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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 12d ago
It's actually worse with veterinary practices. Younger veterinarians are drowning in school debt and can't buy the practices from the older folks that are retiring. So, private equity is basically snatching all of them up right no
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 16d ago
Yep, also explains why businesspeople who hate their jobs absolutely love it, and why artists absolutely hate it.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 16d ago
I've found that the biggest perk of being in a driverless car is being able to speak freely with the people in your group - whether that's arguing, telling a wild story, or just having a heartfelt discussion with someone. It'
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 26d ago
> Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing, so I had to actually get my hands working and write these words. > As I write, I think abou
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1mo ago
We're obviously long past the days when people's politics could be mapped on a nice normal distribution, with some outliers at either end and a big group of moderates in the middle who vote differently depending on the election. T
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1mo ago
This is true if you only have one access point. If you have a mesh system with more than one access point, your network benefits greatly by using WiFi 7 (or 8, now) as a dedicated wireless backhaul that connects the access points to each ot
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2mo ago
Ancient Egyptian women, above a certain socioeconomic threshold, also removed their body hair. (So did the men.) Hair traps odors (ever smell your hair after a campfire, or going to a Korean BBQ?), but it's kind of a bitch to constantl
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2mo ago
I'm similar to you in that encouragement and external valuation goes a long way for me, but I've found that all successful business-minded entrepreneurial types really love playing the game where they bounce ideas off each other
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2mo ago
Proximity is the issue. If the watch or bracelet wrist is very physically close to the detector, it will set it off. You're supposed to the watch/bracelet, but you do have to hold your wrist close to your body. You kind of want to
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2mo ago
Also windows that go down to the floor has been considered bad architecture for decades. Wall-to-wall windows are great. Floor-to-ceiling windows are stunning when you walk into an empty place that you're thinking about buying or ren
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3mo ago
Tangentially related anecdote: I used to break tons of stuff all the time (my whole family growing up did), and I just assumed that all things just have finite lifespans, until I started dating someone who's tremendously careful and ca
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3mo ago
More often than not these are usually cheap Chinese devices that are expecting a USB-C to USB-A (power-only) cable, because they're actually USB-A devices, with USB-A circuitry, modified slightly to appear as if they're USB-C. B
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3mo ago
Eh it's partially true - the browsers on phones needed to get better as well. Zuckerberg famously made the Facebook apps basically just a responsive webpage under the belief that maintaining one codebase for all platforms would be best
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3mo ago
Executive level non-competes are probably the most damaging for the overall economy though. If there's a market-dominating company, and execs are allowed to leave said company, start a competitor, get some investor dollars behind them,
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3mo ago
I wonder if Firefox is a better user agent string for bots or AI? Or perhaps some big IT departments are switching the employee base from Chrome to Firefox because it now has better ad blockers? A mass of end-users switching browsers on the
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3mo ago
There's a strong argument to be made that the banning of non-competes is the main reason California is the software capital of the world.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3mo ago
In Japan, if you get on a 1 hour train just before midnight, the printed ticket will say something like "23:05" for the embarkment time, and "24:05" for the disarmament. Same date for both - the clocks can just go beyond
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4mo ago
Yeah Steve Jobs was deeply frustrated with Obama when he got to meet him. Jobs hated unions, and felt like the Obama administration was not business friendly enough. He also felt the Obama administration was too reluctant to offend people.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4mo ago
> with short selling in public markets being possible, an accurate price will be established very quickly It'll be virtually impossible to short sell the stock within the first month due to lockups, and it'll take 180 days
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4mo ago
In San Diego we're voting on a new property tax that only applies to nonprimary residences. The landed gentry want you to believe that they can't be touched unless you're willing to kick your grandmother to the street, but we
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 9mo ago
Apple ultimately developed their own map application specifically because Google was unwilling to remove the Google logo from the Google Maps app, no matter the price. It'll absolutely be interesting to see if "Google" or &qu
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 9mo ago
> Something nobody's talking about Nobody is talking about this because it's not a thing. People here will shit on LLMs all day for being confidently incorrect, then upvote aggressively financially illiterate comments like this
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 9mo ago
This is true for amateurs encoding video files to be pirated, but for the mega corps, sending more bits costs more money. Many years ago, I had a couple drinks with a guy from Netflix who worked on their video compression processes, and he
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 9mo ago
Honestly, it used to be worse. I remember when 16:9 TVs were new, people would often stretch the aspect ratio of 4:3 content because they "don't like the black bars."
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 9mo ago
300k hours = 8 hrs per day, every day, for 102 years.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 10mo ago
Worcestershire sauce is also considered a descendent of the fish sauces from ancient Rome.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 10mo ago
Early twenties family formation bring the norm was more of a postwar thing. The guys that came back from the war really did have to grow up fast (seeing your best friends getting blown up at 18 will do that), and they essentially had zero d
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 11mo ago
Homicidal?
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 11mo ago
It's telling that you completely forgot HomePod. Arguably their most AI-centric product line to date, and also their largest flop in recent history.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 11mo ago
I played with a few alternative keyboard layouts in high school, and I can say from personal experience that it's surprisingly easy to adapt to a one handed mirror layout. You just hold a designated modifier key with your thumb then th

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