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by strict9 6y ago
I rarely drive, but can't wait to own one. Where I live (and for a lot of people who live in cities) there is only on-street parking. Will be interesting to see how increased electric vehicle ownership might happen for people without a
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by strict9 6y ago
> If you have an urgent question, like for instance thinking you owe three-quarters of a million dollars, too bad: Robinhood’s chief feedback option is email, with response times of up to a week. This is true for most offerings in which
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by strict9 6y ago
I will concede Google Drive is garbage. But even in that garbage product there aren't as many glaring bugs that have been around forever. The worst example: you can't use the browser's back button in the MS 365 mail client! I
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by strict9 6y ago
Lots of shiny new tools to close more sales in the war against g suite. Yet I'll have to wait several more years for a fix for the bug in Office web mail client that incorrectly says there is new mail on the browser tab, when in fact t
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by strict9 6y ago
About a couple months in. First noticed that my occasional bouts of difficulty swallowing (spicy/acidic foods) completely disappeared. Later noticed I wasn't using antacids anymore. I believe it's more than just alcohol itsel
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by strict9 6y ago
Interesting that "anti-inflammatory" is mentioned several times in this short piece. I used to be a moderate drinker, having 1-2 per day several times a week. After stopping completely about 8 or 9 months ago, I no longer have aci
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by strict9 6y ago
My family does this on state-owned park land near where they live, but it's never enough. A solution of hoping people see the error of their ways doesn't seem realistic to me. As far as deferring to authority is concerned, there i
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by strict9 6y ago
As I've grown older I've noticed this, though at a slower pace than described in the article. When I was younger and lived in the appalachians, there were countless of waterfalls, overlooks, and camping spots isolated and away fro
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by strict9 6y ago
My father in law works for the USPS and mentioned the elimination of these machines as well as elimination of overtime about a month ago. It's being described as a result of a massive decrease in flat mail. From the local union newslet
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Covid-19 is causing a wide range of disorders in the nervous system(english.elpais.com)
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CEO of major advertising trade group says Facebook boycott is a turning point(cnbc.com)
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by strict9 6y ago
Whenever metrics are instrumented that measure productivity, safety, quality, or efficiency, the metrics and metrics alone are what matter, not the over arching goal. Whether it's car crashes, fuel efficiency, lines of code, completed
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by strict9 6y ago
It's predicted that next year's iPhone will be wireless only, so not including a wired charger is the first step to getting consumers ready. https://www.macrumors.com/2019/12/05/kuo-iphone-without-li
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Tesla under investigation for Model S touchscreen failures(theverge.com)
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by strict9 6y ago
> That’s because of government stimulus benefits, both the $1,200 checks that went out to most people and, even more importantly, the $600-a-week increase in unemployment insurance benefits ... But the message of this data is that, on
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by strict9 6y ago
Didn't know about citizenfreepress, will add it to my rotation. thanks!
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by strict9 6y ago
I strongly disagree with Drudge's politics and sensationalism, but I've been a long time regular visitor just because of the layout and design. And I've always assumed he used the secondary sources (including shady ones) to a
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by strict9 6y ago
Raleigh is a college town around the college (Western Blvd to Hillsborough St) for sure, but there are enough tech jobs (Citrix, Red Hat, many smaller shops) and state government to keep things going regardless of how universities are affec
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by strict9 6y ago
> Once you start eviction you are stuck paying someone else's mortgage. This is actually the your (the landlord's) mortgage, not someone else's. That is one part of the risk of an investment vehicle that allows more tax
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China’s Military Is Tied to Debilitating New Cyberattack Tool(nytimes.com)
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To Safely Reopen, Make the Workweek Shorter. Then Keep It Shorter(theatlantic.com)
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by strict9 6y ago
> There are two main reasons: First, trillions of dollars of stimulus money from the Fed and Congress come with an implicit guarantee that the government will limit investors’ risk no matter how bad it gets. [1] When more people learn de
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by strict9 6y ago
Probably true for meat-based food production. But the Beyond Meat facility isn't the same miserable hellscape for employees: > “You can come to our facility anytime,” Brown said in an interview on Tuesday. “Don’t call me, just knock
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Stanford professor’s wife recruited for Coronavirus study with false pretenses(buzzfeednews.com)
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by strict9 6y ago
> 30.2% of US GDP How much further can they go? 26 million or so recent unemployment applications and the stock market is not off much from recent all time highs. This is more concerning than the initial falling knife mid-March.
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Florida Is a Terrible State to Be an Unemployed Person(nytimes.com)
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by strict9 6y ago
This is great and helpful, thank you Mozilla! If anyone that worked on this reads this, a suggestion: Please rank products based on Mozilla's rating and not user supplied sentiment. For example, it's hard to make sense of products
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by strict9 7y ago
This is going to get worse, and for other professions not generally getting news coverage. A close relative of mine for the USPS. Mail volume has dropped dramatically, yet they are desperate for employees to work overtime. It's because
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by strict9 7y ago
Allowing late ballots is a less worse outcome than the travesty SCOTUS enabled with the nakedly partisan decision.
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by strict9 7y ago
SCOTUS to hear arguments by telephone, but only days ago shut off extended absentee voting in Wisconsin. Voters in urban precincts (read: minority voters) were forced to stand in long crowded lines for hours in the rain with only a handful

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