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by sparrish 3y ago
Entrepreneurship... and you thought working 10-hour days was a lot. <grin>
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by sparrish 3y ago
> Landlords can be the lowest scum of the earth. The same can be said for tenants.
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by sparrish 3y ago
People fire their landlord all the time. It's called moving.
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by sparrish 3y ago
Risk? Two words - eviction moratorium
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by sparrish 3y ago
Documenting bad decisions for others to learn from - noble cause. <grin>
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by sparrish 3y ago
Once when visiting Honduras, I was having a casual conversation with a local construction worker and we got to talking about family. I told him I had 7 kids. He looked at me with all sincerity and asked "You don't have a televis
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by sparrish 3y ago
They're called bikeaholics in Colorado. Easy to spot cause they're wearing jeans and backpacks, usually.
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by sparrish 3y ago
This will only drive rent prices up as landlords have to take on more risk.
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by sparrish 4y ago
Alert fatigue... it's common when alerts are non-actionable and it causes a lot of downtime.
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by sparrish 4y ago
Truckers get paid by miles, not hours.
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by sparrish 4y ago
I had to do something similar in the Denver airport recently.
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by sparrish 4y ago
You think inflation can't happen in non-capitalistic economies?
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by sparrish 4y ago
$40/month for a list of books to check out at the library seems a bit much. Transcripts aren't difficult so what additional value do you offer for that price?
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by sparrish 4y ago
It's almost like it's a business arrangement. If you expect your employer to love you and take care of you like your parents, you will be disappointed. It's business.
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by sparrish 4y ago
Now I just need a little sley and a tiny Santa...
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by sparrish 4y ago
"estimate the effects of [medical marijuana law] adoption on traffic fatality rates". Every pothead I get stuck behind here in Colorado is going 15 under the speed limit. Hard to get in a fatal accident going 20.
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by sparrish 4y ago
This is now pretty standard across the industry. PayPal made the same change last year.
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by sparrish 4y ago
Is the thought that Mars has no useful ores of any kind or that mining it would be too difficult/expensive/dangerous? It mentions the regolith but I'm asking about raw materials under the surface.
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by sparrish 4y ago
Are you missing the dislike button? I still see it on Youtube and I'm not running any plugins.
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by sparrish 4y ago
The lesson here isn't that you can or cannot trust Cloudflare. You can't trust any vendor. Build your system with redundancies and failovers so no 1 vendor can take your system offline.
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by sparrish 4y ago
Your biggest mistake is building a service that depends on a single vendor. Where's your redundancy? Where's your failover? Creating a HN post is not a proper failover strategy. All vendors do crap like this. They often have auto
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by sparrish 4y ago
This, my system architect friends, is the proper response. Do NOT put all your eggs in 1 basket. Build redundancies and failovers so no 1 vendor can shutdown your business.
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by sparrish 4y ago
Some nice updates. Question: how do you all monitor your VPNs, the endpoints, DNS, auth?
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by sparrish 4y ago
The opposite is also sometimes true. Sometimes you don't realise how GOOD something is until you leave. Regret follows both.
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by sparrish 4y ago
It wasn't just Dell, every manufacturer had bad caps in those years. MSI, ASUS, you name it. They all bought those cheap knock-off capacitors for their boards. They lasted about 6000 hours - we could set it in a calendar and did so m
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by sparrish 4y ago
Because texting on a Nokia touchpad is terrible plus I'd like to have driving directions and prompts.
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by sparrish 4y ago
That's pretty cool and very retro. Get a good build quality and I bet you could sell them as desktop toys.
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by sparrish 4y ago
I'm not familiar with the production process but it seems like these could be made from nearly 100% recycled materials. That would be huge.
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by sparrish 4y ago
Those cans of oxygen are for those visiting our fair state from lower elevations so they can more quickly get over altitude sickness. Locals don't use them on a daily basis unless they have some health condition.
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by sparrish 4y ago
Using a satellite photo from 1985 to show how far the lake has receded is disingenuous. I was there in 1985. My father was working with hundreds of others to build dikes to stop the lake from flooding the city. Probably shouldn't be

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