Anderkent

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by Anderkent 3y ago
>That deprecated usage should be replaced before it is removed; and if we're talking about skipping multiple major versions over a long period, the replacement likely didn't exist in the older version, so this method still woul
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by Anderkent 3y ago
The Boots theory is funny because it's absurd. It's not actually applicable to life in powerty. There is no class of items where if you are poor you spend more on it than when you're wealthy. People in poverty spend more _tim
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by Anderkent 4y ago
yes
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by Anderkent 4y ago
but since they charge the same prices to holders of credit (2% fee) and debit (0.05% fee), users of credit cards are de facto subsidized by cash/debit payers in the US so as an individual it still may pay you to have one
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by Anderkent 4y ago
>It's so inappropriate that in the field that's actually trained for this, they're disallowed by compact, even with extensive evidence. The field trained for this is not refraining from this because it's hard to get r
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by Anderkent 4y ago
set profile description telling people to call or text you if urgent
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by Anderkent 4y ago
but also amazing things built by community I remember the first time someone built a dedicated server for WC3 custom games (dota) that supported players reconnecting after a dc. it was mindblowing
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by Anderkent 4y ago
roll to disbelieve. i think someone was pulling your leg especially the bit with samsung devices, i've had the misfortune of setting up a samsung phone for a family member and the amount of crap on those is just unbelievable
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by Anderkent 4y ago
how do you figure it's of little use? big difference between breaking in to loot a house you know is unarmed, versus one known to be armed and possibly keeping watch
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by Anderkent 4y ago
obviously no one has issues with this scenario where both employers know. but the recent overemployed scheme where you get multiple jobs, do nothing for months while taking advantage of remote & people understanding that it takes time t
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by Anderkent 4y ago
hasn't stopped 'green' parties from shutting down nuclear power, so it's all a question of PR
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by Anderkent 4y ago
re: 1; since payments processors compete for business, ones that can convincingly claim to reduce fraud rate can charge higher fees of the merchants
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by Anderkent 4y ago
It takes pretending to be someone you're not from 'a prank' to 'fraud', and as such is actually valuable
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by Anderkent 4y ago
You spent some amount of money on the car, money that you would otherwise have available to either spend or invest, when you eventually replace your car you will get less if anything. So even if the car just sits in your garage you are payi
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by Anderkent 4y ago
if it's the best offer you can get, would you quit just because someone else on another continent is being paid more?
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by Anderkent 4y ago
>Costs $0 to just sit in my garage this is not true of your bought car, you're ignoring opportunity cost for the capital & depreciation
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by Anderkent 4y ago
the proposed counterfactual is that BMW pays someone to brick the heating before the first sale
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by Anderkent 4y ago
> Car extras are already very much a thing and always have been – the alternative is that BMW physically has to remove the heater components or disable them permanently, so as a second hand buyer, I'd be permanently locked out of th
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by Anderkent 4y ago
> Well, who the hell is in the teachers union if not teachers? well, union higher-ups are basically politicians, they're not usually working in the job by that point
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by Anderkent 4y ago
pretty sure we've all been in school, and while it's not a great experience, you can work with it i'm pretty sure amazon's optimizing the work more so that my shitty thing gets delivered at all, rather than 0.002 seconds
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by Anderkent 4y ago
> It’s between an underpaid job, and a well paid job with less profits for shareholders and owners what reason you have to believe that is in fact the option? there are really quite few businesses with profit margins so high you could me
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by Anderkent 4y ago
yeah, mid management being incompetent and not noticing that the metrics are fucked up for a location i can totally believe. hopefully after some time with outlier retention issues the facility would get some attention from someone competen
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by Anderkent 4y ago
I empathize with people working the tough jobs! That doesn't necessarily mean I think the jobs must be made less tough, even if I'd prefer they had better options to choose from. A claim that the produced warnings are selectively
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by Anderkent 4y ago
>The choice between homelessness, starvation, and working an underpaid job is not a choice made voluntarily. and removing the underpaid job from the equation leaves someone with just homelessness or starvation - clearly a better position
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by Anderkent 4y ago
Obviously taxi drivers will not be happy talking about uber, they were beneficiaries of an insane and unjust guild system that Uber finally broke down. Unless you can show me someone forced to drive for uber, any claims of worker exploitati
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by Anderkent 4y ago
Given that, are the warnings a serious issue? If management keeps getting those and knows the workers are not at fault in this particular warehouse, the only reason to act on the warnings is political. which yes, might well be an issue, but
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by Anderkent 4y ago
And choice of headphone! Open versus closed headphones lie much different on your head; clamp strength and weight vary hugely as well. I'm on my third set of AKG k702s as the only headphones I can wear for hours; finding the right pair
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by Anderkent 4y ago
Except the wall calendar has the current month on it in big letters, so all you need to know is what month it is. This thing does not tell you if it's showing you the days for Jun or Jul also the entire point of a wall calendar is that
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by Anderkent 4y ago
Every 'how is this possible' was sarcastic
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by Anderkent 4y ago
Yeah, the sarcasm is completely counterproductive (as it usually is). The same sentiments expressed sincerely would be a much better read

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