would have died anyways from other causes.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I never understood why Airbnb (and even Uber for that matter) were seen as prestigious tech places to work at. Expedia, hotels.com. booking.com and most airlines are handling more requests than Airbnb in more challenging environments.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
We are getting into a dark era of humanity. Platforms with their corporate overlords now decide what I can and cannot see, because I'm too stupid to think for myself. This has always been a slippery slope and won't end well. Zucke
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
cool idea, but no support for linux?
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
>> Is that a permanently settled matter? When humans drive, they are relying almost exclusively on visual inputs. I really don't understand how so many smart people are repeating this argument over and over. it's one the mo
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
It absolutely isn't.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I said this before, but Prop 22 is NOT the right solution to this problem. Uber and Lyft want to dodge Medicare and Social security (estimated in the 100 M$ per year) for their workers. That's really what is going on here. Prop 22 let
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Ah, the self-righteous Google employees that demand to not have a single contract with government agencies. Meanwhile, they sell/give our data to governments and make us all live in a dystopian world to get some ads $$$$. Whenever it c
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
What a ridiculous world we live in. Yet another symptom of the left and the quest for everyone to never ever be offended by anything ever. Those kangaroo courts are such a joke.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
That is YOUR politically biased vision of how medicare and social security should work. It is not how the system currently works. I'm not against moving to such a system, but it cannot be applied selectively to a couple few companies t
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Prop 22 is literally Uber and Lyft using tax-money to pay for driver's social security and medicare. [0] Those companies are unprofitable by design and try to shift the losses to taxpayers. The campaign for prop 22 has been an amazing
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Tesla is not even considered in the top half of the contenders. They are the best at hyping it up though.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
If you don't want to leave your family for a couple days every quarter, you can still live close to the office. But the point is that you are now also flexible to go live wherever you want.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
The thing that nobody realizes is that we are now subsidizing an office at home and those companies are still expecting us onsite once or twice a week so that we cannot move to a low rent area. In the meantime, those same companies are goin
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Here we go. Instagram guy tells us it cannot happen. Investigation closed.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
It wouldn't be if Facebook didn't prove in the past it is the most immoral online company. I get that they pay you, but maybe it's time to take another look at your employer with a more objective lens?
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Agreed. Only way to fight back is to quit those platforms.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Good reminder that all "your" messages, photos, private data etc never belonged to you. It always belonged to Facebook and they can do whatever they want with it. Including deleting everything on a whim if it pleases them. How do
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Norway taxes ICE cars in such a way that they virtually all cost MORE than an expensive electrical car. They are definitely not a good example of a free market choosing EVs because they are actually better.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
please no. That's the worst trade off: I still need to pay extra rent to manage my home office and live in commute distance of my HCOL office.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I realized a long time ago that school is really organized babysitting so that Adults can go over their day without worrying about their kids. High school was hell for me. I guess a point can be made that it makes you learn life the hard wa
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
And once again, Uber is trying to socialize the losses and privatize the profits. We should all be shocked by this company losing billions a quarter but still paying its execs and (initial) shareholders way above what they produce. The diff
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
I think this slightly misses the point. You should still do it yourself if you enjoy the process of learning new skills and challenging yourself to build something new from scratch. I would bet that most people that try to build a cabin do
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
Do we live on a different planet? Google Fi is well known to be one of the worst customer services. I used it for a couple of months and most obvious queries are automated. Anything that requires an human barely gets any attention. The subr
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
The issue with LeetCode style interview is that almost EVERYONE can solve those questions after studying a couple weeks/months. The only thing that LeetCode questions predict is if the candidate has been training for LeetCode questions
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
This strikes me as extremely simplistic. So you want to "flush out" about 50% of the American electorate? Don't you think there are some nuances there? You realize that there are non-coastal corporation that are the exact opp
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
The real issue is that the amount of stuff we can talk about is getting more and more limited. This also increases the chances of talking unknowingly/mistakenly about a touchy subject.
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by rainyMammoth 6y ago
> If you ask me, the future of the workplace isn't fully-remote or fully in-person, it's an office where everyone comes in 2-3 days a week, as necessary, and working remote or at-home the rest of the time. I'm in the same

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