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2341.
by rconti 7y ago
Probably the Governor himself; the article makes it sound like he'll be the ultimate decider (or, at least, COULD decide it on his own).
2342.
by rconti 7y ago
> As for California’s climate and environmental record, it is not nearly as strong as it appears. Much of the state's emissions reductions owe to a switch from coal to natural gas in the electricity the state imports, and from keepi
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by rconti 7y ago
Interesting. Or perhaps it would create more balance issues. Regardless, it sounds like it was considered by someone with more experience flying airliners than myself.
2344.
by rconti 7y ago
Fair, though I was referring to the "you must be young".
2345.
by rconti 7y ago
> From the beginning of AOL there was instant messaging. Barry noticed that users had created scripts to query whether their friends were online or not. So he decided we should just let them know all the time. He commissioned an initial
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by rconti 7y ago
> There is no feature that Facebook has today that AIM didn’t have at some point 20 years ago. The article mentions the Newsfeed; I don't know how the AIM team thinks distributed status messages (or whatever?) are analogous to the n
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by rconti 7y ago
Conclusion does not follow. Many of us skipped AOL entirely. That's not to say there weren't interesting things to do there if you chose to use it, or were forced to use it by circumstance.
2348.
by rconti 7y ago
Thanks for the opinion. I feel the same way as the parent poster - this thread is fairly horrifying, particularly as someone who has spent the past couple of years on personal growth, particularly improving my fitness and sleep. Always been
2349.
by rconti 7y ago
yeah, as a non-parent (ha!), my main exposure to parenting is my friends on social media. I don't talk to my parent friends about kid stuff much, because I don't care, and they don't care to tell yet another person. I'm
2350.
by rconti 7y ago
I'm not even sure you need the door closed or a large house. Particularly when sleep-deprived, I think you'll start sleeping right through it, as soon as you adjust to the fact that someone is closer to the problem, and managing i
2351.
by rconti 7y ago
The majority population has shifted to larger urban centers, whose votes don't matter one bit anymore.
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by rconti 7y ago
Aren't these all regions that were destinations for SV "flight" 15 years ago as well?" I'm not saying the scale isn't different, but these statements could have been uttered awhile ago.
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by rconti 7y ago
My opinion is that you're right to wait, with the caveat that I think you've done more research than I have, AND when I bought in fall 2014, I was ALSO convinced it was a horrible time to buy. That suspicion has not been borne out
2354.
by rconti 7y ago
Yeah, I don't even sign my cards. If the merchant looks at the signature line, they just hand it back to me. I've never even been asked for ID.
2355.
by rconti 7y ago
1. SOME of the equity can disappear in the blink of an eye. The lender has a nice cushion when the buyer puts down 40%. That's hardly considered risky, which is why this is a terrible example. 2. Subprime refers to the class of borrowe
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by rconti 7y ago
Most US cards simply don't have PINs (or the card owner doesn't know the pin). I had to ask to assign one to a CC before I traveled, but then, it was never requested. I just had to sign.
2357.
by rconti 7y ago
Wow, yeah, I've never had that issue with NFC on the card, using my Garmin watch, Apple watch, iPhone, etc, most places I've traveled (Canada, Norway, NZ, Aus, continental europe.. Germany and their weird credit card hatred notwit
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by rconti 7y ago
US chip cards require a signature in Europe virtually 100% of the time, even on low-value transactions that would be under the signature threshold in the US. However, using contactless avoids signatures 99% of the time. I think I had to sig
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by rconti 7y ago
What's the standard this implements?
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by rconti 7y ago
We had childcraft, as I recall, but definitely never could have afforded the $1000-$1500 for Britannica. One word for Encarta and the like: Edutainment.
2361.
by rconti 7y ago
Policyholder/homeowner fraud.
2362.
by rconti 7y ago
From the folks that I know who have tried multiple options in the market, the Bolt is a much better choice than the eGolf. I've never driven an eGolf, though, but I owned an Mk7 Golf R and absolutely loved it, love the golf platform, w
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by rconti 7y ago
Seems perfect in terms of not being able to lock your phone in the car. It doesn't 'remember' seat position based on which phone is where -- or, I should say, I've never used it. Coincidentally, just the day you posted t
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by rconti 7y ago
The RFID credit card 'backup' key is just that-- a backup. It's batteryless. It's not supposed to remain in your pocket. It's supposed to ONLY be used for, say, a valet, or if your phone key fails. The phone key wor
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by rconti 7y ago
Yup. I bought a Golf R in 2015, after BMW brought the 3 series wagon (f31) to the US without a manual transmission for the first time. Honestly, a top-end Golf is nicer than the lower-end BMWs. The Golf had the fob-based touchless/keyl
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by rconti 7y ago
There was a lot of critique about this on the Tesla forums when the car first came out. I think this is a legitimate criticism. Particularly with Android phones having such difficulty; many people had to resort to toggling bluetooth on and
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by rconti 7y ago
I know nothing about Chicago, but I DO know that Houston is frequently cited as an example of doing it exactly wrong .
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by rconti 7y ago
With a seemingly endless stream of stock wealth, those recent IPOs don't even cross my radar, frankly. I don't have the impression that there are more IPOs recently than there had been over the past decade, but maybe I'm wron
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by rconti 7y ago
Yup. Sounds healthy to me, and hardly a "pop". Things were overheated and need to deflate a bit. In my 'hood on the Peninsula, single datapoint I know, a house was just listed yesterday at $1.25m with a zillow estimate of its
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by rconti 7y ago
It was replaced without a problem during the only service visit I've had. In fact, they even had the glass in stock. (it required replacing the entire rear/roof glass to the b-pillar, since that's one whole piece).

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