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541.
by yardie 4y ago
They will save your life. They won't treat your trick knee, erectile dysfunction, or failing vision. And they eventually put it out to prevent it spreading. Just not with the same fervor of preventing property damage.
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by yardie 4y ago
This story still makes the rounds, and the result is still the same. The family chose to live in unincorporated land. They turned down fire protection when the county offered it to them. They turned down fire protection when their insurer o
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by yardie 4y ago
The only way to avoid that is to stand up your own instance. And that is the great thing about decentralized systems. Because you as a user have no visibility into the systems, finances, nor management of any of these platforms. I still blo
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by yardie 4y ago
Well that sucks. But commercially businesses fail all the time. Sometimes you get a heads up and can plan accordingly. And other times it’s like FTX and the site is down the next day, after a major scandal. The only thing you can do is own
545.
by yardie 4y ago
You don’t own your followers. When you move they get a notification you moved and their following lists are adjusted accordingly.
546.
by yardie 4y ago
The shipping always killed it for me. I started ordering fasteners through the office. It's basically the same whether you order an envelope or a pallet.
547.
by yardie 4y ago
You can absolutely borrow money from the charity. I worked at a non-profit and high-value donors would donate without actually needing to send money. It was all paperwork. The charity only really was paid when the donor died.
548.
by yardie 4y ago
I'll do one even better. Let's say you give $50 to your charity from your $100. Then you "borrow" it back from the same charity to invest. You chose a high dividend investment strategy and make $10 in dividends alone. Yo
549.
by yardie 4y ago
I think this is what my parents have for their neighborhood. Unlike other developments in their neighborhood, they have no HOA, no security gatehouse, no amenities like a pool. But they do have common areas like the street median and street
550.
by yardie 4y ago
I had science books in middle school that when showing an example of manganese (for the chemical elements section), they included a shot of the Glomar Explorer mining it from the sea floor. That's how thorough the plausibility was to m
551.
by yardie 4y ago
I haven't driven every car but none of the cars I've driven could actually handle stop and go traffic. They will certainly stop but leave it to you to press the accelerator to go again. Now on a highway with medium to light traffi
552.
by yardie 4y ago
Police depts have a plenty of departments that aren't public facing. I imagine you can spend 15 years in building surveillance devices and not suffer the mental breaking point of a beat cop or CSAM investigator. If you can turn a side
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by yardie 4y ago
Just going to point out that federal grand juries are secretive as hell. And they take a super long time. FTX imploded weeks ago and I don't expect an indictment to be handed down before the end of 2023. Theranos started to collapse in
554.
by yardie 4y ago
I've made friends with a few former police officers. And they usually tell me the job silently destroys you inside. The job makes you deal with the worst of the worst daily and after a few years, mentally you are fucked. If an officer
555.
by yardie 4y ago
In every movie production edit bay will be a $100 Walmart flatscreen. Because making a video production look good in 4k ProRes is fairly easy. But the majority of your audience is going to watch it on that cheap screen or something similar.
556.
by yardie 4y ago
Most of the world is closed source and if the only reason to not use Vivaldi is because it is not open source well that isn't a very compelling reason at all. Most of the planet is using some form of closed source web browser the top 3
557.
by yardie 4y ago
> any worker unions were against the lowering the taxes on paychecks (higher net with same gross pay), Seems to be quite a lot of context missing. I think nearly everyone agrees they want to pay less taxes and take home more money. Now i
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by yardie 4y ago
It doesn't disagree with the OP. If the budget has not changed your millage rate should have gone down even if your property value goes up. Most likely your city hall did not adjust the millage rate down and used the extra assessment t
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by yardie 4y ago
Predominantly, downtowns will have a financial, medical, and government district. Government: police, city hall, courthouse, administration for city, county, state, and federal agencies. Medical: usually a major or university hospital with
560.
by yardie 4y ago
Sick days aren't part of your compensation, they are more like insurance. So of course they expire. I've had colleagues use a sick day for mental wellness. I've had colleagues use sick days while on vacation, ie food poisonin
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by yardie 4y ago
You can have a custom home built. In general they are 10-20% more expensive. Because any savings in economies of scale a developer might see get converted to profit, not savings. Architects are a thing and do take on SFH projects when asked
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by yardie 4y ago
This doesn't appear to be mentioned in their Wikipedia history, but Spotify also started as a digital locker/music matching. You would install the client and point it to your iTunes library and it would build the online playlist f
563.
by yardie 4y ago
Ahh yes. The time when Apple stocks were trading less than $1. And the company was on the express train to insolvency.
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by yardie 4y ago
The paper cups were waxed. They can’t be recycled. At least the plastic is recyclable.
565.
by yardie 4y ago
This might be true for internal applications. Once you plug anything into the Internet all bets are off. Who's auditing for vulnerabilities, patching, rollbacks. Changes aren't made on a whim. There is either a business, strategic
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by yardie 4y ago
I remember friends coming back to the university job fair telling me how bad it was out there. With 1-2 years experience they came back to our engineering job fair looking for internships and entry-level positions. Those without prospects j
567.
by yardie 4y ago
2001 crash primarily affected tech and finance. Everyone else that worked in physical atoms just got on with it and did their job. 2008 crash was different. Literally everyone was over-leveraged and swimming debt. This feels more like the 2
568.
by yardie 4y ago
I wonder what the cross-section of the population is smart enough to be worth making sign a non-compete yet not smart enough to do a basic Google search on their enforceability.
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by yardie 4y ago
Stimulus checks were what $2000 total. That's less than 10% on a new car and most competent banks look at your monthly payment and DTI to determine how much to loan. > A recession is bad for the party in power and a lot of the econo
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by yardie 4y ago
I stayed in a hotel recently with one of those clock radios with the 30-pin connector on top. It would have been nice to have it use the larger speakers for background music and the alarm. But with over 200 rooms they probably weren't

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