stmfreak

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by stmfreak 9y ago
It will also provide excellent cover for California's pension shortfalls.
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by stmfreak 9y ago
How so? Prop 13 protects home owners from eviction due to tax increases, but encourages new zoning and new development since property taxes get rebaselined to market on every sale. Also, despite the high costs, the housing market is still p
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by stmfreak 9y ago
That sort of "critical thinking" arrogance is what keeps people from sharing their different opinions and perspectives from your pompous ass.
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by stmfreak 10y ago
Before MagSafe, this was actually a common thing. And broken charger cord tips, or worse, the sockets. Of course, we also had shorter battery life, so working without being plugged in was a joke.
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by stmfreak 10y ago
Didn't we just go through two major recessions in 2000 and 2008? Is anyone surprised that more people are giving up hope in recent times with all the factories closing, major retailer closing, unemployment at incredibly high levels (U6
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by stmfreak 10y ago
Simple, the leftists believe you pay for UBI from the limitless resources confiscated from the "rich." /s
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by stmfreak 10y ago
This. WFH always seems appealing from my open office station with my back to twenty other people and a walkway next to my desk. Then I work from home and in the middle of presenting during a conference call, one of the kids gets home and st
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by stmfreak 10y ago
People have an uncanny affinity for the familiar. A company founded by MBA graduates will likely have a preference for more MBA graduates. Engineers prefer engineers. Use that to guide your selection process, but I've tried to find com
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by stmfreak 10y ago
That was my first use case. But then I found others, like monitoring my banking websites reaching out to odd domains and ports. Or virus detection (some virii uninstall if they detect Little Snitch). The more I used it, the more I liked it.
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by stmfreak 10y ago
And the problem with this is what? When kids can eat whatever they want, they gravitate toward high energy dense foods like candy and carbs... which makes healthier foods taste like crap. You have to starve them through the withdrawals to g
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by stmfreak 10y ago
Progress is a journey of many small steps.
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by stmfreak 10y ago
This article embodies a lot of magic thinking and completely avoids asking the questions about _why_ things cost so much vs. when the infrastructure was first built. Here is a clue: defined benefit pensions
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by stmfreak 10y ago
great companies don't just hire the talented, they grow their own. Apply.
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by stmfreak 10y ago
If society becoming less racist toward them led to an Asian economic boom, the black community should be rocketing upward any day now. But I suspect rather, this author is confusing cause with effect and attributing success to a change in a
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by stmfreak 10y ago
There are many interpretations of history that tell a different story.
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by stmfreak 10y ago
Zork was a flattering rip-off of Colossal Cave Adventure. Go play that instead. Still has the maze(s) and yes, you have to map them out tediously. But try to remember we had no graphics back then. Text console was fairly new. It was awesome
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by stmfreak 10y ago
This sound like an absurd way to get fresh water to an island.
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by stmfreak 10y ago
Why are we interested in getting apathetic and uninformed people into the voting booth?
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by stmfreak 10y ago
Humans manage with only two cameras.
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by stmfreak 10y ago
Because it is a "dealer service" procedure.
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by stmfreak 11y ago
It is really dishonest to compare accidental vehicle deaths to intentional suicides and homicides via gun. One is a safety issue void of intent. The other is the result of intent to harm with the most efficient tool available. What are we t
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by stmfreak 11y ago
No one worries about these things when the numbers are big. I say the same thing about geothermal energy.
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by stmfreak 11y ago
From evacuating the water at the top of the pipe.
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by stmfreak 11y ago
And the marketing.
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by stmfreak 12y ago
Try to phrase your worth from the perspective of the cost to replace you. Jumping from $90k to $175k is a hard pill for any CEO to swallow. Are you replaceable by some new $120k developer or are you really VPE and they would have to hire a
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by stmfreak 12y ago
The path to liquidity is not always straight up and to the right. Some funding rounds can drastically revalue prior shares through reverse splits. This can make your 1% stake magically turn into a 0.05% stake in a single funding round. Even
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by stmfreak 12y ago
But it is not her car. It is owned by the lender and she failed to meet the contracted payments. These people need to buy cheaper, used cars.
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by stmfreak 12y ago
"Nothing to hide" adherents have a temporal problem. They might have nothing to hide their present government's observations and laws, but it takes little effort to find points in history where the same people might have held
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by stmfreak 13y ago
If Snowden is to be believed, then Obama may as well have said that the NSA doesn't have time to listen to your phone calls and will not, unless it has reason and gets a warrant. The problem is the retroactive profiling possible by fis
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by stmfreak 14y ago
No, recruiters work for the commission. Talent dislikes them, and Hiring managers dislike them. Except the good ones. But those are rare.

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