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by wcfields 4y ago
Qualifying it with "near the sea" and NOT seaside you could include some of Baja, Mexico areas around Rosarito. $100k these days though won't get you the best place, but if you could swing $200k you can get a condo in an olde
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by wcfields 4y ago
I think the bait & switch on those $2000 stimulus checks that became $1400 really pissed a lot of people off.
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by wcfields 4y ago
Future of finance: Your own mattress (cold wallet) or a bookie incorporated in a tax-haven (exchange)
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by wcfields 4y ago
I fully agree, the 2019-2021 Bolt [1] has been my gold standard for the right combo of touch and tactile. Climate and radio preset buttons fully separate and easy to see/touch. It's a shame they went more "slick" with th
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by wcfields 4y ago
I actually just turned down a job offer, albeit a w2-contractor role, as a PD at Apple, for this reason alone. Even though it had the possibility to become full time at Apple, I’d rather be fully remote at my current company.
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by wcfields 4y ago
> fewer people need stuff and there are fewer people to make stuff But, that's the whole gist of our economy: lots of people needing stuff (consumers) and lots people making stuff (labor).
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by wcfields 4y ago
> economically active populations I've seen this thrown about and have to take this with a grain of salt because even the infirmed/elderly/retired are still part of the economy. They consume food and resources, albeit they
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by wcfields 4y ago
> I don't think the US can be summed up with a single word. I think it can, I've been thinking about this and it's "scam". Like, think how often everything in our country is a straight up scam. Healthcare, parkin
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by wcfields 4y ago
I think you're being purposefully obtuse, but here's why: - SNAP / EBT / Foodstamps for people making so little money. Add onto that, Food banks. - Farm subsidies for many cheap foodstuffs (Corn) causing massive cheap, a
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by wcfields 4y ago
Yeah, because with transfering money via Western Union you have one problem: they take a cut, but the person on the other end gets fiat in their local currency and you pay in your local currency. With sending bitcoin you have many more prob
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by wcfields 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_laws_in_the_United_S...
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by wcfields 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_regulation_in_the_United_...
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by wcfields 4y ago
Well, you did it. You get go choose whatever you want to do now. This goes for all of you on this site too that need to go touch grass. I'd like to think I'd take inspiration from Nick Stellino, a former Wall Street guy that made
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by wcfields 4y ago
Pro stuff gives a glimpse of if we lived in a perfect world, SDI (and HD-SDI) would have been the de facto standard for video everywhere.
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by wcfields 4y ago
Municipalities are in an arms race to criminalize homelessness to push the issue to another city (defacto being Los Angeles).
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by wcfields 4y ago
> cnn+ doesn't actually give you live cnn Ok, now that's just insane.
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by wcfields 4y ago
Tangentially related, Reminds me of this: In Los Angeles there's a few very prominently displayed billboards at a shopping center for the Galaxy S4 that has somehow remained up [1] [1] https://goo.gl/maps/deKaDdMjM
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by wcfields 4y ago
The word "Starting" is the real lawyer'd up word there. Starting has so many meanings. In my work life I've started hundreds of projects, and a few actually make it beyond a line in a planning document!
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by wcfields 5y ago
If I can give any home buying tip from my experience of buying two houses it's been to look at places that are in "the middle". Both homes I've bought in SoCal have had some god-awful photos online, and the finish is new
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by wcfields 5y ago
I've never had an unsafe car persay, but when working with a small budget you'll end up with a high-mileage 2010 Toyota Corolla. (Turo says "Cars that have more than 130,000 mi/200,000 km may remain listed as long as the
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by wcfields 5y ago
Haven't lost a game yet using PENIS / TOUCH as my first and second.
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by wcfields 5y ago
For the up-thread commenters, It's like people here can't fathom that a Fortune 107 corporation wouldn't implement policies that follow an ECON 101 supply/demand curve.
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by wcfields 5y ago
Semi-related: RING A BELL (213) 223-6101
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by wcfields 5y ago
Perhaps "the most DVD movie" [1], second only to "Fight Club" in people's opinions. [1] https://twitter.com/freemaneric/status/1473337573326180364
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by wcfields 5y ago
Before Ubiquiti turned into a garbage fire my go to recommendation for power/performance/budget was used Ruckus APs and pfSense router.
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by wcfields 5y ago
I’ve been there on the IT side. Company had two meetings simultaneously on either side of the building and I was in the server room disabling GSuite accounts and remotely locking laptops. Absolutely brutal 40% headcount slash after we lost
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by wcfields 5y ago
My happy thought: I’m sure that someone, somewhere has an ancient door keycard badge program that they can finally virtualize because of a mouse driver.
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by wcfields 5y ago
I work in the advertising industry (media buy side) and we buy the feed from VideoAmp (Vizio) to determine linear TV spot reach better than Nielsen. We only buy for our clients and get a feed of only their placements, but essentially VideoA
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by wcfields 5y ago
150 shares were offered in the "Backblaze Directed Share Program", and I've been a customer since 2011.
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by wcfields 5y ago
Following Someone1234's comment[1] Stupid idea(?): Attach a mid-power laser to zap bugs, could even be a DIY project with an arduino and an PTZ mount. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29015202

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