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2y ago
> Most people try to minimize taxes. I don’t think this is true. Most people pay more in taxes, and receive the pleasure of a refund check come April.
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2y ago
I don’t think a yacht is generally an appreciating asset. They require massive amounts of money to keep afloat, and the furnishings and tech go out of date requiring expensive overhaul.
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2y ago
jesus christ dude
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2y ago
Tell us about that!
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relaxing
2y ago
You’re assuming upper middle class living standards.
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2y ago
You’ve never heard of cities being cheaper. Well you would if you heard about poor people living in cities. You know, like in the bad part of town. They can’t do that in the suburbs, because the suburbs are deliberately constructed without
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2y ago
You’re assuming upper middle class living standards.
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2y ago
> incredibly nice people who sit at interstitial boundaries between groups, and they assist in activity I don’t understand this at all. “Someone who assists in the interstices” doesn’t sound like anyone I’ve seen or worked with. Can anyo
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2y ago
Kaplan got into the restaurant business and is currently US ambassador to Singapore.
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2y ago
It is both.
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2y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+starting+to+reposition...
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2y ago
Use the sink instead of the toilet.
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2y ago
Nothing revisionist there, everything I said is fact. It was so plainly thinkable, people went from thinking it to doing it.
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2y ago
30 years ago we had civil unions in Hawaii. 25 years ago in Vermont. It was thinkable, and it didn’t have to wait for Obama.
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2y ago
Because the ISP is also a television service that competes with Netflix. It’s anticompetitive behavior.
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2y ago
Many companies are indeed looking for an active clearance, because they want to start someone immediately and don’t want to take the risk of hiring someone whose clearance doesn’t come through because they smoked pot or got busted for under
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2y ago
Not operating in a controlled environment, no curtains to block stray reflections, not ensuring your optic path is stable and clear of obstructions and reflective objects. Doesn’t sound like they had a beam block around for safety, nor did
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2y ago
The sales guy set up the entire rig on his own? And no other engineers in the lab stopped to ask what he was doing? I know some places have poor safety culture, but this is a “laser company”. Basic laser safety should be drilled into them f
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2y ago
All very nice and handwavey, but then you see the user’s current venture is scammy deepfakes as a service, which is about as creatively bankrupt as it gets. Shame about the national stereotypes as well. There is plenty of creativity in Asia
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2y ago
You arrived at an assessment of the cognitive abilities of most of your peers AND determined the root cause… how?
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2y ago
You probably blocked it out in an act of small-minded cognitive dissonance.
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2y ago
Are you serious? I’ve never in my life found a bone fragment in chicken breast.
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2y ago
Same reason they post to any other platform with upvotes and downvotes — free reinforcement learning. (That’s the most charitable explanation. The other possibility is karma farming in advance of a pivot to astroturf. Possibly all 3 at once
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2y ago
Order in advance, keep it in your fridge?
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2y ago
You’re allowed to make your letters however you want too, even if they’re ambiguous.
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2y ago
It copies the reference standard, which you are specifically not supposed to copy.
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2y ago
If you think about it, there’s a difference between a game you play in your home, and a font you use to communicate with others.
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2y ago
It’s literally there in the standard: “The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive.” The standard says “pistol”, what a pistol looks like is left to the implementer.
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2y ago
I have many female friends. I hear a lot of worry about avoiding bad dates, not only for their sanity but also for their physical safety. I don’t hear them bragging about free meals.
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2y ago
Oh gtfo. No woman is desperate enough for food to put up with shitty dates. They have shelters for those cases.
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