PSZD

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by PSZD 7y ago
I think daily (or nearly) is much easier than you think, mainly because it's so much harder to form a habit like that when you have to make a conscious daily choice between "easy" and "hard". Context-dependence like
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by PSZD 7y ago
I was living less than 5 miles away from work for years, it made it very easy to commute by bike (although winter really sucked at times). This year, that got bumped up to about 12 miles (work moved, not me). At that sort of mileage, it tak
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by PSZD 7y ago
Mechanical sorting (like shoe sorters) is very effective for discrete objects. Really cool to see stuff flying down a belt at 20mph+, get scanned/imaged from all sides, then thrown down one of 50 chutes without stopping.
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by PSZD 7y ago
Isn't that societal obligation codified as taxes? > I don't think you deserve more credit than anybody having a net worth of $10k donating $100 Would you also consider this something not to admire but require ?
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by PSZD 8y ago
Pennies on which dollar, exactly?
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by PSZD 8y ago
Something that may not be obvious is how victims (companies, at least) frequently want to bury the story just as much as the person who conned them. "We lost 8 digits of internet money last night and have no idea who did it" just
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by PSZD 8y ago
Humans are the problem, not some mythical AI powering the bots. It costs a fraction of a cent to get a CAPTCHA solved. The only real counter being used is making it take longer to solve a CAPTCHA - which is exactly what the services like re
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by PSZD 8y ago
I'd say being "careless" means dropping that 60-80lb package to the floor instead of gingerly doing a squat with it, even 10 of those a day and your back will thank you unless you have impeccable form. "Use existing equi
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by PSZD 8y ago
Working at a large brown shipping company, I've never seen anyone go out of their way to mistreat packages marked as fragile (or anyone talk about doing it). That said, it's policy not to treat packages marked 'fragile'
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by PSZD 8y ago
All of those were a pain in the ass for one reason or another, Discord caught on like wildfire because it was a huge step up from what existed. Pretty much a combination of the best parts of IRC + Teamspeak + Skype. You don't think Dis
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by PSZD 8y ago
> who doesn't follow my delivery preferences and takes my stuff to random UPS stores that I have to pick it up from Corporate policy, Access Point after 1 attempt is cheaper than 3 attempts when the resident is likely at work anyway
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by PSZD 8y ago
150-200 packages is a really light route, 150-200 stops and 300-400 packages is more accurate. This time of year, 250+ stops for a residential route isn't particularly unusual. Biggest reason to leave a package at the driveway is a fen
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by PSZD 8y ago
> more of a Yelp-like entity Yelp would also work, if the business concerned cared a ridiculous amount about resolving complaints there. That's the only value - that these particular companies care an awful lot about resolving compl
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by PSZD 8y ago
I got 2/6 right, the 4 wrong were 320kbps. Using the cheap-but-decent shp9500s and no dac, but quite good hearing. I'd chalk it up to having been listening to almost exclusively streamed 320kbps, it was interesting to note that th
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by PSZD 8y ago
I live on less than 30/day (including rent) working a poorly paid manual labor part time job in a state with income tax. No, I don't own a car. Yes, I split housing costs with other people. > What happens when you get sick and
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by PSZD 8y ago
I'm using win10 on spinning rust, never seen updates take that long. These days I just let it do it's stealth updates at auto-picked times while I'm at work/sleeping, works out well. Single thread and cpu limited would e
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by PSZD 8y ago
My version of this - OS (Linux) crashes due to overclock stability testing filled EFI NVRAM, and I had to manually delete the crash dumps after running into puzzling issues later on. Apparently it was possible (on some hardware, at least) f
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by PSZD 8y ago
Actually, their overall market share wasn't particularly considered. They were fined for abusing their dominance in the market for app stores that are available on Android, and their dominance in the market for licensable smart mobile
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by PSZD 8y ago
Musk didn't say he wanted to take the company private, he said he wanted to AND that he had secured funding to do so at a specific price. This is a clear statement of facts, something that would be entirely reasonable to trade based on
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by PSZD 8y ago
Reading Nietzsche translations recently, German does seem to have a considerable capacity for allusion and double meanings that are very hard to translate. Perhaps not in modern or common usage, or nearly as much as English.
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by PSZD 8y ago
Because (as someone entirely uninvolved) it looks like an absurd bit of overreach, something akin to mandating that locally-sourced toilet paper be used at all businesses in the city. Go right ahead, but don't mind a bit of sensible ch
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by PSZD 8y ago
Reddit still doesn't require an email, the signup form is just a well executed dark pattern - you can hit next and skip providing an email.
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by PSZD 8y ago
Same here, but it's because I find it very easy to recognize the Chinese "brands", signs that a product is just Prime arbitrage, fake reviews, etc. If you want a selection of these lower-quality listings, take a look at light
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by PSZD 8y ago
You're just considering "involuntary" lack of sleep, when there seems to be a serious epidemic of voluntary sleeplessness as indicated by frequent boasting about how little sleep one can get by on.
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by PSZD 8y ago
The point is that people buy themselves absurdly expensive vehicles on credit. Assuming everyone with one of those vehicles had it bought for them is absurd, and reads as an indictment of the author's high socioeconomic status. Outer
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by PSZD 8y ago
I do agree with this, but think there's enough societal pressure these days that it's very hard for a for-profit company to do.
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by PSZD 8y ago
> while betraying which way you, personally, are "polarized" on abortion I'm curious what side you think I fall on, seems to me it could be argued either way. I have no strong opinion on it and picked it purely because it&
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by PSZD 8y ago
Is it appropriate to rank extremely high for something you're directly opposed to? Consider other polarized topics like abortion - should sites enlightening the user on why it is murder, instead of providing useful information, be pres