nilram

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by nilram 1mo ago
I'm finding myself more in agreement than disagreement; there's no logic and the system is stupid. Tipping is a convention that's enshrined in minimum wage law (in many jurisdictions) for food service / tipped workers an
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by nilram 1mo ago
I help a line cook with finding employment, so I learn about the pay and conditions. The wages make it nearly impossible for him to find housing.
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by nilram 1mo ago
No service provided? Like, the line cook isn't juggling 8 orders in order to package your stuff and get it to you in a timely and accurate way? Agree that you don't really know how well they did until you open up your order, but I
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by nilram 1mo ago
I don't find that to be a valid reason. After all, some low paid (but still decently skilled) workerbee prepared the food and packaged it up. When I tip, I'm tipping for both the food and the service. It's a crap shoot about
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by nilram 1mo ago
Maybe send it to them as a bug. Seems more like a mistake than malevolence.
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by nilram 5mo ago
Although there's other's that are a little more true to Bisson's dialog, that's my favorite for the actors, and especially the background music.
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by nilram 6mo ago
Having accumulated points on various platforms, in my experience, United and Alaska had much better availability for close-in flights than Delta. Dunno if there's a difference between redeeming on the Chase site versus transferring to
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by nilram 6mo ago
Agreed. Anyone interested should check out a report out of Vanderbilt, "The Loyalty Trap: How Loyalty Programs Hook Us with Deals, Hack our Brains, and Hike Our Prices." https://consumerlaw.berkeley.edu/news/p
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by nilram 8mo ago
Not great waveforms, to my ear. Decent UI for a first cut -- trying it out, I found it really addictive. Makes me want to learn more about beats.
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by nilram 1y ago
Unasked & unanswered: over what range of myopia will these be effective? Minus 5, -7, -13? Can they handle astigmatism, either automatically or from an initial prescription? They need to send a high-myope reporter in to ask questions.
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by nilram 1y ago
>The solution is a non-national global reserve, calculated on a basket of national currencies. This was Keynes argument at Bretton Woods, but the US would not have it then, and does not want it now. But what does the US want now? It&#x27
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by nilram 1y ago
"admitting" could also be in the sense of "disclosing". I wouldn't expect anyone, even an elected leader, to immediately disclose a health issue that requires some amount of understanding and decision-making. There&
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by nilram 1y ago
Thanks for the replies re OO's security issues, they're lighting a fire under me to make the move.
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by nilram 1y ago
I started using OpenOffice a couple decades ago when I got tired of pirating the market leader. Not wanting to start any religious wars, but I still haven't made the leap to Libre.
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by nilram 2y ago
My HP 1320m Laser Printer is still printing after 20 years. No streaks or blotches. It has issues when drawing paper from the lower tray, but still printing and duplexing fine. No proper drivers for newer OSX versions, but the generic drive
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by nilram 2y ago
Available to devices "with iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4." Apple, yet again: you must, MUST upgrade, whether you want to or not. Apple will rearrange buttons for no discernible reason and change behaviors without giving any setting to
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by nilram 2y ago
Have you come into the scenario where a doctor's office is trying to find your medical records? Or a hospital? Or an emergency room, trying to fetch them from an office in another town or country? Better to have a good attitude than no
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by nilram 2y ago
"Does the booze really cook off?" No, not all of it. Even a long-cooking stew can have 5% of the alcohol that was added at the start. https://www.isu.edu/news/2019-fall/no-worries-the-alcohol-bu... And,
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by nilram 2y ago
I see discussion that the OP was about headshots for a different frame of reference, but passport/visa photos are an interesting comparable. Every country has their own standard (dimensions, framing, glasses/no glasses, smiling&#x
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by nilram 2y ago
The amount of travel industry software is huge, and a mix of ancient and new. Makes sense, but would take years.
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by nilram 2y ago
Experts Agree, Giant Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat https://youtu.be/-Uq9pp586AE?si=NxdI4vwYZQr817QI Reporters having a panel discussion on teevee. I stopped the video and read each of the supporting print stories that
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by nilram 2y ago
Any more, I'd rather they just gave me lottery tickets. My payout rate has been the same.
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by nilram 2y ago
I had a friend in that situation one year. He reported some imaginary income that brought him up over that limit. Paid the tax on it, received the subsidy, and was able to continue with his existing ACA healthcare plan (and doctors, and etc
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by nilram 3y ago
My favorite start up, with regard to cashflow, was where the CEO would tell us at every company meeting how many months of cash we had in the bank at our current burn. They pissed me off in other ways, though, and I never heard how they tre
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by nilram 3y ago
Under US bankruptcy law, cash first goes to employees, then creditors (including contractors), then owners.
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by nilram 3y ago
My sister got bit by one of these when she googled a name brand PC support company that she had used before. The search results included a phone number that connected her to these hackers. From there, they pretty much followed the steps out
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by nilram 3y ago
And which area of Portland? I've had generations of neighbors who I've never spoken with, or just hello'd. None that I've even sat down to dinner with.
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by nilram 3y ago
A crying child right next to me is difficult, but I've never blamed the parents. A crying child a couple rows away? Somehow relaxing to know someone else is having a worse flight than I am. (Either the kid or the parent.) It's jus
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by nilram 3y ago
Back in the day, I'd flip it around to display the Fry's ad.
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by nilram 3y ago
I've given two weeks notice to employers I didn't like, and had immediate layoffs from employers I liked exceptionally, so I don't feel I should have any obligation in that regard except to myself. I'll the factors that

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