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by sosborn 7y ago
> wasting all the land The waste exists only because we deem those locations as sacred. Otherwise, burying is the most efficient use of resources.
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by sosborn 7y ago
> I've researched all other solutions and they didn't work, I ran into this the other day. A person was asking about a Y and when pressed about it that person said the other solutions didn't work. I dug back into that pers
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by sosborn 7y ago
It does vary - but where I am even part timers are included. https://cca.hawaii.gov/ins/faqs-2/hawaii-employers-faqs/
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by sosborn 7y ago
> Are these people being underpaid, and would making them employees increase their pay? Maybe, maybe not. It would give them access to healthcare and other things a lot of people take for granted. > The fact that this is the case and
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by sosborn 7y ago
Does there have to be a law for something to be distasteful and ethically dubious?
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by sosborn 7y ago
My strategy is no background refresh and judicious application of “no cellular data” for each app.
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by sosborn 7y ago
The Major League Baseball app is a good example. It has a widget that can show scores. It can only do this if background refresh is on though so that it can keep the scores current when the app is not being actively used. For most apps and
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by sosborn 7y ago
> Given all of this, it's very difficult to interpret this "feature" in a favorable light. What would you rather they do? They ask for permission for a specific feature and when denied, the feature is turned off. When you
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by sosborn 7y ago
> But sunk cost fallacy is a real thing. The fallacy is a real thing, but that doesn't mean that it is always applicable. Decisions are based on many factors and most of the time, "We've invested a lot of money into this&q
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by sosborn 7y ago
It's a refrain as old as time.
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by sosborn 7y ago
Roaches will be along forever and are a viable food source. I never said it would be fun, I said we would survive as a species.
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by sosborn 7y ago
Copyright is not equivalent to climate change. What does it mean to be culturally poorer? Attaching importance to pop culture knowledge sounds like the real problem.
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by sosborn 7y ago
> Maybe we could wait a bit for cool movies when technology advances to the point where they can be made by few dedicated people with off the shelf hardware instead hundred million budget that needs to be propped up with additional milli
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by sosborn 7y ago
Comparing copyright to these situations probably turns more people away from your cause than it attracts.
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by sosborn 7y ago
I don't think humans will have much trouble adapting. Cities will move to accommodate the rising sea, we will move on to other food sources as the need arises, and life for us will go on. It's the other species – the ones that had
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by sosborn 7y ago
> Working in the US SUCKS for everyone. Simply not true. Every 12 months I get three weeks PTO and three weeks sick leave (which is also paid and not connected to my vacation time). PTO will soon jump to 4 weeks after another year of wor
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by sosborn 7y ago
suffered dearly? There was a lot of complaining online, but the class action was a minor inconvenience and they now have a pretty solid lead with the ps4.
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by sosborn 7y ago
> Talking to the state should be free. It is free. Hiring a lobbyist is much like hiring an advertising firm. You could do the work yourself, but you pay for expertise and connections. Where lobbyists have the advantage is they know who
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by sosborn 7y ago
> from whom one stands to gain absolutely nothing Some people look at unconditional love as something where both parties gain absolutely everything.
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by sosborn 8y ago
> The iPhone isn't an eyesore, but it's definitely of it's time. I'd argue that the same applies to the N64 hardware.
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by sosborn 8y ago
That doesn’t mean it’s wrong. http://www.fallacyfiles.org/slipslop.html
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by sosborn 8y ago
It was a great phone when it came out. Using it now would be an exercise in frustration.
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by sosborn 8y ago
> - Yeah, hate that Google walled garden. Much better to go with Apple. For a lot of people, it is.
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by sosborn 8y ago
> And I liked the clicky home buttons. Really? I enjoy the fake home buttons much more. In fact, the only iPhone part I've had fail on me was the old style home button. Happened twice.
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by sosborn 8y ago
Just an anecdote from Hawaii. We used to have steady and regular trade winds that would keep the humidity at bay, thus making AC a "nice to have" rather than a "really want to have." That's changed as the climate ch
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by sosborn 8y ago
> If you lose your current job you can just get offers again. Maybe, maybe not. I'm just saying it is an added risk, especially if one of your goals was to stay at that company, but with additional salary.
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by sosborn 8y ago
The other risk is they say, "Hey, let's appease this guy for now while we find his replacement."
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by sosborn 8y ago
Meh, I like these things. I could do without the bright white arch though.
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by sosborn 8y ago
> Indonesia Is my guess.
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by sosborn 8y ago
> I just didn't like the idea of limited ram someday causing me issues. Ignore the specs. Try one out and you'll find that it simply isn't an issue in the vast majority of cases. iOS is very good at managing RAM.

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