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by lettercarrier 10y ago
I assume the same rules apply.. have to move to SF.. I can't help but comment that we did have a great democracy machine (& education) with something called Television. Virtually free. So much potential. I guess before that - ra
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
Mad is wonderful.. Tom Richmond is one I learn to draw [0] Jack Hamm has the best series, I think, to learn. [0] http://www.tomrichmond.com/
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
Seems to me the octothorpe is an AT&T or Bell Labs invention. I recall some crazy discussion in Murray Hill before I knew anything about Unix or telephony... LOL
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
I am sure I am baised, I just don't know how. < people instead create parallel opportunities that would require less consumption of resources. I get that. How? < I want to spend 10+ good years here to learn and contribute toward
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
Wow.. I don't know where to start.. < but the younger person deserves a chance at that opportunity. You had 40 something years to save and build for your better future. Work harder and be better than the older person... Business is
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
<<< So I'm guessing that in many cases they're a cashier because if they don't work they'll lose the house. Heck no! Stop working, start dying.
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
I wish I could find the link to an American Heritage article on a female (I believe) that was on a failed crusade to overcome the amount of poverty, poor conditions and voicelessness in America for the elderly at (I believe) the turn of the
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
I have a skimpy monthly data plan, and appreciate the fact that your changes does nothing to increase data intentionally or accidentally (like Reddit). I like the fact that the hide feature does not persist when I am not logged in. I mostl
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
Since each punch card meant something, you really learned code. Watching out for memory and keeping track of registers was paramount (COMPASS was my HS and Freshman initial class). Syntax killed, but was overcome by hand writing code. T
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
And... you always kept your card decks until you graduated.
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
"Pay up, Mortimer, I won the bet." "Here. One Dollar" From the vantage point I have in my union job and my part time job at a very large retailer with low wage hourly workers, there is no way rich people give away their
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
My dad required his kids to change a flat AND read a map before we got the car keys. AAA membership was for maps only. There was great pride in planning our own trips on our own and TripTiks were not for our family because we could do it
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
The telephone was a shared device, and as a child it was not mine. In college, it was shared with 4 other people (and still not mine). Then once married, it was shared with my spouse. But now there is no more 'shared voice device.&#x
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by lettercarrier 10y ago
The Telephone with Dial Tone and associated Busy Signal. A busy signal meant nobody could contact me; Also, by either not answering the phone or by simply taking the receiver off the hook I controlled interruptions. And, nobody became co
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by lettercarrier 11y ago
If "209 drinks and salads" were on the evenings sheet for a wedding, it would mean 209 of each. Furthermore, if a worker would come up to me an question, "Does this mean 209 of each" I would think he kid is not bright a
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by lettercarrier 11y ago
The non Express stores were long known as poor performers, even if they were new openings. The newish CEO has razor sharp skills and keeps making decisions that long ago should have been done.
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
Uber is all of us on HN. And we need to speak up that greed is bad. We need to not associate with greed. We need to recognize that this new economy-thing-that's-so-new-we-don't-have-a-name-for-it-yet changes life; And we need
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
I had tears when I read the entire thing. I thought it was well written The absolute best article (which I have a photo copy of) is this one [1] about a 14 year old boy at a baseball camp. It is by Ira Berkow of the Times. http:/&#x
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
My success at ending conversations successfully greatly improved once I took formal training in personality types [1] Stick a dozen or two in a room and get a good facilitator to explain how others are. Then you will become so much bett
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
I enjoy reading what and how you write. Which is why I enjoy HN. << I should be largely invisible to the enforcer class. The genie is out of the bottle. My health suffers if I think and express myself like you just did, although v
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
I was once asked to hand over mail from a certain address in Weschester NY so they could copy the OE, both sides. I refused. I, like my peers, take privacy and sanctity to the absolute extreme level. We have all had the stranger asking f
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
I would love to see this work. Really love to. This has as big of a chance to improve humanity as wikipedia, I believe. The elimination of news curators will reduce other people thinking for them.
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Household Diary: a multi-year research study funded by the US Postal Service(about.usps.com)
8 points by lettercarrier 12y ago|0 comments
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
< how much would you pay? $0.00 Zip. If I have to pay, I go away. Looking back to my pre HTML Labs days, I don't think I ever go to the same site(s) longer than a year or so. Nothing regularly. I had an interesting self discovery.
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
We used to laugh when our CEO/Head went to extremes to put customers first with things like creating a "Customer Bill or Rights." We thought it was overreaction after some glitch or dumb one-off call center rep violating PC c
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
Great Read. I see a ton of the GE Supra iBox Lockboxes. I hear they cost realtors a lot and they have no alternative. Perhaps for the VRBO or non-Realtor properties too. This is a really stupid question, but will there be hybrid locks not
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Amazon Wins .book auction(publishersweekly.com)
5 points by lettercarrier 12y ago|0 comments
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
They emptied the mall and put up an Amazon Slot With a working hell, a geek And a sweltering com dot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They emptied the mall and put up an Ama
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
Comments are what gets me here, for discovery. Love when topics and links are the subject of comments. I think my CPS degree received when having to use IBM 129 and 3 runs per day afford a great HN following. I really don't get the do
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by lettercarrier 12y ago
I would like it to read to me. My wakeup browsing headlines, my kindle ebook or names of recent Facebook postings. I would like to replace my Clapper with it and add a connection to my coffee maker. [BION, the Clapper is one of our top ga

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