LancerSykera

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by LancerSykera 2y ago
Having worked in telephone construction (including on a Centurylink contract), your next step after customer service fails should be your state's public utility commission. PUC complaints light fires under asses. Dead phone lines were
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by LancerSykera 3y ago
>Qualified immunity only protects individual cops from civil liability, not from criminal liability. Then why is literal theft protected by qualified immunity? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/si
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by LancerSykera 4y ago
I once got in an argument with a Puerto Rican coworker when I told him Spanish people are white. He genuinely could not fathom it, and was very pissed off about it. I guess he thought Latinos are direct descendants of Spaniards?
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by LancerSykera 4y ago
Gas pumps. Nevermind the Cheddar News of the pump, that's its own separate nightmare, but I just want gas. I put my card in, you give me gas. Skip the receipt prompt, skip the carwash prompt, and no I don't have a rewards card.
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by LancerSykera 4y ago
It was helpful in my truck driving days when going to customers I'd never been to before, and it was absolutely a daily tool in telecom construction/maintenance. Example - random sheriff's office calls in a phone line ripped
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by LancerSykera 4y ago
I grew up in a house of at least a dozen cats. All had names. Our very first one, Lightning (who was seemingly very intelligent and lived to his late teens), did not know his name as Lightning. For all he knew, his name was Puss-Puss, becau
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by LancerSykera 5y ago
As a fedex driver I always dreaded delivering those. Not because of the possibility of unfortunate outcomes such as yours (never crossed my mind), but because I knew they were unsolicited "gifts" that came from big data schemes li
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by LancerSykera 8y ago
The article goes over this.
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by LancerSykera 8y ago
Altria, not Phillip Morris, bought a 35% stake, not full ownership.
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by LancerSykera 8y ago
Combination of spending too much money on myself and taking too many short term loans. Eventually I needed more loans to stay afloat, and then when my settlements were going entirely to loan payments, I knew I was done. Well before that poi
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by LancerSykera 8y ago
On individual sales including all fees, 20-25%. I currently owe the IRS roughly 20k or so from 2015, and I just started a new job at $16/hr. Guess how well that's working out for me.
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by LancerSykera 8y ago
I did have a very specific niche in the industrial categories. It was a business that I used to work for a supplier for, so I was familiar with products and manufacturers and distributors. For me, it wasn't so much identifying top sell
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by LancerSykera 8y ago
Selling existing products would be the smarter way to go at the beginning. Less risk that your unique product doesn't catch on, and just focus on procurement and sale pricing (as well as learning the process and policy expectations). I
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by LancerSykera 8y ago
The parking lot and back driveway of the metal shop next door is on Google as a street, with a name - 50th Street. And nobody knows why. I've deleted it from Waze ages ago, but Google has yet to catch up, if they even pull map data fro
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by LancerSykera 8y ago
Former Amazon seller - A quantity issue like that is most likely from a listing page being changed at some point. Certain sellers somehow earn the ability to change product details, and Amazon doesn't bother to inform everyone else tha
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by LancerSykera 9y ago
Crunchyroll got started by stealing stolen content. They uploaded high quality sub group releases to a low quality player without attribution. This is why there is now a sub "group" called HorribleSubs that is literally just rips
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by LancerSykera 11y ago
Minnesota recently fixed this so that a criminal conviction is necessary before forfeiture, and when I texted my state representative about it, he said my state senator already has a bill for it in committee in Pennsylvania. http:/&#x
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by LancerSykera 12y ago
Another being that it's the only place in the state where you need a license to openly carry a firearm.
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by LancerSykera 12y ago
"It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since" I'm surprised that the author, being a current Pennsylvanian, didn't mention the Johnstown Flood Tax. Despite that particul
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by LancerSykera 12y ago
> Even some native speakers tend to have no idea when to use 'wa' or 'ga' Glad you said this, so I can stop pounding my head over it. Just today I was thinking "doko wa kami desu ka? wait, no, doko ga kami desu k
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by LancerSykera 13y ago
How about a series of pipes? Will that work?
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by LancerSykera 13y ago
At 10hPa, it's windy as dicks around the arctic circle. The antarctic, however, is relatively calm. Is that a seasonal thing? Will it be the opposite in June?
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by LancerSykera 13y ago
My most frequently visited places are stop lights. Thanks, Google.
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by LancerSykera 13y ago
The teeth of the wheel are holding on to it, and it looks like there are always two teeth inside the top.
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by LancerSykera 13y ago
I sold e-gold for Paypal once. I knew at the time though that a chargeback was quite likely, and sure enough, it happened. Somehow, though, I managed to win that case and keep my money.
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by LancerSykera 13y ago
'I like to eat boogers' is strong. Not against a dictionary attack, I don't think.
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by LancerSykera 13y ago
First time I saw Cupid With Friends mentioned here on HN, I immediately thought of Zynga. I'm not saying I actually thought they had anything to do with Zynga whatsoever, but the naming connection was immediate.
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by LancerSykera 13y ago
I ended up late for work many days from mass-disenchanting.
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by LancerSykera 13y ago
I'm currently working on "small tits asian" as my first search.
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by LancerSykera 13y ago
I work for a plumbing/heating/HVAC distributor and the absolute biggest number they look at is margin. Real simple shit, especially when you use a system that always shows the GP% on every screen.

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