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by wdr1 11y ago
I've always viewed it as "The lack of money can make you unhappy, but money itself can't make you happy." Or put another way, money can be a demotivator, but not a motivator.
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by wdr1 11y ago
I hear people say Backblaze is a single DC frequently, but I've never been able to find anything on their site confirming or denying. Is there any source for the single DC? EDIT: Nevermind. I did some more googling & found one:
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by wdr1 11y ago
Is it possible to get the readme w/o downloading the entire thing? They state "The readme file for this dataset is located in part 1 of the download. Please refer to the readme file for a detailed overview of the dataset.", b
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by wdr1 11y ago
> A lottery ticket doesn't buy a chance, it buys a pleasant daydream. It buys a mental escape hatch. It buys the 'what would I do' game for another week. Maybe for someone making six figures in the bay area. In high school
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by wdr1 11y ago
> No, fans have no choice. Entertainers allow it by using Ticketmaster. Disclaimer: Ex-Ticketmaster employee. This doesn't quite hit it. Entertainers encourage it as they get paid to do so. Ticketmaster is basically paid to be a
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by wdr1 11y ago
> It literally couldn't get any better for a kid than PBS in the 70s or 80s. Well, except for, you know, books. I don't really buy any of this "need" stuff when it comes to TV (or that one form is significantly better
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by wdr1 11y ago
My wife & I were wireless-only until we had our first child. It turns out 911 is handled very differently (at least in California). If I were to call 911 from my landline I'm connected to our local dispatch & my address is aut
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by wdr1 11y ago
> Everyone knows Microsoft does not always play nice. Far from true. As a 40-something, I share the same viewpoint on Microsoft, but I'm talked with many 20-somethings who seemed surprised at my outright rejection of using anything
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by wdr1 11y ago
> The point was that this engineer took the removal of any perk as a sign to leave, and soda/snacks was a huge one. True. In the Yahoo! Burbank office, we originally had a candy bowl in front office. Simple things, like Jolly Ranch
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by wdr1 11y ago
No offense, but I think you're missing his bigger point.
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by wdr1 11y ago
The general story of HP, iPods & her role may be apolitical, but this specific article about it definitely wasn't. It clearly was written with a political axe to grind.
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by wdr1 11y ago
>No alarm here for ABP users. (Like me). Why? ABP also has an "acceptable ads" program, where you can pay to have ads whitelisted if you follow certain rules: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads They are no
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by wdr1 11y ago
Ah, that would explain why they skipped Los Angeles too.
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by wdr1 11y ago
Eh, sounds like Venice.
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by wdr1 11y ago
Sure, but that's just San Francisco.
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by wdr1 11y ago
In a similar vein, also of note is the Evian conference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89vian_Conference Held in 1938, the question was to help Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. Both the US & UK refused to
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by wdr1 11y ago
Amazon recently announced they would be hiring 1,000 workers in my hometown.[1] Sorta crazy they're using robots & still need to hire that many people. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-amazon-joliet-08
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by wdr1 11y ago
In the 1980s it was advocated by those on the Right for that reason, albeit with a different name, a negative income tax. It was one of the reasons advocate by Milton Friedman.
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by wdr1 11y ago
> Righties (well, go far right enough) Milton Friedman is now "far right"?
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Are there text versions of the Clinton Emails?
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by wdr1 11y ago
How do you get around the combination of your IP + UA being fairly unique?
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by wdr1 11y ago
FWIW, there were issues with missing content even in the days of Dejanews.
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by wdr1 11y ago
> If they don't suit your partisan view of the world, where exactly does the problem lie? I don't know anything about the bias (or lack thereof) of Polifact, but it's not hard to see how this is a problem. If I were to spo
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by wdr1 11y ago
"Malaria kills around 584,000 people a year worldwide..." Consider that's more per year than the number of people the United States lost during all of World War II. "...most of them children under five in sub-Saharan
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by wdr1 11y ago
I miss Eckhart. It was a great place to study.
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by wdr1 11y ago
> It is very simple to regulate without getting into freedom of speech issues. Just declare (yes, I'm aware it's a constitutional/SCOTUS issue, not a legislative one) that corporations are not people and do not deserve fre
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by wdr1 11y ago
Yep, this is exactly my objection as well.
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by wdr1 11y ago
> The opposition to modern advertising is in response to exactly this. Personally, I don't believe that. My theory is that a lot of concern about modern advertising is how it can destroy the user experience. E.g., 20+ additional H
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by wdr1 11y ago
Brand equity isn't my term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_equity
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by wdr1 11y ago
Disclaimer: I work in advertising. > But what is being passed today as advertising is nothing like that, it is more like high school psychological and emotional blackmail. "Here is this product. If you don't have it you are no

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