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by tbyehl 7y ago
Go check out the ads on some non-mainstream or adult sites. They're the epitome of This is why we use ad blockers.
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Or it's a ton of compute in a single system for just 96W. Average US rates are roughly $1/yr per continuous watt.
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When I started down the path of buying my current home I'd wished for a "Buy the house I want and give me a lease on it" service. Buying, owning, and eventually selling come with hassles and risks that I'd rather have av
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by tbyehl 7y ago
Earlier this summer I decided that I'd found a loophole and ordered 'N0 TAG' and 'N0NE' (zeros) for my motorcycles. The license plate font doesn't distinguish between 0 and O but the computers seem to account f
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by tbyehl 7y ago
My state has legislation about denying / revoking vanity plates and 'It inconveniences our computers' is not a valid reason.
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Clinton and CALEA don't get enough credit for creating the infrastructure of the modern American surveillance state.
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Well, your point overlooks the points I was aiming for. 1. Any of those scraps of data have negligible value by themselves, but when they're aggregated and traded their value is vastly increased. 2. I don't have any choice in how
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Rich people depend on credit more than anyone. They call it 'leverage.'
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How would 'some agency' have anything to say about your credit risk if issuers of credit weren't feeding them information about your credit performance? What's more bothersome to me is that these companies are scooping u
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> What if you wanted to buy a $25,000 car in cash from a dealership? A Dealership in America is never going to say No to an actual buyer, but they'll encourage you to finance (that's where they make their profit) or bring a che
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by tbyehl 7y ago
Funny, my impression of Costco is that they have literally the worst self-checkouts anywhere. I've never made it through without needing assistance and it takes forever to get assistance because, as best as I can tell, no other custome
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A single Zillow estimate is not worth much, but for making a relative comparison of 18 neighboring homes on the same street it's not unreasonable. Clicking around the ones that have changed hands recently enough for Zillow to have the
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by tbyehl 7y ago
Well, I'm no expert, but for the vast majority of people a detached storage space probably isn't even on their shopping list. And for most who put some priority on storage space it will be fungible with an attached garage or full
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As another piece of anecdata, my previous home had a spacious and nicely finished detached garage in addition to a single-car attached. It values the same as other similarly sized homes in the subdivision without a detached garage. It defin
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Worse than that, the article states that you have to buy them out as part of a sale. My house has an ADU and came with paying tenants. Zillow thinks my place is worth about $30K more than the average on my street... but I also have a pool (
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I'm taking downvotes here and up there... but people are missing the point. H1-B became a trap because of dual-intent . Someone who always intended to leave the US, as H1-B requires, shouldn't be too bothered that they can't
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It became dual-intent, which lead to everyone's intent becoming to immigrate, which has lead to incredibly long processing times... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1990
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Why should anyone sympathize with someone who came here on what was supposed to be a non-immigrant visa tied to a particular job and then changes their mind about immigrating / the job? The whole immigration system sucks, and especiall
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by tbyehl 7y ago
I caught this on NPR Now last weekend. It's the same story with more depth, mostly following the saga of north Tulsa not being able to attract a proper grocer because it has become saturated with dollar stores.
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> using that money to buy things I consider luxury goods It always pains me to see people convey that attitude. We spend on luxury items because they make us feel good, they give us a little endorphine hit when we buy / use / c
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They are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Change_Of_Address
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> Looking to spend under $500 if possible but I am open to suggestions. That's a small budget for purchasing a new chair. Around $800 is where you start finding a better durability and a fuller complement of adjustments than a medio
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Hens are allowed for "personal enjoyment." Eating their eggs is fine. Slaughtering them myself for meat is not. Might be a loophole if I took them somewhere that could legally process them but I can't imagine that's a co
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Urban/suburban government tends to be... anti-self-sufficiency. Not so long ago a Florida town was making headlines for going after a resident who'd disconnected from the power grid. New wells and septic permits are often disallow
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> You will feel, at times, like you're letting down everyone equally My girlfriend struggles with that quite a bit. And now that we're fully cohabitated and my work-from-home / lack-of-commute situation allows me to partic
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> we should get return on investment. What's the return on giving a job that would have gone to outside workers to an inmate instead?
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by tbyehl 7y ago
A managed switch is basically an embedded server with super-slow storage. If it's of a certain age you might pop the cover and find a CompactFlash card. I run my most critical piece of home infrastructure (PiHole, of course) bare-metal
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by tbyehl 7y ago
What gets me is how long servers take to reach the bootloader from power on. Your average modern Dell/HP desktop or laptop is there within a second or two, Windows 10 and systemd-based Linux distros on SSD can be at the login prompt wi
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Take it from the other direction: What could you have chosen in 1989 that wouldn't seem ridiculous today? How many OS releases from 30 years ago still have commercial support? How many OS releases from today can still run a binary from
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DNA plants itself. https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/

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