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by shaftway 5y ago
> What does the post-pandemic workplace resemble? Wilkinson envisions big, open spaces with couches and cozy nooks as work stations that are not assigned to any single employee. An environment where it's easy to hang out and chat. B
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by shaftway 5y ago
I think the most telling part is the typo in the first paragraph (and in the HN title): "End-To-Encryption"
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by shaftway 5y ago
I bought a copy of SimAnt and caught my sisters playing it. I didn't think it was fair that I had paid for it but they were playing for free so one of my dad's friends showed me how to rename the main executable and put a .bat fil
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by shaftway 5y ago
You're partially right, but at the income level we're talking about the taxes aren't any more graduated. I'd expect someone with these incomes to be in the highest tax grade, and the marginal rate at this point is 41-4
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by shaftway 5y ago
Google in particular always uses an identifiable agent. So you could serve one set of content to Google and a separate set to actual visitors, preventing Google from scraping the content. They clearly want the benefit of being scraped (the
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by shaftway 5y ago
I'm unlikely to learn a new coding pattern on YouTube. But I have learned a ton of woodworking techniques from watching build videos. There are a ton of little techniques along the way that are innate to people who have been in the ind
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by shaftway 5y ago
I had my hand sucked into a router over the summer. I was really lucky, and now I understand what went wrong (it was a conventional cut, but I relaxed my hold and the bit pulled it into a climb cut. The wood got wedged between the bit and a
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by shaftway 5y ago
I'm taking classes to be an EMT. I've taken BLS, but twice I've been in situations where I've felt completely helpless while someone is injured, and I want a set of skills where I can do something while waiting for an am
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by shaftway 5y ago
More info: https://qr.ae/pGmK8A My personal favorite quote from it: > I am often a dick, I am often difficult, I often don’t know computer science, but. BUT. I make really good things, maybe they aren't perfect, but
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by shaftway 5y ago
The alternate site is particularly relevant to me; the first two words I "made up" were "cromulent" and "embiggen". Well played.
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by shaftway 5y ago
I think you're putting the miners on the wrong side of the balance sheet there. The point of the plan is for miners to come in and build their own power plants that usually support only the mining operation. Then in times of need, the
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by shaftway 5y ago
Related: I've always wanted to get a T-Shirt with the EURion constellation printed all over it and see if there are any notable cases where images of me can't be opened.
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by shaftway 5y ago
It's not exactly being pedantic. If I saw a headline that talked about someone with a shattered spine learning to walk again, but it omitted the fact that the walking is accomplished with an exoskeleton, then it's pretty misleadin
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by shaftway 5y ago
A (claimed) ex-banker is in the thread, and the response is so telling. It's because it would cost them money and the bank isn't liable for losses that would be prevented by it.
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by shaftway 5y ago
My team has accessibility requirements for things like this. We still use red/green, but we also have a rule that color can't be the only indicator of some kind of state. So we'll make a green check or a red X (along with a v
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by shaftway 5y ago
I think it's because of the space saving. We park our cars in front of the garage, and wouldn't have enough space on our driveway to allow for the door to swing out and not hit a car parked there. Also most garage doors aren'
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by shaftway 5y ago
Yes. I was desperate for work and found a job building out websites for sub-prime auto loan lead generation (yes, the red flags should have been going off, but I was young and dumb). At first it was just minor HTML changes for the UI. The c
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by shaftway 5y ago
> The size of gas stations is increasing as “mom and pop” stops give way to massive fueling sites owned by supermarket chains hoping to lure in shoppers with cheap gas. > Electric charging presents an existential threat to those gas s
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by shaftway 5y ago
> Anyway, advice on how to exit the American way is very much welcome. We've made a big deal about giving the kids "experience gifts". Sometimes it's lessons (my daughter got a week at a horseback riding camp, my son
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by shaftway 5y ago
They did have a lease/buy program. It was demonstrably worse than just leasing a vehicle directly (Uber would take a cut) and there were ugly questions around what happened if you stopped driving for Uber.
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by shaftway 5y ago
It's not just a problem for font authors. What happens with this can change the intent of what people are writing pretty radically. If someone tweets "I support [afghanistan flag]" and that's seen by the wrong people wit
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by shaftway 5y ago
Agreed. There are tons of niche environments where wind and solar are not viable. Proving that it's viable will kickstart investment and further research for those areas.
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by shaftway 5y ago
Yeah. I just wish I could get those to fit in with the rest of my light switches.
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by shaftway 5y ago
When you say OEM switches, what exactly do you mean? I've been trying to get the perfect setup and the Lutron LZL-4B was pretty close, but they've been discontinued and are hard to find for under $100 / switch. The RunLessWir
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by shaftway 5y ago
I agree with your basic premise, and I agree that there are areas we should look at using hydrogen, but I'm not sure I follow how it's being applied here. The hydrogen lifecycle would be > power source > grid > hydrogen g
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by shaftway 5y ago
Could you elaborate on the negatives of this solution? The solution you're advocating for sounds like a tautology (hydrogen is good because it will force us to build hydrogen infrastructure, which is good because hydrogen is good)
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by shaftway 5y ago
They don't? https://www.homedepot.com/b/Hide-Unavailable-Products/N-5yc1...
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by shaftway 5y ago
I grab one of the buckets and use it as a shopping cart, even if I'm only getting a few nuts and bolts like that, just so I don't accidentally lose one in a pocket. Of course, that backfired once when I got home and realized I had
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by shaftway 5y ago
There are two easy ways around this. The first is a note from your doctor. My kids' school requires vaccination unless you bring in a note from your doctor claiming that you have an underlying condition preventing you from being vaccin
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by shaftway 5y ago
Or you just move to a model where sales tax is required to be baked into the price that you see. Then make the items all cost multiples of 5 cents. You can still use single cents for checks, credit, or whatever. The only industry I can thin

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