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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Yeah where I live anything I order from Amazon comes via a third-party courier. Never seen an Amazon van in my neighborhood.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
A MAX will certainly crash again, as all aircraft types occasionally do. Whether this shakes public confidence will be how soon it happens, and (secondarily) for what reason.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Being a small-scale online reseller of someone else's product has always been risky. Low barriers to entry, no such thing as a regional territory, no motive for the manufacturer to protect or reward you over anyone else.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
I think it's subjective, and maybe related to what you grew up with. I moved to Chicago in the 1990s, lived there for about 10 years. The mass-transit was very good, but I wasn't happy living there. Move to a smaller town with bas
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
I got into programming at around middle-school age, with no particular guidance from my parents beyond general encouragement. I have three kids and none of them are interested in programming. It's fine to support and encourage somethin
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
> The best indicator that you're going to give money to a charity (or political campaign) is that you've already done so. This ignores why you gave the money though. Example, I donated to a particular children's hospital b
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
For me, the pinacle of the Windows UI was Windows 2000 Professional. Desktop search is fine and useful for consumers. For someone who uses a machine 8 hours a day, Windows 2000 was great.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
You could probably adapt this to rug hooking kits pretty easily. Random example site (first one in DDG search results: https://woolery.com/rug-hooking/kits.html )
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Because the real economic value of those jobs is less than a "living wage." A delivery driver is not a skilled job. I know, I delivered pizza when I was in college. And that was before mobile phones or navigation apps so drivers
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Public housing in thE US is almost entirely shitholes, though. It's better than being homeless, maybe. That's about it. That is the reason many large cities have torn most of it down and replaced it with section 8 vouchers. This s
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
If the government is going to tell me I can't leave my house, I want that decision being made by an elected official with some accountability to the public, not by a staff doctor of some sort.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Who deals with the downtime if any other on-premises system goes down? If you are running networks and software on site, and they are business-critical, you have people and a plan for this. Or you don't, and suffer the consequences.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Interesting, I've never worked anywhere where engineers decide when to release changes. That's a product decision, and there is a process of review and approval at both the code level and the functional/end-user-experience le
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Yes I'm old enough to remember when organizations had email but it was internal-only. Probably less for security reasons at the time than that they simply didn't have an internet provider. There were also mainframe-based email sys
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
I don't think this is really true, because spammers call numbers at random (or perhaps, in sequence). They are not working through the published phone book.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
... and being denied tenure is a pretty clear signal that it's time to move on. You're branded now, and there isn't much hope for advancement if you stay.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Reading this, it struck me that we're quite fortunate that COVID-19 hit in 2020, and not in say 2000, when there would have been much less hope for development of a quick and effective vaccine.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
University research is a business now, like most things in higher-ed.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Then you probably shouldn't be announcing it in your caller ID when you call random people.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Styrofoam isn't safe for household insulation. It's very flamable and produces heavy black toxic smoke.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
"Rent sneaking" is an interesting typo. Going to have to give some thought to how to use that term in appropriate context.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
> Why wouldn't someone jump at an opportunity to prove the thing/service they provide actually works, unless they were unsure about it themselves? Because advertising in some form certainly works. If you can determine that appr
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
The credit score in the US is based entirely upon one's assets, income, current amount of debts, and payment history. It doesn't include what one posts on social media or what political party one votes for. At least not yet.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
The S&P return is not always and certainly not guaranteed to be 10% or even positve. Some months/years it is negative. It's an exceedingly bad idea to keep cash that you will need in the short term (< 5 years) invested in e
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
AFAIK in the US, the merchant is not allowed to charge the card until the good/service has been delivered (or shipped). I'm sure some do anyway...
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
We don't spend nearly enough time in primary and high school teaching practical personal finance. For many people that could be the single most important life skill they learn in 12 years of education.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
In the US it's easy to get a zero-fee credit card. Most have rewards programs. The personal finance advice I've heard is not "don't use credit cards" it is "don't carry a balance on credit cards." Car
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
I've never tried buying a car with a credit card (though my credit limits are, insanely, high enough that I could). I would guess it might be seen as a cash advance and charged interest immediately, also not accrue into the loyalty rew
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Maybe. I personally don't use those payment systems; I don't have any desire for Apple or Google to have that kind of direct individual insight into my spending.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
It all adds up to just a couple of percent. That's a lot in aggregate, but for most people the convenience is worth it. Remember having to go to the bank every payday and getting enough cash for the week? Or carrying a checkbook everyw

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