samdunham

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by samdunham 2y ago
As some in the comments correctly point out, this service requires a cellular connection. Which involves costs for Mazda. It's appropriate for them to charge a small monthly fee for the service. My only real complaint about this is dis
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by samdunham 2y ago
WiFi 7 possibly?
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by samdunham 2y ago
Staffing isn't necessarily directly tied to profits. Just because a company is financially successful, does not automatically mean that it isn't overstaffed. I'm not saying that's the case here, specifically, just as a g
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by samdunham 2y ago
But it IS as simple as eat less and exercise. And no, not everyone would do it. Everyone isn't doing it. Because people are lazy, want instant gratification, and consequence-free eating habits. If 99.9999% of the people taking these dr
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by samdunham 2y ago
Mentioning it only briefly seems a bit Pollyanna to me. Couching this as mostly a good thing is overlooking the terrifying implications it would have in the "wrong" hands. And that overlooks the fundamental notion of there being &
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by samdunham 2y ago
I've had three RX-7s. A first generation and two second generations. I drove the first until the wheels literally fell off (I was a young, stupid kid that ignored the crunching sounds of the rear wheel bearings falling apart. The rear
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by samdunham 3y ago
I stand by my (100% non-scientific) position that smoking bans would never have gained traction if cigarette smoke didn't smell. When all of this was being discussed in a serious manner, that was what I always heard in the background c
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by samdunham 3y ago
Exact same thing here. I reused the thin plastic bags as trash can liners. And I use the new, thicker ones, the same way. I'm contributing exactly the same number of bags back into the environment, they just have a whole lot more plast
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by samdunham 3y ago
It's not about "every day." It's about being able to hop in the car and just go at a moment's notice. Regardless of the distance. In an ICE car, that's a given. In an EV, it's murkier. Much murkier.
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by samdunham 3y ago
Nobody seems to use them, anyway.
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by samdunham 3y ago
I'd wager that far more individuals use GMail and Google calendar and a majority of business users use O365/Outlook. This looks more like a home device than a business device.
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by samdunham 3y ago
Piracy isn't and never was "stealing." It's piracy. They are distinctly different things.
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by samdunham 3y ago
I stopped drinking fruit juice when, randomly, one day I stopped and thought about how many oranges it takes to make an 8oz. glass of orange juice (and no one drinks 8oz. at a time, it's usually more like 12 or more). And though, &quot
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by samdunham 3y ago
Gen Z also seems to want to "ship" every platonic relationship they are exposed to in media. I'm hearing them say one thing, and watching them do another.
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by samdunham 3y ago
So the general consensus from the comments appears to be that there are far more people wanting these jobs than there are jobs available. So the solution should be to discourage people from entering this profession. It's supply and dem
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by samdunham 4y ago
The link in the first paragraph basically takes you right to it. There's a second or so of lead time, but coupled with the text, it's pretty easy to get.
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by samdunham 4y ago
They really shouldn't require much thought in the end. Don't artificially keep people out of a particular profession. Don't artificially force people into a particular profession. Let people have the opportunity to do the job
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by samdunham 4y ago
Because "dongle" has a very specific, different meaning. A dongle allows connection between two devices that have mismatched connectors. If someone asked me for a dongle, I'd reply, "From what to what?"
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by samdunham 5y ago
Well, the face of the government's response to the pandemic, Fauci, went on 60 minutes and stated flatly that masks didn't work. About a year later he went back on TV and was asked about his earlier comments about masks and he adm
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by samdunham 5y ago
Bad analogy. This would be more akin to businesses telling consumers exactly how much a product costs to produce. And even that isn't a perfect analogy. Bottom line, my salary is the business of me, the company I work for, and my wife.
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by samdunham 6y ago
According to JMS, Warner-Brothers, which owns the rights, has absolutely zero interest in remastering B5. Which really sucks.
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by samdunham 6y ago
Everything everyone posts on Twitter can be used by anyone for any reason. It's in the Twitter TOS. Disney didn't even need to post anything, they could have just used your tweets for whatever they wanted to use them for.
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by samdunham 7y ago
Exactly. The big tobacco companies, while playing in the e-cig space, would MUCH rather see it go away. They completely own the tobacco market. They have a never ending stream of competitors in the e-cig space.
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by samdunham 7y ago
That may not actually be true: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/study-finds-nicotine-sa...
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by samdunham 7y ago
For the most part, the podcasts I listen to are independent. I'm not all that concerned about a megacorp coming in and destroying things. If Apple and Google couldn't do it, I think we're okay for a while.
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by samdunham 7y ago
That could possibly be used to explain the home repair licenses. But how does one explain needing a license to braid hair? https://www.myfloridalicense.com/CheckListDetail.asp?SID=&xa...
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by samdunham 7y ago
So what does the government do if people are unwilling to build housing? Force them to at the point of a gun?
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by samdunham 7y ago
A near 100% drop-in replacement for Exchange server is kind of the holy grail of messaging/collaboration. I was looking at something that claimed to be that (or close) many, many years ago when I was doing consulting, so I could try to
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by samdunham 7y ago
Yeah, but they're all trying to kill you.
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by samdunham 7y ago
One of the bullet points was that it seats six. Pretty sure this'll be rolling through suburbia delivering tots to Montessori schools.

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