mparkms

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by mparkms 2mo ago
It does not sound like the possibility of death was properly conveyed to the parents. >But nowhere did the form explicitly indicate that any of this could end in death, nor did that come up during any conversations with Qiu or the other
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by mparkms 3mo ago
Awful Korean-developed MS Office clone. edit: for more context, it was initially adopted because it had better support for Korean language features, but now it serves basically no purpose other than be a pain in the ass for anyone who has t
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by mparkms 3mo ago
If the implication is that the left is more willing to violate freedoms, you're leaving out that the right-wing president was ousted for attempting to subvert democracy by instituting martial law for no good reason.
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by mparkms 5mo ago
Chasing trends and it's now cheaper to have a single touchscreen with software controls than to design and manufacture physical controls.
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by mparkms 7mo ago
The creator of the website is the CEO of a battery-powered induction cooktop company. ( https://x.com/sdamico ) He clearly has an agenda against what he perceives as onerous environmental regulations: https://x.co
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by mparkms 7mo ago
You definitely shouldn't hold your breath considering the CFPB effectively doesn't exist anymore.
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by mparkms 9mo ago
This is why I remapped the shortcut for AI autocomplete to Option-Tab.
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by mparkms 1y ago
What makes you think the Korean apps don't do the exact same thing?
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by mparkms 1y ago
FIFA tried to make a movie to whitewash their reputation during one of their many corruption scandals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Passions It didn't work because it was a terrible movie and blatant propa
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by mparkms 1y ago
The most difficult part, and one that Youtube has struggled with since the beginning, would be content moderation. It's a technical, legal, and PR nightmare and there's no reason for Netflix to wade into that mess.
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by mparkms 1y ago
There are lots of places in the US where if you don't have a car your only reasonable options are an Uber/Lyft or calling a cab that may or may not arrive.
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DNS Blackhole (AS112) Service(iana.org)
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by mparkms 1y ago
This is pretty similar to the Japanese "flick" keyboard that's fairly commonly used on smartphones. Instead of 3 possible directions per button there's 5 (up, left, right, down, and neutral): https://www.youtu
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by mparkms 2y ago
That would explain why their receipt scanning is so damn slow even for easily scannable PDF receipts.
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by mparkms 3y ago
Looks like 73% of freight is moved by truck in the US vs 77% in the EU. Not a big enough difference to really matter I think. https://www.trucking.org/economics-and-industry-data https://www.statista.com/sta
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by mparkms 3y ago
So this guy whose job it is to hire truckers to move goods fell for the same scam twice in a row? Fool me once, etc, etc...
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by mparkms 3y ago
They cheaped out and didn't include a basic security feature that 96% of all other cars have.[0] This isn't a problem in countries outside the US because they have regulations requiring immobilizers in new cars. [0] https:/&
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by mparkms 4y ago
Stripe started issuing RSUs ~7 years ago and the first of those are set to expire next year without a liquidity event, which is why they're doing this.
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by mparkms 4y ago
It's a travelogue, not a Wikipedia article. People read it for the fluff and prose.
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by mparkms 4y ago
Someone I know was rehired to Ford from Argo and got an extremely generous offer. He seems pretty happy about it.
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by mparkms 4y ago
That revenue is almost entirely from Google, their biggest competitor. I don't think it's any surprise that they want to diversify from that.
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by mparkms 4y ago
You do if you're on a work visa and don't want to leave the US.
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by mparkms 4y ago
Sounds like you're talking about the Vancouver Special: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Special Tons of houses in the 70s and 80s in Vancouver was built in the exact same style because of zoning laws and c
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by mparkms 4y ago
A common perception of Jews in Korea is that they're a formerly oppressed minority who are now rich and powerful. I think some Koreans see a parallel there given the history of their own country and its recent ascension to the world st
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by mparkms 4y ago
According to his Linkedin he's working at an undisclosed startup. Who knows what his compensation is like, but it's not as if going from Google to an early-stage startup is particularly uncommon.
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by mparkms 5y ago
I don't know how much you think D-League players make but the current base salary (for what is now called the G-League) is $37k a year, and I imagine it was much less when he was playing in the late 2000s.
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by mparkms 5y ago
"Kenyan" is not a language. I see Swahili in the list of languages, which along with English is one of the lingua franca of Kenya.
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by mparkms 6y ago
Sarariman (adapted from the English salary man) is the Japanese term for white collar worker.
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by mparkms 7y ago
The US had very little to do with democratization in South Korea and were perfectly happy to prop up authoritarian regimes for 30 years before mass protests finally led to free elections. The Korean War was fought to stop communism, not spr
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by mparkms 7y ago
My Amex card does this for purchases at Square terminals. There's a "view receipt" link next to the transaction on my statement that opens the Square receipt. I haven't seen it for anything else though.

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