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by xnyan 6y ago
Only if you have no people or capital in the EU. If you were a small business that sounds correct, but every medium to large business I have worked at has had at least something important going on in europe (clients, suppliers, offices, etc
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by xnyan 6y ago
That’s not correct, at least it’s not for me. Maybe you need to defrag hard drive?
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by xnyan 6y ago
Help me understand. An average mortgage is 200k, at the average household income of 63k and a 30 year at 4.1%, thats 18.5% of your pretax income going into a mortgage. The same numbers for a 300k income and a 700k house works out to 13.5%.
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by xnyan 6y ago
I'm sure this was your experience, but it was not mine: >How long does it take after boot for disk I/O to stop if you've got a 5400 rpm hard drive? It's maybe a few minutes after login on 7, and I've never seen i
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by xnyan 6y ago
That’s the whole point, killing open podcast distribution. They want the only viable place to get podcasts to be the Spotify app which they control.
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by xnyan 6y ago
Stanley tools, Mount Olive pickles, Honeywell air filters, lots of clothing and many more. edit: gas powered tools (just tools in general) particularly lawn mowers are made to cheaper specs for walmart.
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by xnyan 6y ago
This is a strawman argument, they did not say searching a home is not real police work: > actual police work rather than kicking in someone's door in the middle of the night, throwing flashbangs into cribs, and massacring homeowners
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by xnyan 6y ago
Driving any fastener can put put of wear on batteries fast, the current requirements are high and peaky. Nails are particularity bad because unlike say, driving a screw or bolt you often don't even give they battery a second or two of
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by xnyan 6y ago
Look at that, we have a shared mac-windows love story...kind of!
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by xnyan 6y ago
I had a car, as others suggested.
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by xnyan 6y ago
Self-deception. "We live in THE greatest country, ergo what you say can't be true. Also I have ideological stances I'm not willing to consider. QED." - A summery of most conversations I have with about 40% of the US popu
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by xnyan 6y ago
15 years ago I was on a date with a wonderful young lady. We had a picnic and I brought my (at the time) very modern projector to watch a movie, projected on a bedsheet in the woods. Windows Media Player refused to play the DVD. No internet
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by xnyan 6y ago
Humans have in incredible talent for self-deception. Static speed limits are not a joke if you accept that our understanding of physics is real and have a basic understanding of how increasing speed increases energy at impact in a non-linea
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by xnyan 6y ago
Apple can do it for $99 a year (plus thirty percent of course). Their system is by no means perfect, but there absolutely is less bullshit malware on their market vs google chrome.
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by xnyan 6y ago
Use of emoji is the new “don’t trust anyone over 30”
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by xnyan 6y ago
In my experience there are two kinds of parents that homeschool: ones with exceptional circumstances and ones with exceptional political views. The children of the former group seem to like homeschool just fine, the latter not so much. Wher
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by xnyan 6y ago
Homeschooled for my entire life (I can count the number of times I've been inside a K12 building without taking off my socks) and know 100s of former HS kids. To be honest, I did not love my homeschool experience and would have preferr
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by xnyan 6y ago
>That's why Intel realized that fab technology was the true differentiator. But now the situation is completely reversed. Intel has faced all kinds of problems, costs, and delays due ultimately to the fact that they made a bad choic
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by xnyan 6y ago
Very true, however I’ve noticed in pretty much every culture speaking the lingua franca poorly often means you are treated nicely but not very seriously.
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by xnyan 6y ago
I don’t think it’s just German. When I started learning Russian, 95% of what I was taught was on вы (plural/formal you). When you’re a beginner you really lean on stock phrases and bits you learned in class, so when I moved to Kharkov
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by xnyan 6y ago
This was common in the United States Southeast as a kid and still is to a lesser degree e.g. ”Miss Anne, please can I go outside?”
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by xnyan 6y ago
It was somewhat similar in eastern Ukraine when I lived there from 2007-2009, but perhaps not so intense. Russian is not my first language, so at first I would always play it safe and speak formally - to young children, to dogs, to people m
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by xnyan 6y ago
No reason it can’t continue after, it’s a balance right?
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by xnyan 6y ago
People have been charged with resisting arrest after being shot and involuntary twitching their limbs. Unless you have money or power, the police can say you were resisting arrest for any reason and they will be believed, not you.
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by xnyan 6y ago
If you have the need (and I would say cynically if you also have the money and political connections) you can commission a private police force that has (in a limited way) the legal authority to arrest. https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by xnyan 6y ago
Layoffs are generally received quite favorably by the investor class.
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by xnyan 6y ago
>And what's more they've been effective in influencing what happens in parliament! It's actually not that different in practice There are a large range on views in both parties, but you put on the Democratic or Republican
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by xnyan 6y ago
Multiple custom Linux OSes at this point. WSL2 is a custom, mostly transparent Linux VM tailored to fit nicely on desktop windows for developers. The play (as I see it) was that losing mobile really shook them, and now they have no sacred c
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by xnyan 6y ago
Do you have any evidence to support this claim? Windows is the most widely used desktop OS by a huge margin.
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by xnyan 6y ago
I parsed the comment as 1) "this is not an original idea, here is the genesis" and 2) "look at this cool video." The parent comment was addressing 1 and you are addressing 2.

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