rustybelt

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by rustybelt 5y ago
Good decaf (Swedish water method) works best for me when trying to cut down on caffeine but maintain the hot aromatic beverage ritual.
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by rustybelt 5y ago
Would you mind sharing the region of the country you live in? This is unlike anything I've ever heard of in my small city in the midwest.
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by rustybelt 5y ago
Questioning the outcome of elections is far from exclusive to conservatives.
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by rustybelt 5y ago
Mom? Is that you?
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by rustybelt 5y ago
This is all semantics around what qualifies as a "great" resignation, but don't those charts show people quitting at the highest rate in at least 20 years?
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by rustybelt 5y ago
Anecdotally, the 2020 pandemic response by employers has had an huge impact on employee attitudes and loyalty. I work in healthcare and my employer made the very poor choice to do layoffs and furloughs in the summer of 2020 due to depressed
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by rustybelt 5y ago
What jobs are in brand new greenfield cities suggested in parent post?
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by rustybelt 5y ago
No need to build new. There are plenty of existing underutilized cities with infrastructure in place to handle much larger populations : St Louis, Detroit, South Bend, Decatur, Buffalo . . . the list of places large and small goes on and on
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by rustybelt 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748374
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by rustybelt 5y ago
Are you suggesting that basement flooding in Chicago is due to climate change?
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by rustybelt 5y ago
You’re conflating came from a lab and created in a lab. It is very possible that the virus was leaked from a lab without being created there. Maybe not your intention, but your post comes across this way.
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by rustybelt 5y ago
What is wrong with sexualized characters anyway? It's escapist entertainment. Are men now forbidden from enjoying attractive women in media? Absolutely don't harass people or discriminate, but this posture against sexualized chara
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by rustybelt 5y ago
If it's coming from a manager it hides the power relationship and creates the false impression that the participants are peers who share and care about each others feelings. It's actually a worse way to tell someone they aren&#x27
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by rustybelt 5y ago
Any government that only accepts payment for taxes or other obligations in their own currency is backing their currency with the force of law and creating real demand for it.
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by rustybelt 5y ago
And money.
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by rustybelt 5y ago
In high school my friend's dad used to tell new drivers that the stop signs with the white borders around them were optional.
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by rustybelt 5y ago
That tax bill I get every year payable only in dollars isn't imaginary.
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by rustybelt 5y ago
Wouldn't it hurt savers the most?
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by rustybelt 5y ago
YouTube Red was terrible because it was so similar to RedTube (which friends tell me is a porn site.)
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by rustybelt 5y ago
Having three kids at home doing remote schooling is such a huge confounding factor. Anecdotally, my WFH productivity (or at least my uninterrupted work time tracked via RescueTime) seems to have improved since my older two went back to in-
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by rustybelt 5y ago
My reaction exactly. This article basically says we can achieve much of the savings of Medicare for all if insurance companies and providers put aside self-interest to voluntarily and in a coordinated manner adopt the aspects of Medicare fo
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by rustybelt 5y ago
This has had a big impact on the economies of regional mid-sized metros as jobs consolidated in coastal megacities. Arguably, this resulted in a lower quality of life in both classes of cities. Good Atlantic article on the subject: https:&
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by rustybelt 6y ago
PowerPivot is one of the best ways to start exploring an unfamiliar dataset of 1 to 10 million records. Built into Excel.
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by rustybelt 6y ago
I stand corrected.
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by rustybelt 6y ago
Are you refusing to consider the negative externalities of Bitcoin because Microsoft executives bad-mouthed Linux twenty years ago?
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by rustybelt 6y ago
Wow. What? This may be the worst false dichotomy I've ever seen.
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by rustybelt 6y ago
I'll add, the people saying something works and the people saying it doesn't are both right.
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by rustybelt 6y ago
Can you explain item d more? What does that tell you?
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by rustybelt 6y ago
So does bitcoin then just become an alternative unit of account in the existing banking system? If so, what's the point? Especially when users have to eventually convert back to their local currency to pay taxes.
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by rustybelt 6y ago
Mastercard announced that they will be supporting "crypto" not necessarily bitcoin. Bitcoin itself doesn't have the capacity to support widespread adoption as a medium of exchange.

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