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by trebbble 4y ago
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this coul
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by trebbble 4y ago
Pretty sure the whole exchange speaks for itself to anyone else reading it, and doesn't convey what you hope/believe it does. HAND.
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by trebbble 4y ago
Since they're already unable to keep up with their current workload, and it will take time for them to staff up, no, I don't think this will give them enough staff to do substantially more auditing of 2021 taxes unless, for some r
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by trebbble 4y ago
> Gee I wonder what the results will be. On the FY 2021 audit rate? Little or no effect, I expect.
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by trebbble 4y ago
From the article: > A large increase in federal income tax audits targeting the poorest wage earners allowed the Internal Revenue Service to keep overall audit numbers from further declines for Americans as a whole during FY 2021. I&#x27
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by trebbble 4y ago
I didn't mean to imply that Windows is uncommon, but that you have to get pretty damn obscure to find another modern desktop or server OS that doesn't do the dot-equals-hidden thing. Windows is the most common on the desktop, ob
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by trebbble 4y ago
Practically the only remotely common desktop or server OS where it's not still a normal way to hide files, is Windows.
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by trebbble 4y ago
Anyone who was near a tree during the eclipse saw that, too. The effect was very clear in spots of light passing through leaves. Definitely weird to see.
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by trebbble 4y ago
> But in answer to your question, I suspect the cliche will slowly die out when most of the 60/70/80 year olds we meet are tech savvy. Most younger people are also really bad at using computers. No, not because they're rui
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by trebbble 4y ago
> I think the natural end point for heavily worn clothes would be as a rag? This used to be a super-common middle class (and under, I suppose) habit, at least in the US. But synthetics make shitty rags, so that rules out a high percentag
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by trebbble 4y ago
Not sure. I know they push tons of deals through the apps. I know this second-hand, including from someone who routinely gets entire meals from Taco Bell, specifically, for a couple dollars—just as you used to be able to do off the normal m
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by trebbble 4y ago
True if the level you shift it up to has some further explanatory value and/or can be demonstrated or proven in some fashion. If it's just "well, it might be this thing that we can't prove" then, until you've
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by trebbble 4y ago
Looks like an appeal to the divine, in that it doesn't explain anything but does push the question up a level. "Why does something exist?" "God did it." "Uh, ok, why does God exist?" "Dunno, just does
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by trebbble 4y ago
Right. Consider how different the profit of a company hiring $300,000/yr software engineers to mow lawns 8 hours per day might be, compared with another company hiring them to... write extremely valuable software 4 hours per day. The c
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by trebbble 4y ago
Garner's Modern English Usage covers "perquisite" in order to call out confusion between that word and "prerequisite", but notes in passing that perquisite is "often shortened to perk ". No mention of &
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by trebbble 4y ago
There's a lot of friction to finding and landing side jobs. Ones that let you hop in just whenever you feel like it and do one hour of work, with no commitment to minimum hours per week? And that you can put in a single productive hour
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by trebbble 4y ago
c. 2005, a $100 shopping cart was overflowing. 2022, a $100 shopping cart may still have space left before you have to start stacking things. More like $300-$350 if you fill it up.
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by trebbble 4y ago
> I took my kids there last weekend ... it was over $30.00 and I didn't eat. Fast food -- across the board -- has gone up. This trend predates the current inflation. Several major fast food chains appear to have worked out more effe
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by trebbble 4y ago
Everything I care about definitely seems to have gone up a lot more than the nominal inflation rate would suggest. Maybe not 50%, but... certainly more than 20% over the last two years. Then again that's been true since I started payin
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by trebbble 4y ago
No end? Spider Robinson, Melancholy Elephants : http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm I'd agree that at some point being "creative" feels like just another kind of killing time wi
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by trebbble 4y ago
I've definitely gotten better at consciously adding things the list of shit I try not to to think about. Which is pretty long at this point. I finally tried weed well into my 30s and discovered it's great at making sure I don&#x27
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by trebbble 4y ago
Since we can switch any time enough folks feel like moving over some of the major group threads to something else, how are we locked in? I can't really think of any time I didn't do nearly all of my communication over one or mayb
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by trebbble 4y ago
We're not, so it isn't.
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by trebbble 4y ago
Over 15 years in the industry, shitloads of code shipped in a dozen plus languages, repeatedly taken an idea all the way to being a functioning product, usually get great feedback from peers and managers, often taken point on architectural
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by trebbble 4y ago
Consider that FAANG-style interviews are pretty expensive to conduct. Consider that the big tech companies could agree on some kind of standardized test to replace much of the worst of the interviews—but haven't. Consider that they o
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by trebbble 4y ago
> Aren't we more than that? I'm "getting" to watch a couple close relatives go through severe cognitive decline. From what I've seen: no, we're not. They frequently drop the last few minutes of memories on t
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by trebbble 4y ago
Yeah, the "repetition is what makes time go faster" thing never made much sense to me. Few parts of my life have involved more day-to-day sameness and as rigid a schedule as high school. Should have felt fast, right? Nope, felt sl
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by trebbble 4y ago
> It's not just that they have no obligation they are legally required to comply with subpoena requests and provide any and all data that an independent judge has deemed necessary. I have, for north of a decade, not understood why t
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by trebbble 4y ago
... so they can blackmail some folks to make them turn over corporate secrets, facilitate money laundering, or otherwise act as spies. Maybe still safer than a US company having the data, but not great.
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by trebbble 4y ago
My point is that your posts read like you have a chip on your shoulder and are working that out in your writing, and that comes through so strongly that it overwhelms any other message you may be trying to communicate. The original post, fo

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