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by smeyer 6y ago
Yeah, but the rest of us don't have to put up with legions of people excitedly explaining about how idle devices are great and everyone else should idle more devices. Bitcoin consuming massive amounts of electricity is bad. Idle device
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by smeyer 6y ago
There are real reasons to not want microplastics in your local environment, but I think your dismissiveness of spreading a problem out over 1,000 years is unwarranted. There is a huge difference between a problem that has to be solved in a
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by smeyer 6y ago
>because it only protects people from dying Is there any evidence in South Africa that it actually does protect people from dying? If there are only 2,000 people in the study, it might be too small to conclusively say whether it's p
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by smeyer 6y ago
>At most 8 years, probably less. And then Yellen will go back to the private sector Yellen was in public positions from 1977-1980, 1994-1999, and 2004-2018. She was a professor at Harvard from 1971-1976 and at UC Berkeley from 1980-1994.
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by smeyer 6y ago
>I sold all my intel stock the next day [late 2019], it made up most of my portfolio at the time. Sorry if this is too off-topic, but why did it make up a sizable fraction of your portfolio in the first place?
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by smeyer 6y ago
Her political donations also look completely unremarkable: Obama, Biden, The Lincoln Project, etc.. I'm not sure what the previous commentator is wondering about possible political affiliations, but she certainly doesn't seem to s
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by smeyer 6y ago
COBRA's joke is just the joke of the most expensive healthcare in the world and a system that largely ties healthcare to employment. It's not like there's anything extra expensive about COBRA; it's just all the questiona
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by smeyer 6y ago
Are you sure that none of your friends are looking up the predefined brand names? Do any of your friends go home and immediately google the predefined brand name?
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by smeyer 6y ago
>Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers who were organizing employee protests, then firing two of them, according to a complaint to be filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today. This part of the article seems p
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by smeyer 6y ago
Don't they do a better job in lots of other countries? I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that a lot of the countries with socialized medicine such that their government is the one negotiating with drug manufacturers pay s
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by smeyer 6y ago
>Over the next 38 days, the virus spread to 176 other people. Seven of them died. Seven people died. This isn't some hypothetical where people are acting like there's risk where there isn't; it's a story of seven real
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by smeyer 6y ago
I wish the article went into the cause of the price difference. Is it high import taxes/sales taxes/etc., restrictions that make the phone harder to produce or sell for the Indian market, or just Apple deciding to charge a sizably
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by smeyer 6y ago
It's hard to imagine that you were alert enough to safely drive even with the alarm. I'd urge anyone in a similar situation to stay off the roads; your ability to work 18 hour days is less important than the safety of everyone on
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by smeyer 6y ago
>Why can't governments receive these donations They certainly can. I don't how many people actually do it, but most governments will accept direct cash donations. E.g. here's a page on how to make a gift to the US Governme
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by smeyer 6y ago
I work for a large company and am in New England. I already regularly meet with colleagues in Europe or Asia, and it can be inconvenient but it's fine. If we were in a different timezone than New York I think people would mostly work a
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by smeyer 6y ago
>Phone - always works "Always" seems excessively generous here. There are many times I've contacted a company and reach a human who says "sorry, I can't help you, but you can file a ticket on the website" le
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by smeyer 6y ago
Just because there are older folks struggling to find jobs after not keeping up skills doesn't mean there isn't also ageism, and it can become problematic when everyone disregards the ageism by saying it's all just meritocrat
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by smeyer 6y ago
>Still, assuming a modest annual increase at the cheap registrars it still does eventually win I know it's not the main point of your comment, but if you're going to consider future annual increases you should also consider the
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by smeyer 6y ago
It looks like it will cost a few thousand dollars [0]. What does WC in "WC virus" stand for? [0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gilead-coronavirus-treatment-re...
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by smeyer 6y ago
The United States already does what I'm proposing, it's just a question of implementation. For example, the minimum wage dictates that if your business is only profitable when you pay employees $5 an hour your business doesn'
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by smeyer 6y ago
Can you elaborate a bit on how your company used 1099s, whether they'd be classified as employees under law, and why that classification would/wouldn't be reasonable? I think it's reasonable to say that companies that ca
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by smeyer 6y ago
The purpose here is also likely to be very different for different use cases. You might not want the Apple trademark to be transferable as the management changes because you care about their approach to privacy. On the other hand, a consume
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by smeyer 6y ago
Wouldn't that sort of defeat the point here? Contact tracing apps want to use location data to know when I might have been in contact with someone. If you do something like round the data to a suburban neighborhood or a densely populat
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by smeyer 6y ago
I agree that $50 shouldn't be trivialized. That being said, in America that's well below the standard for a month of groceries for one person (unless they're eating all of their meals out or something like that). Here[0] ar
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by smeyer 6y ago
Just one person, but I didn't find this "very misleading". On first read of the title I assumed it was allowing senators to vote on senate votes remotely. Neither the current title nor your proposed title is the original I cu
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by smeyer 6y ago
The screen on the old iphone SE (i.e. the iphone 5 body) still seems fine to me when using it with today's content. About a year ago I upgraded from one to an iphone XR but on the occasions I use the smaller phone it still seems fine.
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by smeyer 6y ago
It looks like this is on the same chassis as the iphone 8 (5.45" in the longest dimension) whereas the old iphone SE was on the same chassis as the 5 and 5S (4.87" in the longest dimension).
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by smeyer 6y ago
There's nothing on par with the main search product, but here are some of their products that seem successful from the 2010s: Google Drive, Google Flights, Google Hangouts, Tensorflow, and Google Photos. This isn't an attempt to b
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by smeyer 7y ago
Haven't both Vanguard and Fidelity started supporting fractional shares? E.g. https://www.fidelity.com/trading/fractional-shares
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by smeyer 7y ago
In MA it's even better: if a grocery store item was labeled as $10 and rang up as $12, you'd just pay $2. The rule is that the item is free if it's less than $10 and $10 off if it's more than $10 (although this only appl

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