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by vel0city 10mo ago
That's one thing I've found about trying to meet new people. Try and find something they want to talk about, and the floodgates will often open.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
I agree with this take. I'm definitely not friends with everyone I've worked with in person, but some of the most meaningful post-college friendships were formed by socializing with the people in the office (or people I met throu
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by vel0city 10mo ago
> In what countries do undercover police drive marked vehicles and wear insignia of their agency? Tons of these ICE agents are in unmarked vehicles and wear no official insignia. The guy who shot Renee Good did not, on any part of hi
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by vel0city 10mo ago
> If we get rid of ICE, who handles Handles interior enforcement (raids, investigations, and deportations)? Another org? Yes, a different org, back under the Department of Justice, staffed by very different people and with a different wa
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by vel0city 10mo ago
The argument about getting rid of ICE isn't about having zero enforcement of immigration laws. It is about getting rid of this entire stack of management and agents. I guess that's what you're not understanding. ICE is recent
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by vel0city 10mo ago
> Are there any countries that don't enforce their immigration laws? I don't think there are many developed countries where their immigration officers are routinely tear gassing students and bystanders, no. I don't think t
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by vel0city 10mo ago
"Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15, your AK-47" The words of the last Democrat that seemed to really have a chance to win a senator seat in my state. His support really dropped after such a statement in this state.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
> Explain why they pursued Julian Assange then. There is a difference between someone essentially just handing you a pile of classified documents and you going around soliciting and encouraging people to break the law and mishandle the d
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by vel0city 10mo ago
The scrap metal yard near me definitely pays to take washing machines and dryers. There's a lot of steel scrap, some circuit boards, and a motor in there.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
The biggest risks are that single-use bottles are usually pretty difficult to clean (usually a narrow opening). The second biggest, which is related, is that those single-use bottles usually aren't very rigid and will tend to make smal
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by vel0city 10mo ago
An average EV battery is what, around 70kWh? Add in a bit of charging losses and we'll say maybe 75kWh being generous here, and that's assuming a nearly dead battery to a full charge. Doing that every month is then 900kWh, or 0.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
This can vary greatly across locations, even within the same city and the same power distribution organization. Different neighbors, being on different circuits, being on a line that's more likely to have storm damages, can make a lot
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by vel0city 10mo ago
Some people really get the idea of only handling it around the edges. Lots of other people just handle them however they want and have no problems touching the media anywhere. Especially kids, which often don't have the cleanest hands
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by vel0city 10mo ago
I was so happy when we got a VCR+ enabled VCR. Stupid simple to program. Just punch in a few digit code in the TV guide magazine and it would schedule it automatically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_sched
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by vel0city 10mo ago
How do I join a live editing session of an Excel file with several people using regular Excel with LibreOffice? I can't. Or the same with PowerPoint. I can't. In a modern workspace it's not just local software running solely
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by vel0city 10mo ago
The will of the stock market doesn't influence Dell, they're a privately held corporation. They're no longer listed on any public stock market.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
First mover advantage, brand awareness, word of mouth, early reviewers, etc. People then build a brand connection of "robot vacuum" == "roomba", everything else is just a fake imitation. Imagine you're a normal rand
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by vel0city 10mo ago
> The exact same logic you used can be applied to music: once you've listened to the album once, you know how it will go, so what's the point of listening again? Most music doesn't have the same kind of narrative and stron
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by vel0city 10mo ago
I've bought a ton of movies in the past. The vast majority I've sold second hand or thrown away because I just didn't care to watch again and I didn't feel like storing something I'd never use forever. Same goes for
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by vel0city 10mo ago
Go to any bookstore and open practically any paid magazine. Count how many pages are ads. It's far from a small percentage. Some I've looked at recently were practically 1/3 to 1/2 ads. This isn't far from how thing
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by vel0city 10mo ago
> I can select---from the steering wheel---how many seconds the interior lights stay on after I close the door. I don't mind this feature is somewhere deep in the menus of the driver settings area. However, if you're tripping o
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by vel0city 10mo ago
> If your new product solves frustrations present in an incumbent, on a long enough timescale, your product will come out on top. I've got numerous examples where this didn't happen because of other brand awareness. Neato had
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by vel0city 10mo ago
I want more things on the steering wheel. Anything the driver should reasonably be operating while the vehicle is in motion should be on the wheel or immediately surrounding it, IMO.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
I can see how it's contradictory on its face, but the reality is pretty nuanced. Large brands continue to run ads to enforce brand loyalty and keep their image fresh. For a lot of companies, dropping advertising will lead to reduced sa
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by vel0city 10mo ago
I just wanted to second recommend Amusing Ourselves to Death. A very good and short read that I find continually relevant applying the same ideas to social media.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
Magazines and phone books are often largely ad-supported. They largely wouldn't exist without some amount of advertising.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
Numerous places are advertising financing groceries and eating out these days. https://www.paypal.com/us/digital-wallet/ways-to-pay/buy-now... https://www.klarna.com/us/store/5130c
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by vel0city 10mo ago
I do wish these services would have an easier method to import/export playlists and collections. But that would make it easier to leave, so its not going to happen.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
Apple watches have the highest marketshare in a lot of the world's markets. According to this analysis[1], watchOS (Apple watches) make up around half of all smartwatches used in Europe. Global sales puts Apple around 20-30% market sha
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by vel0city 10mo ago
Many of these people are in essentially double financialized situations, where they have a loan on the mobile home and they pay monthly pad fees to the trailer park.

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