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by thevillagechief 1y ago
This was the best thing about Google cache. It's sad they killed it. I really wanted to read this.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
I got a heat pump with a backup gas furnace this year. A heat pump just felt like a no-brainer of I was going to get an AC anyway. But gas in PA tends to be cheaper, so the system will use gas at a certain point. The problem is I couldn&#x2
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
I think the OP is in fact calling for an equal treatment of prisoners. Sarkozy isn't getting the average prison treatment here.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
The government(and taxpayers I assume) actually made out pretty well on the bailout loans. Considering the government still owns 99% of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, after retaining billions in profits over the last decade and a half.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
That's not how that works. Same reason we don't tax unrealized gains (unless you are Norway).
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Funny seeing this here at the exact moment my frustration has boiled over with windows. I'm just completely baffled at the hostility and disdain Microsoft is showing it's customers. These issues are on top of just the disregard th
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
This rollercoaster is wearing me out. I hope this finally settles it!
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Journalists don't have to spend 15 minutes to coordinate how to present an issue. The phenomenon has been described as journalists writing for other journalists as their audience, rather than the general public. It's about sending
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
If you can convince corporate to ditch Microsoft and Azure, I'll buy you a beer.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
I love my home town. I grew up there, and it was fine. I would never describe it as one of the most beautiful places on earth. I'm I proud of it? Only in the sense it's home and I have family there.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
It's just ridiculous. Windows 11 currently has this bug where the file explorer just freezes all the time. Everyone is experiencing it at work. I cannot believe how a core product gets away with this.
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How and who is making the decisions about ownership? I'd think they'd have gone for open bidding, or even an IPO. I don't even see why negotiations with the Chinese was needed. There's a law, affirmed by the Supreme Cour
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Yeah, these things are silly and I don't even know the audience for them. I remember seeing a lot of local infrastructure projects around with the attribution "President Biden BBB Infrastructure Bill." Does anyone really car
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
This was actually my dream career path when I was younger. Unfortunately there's just no way I would have afforded the time and resources to pursue both, and I'd never heard of Biomedical Engineering where I grew up.
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This is also just a consequence of globalization. A small company cannot compete globally, which means less power for the US government abroad. So it's not in the interest of the US government to break up Apple or Google or Microsoft.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Frankly, I might be sympathetic to this view, except for a few countries: The US, the UK, France, Belgium and maybe a few others. The US is a country of immigrant, so none of that cultural history nonsense holds, except maybe for the Native
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
These kind of statements frustrate me. They are kind of manufactured consent statements. I likely don't agree with DHH positions as shared here, but when did we decide platforming very left-leaning positions is good, and platforming ve
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Yeah, I missed that.
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It also probably started as a hedge for the divesture from Chrome that DoJ was seeking.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
This coming from a big Oracle skeptic. None of this is true. There is no practical friction left if you're using OpenJDK. And from the parent comment, you do not need to upgrade every 6 months. Most people just work with the LTS versio
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
If someone made away with all my retirement savings, I wouldn't say I was only out the cost basis.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
The gym, once you get into it, can be incredibly addicting. I'm not as consistent as I should be, but there have been times I've spent 3 hours at a time. I go through similar cycles with running as well. There's just an incre
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
My wife had a similar experience. Being the last child, she was just never pushed to do any activities in school, and had really never participated in any physical activities. When we got married, I set a goal to run a marathon, and she tho
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
It was a status symbol pretending to be a verification. There was a reason the people were referred to as "blue checks". And it could be taken away if you fell afoul of the prevailing norms at the time.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Unfortunately headlines and memories are extremely short-lived. Not sure anyone will be talking about this in a month or two. Which is a lesson I try to remind myself whenever I take myself too seriously.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
My previous job was at an insurance company in part of the country that is not disaster prone. Even then, once in a decade hailstorms would essentially wipe out reserves and necessitate reinsurance. It would take probably 5 years to recov
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
I'm going to go ahead and say that the last 5 years did in fact show that journalists cannot be trusted. I will agree that random persons paying $20 obliterates what was already an embarrassingly low bar. Really, opening it up just exp
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Several years ago I got my Mum an Infinix phone. The default UI was painful, just really full on adware. I would change the launcher, but they kept changing it back every couple of days. One day I tried changing the default messaging app, a
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
East Africa is extremely competitive for labor, skilled or otherwise. So unless you're bringing capital, it's gonna be challenging.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
It goes without saying that Musk is smarter than most would ever hope to be. But he's just too freaking stubborn sometimes for his own good. He could have owned that whole industry if he didn't have an ego the size of Jupiter. And

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