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by stevesearer 4y ago
Agree with you that gig work isn't fully in either category. Perhaps the concept of a work shift shrinks down to the time between accepting a rider and when you drop them off?
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by stevesearer 4y ago
All of them? It is possible to have multiple jobs where you are classified as an employee. I’ve had multiple part-time jobs before as well as part-time work in addition to full-time work simultaneously.
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by stevesearer 4y ago
It likely would have to do with how land was distributed to owners in the US compared to how it was distributed in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by stevesearer 4y ago
I noticed two trail mixes recently which were labeled “womens vitality mix” and “mens vitality mix”. The womens option was $.50 more expensive, but now I wish I would have checked the ingredients to see the differences, if any.
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by stevesearer 4y ago
In many cases I think it has more to do with having to jump through a bunch of hoops with no assurance of what the outcome will be. Another person needed an ID. In order to apply for the ID they needed a birth certificate. In order to apply
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by stevesearer 4y ago
My dad helps people navigate the system to find housing. Recent story was a 65yo + veteran living in a shelter. They hadn’t started collecting social security due to some debts and was worried it would ALL be garnished. After explaining tha
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by stevesearer 4y ago
There was some discussion from a previous submission as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29627105
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by stevesearer 4y ago
I enjoy sharing an office space with someone else who has a similar work schedule and work ethic as mine. Even though our industries are unrelated, we can still talk through ideas as we both do sales. Going out on a midday run with someone
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by stevesearer 4y ago
This seems like a great feature which will definitely get better over time. However there’s no way I would rely on only this until there is a history of successful usage and/or search and rescue teams validate it in the wild. I wouldn’
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by stevesearer 4y ago
In my community we have a courtesy rule for hiking, running, and cycling where if you organized the outing and invited people slower than you, you're not allowed to go ahead of them.
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by stevesearer 4y ago
I have a moderately successful website and know the feeling you describe. One other consideration has been to find other creative outlets in order to not feel compelled to constantly redesign and overhaul it into oblivion.
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by stevesearer 4y ago
These same reasons could basically apply to the folks buying huge Sprinter vans instead of smaller minivans or lightweight delivery vans. When I was a kid in the 90s, the Suburban was the vehicle people bought for these reasons. I’ve assume
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by stevesearer 4y ago
Even Febreze has a plug-in product that apparent uses a chip: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210203005168/en/Sce...
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by stevesearer 4y ago
I had a scenario today where I looked something up and the search result page yielded zero results. However, there were 3-4 ads above and below the text that said there were zero results.
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by stevesearer 4y ago
I can vouch for not being reliant on ad marketplaces and instead having personal contact with your advertisers. One way to increase your fees is to keep pricing the same for existing advertisers for a while and charge a higher rate to new a
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by stevesearer 4y ago
Fellow workspace design publisher here ( https://officesnapshots.com ) – Nice work! I started a home office site ~13 years ago and wasn't able to ever make it happen so I am glad to hear that someone has cracked the code.
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by stevesearer 4y ago
Not defending unpaid work in the slightest, but other lines of work such as teaching have unpaid work (student teaching) in addition to the cost of the credential itself.
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by stevesearer 4y ago
The part-time developer I’ve frequently used is one of the main contributors to a WordPress plugin I use. They were able to help with some plugin specific customizations as well as on other general work. Because they were well-respected in
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by stevesearer 4y ago
There are differences between sensing a situation that could use some levity, saying a joke to get your mates laughing, deflecting tough feelings using jokes, and trying to get the focus off of someone else and onto yourself.
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by stevesearer 4y ago
State Street was closed to cars during pandemic and it appears that is going to be permanent. The city also has an e-bike program that I can informally say is used quite heavily. In addition many youths ride e-bikes and I will be interested
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by stevesearer 4y ago
In Santa Barbara we just had 31 1-room units built for a total cost of $1.4m. These are spaces to get people off of the streets and are quite basic. https://dignitymoves.org/santa-barbara/ From what I can tell, the it
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by stevesearer 4y ago
It would be interesting to know exactly what the definition is for a bot / fake account. For instance, I have 5 accounts which automatically tweet out the latest posts from 5 of my websites. They are automated and probably technically
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by stevesearer 4y ago
I want to say he’s helped ~ 30 people over the past few years, but can only work with a few clients at a time. Another example was someone who wasn’t homeless (friend of friend), but was facing thousands in monthly medical treatment bills.
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by stevesearer 4y ago
My dad works with people to help them find housing and while peoples’ stories are similar with a broad brush, each one is uniquely complex. There are many steps involved to qualify for housing or to apply for disability benefits and it can
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Feather Atlas: Identify Feather Tool(fws.gov)
3 points by stevesearer 4y ago|0 comments
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by stevesearer 4y ago
The US Department of Fish and Wildlife has a really useful service called the Feather Atlas for identifying bird feathers by their color, size, and shape: https://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas/idtool.php
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by stevesearer 4y ago
The Atlantic article mentioned the necessity to abandon gold standard temporarily in order to fund WW1, however the American people did not want to enter the war and were unwilling to fund it directly. An alternate telling would be that aba
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by stevesearer 4y ago
From my limited knowledge, I don’t believe hard money advocates would say there are never any crises, but instead that they are shorter lived and not as large.
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by stevesearer 4y ago
I’ve wondered if there would be less polarization if the number of representatives were not fixed at 435 but instead still fixed at 1 representative per 30000 constituents. It was less than 100 years ago that that change was made: https:&#
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by stevesearer 4y ago
I think about this a lot with regard to VR worlds generated based on your particular interests. Maybe you can already audio deep fake an AI-generated podcast conversation that would be listenable. So many buzzwords in there, but very creepy

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