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by xnyan 6y ago
Autogyros are cool, not quite a helo and quite a plane. They have several unique advantages and are undergoing a modern renaissance after being used in the very first days of non-fixed wing flight: -Inexpensive and reliable. Far simpler to
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by xnyan 6y ago
So, you have a test setup. In addition to violating the privacy of the employee, I assume you could see the employee workstation and whatever information of an actual client that may be on screen.
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by xnyan 6y ago
> I can't understand the thought that goes through some of these guys' heads that makes them think it's OK to do this. The answer is in the article. Nothing of consequence happened to them. They think it's ok to do it
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by xnyan 6y ago
These are unsolicited offers to buy a good. In what world are they not ads?
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by xnyan 6y ago
I did various medial trials in college for money and have mixed feelings about this. When sitting in the various waiting rooms, it was very clear that was only one kind of person that did "open" (not targeting people with a disord
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by xnyan 6y ago
>Here’s an idea: everyone go vote for whoever you think the best candidate is regardless of what a stack of polls say. On the one hand, I think I get your sentiment. On the other, I mean, we are all just solitary individuals floating thr
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by xnyan 6y ago
>I don't know about that. ...Might require political action of some sort. Wow, ok. I live in the raleigh-durham metro area. What is timeline for significant non-car travel for us of literally any kind outside of 40 years and hundred
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by xnyan 6y ago
In the US I pity people who walk (outside of NY, sanfran and a few other places) because it's dangerous and slow by design. I love to walk. I hate owning a car. In most of the US, there is no good way to get to most places other than b
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by xnyan 6y ago
This not only came off as condescending, but also desperate and whiny. The first paragraph (paraphrased) “I am writing in a BIG newspaper, and I was taught that when someone writes in A Real Serious Newspaper, I deserve to be read” I look a
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by xnyan 6y ago
Very similar situation as you (at least on the surface). My only advice that has actually worked is network, network, network. I have a degree in Russian language, and now I'm a javascript dev. It only happened because 1) I can teach m
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by xnyan 6y ago
Developer for a major hospital that's not in a tech hub. An executive suite got trashed, so we got a used chair ($25 donation to one of our company charities "suggested"), and that was it. If we need more WFH gear than that,
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by xnyan 6y ago
> she does an excellent job translating the tone and meaning I really can't agree with this. Her translation work was journeyman level at best. I've read most of her translations, and they simply do not convey the magical soul
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by xnyan 6y ago
> Constance Garnett, who is fairly well regarded I don't agree with this, mostly. Garnett's level of Russian competence was solidly journeyman level work. In the original Russian, Chekhov is much more vibrant and colorful than
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by xnyan 6y ago
I'm half convinced this was a giant payday scheme on the part of everyone but Whitman and Katzenberg. "Oh yes, sounds like a great idea! I need to get paid up front of course" - All the creators and actors cashing in. I'
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by xnyan 6y ago
you WON'T BELEIVE this MINDBLOWING decision from the KING OF THE INTERNET!?? confused duck face
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by xnyan 6y ago
>IPv6 is backwards compatible It would be really really great if true, unfortunately this is not correct. IPv6 SHOULD have been this way, but The Powers That Be took it as an opportunity to "correct" other IPv4 issues and now w
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by xnyan 6y ago
>I am not outlier, I do not know a single woman with baby in real life who would need that level or control in order to have peaceful mind. All these "realistic examples" make me wonder whether people did not normalized huge am
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by xnyan 6y ago
Yeah, and it happens but wire transfers can be a real pain depending on the bank. And you need to get the account number of landlord, and now you don't have a simple way (the canceled check) of proving you paid rent. While less than id
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by xnyan 6y ago
localhost is an abstraction, it's a non-routable-outside-your-machine network...except it's not. It's nothing more than normal TCP traffic except with a message to the OS and other programs that whatever is on that local comp
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by xnyan 6y ago
32 in the US and I still have to write fucking checks, most commonly for paying rent. No landlord wants to eat the ~3% fee for taking a credit card. The other day I had to pay for some trees to be cut down and pruned in my yard, cost a coup
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by xnyan 6y ago
The other huge bright red, klaxons-blazing warning sign is the overpaying part. There is literally no reason at all to overpay for something when you are writing a check. It’s a psychological trick, like the door-to-door sales trick of givi
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by xnyan 6y ago
I think it's instructive to look at how Yelp does it. There is no pay-to-delete button. There are however ways to have non-factual, incorrect, offensive or a myriad of other types of posts removed. How a review is judged as violating p
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by xnyan 6y ago
Lets say you need an income of at least ~$30k to reasonably afford a $1000-2000 TV. I would argue that is a little low to afford a TV of that price, but at 30k that would be around a month's take-home pay. Doable I guess. That's a
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by xnyan 6y ago
I upvoted you, thank you for your thoughts! I use and develop on both windows and linux a lot, have positive and negative thought and feelings about both. I'm not a systems programmer, but I'm very interested in kernels and OS dev
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by xnyan 6y ago
Oh for sure, and I thought about it too as I was writing it. On the one hand, I have explicitly resigned from the LDS church. I think they engage in immoral practices and I can't in good conscience say I'm a member. On the other h
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by xnyan 6y ago
As a former mormon, this is my take is well. Mormonism needs to be somewhat insular and us vs them to survive. After we were forced to give up polygamy, the word of wisdom (it has changed but today no coffee, tea, beer or weed) all of a sud
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by xnyan 6y ago
Bing video search will consider sources other than youtube. Also the lack of (or at least, much less) censorship than google.
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by xnyan 6y ago
> Because if you don't keep making excuses for them, you're left with the alternative Well, except for the alternative of not watching content with excessive ads at all. If companies feel like they need intrusive ads I guess I
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by xnyan 6y ago
I really can’t understand it. When I visit family/hotels with cable, its absolutely unwatchable even for free - paying for it is unbelievable to me.
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by xnyan 6y ago
Other way around for me. I'm going to home depot regularly for various home projects and the alarm goes off almost every time when I exit. I have never gotten anything more than a bored looking sales associate casually waving at me to

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