nogabebop23

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by nogabebop23 6y ago
... says the person hiding behind a throw-away account
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
>> or the amount because of which it ends. a buck to print 15 pages a month on the customer's printer is a sweet deal for HP. It's pure profit and likely adds up. 6 months from now they'll bump it to $1.29 and some exec
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
well they were securing their future revenue streams, so accurate just not the reasonable interpretation.
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
toner cartridges last forever. I've only used 3-4 over the past 20 years, including the replacement stored for years after I bought it my printer because I assume they would pull that intro-cartridge horseshit but they didn't - th
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
>> makes enough to afford renting a 1bed apartment in a good area In most cities in the US this is not the definition of wealthy or even well off. living with roommates to save 10K a year does sound like one step above poverty.
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
"dismisses fears that the surcharge will drive companies out of the city, saying the tax is modest in comparison to the cost of moving a business." ...until it's not. Amazon has shown us there are lots of attractive jurisdict
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
He's not exactly an engineering manager, but he's definitely part of that 1% who don't meet your rule, so it actually fits within the standard perspective.
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
I fear I will jinx my 20-yr-old hp 1200 laser jet that's on maybe it's 4(?) toner and hooked up to our home network via a parallel port to usb adapter. It's yellower than an 8-bit computer but still prints great and fast. One
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
I just want a simple player as well, so I've been using foobar2000: https://www.foobar2000.org/ It doesn't get much more basic...
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
Do you think agriculture hasn't moved into a post-industrial age? Modern farms are tightly integrated into a global supply chain from imputs to product and definitely need to work on the same standardized schedule as the rest of the wo
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
>> Only ~2% of the population are farmers, so even if they did all object the 98% wouldn't care and move forward anyway. In Canada I think it's about 3% but they are a Very vocal political group and punch beyond their abso
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
I think part of it may be that, if he's the (good kind of) hustler his friends state he is, he probably did a million things over that decade period which is really hard to translate into a narrative acceptable for an article like this
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
This happens all the time in real sports. If you get caught cheating you often forfeit your legacy because everything you've done professionally is suspect, especially if you show a longer-running history of cheating or are caught mult
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
You'd think as a former opiate addict you might have a little more understanding and less emotionally negative response to something as mundane as shopping. If you feel this way about people who got to malls, how should I feel about ju
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
Google will need to learn what customer service is to get any traction in corporate land. I can get decent support from an actual person with a single MS subscription. With google for business we can't even get an email address.
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
This sounds a lot like remote-school vs. attending uni in-person. There's still value but you definitely question if the cost justifies what you're receiving. If YC is still getting post-program funding at comparable levels as the
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
>> class actual settlements are Usually underwhelming not for the firms that bring them: millions in fees & billing, ranging from the upfront certification efforts (riskier) to the payment & settlement (at this stage, risk-fre
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
GrubHub is taking over the relationship between the customer and the restaurant without either of those parties being aware of it. This is clearly a deceptive practice, and now GrubHub influences the customer's perception of the restau
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
Hey, if it's just fast food why does the market even care who prepares it? How long till these food "delivery" services just capture all the addressable market masquerading as a bunch of uninformed, non-participating restaur
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
yes - this is not "opt out", it's not even "default opt-in" like the telecoms got spanked for a few years ago, because they have no pre-existing relationship. It's fraudulent representation.
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
If you've focused on technical topics your whole life, 40+ is a great time to pursue a classic liberal arts agenda. I had a neighbour who went to a private liberal arts college straight out of high school (pretty rare in Canada) and I
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
We seem to pack most of our learning into the first quarter or third of our life, then taper off to almost nothing. That doesn't work for maintaining anything, so why would we think our ability to learn is any different? The physiologi
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
This is a good point; If you're a contrarian (or in my case dinosaur) go back to physical media and back up your own copy for personal use. Our library still brings in physical copies of everything in various formats, which is good bec
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
You don't own anything, though. I listen to CDs I bought 20+ years ago and then ripped all the time, in my home, at work and in cars. If you cancel your streaming service today what will you listen to tomorrow?
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
I hear this and feel fear. "It's 1984 come to life", I shout. I suspect in China they look at this advance proudly and say "What a Brave New World!"
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
Also really good, even if you need to get past the default stylings and behaviours. They have continually moved upstream beyond basic components into more enterprise patterns that are as useful IMO if you need specialization but great for g
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
I evaluated it for our company a few years ago (the entire Ant design system, not just React UI Components) and although everyone had heard of Alibaba few knew about Ant Financial (now the Ant Group) even though it's absolutely massive
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
First sentence: >> Web multimedia-content Swiss army knife youtube-dl Come on, you've already shown your bias and I need to be on guard from that point on. I love youtube-dl and built an app that used it heavily for exactly wh
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
You're getting down-voted because people don't agree with you, not because you're fundamentally wrong. All the responses "not illegal in COUNTRY X"; how is this relevant? Is the RIAA using a law from <UTOPIA_COUN
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by nogabebop23 6y ago
I missed the news story where the RIAA is going after chrome and the one where they filed a DMCA complaint against the uBlock Origin repo. Anyone who read the justification in the original complaint would see how these are different, but it

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