si1entstill

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by si1entstill 2mo ago
The median working American earns something like 60k. Part time working adults are around 24k. People might not have 20k in the bank, but if most are doing a part-time employment's worth of work which could be replaced by a machine, it
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by si1entstill 2mo ago
> I don't want to hire out a cleaning service and deal with the whole human component. I've used on in the past, but I found that I was routinely dissatisfied with how they were doing things and I felt I needed to maintain a ce
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by si1entstill 2mo ago
Eh, I'm a pretty social and outgoing guy. I think its fair to have some reservations about people in one's own home. I'll admit I'm slightly neurotic in my own household in that I like things to be done a certain way. I&
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by si1entstill 2mo ago
I'm not sure. I think house cleaning/chores require at least a "part-time" job's work of work for the average household (especially with children). We may be atypical, but my partner and I don't want to hire ou
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by si1entstill 2y ago
I'm a very satisfied home assistant user, but I don't run much in the way of addons. Any you'd recommend?
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by si1entstill 2y ago
Its hard to say what happened internally, but Biden could have stepped down in time for them to have a proper primary.
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by si1entstill 2y ago
Agreed. When I was younger, talking to older (40+ year age gap) people was a bit of a minor shift in vocab or syntax, but I wouldn't call it a "code switch." If we have hit a point where communicating with people speaking the
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by si1entstill 2y ago
One could give themselves hyponatremia by overdrinking water, so might as well not have laws preventing children from buying alcohol.
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by si1entstill 2y ago
I think both can be true. Most liberal western economies are highly individualistic in terms of form and law, but large firms naturally come into being and thrive. I guess one could argue that this isn't due to the need for "burea
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by si1entstill 3y ago
I had a similar question. I've been using fuse for years and have had almost no qualms with the data it returns after some light tuning.
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by si1entstill 3y ago
> Whereas if they have two separate $1 charges, that reduces the loss somehow This is what is being questioned. I've spent several years working in merchant processing, and I've never heard of a billing structured offered by a
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by si1entstill 3y ago
Schrödinger's refrigerator light.
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by si1entstill 3y ago
> I think companies not prone to this are ones where their product is a technical one like cloud services where the business really is the engineering and engineering isn't a means to an end. I currently work for a company providing
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by si1entstill 3y ago
> All of this textual information is defined in a JSON object I describe to GPT Do you get json back from chat gpt as well? Is this consistent? I hadn't really though about using it as an api platform.
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by si1entstill 3y ago
I think there is a crucial semantic disconnect here, that may be partially stemmed from how much heavy lifting the relatively new term "military industrial complex" is doing. I'm likely partially to blame. I use the term to r
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by si1entstill 3y ago
I'd say that, colloquially at least (and maybe in a literary sense as well), the "military industrial complex" broadly covers the flow of money from a government and its military to the defense industry at large. (terms again
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by si1entstill 3y ago
I feel like I am and always have been a "day-to-day" optimist, but I struggle to apply that to larger, societal problems. Our impact on the environment is measurable and the impacts look dire. Income disparity seems to be increasi
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by si1entstill 4y ago
> the reason why content creators get paid is because people buy shit they don't need, and AI will amplify this much more easily than humans Eh, I think this may be undervaluing the human part of content creation. People spend thous
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by si1entstill 4y ago
They give you really nice incremental builds out of the box, which are particularly easy to set up with gatsby cloud (the actual purchase here). Their abstractions are more opinionated, but a lot more "just works" off the shelf wi
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by si1entstill 4y ago
I switched to "vscode-restclient" about a year ago and never looked back. It has variables, everything is saved as text, and I can commit my request suite to source control for collaboration's sake. https://github.
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by si1entstill 4y ago
I this true? Wouldn't the IRS have something to say about apartments being classified as a business expense when it is used as housing in addition to "office space?"
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by si1entstill 4y ago
Our stories sound similar. I led a small corp and our whole play was to declare war on high-sec mining corporations (a formal war deceleration allowed one to avoid the wrath of the "CONCORD" police force). We'd then gank them
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by si1entstill 5y ago
> Energy and material intensity of GDP is falling. Is this true globally, or just for specific economies? (My true quandary is probably evident:) Are those economies getting measurably more efficient overall, or have we just offloaded th
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by si1entstill 5y ago
I've no experience with a Tesla, but Boston is a particularly unforgiving driving environment. I find it less stressful driving in NYC.
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by si1entstill 5y ago
> what today will sound absurd in the future? The social acceptability of reliance on caffeine has always struck me as a bit odd. The effects aren't as stark, but I regularly have conversations with friends and coworkers who talk ab
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by si1entstill 5y ago
Is it better now? Were there over initiatives that played a role?
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by si1entstill 5y ago
> I'm often forced to choose a side, even when it's all hypotheticals and virtues. In what situations are you forced to choose a side? In conversations with your friends/family? At your place of employment (in whatever for
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by si1entstill 5y ago
One of my favorites to be sure - I kept pushing this on my book club for weeks until they finally caved. Its one of those works where, when people ask "what is it about?" I can never land on a succinct answer, and I love it.
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by si1entstill 5y ago
> why has the media never asked politicians to produce some kind of end state to restrictions? Why have politicians and “experts” been allowed to just extend things and “wait two more weeks” without articulating a clearly defined goal? T
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by si1entstill 6y ago
Eh - the poker table doesn't have a concept of dividends. (A free drink or two not withstanding)

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