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by smelendez 9mo ago
It used to be normal in the U.S. to walk people to the gate until 9/11. Now you can escort someone to the check-in counter and up to the security checkpoint, and meet people at the luggage area to help with bags. But in practice it see
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by smelendez 9mo ago
> That 10+ tall loud white people was ruining the third place this bar represented to the locals. I could easily see this being an issue in a lot of smaller US bars. A group of 10+ loud university students coming into a sleepy storefront
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by smelendez 9mo ago
It's not specified how long the apprenticeships last or what qualifications you need. But even the full-time job doesn't pay that well: $60K/year, after bonuses. And the company recently had layoffs and moved the plant an hou
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by smelendez 9mo ago
That’s not unbiased though. You still have the question of what’s tested and how it’s graded.
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by smelendez 9mo ago
Yeah, there’s really no way around it when you have more qualified students than slots, unless you just mark each applicant as qualified or not and run a lottery. But they do have to “craft a class” to some extent. An obvious example is ath
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by smelendez 10mo ago
Jabs is basically the British equivalent of the American term shots.
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by smelendez 10mo ago
I don't know anything about Texas Roadhouse but in general I'd say a lot of processes got sloppy after technological changes repeatedly added complexity. Decades ago, when OP worked there, I'm guessing Texas Roadhouse only to
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by smelendez 10mo ago
> The branch put me in an office and called the same telephone support, with the same result. As far as I can tell, going to a branch of a big bank to address a problem nowadays is similar to going to a cellphone store for tech support.
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by smelendez 10mo ago
Make it a toggle then, like a lot of popular chat apps?
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by smelendez 10mo ago
And the current era of less-than-major-venue music listings in many places is exclusively on Instagram and Facebook pages of venues and bands.
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by smelendez 10mo ago
Travel guides are interesting too although obviously not quite the same.
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by smelendez 10mo ago
I’ve long thought about trying to map of how the locations of music and maybe theater events listed in the magazine have changed over time. There are performances of some kind in pretty much every corner of NYC but it’s interesting to see w
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by smelendez 10mo ago
If I’m reading this correctly, they now have all their historic articles loaded into their CMS. I think they previously just had a system where you could page (and maybe search?) through scans of old issues, which is also cool but not as ve
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by smelendez 10mo ago
Is it an aversion to assigning homework? I remember teachers assigning “read chapters 4-6 by Thursday” and then giving a quiz to make sure people read and remembered the details.
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by smelendez 10mo ago
Yeah it’s frustrating how many legitimate media outlets have made their websites basically unreadable.
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by smelendez 11mo ago
It’s interesting how the Automat is basically the opposite of the Subway/Chipotle/salad shop model that now dominates casual dining. Instead of, here are all our ingredients, which do you want, it’s a precise set of premade meals
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by smelendez 11mo ago
It’s a vicious cycle. I’m not a big delivery fan myself but you go into some small casual restaurants now and everyone else in there is a delivery driver.
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by smelendez 11mo ago
Fundamentally I think they should just use the road and keep to the right (in the US), like other slow moving vehicles. They’d probably be fine in bike lanes where they exist. Maybe they could enter the sidewalk for half a block at a curb c
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by smelendez 11mo ago
> The "interviewed by the WSJ" line is for managers. It’s a green flag for hiring managers for sure. Even a lot of valued employees wouldn’t be allowed to represent a big company to the WSJ for various reasons, even with a PR p
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by smelendez 11mo ago
It depends on what you watch and how much you watch. Cable in its heyday was expensive, even for a low tier package with CNN, TNT, MTV, Nickelodeon and other non-premium channels. Most people did not have premium channels like HBO, Showtime
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by smelendez 11mo ago
Apple seems weird about that and I'm not sure why, maybe accuracy or creepiness factor? A feature I would love is to toggle "answer calls on speakerphone" based on location, so that I can answer a call with my phone on the de
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by smelendez 11mo ago
Adults definitely do this too. I bet adult tennis instructors get a lot of cancellations on Super Bowl Sunday. In certain circles, you're going to have a hard time scheduling a screen-free dinner party on Oscar night, or opposite the f
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by smelendez 11mo ago
Brick and mortar shopping really seems to be struggling in the US since covid, though. It’s possible some transit systems could add malls above some of their stations, but a lot of cities still have persistently high retail vacancies, and
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by smelendez 11mo ago
Having a fare wouldn’t affect this much. It’s not too hard to get someone to spot you a couple of bucks at a bus stop. Honestly it’s not that big a deal if someone sleeps on the bus. Homeless, drunk, tired from work, whatever.
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by smelendez 11mo ago
The high-end SRO market arguably still exists. There are plenty of young Americans rooming with strangers they found on the internet, not infrequently converting the living room into an additional bedroom, and nobody in power really seems t
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by smelendez 11mo ago
I don’t fully get what he thinks the issue is and how it relates to Google Jibe (which apparently is the RCS-as-a-service platform the US carriers use). Has Jibe somehow blacklisted his phone? In that case, Apple might technically be right
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by smelendez 11mo ago
They must mean unique customers, not customer transactions. They have about 878 stores, according to Wikipedia, so if it was transactions, each store would only see about 62 transactions per day, which is way too low.
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by smelendez 11mo ago
It’s interesting how those watches are both objectively expensive for something nobody really needs and at $1,000 or less, dirt cheap by the standard of expensive watches.
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by smelendez 11mo ago
I’ve also seen cases where they list lyrics for a song that doesn’t have any (usually an instrumental jazz version of an old standard).
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by smelendez 1y ago
In the US, where this publication is based, it’s pretty universally frowned upon to use an ethnic group name as a metaphor for a character trait. It’s also a bad editorial decision. Here we are debating the headline and not even talking abo

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