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by vel0city 7mo ago
Together that's about four million American jobs so I'd disagree those jobs have "already been killed".
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by vel0city 7mo ago
Both of those things both were and are jobs. They're called secretaries and travel agents.
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by vel0city 7mo ago
Why is hardly anyone talking about basic web hosting provides or sharung links (here or elsewhere) if they are so wonderful and profitable? Because few people really care much about the commodity hosting world. They're not making waves
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by vel0city 7mo ago
Zoho Mail Lite is $1/user/mo when billed annually. https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html A few DNS hosting companies still bundle in a few free email mailboxes with registration costs but that is be
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by vel0city 7mo ago
As a counter argument, things like pour over coffee is getting to be more popular in the US and older drip coffee makers seem to be getting slightly less popular. Still though, I don't seem to see most of those people seriously clamori
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by vel0city 7mo ago
If you haven't already, you should look at the court case that prompted the creation of the current legal framework of Section 230. Prodigy was sued because of the things being said in public chatrooms. Should the host for an IRC serve
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by vel0city 7mo ago
> despite the use of wired connections to customers, instead of radio transmissions. The FCC also regulates interstate wire transmissions. But ultimately, you're not quite getting it right. It's all RF, it's just that we s
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by vel0city 7mo ago
People should really just move away from pip/requirements.txt and move to poetry or uv. They tend to solve this problem more elegantly and through their normal default workflows.
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by vel0city 7mo ago
SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP I'm doing my part! Would you like to know more?
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by vel0city 7mo ago
You act like I produce the silver I spend. No, the miners and minters do, who debase our currency mining and minting more. Even if we tied our economic system to shiny rocks the vast majority of us aren't involved in the production of
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by vel0city 7mo ago
> I had 1 same Windows 10 install running on desktop for 8 years as primary personal PC I actually have a desktop still running that got a launch party host Windows 7 Steve Ballmer edition install that's just been upgraded as time h
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by vel0city 7mo ago
If they're just files on a flash drive, what stops someone from just copying the files to another drive? Its just moving the same issue up a level in the stack, and in many ways making it easier to clone it. One of the whole points of
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by vel0city 7mo ago
To be fair, this was almost a decade ago.
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by vel0city 7mo ago
> cable has DVRs that let you skip commercials if you want The last time I had DirecTV several channels had managed to have unskippable ads in recordings. Paramount was egregious with this and was the first channel I saw with this "
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by vel0city 7mo ago
You don't understand that a phone isn't a part of the human body? Seriously? We as a society can't even come to agreement on that basic fact anymore? If someone shoots a gun in a crowd is that too an involuntary bodily functi
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by vel0city 7mo ago
You come to my house to have food. I serve the food on obviously unclean dishes. Is that not rude as well? Do you just use the obviously dirty, nasty, used dishes out of not wanting to appear rude? Do I just use chopsticks that will put spl
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by vel0city 7mo ago
Nah, with how ticketing is these days they'll bug you a dozen times to choose between the $50 basic economy disaster package that only has the mask and 50% airflow or the full package for $100 that includes another 25% airflow and a fl
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by vel0city 7mo ago
Are you seriously making the argument blasting music or a movie or whatever is an involuntary bodily function?
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by vel0city 7mo ago
You're calling out different price points while then choosing a $200k car. Which, you picked that car because it's an exceptionally long sedan. How about we choose a different SUV? https://www.carsized.com/en/
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by vel0city 7mo ago
Toyota barely makes any fully EV cars, and their bZ series hasn't been very great. They have a number of hybrids, but even those are often based on dated battery technology. They're still selling new cars with NiMH batteries. They
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by vel0city 7mo ago
You have a fixed amount of space to put stuff. If the stuff gets larger, can you put more or less stuff in that space? So now we have at least the same number of people trying to put their stuff in that fixed size space, but their stuff got
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by vel0city 7mo ago
Sorry, yes, I didn't necessarily mean full grade separation, I was mostly thinking about just separated bike lanes in general. Having some kind of real buffer between the cyclists and the murder monkeys. https://www.txdot.go
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by vel0city 7mo ago
I only know the law in Texas, so I'll cite that. > (b) An operator of a vehicle on a roadway moving more slowly than the normal speed of other vehicles at the time and place under the existing conditions shall drive in the right-han
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by vel0city 7mo ago
Wouldn't the better solution be to prevent those murder monkeys from doing the death races around where people would want to cycle? Some kind of grade-separated trail? More regulations on those murder monkey death races? Crazy thought,
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by vel0city 7mo ago
> why would the relative ranking matter? Trying to compare competitiveness of various markets on where builders are going to invest their money building? > It's margin > margin of alternative investments of similar scale and r
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by vel0city 7mo ago
Dropping a bit from being one of the highest rates in the country still puts it at one of the highest rates in the country. Looking at this data: https://constructioncoverage.com/research/cities-investing-m... If housi
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by vel0city 7mo ago
> Is Dr Horton building homes in Austin? Yes, a ton. https://www.drhorton.com/texas/austin > That could explain high profit while dissuading new construction in Austin. Given they're still building a ton in
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by vel0city 7mo ago
> Texas led the nation in job creation in 2025, adding more nonfarm jobs than any other state and setting multiple employment records https://www.wfaa.com/article/money/business/everything-bigge... As some
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by vel0city 8mo ago
It obviously wouldn't be successful on day one, and it would take some kind of exceptional pressure to jump start it, but these things have been done in the past in the US and have been done recently in China. Not arguing these were g
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by vel0city 8mo ago
I give a lot of the blame to the government of Israel because it seems (according to the Trump administration) there was no real reason to attack except for Israel was going to attack and we would become targets if they did. High ranking pe

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