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by yardie 4y ago
> There are plenty of students and elderly that could handle the job There is not an infinite supply of students who have the time to do that job. Our son worked at a coffee shop. Until the manager started pressuring him to work more hou
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by yardie 4y ago
Everything I've read about the 19th and early 20th century has lead me to believe that practically everyone was a walking petri dish. Spreading STDs weren't well understood. Lot's of supposedly brilliant artists and writers u
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by yardie 4y ago
So work has taken on such a major component of our life that it seems fitting that work is where we do our socializing as well. The best parties I have attended in my adult age have been sponsored by Microsoft, Veeam, Dell, Salesforce, etc.
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by yardie 4y ago
This sounds really exhausting. But now that I think about it my parent's house serves the same purpose. When I visit I let family and friends know I'm in town and to stop in when they can. House is the same place they remember fro
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by yardie 4y ago
Apple never donated computers to schools. There are thousands of them. The company would go bankrupt in no time. What they did have is a company like MECC who wrote a lot of great Edtech software for Apple and Mac computers. That relationsh
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by yardie 4y ago
Cheap offsite backups. I know AWS and BB are the bees knees. But when I read the terms they. Have so many escape clauses built in. My bosses already had a poor experience with our backup provider simply deleting our backup set over a missed
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by yardie 4y ago
30 years?! Wow, the first time I ever heard of it was 15 years ago. And even then I thought it was some weird university group project that gained internet infamy.
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by yardie 4y ago
The Model Y was approaching premium car prices without the premium interior. In 2020, they were hovering at $50k but when the pandemic started they raised the price practically every week. If you’ve driven an Audi, BMW, Mercedes you kind of
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by yardie 4y ago
This almost sounds like one of the companies I used to work for. I also would occassionally find our software, cracked, online. We would download the cracked version into a container and debug it. Reverse engineer the crack that reverse eng
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by yardie 4y ago
The US mile is different from the UK mile and US gallons are sufficiently different from UK gallons. Yes, our measurement system is almost entirely homegrown at this point.
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by yardie 4y ago
Purely political. There were plans in place in the 70s and 80s. A particular political party politicised it as some sort of government overreach/UN/NWO meddling. And once they had the votes they voted to strip any mention of metri
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by yardie 4y ago
> cheaply mediated by adding building codes requiring venting range hoods. Do you know how much it costs to add ventilation to a building that wasn't required to have it? It is anything but cheap. A $1000+ induction range is peanuts
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by yardie 4y ago
As a developer I feel we are too easily jaded. I went to a hackathon for kids and some of the ideas they came up with were really innovative and possibly worth pursuing. I like "I have an idea for an app" conversations. Especially
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by yardie 4y ago
I've lived in NYC in the past and informally had discounts of 5-15% for services by paying cash, nothing declared, no receipts. Years long relationships with a mechanic or handyman can net some pretty deep discounts if they know you wo
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by yardie 4y ago
If thats true the rest of the US is going to be on fire, have an abundance of homeless, and high speed rail still won't happen.
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by yardie 4y ago
You can always turn it down. Contracts have whats called consideration. I've seen companies try to get away with NCA/NDA by tying severance to signing one. I would have to be truly desperate to take the money over the health of my
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by yardie 4y ago
They probably don't have DVD rental at all in your country. Netflix in the US/CA and Lovefilm in the UK were the only DVD/Bluray mailing service that I'm aware of. Once they were able to offer streaming internationally,
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by yardie 4y ago
BTW, this is still the case. https://dvd.netflix.com/ Netflix has never dropped their DVD service even though they wanted to many times. There are still places in the US where broadband is unavailable. Also, due to first sa
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by yardie 4y ago
Just finished reading an article on how some Indian reservations have no electricity nor running water. We have the worlds richest rich by a mile. But we have some of the least developed infrastructure out of all the developed nations.
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Airport worker ingested by jet engine(theguardian.com)
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by yardie 4y ago
I'm a big fan but most of his printed media show a 20-something year old footballer. If the septugenarian Pelé was standing in front of me at the supermarket checkout line I probably would have a hard time recognizing him too.
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by yardie 4y ago
Ahem, “the average amount of space per lease is decreasing across all types of commercial property.” Fewer, new commercial projects going up, and smaller office sizes. Vacancy is down if you count the number of leases signed and not the siz
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by yardie 4y ago
I don’t blame them. Modern UX has a huge problem with something as simple as date pickers. Preferring you scroll through 90+ items when a simple textbox would suffice.
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by yardie 4y ago
If you have source on free charts I’m all ears. Except for the US, most charts are paid. There are a few non-legal sources like CM93. As a cruiser who tried to make do as cheap as possible I gave up and bought a subscription for Navionics.
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by yardie 4y ago
I drove for Lyft and Uber for about a month. I used the $.55/mi deduction to bring my effective tax rate down. 2-4 hours a weekend * 4 weekends for effectively beer and wings money! It's the only way the business makes sense, but
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by yardie 4y ago
My experience is it depends. I’m getting ~50kbps at 500m over water. I’m also using it in a mesh so don’t need more than that. With a stub antenna.
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by yardie 4y ago
> based on good judgement but most of the time you can ignore it it. When it comes to laws and the American justice system we should absolutely ask where does it end. I have yet to see a law use good judgement. And sometimes that "j
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by yardie 4y ago
It feels like we've been waiting 6 months for the last 12 months for the downturn to start any day now. We're in uncharted territory. The economy sucks yet people are employed, wages are down, and cost of living is way up.
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by yardie 4y ago
Onecoin was one of the first shitcoins to have its chain yanked. The others crashed sometime during the ICO craze or again during the NFT craze. But the story remains the same, when placed under the least bit of scrutiny most never seem to
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by yardie 4y ago
Unless you live near the Arctic Circle these are quite rare to see. I thought I saw something similar from sunny Florida and it turned out to be regular cirrus clouds getting lit up by the sun. Also, a 2D picture doesn't give you the d

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