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vb6sp6
5y ago
> advertising This one would be hard to enforce. Still a good idea.
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vb6sp6
5y ago
> these folks opted into this program I like "personal responsibility" as much as the next person, but we both know that companies love to bury things like this deep into contracts in the smallest font sizes know to man. So whi
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vb6sp6
5y ago
Windows 11, or whatever the new name is, will have the same tracking and possibly more.
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vb6sp6
5y ago
you can get them as a sticker pack. "the blobs live on" https://9to5google.com/2018/07/17/google-blob-emoji-gboard-s...
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vb6sp6
5y ago
Touch input. Bigger things are easier to touch with your finger
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5y ago
Texas ranks 37th in Poverty Rate at 16.0%(poverty rankings by state). The Poverty Rate of Texas is slightly higher than the national average of 14.6 Texas has one of the lowest literacy rates Approximately 5.2 million Texans were uninsured
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vb6sp6
5y ago
Results of what? Texas isn't some magical place that works better than any other large state. And you could make the argument that it can be worse than other states. For example, hurricane Harvey brought on major flooding in 2017. It t
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vb6sp6
5y ago
It's a bad system imo. State house reps only make 7200 a year. Which means legislators need other income. And they also need 6 months off every two years. The only people I know that can do that are extremely wealthy.
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5y ago
Texas had a really bad governor a long time ago. So they made these stupid rules and regulations to try and prevent gov from becoming too powerful again. for example, state house reps make $7,200 per year. So the people that run seem to be
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5y ago
Not to be a dick but why would you even enable it in the first place? I assume most people here are somewhat embedded in the tech world and you have probably seen or experienced bugs in software before. It seems a little crazy to me to turn
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5y ago
Yes but that is only the door charge. If you want tools, that's extra. And water is $3 dollars. And that piece of quartz is $9 at the gift shop, etc
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vb6sp6
5y ago
Not for 40k
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vb6sp6
5y ago
do you feel the same way about royalties?
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vb6sp6
5y ago
They used the product (in our case). They just asked for things that no one has wanted since.
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vb6sp6
5y ago
Sometimes it isn't about the "big sale" but having the big company on your list of customers. It can give your company a lot of credibility.
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vb6sp6
5y ago
No 4d chess needed. It feels like this was a simple pump and dump.
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5y ago
I think it is two reasons 1) Sometimes companies go out of business or stop supporting\updating things. If you build critical processes around these outdated tools, it can be very difficult to change. 2) Users aren't savvy enough to kn
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5y ago
I'd tell them that if people were fungible, my non-first world counterpart makes as much money as I do :)
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5y ago
I work for a very small company so when they start talking about coming back I give them some form of "not gonna happen from me" in a joking and light-hearted manner. I've done this specifically to "anchor" my posit
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5y ago
he eats for a few bucks a day, never eats out, never travels, etc. he probably doesn't need much cash to live
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vb6sp6
5y ago
That's interesting. i googled around a bit but couldn't find any stats or studies on % of dead bedrooms. Maybe the myth is more common that we think
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5y ago
Are these people explicitly telling you this? If a bunch of my married friends got together and started bitching about their sex lives, I might nod along in agreement even if my sex life isn't over.
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6y ago
Unions have been trashed beyond repair in the US. American needs a "free market" solution and I think the next step is for employees to organize and form their own corporations. If a union demands better pay, healthcare, working c
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6y ago
Works council is kinda pointless without the other things
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6y ago
I have a few German customers and I also get the impression that their unions seem to work. It seems to be a result of multiple factors: 1. "Mitbestimmung" or co-determination. German workers elect the board of directors. 2. Labor
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6y ago
> Only maybe this time we could skip the WWW part and focus on store-and-forward mesh networks, for better resilience and corporate profit-seeking resistance. The dreaded "rewrite but make it better this time" :)
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6y ago
> Maybe read a few more books, but probably watch more television, take more naps, and play more single-player computer and video games. You are just describing the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Take away "video games" a
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6y ago
you kinda answered your own question. "rich and successful people want to meet other rich and successful people". Harry's network is likely to be near 100% rich and powerful people and others want a gateway.
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6y ago
can't wait for mine
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> I don't want my kiddo to think a man needs to save her... I've also seen frozen more times than I'd like to admit and have to disagree with this conclusion. Anna would've died multiple times if Kristoff wasn't
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