sky_rw

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by sky_rw 1y ago
"Right now, I am writing this essay from the living room of my hostel in Almaty, Kazakhstan." Breaking news: Hostels in third world countries loose their charm as you get older.
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by sky_rw 1y ago
It seems like this site is more EU based. Does anybody here know if there is an MLS equivalent in this jurisdiction and/or if similar copyright holders over there are as litigious?
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by sky_rw 1y ago
You stay motivated by remaining as close to the value you are delivering to your customers as possible, so you can feed energy from their use of the product. This is almost impossible in a marketplace business, which is one of the infinite
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by sky_rw 2y ago
Ok I'll bite. The de minimus rule allows any import valued under $800 to enter the USA duty free. Chinese drop shipping companies and others leverage this rule to ship millions of packages direct to consumer. Many Chinese companies spl
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by sky_rw 2y ago
* Communism has entered the chat *
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by sky_rw 2y ago
Please God don't let Warhammer become Marvel.
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by sky_rw 2y ago
FYI these wait times are now down to about 2 weeks. The ATF decided to do the bare minimum of process improvements and had a ~10X increase in efficiency.
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by sky_rw 2y ago
There is an absolute zero chance that he used a B&T Station 6. The media, as usual, is 100% wrong.
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by sky_rw 3y ago
It's also worth noting that you can buy signs and stickers on ebay for way less than the actual system, and you arguably get most of the benefit from the visual indicators.
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by sky_rw 3y ago
I keep re-reading this section of their blog post trying to figure out what I'm missing here. $2.6 million full load per employee on avg? Is this heavily weighted to a few executives? Can somebody explain this to me? Edit: I'm stu
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by sky_rw 3y ago
I will never stop finding it hilarious how quickly progressives run to racial crime statistics and hold demographic breakdowns of violence sacrosanct when it comes to dogs breeds.
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by sky_rw 3y ago
Im not a fan of the premise that a small percentage of a population being responsible for an outsized percentage of violence is a result of their breeding. It's the environment and socialization factors that drive this.
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by sky_rw 3y ago
> Having to serve as a slave in that system should be illegal. Good luck with that. Legal slavery is literally codified into our bill of rights.
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by sky_rw 3y ago
During my commute I watch a homeless guy in my town walk 2 miles with a limp everyday to the spot he panhandles. There may be more to it than walking.
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by sky_rw 3y ago
The opinion that I believe s most close to the truth re: favors for donations, is that politicians value constancy and dependability more than short term cash injections. One needs to be playing the game for decades before you can start ear
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by sky_rw 3y ago
Why post this instead of reading the actual post?
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by sky_rw 3y ago
Yes, honourable politicians get their kickbacks through book deals, inflated speaking fees, and brilliantly timed stock deals. Having a business owner with a transparent revenue source is far less preferable to an honourable politician who&
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by sky_rw 3y ago
It's worth noting that when a VC says "there's no money in X", their definition of what constitutes "money" is very different from a normal persons. It's more accurate to say "there are no wildly mark
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by sky_rw 3y ago
If anybody here is suddenly considering a startup in the PoS industry, please just turn around and run as fast as you can in the other direction. It's an endless pit of hell.
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by sky_rw 3y ago
Using the USA as an example of labor distribution in this regard is disingenuous. Like most leading countries, we are supported by an external labor class operating extremely cheaply and exporting critical goods into our system. Agriculture
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by sky_rw 3y ago
Going to church regularly does not mean you have a rich spiritual life.
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by sky_rw 3y ago
In 2007 the president of the University ACM chapter told me not to toy around with languages outside the CS curriculum, and that Ruby was a waste of time. I'm grateful everyday that I ignored his advice.
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by sky_rw 3y ago
He equates it to vaping. I'd take an employee blowing clouds of raspberry smoke in my face over 22% tip on a Macbook any day.
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by sky_rw 3y ago
Now do one about the South Korean sex trade in Silicon Valley.
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by sky_rw 3y ago
>Did I ever feel unsafe? No. How safe you _feel_ often has little correlation to how much danger you are actually in. A lot of people are oblivious to their impending assault or murder until just before it happens to them.
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by sky_rw 4y ago
It's not immoral to yell fire in a crowded theater if the theater is in fact on fire.
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by sky_rw 4y ago
Wait until they meet wolves.
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by sky_rw 4y ago
Rails developers (myself included) are lazy by design, and thus eschew anything requiring redundant work. Most operate under the principle that "it was hard to write, it should be hard to read"
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by sky_rw 4y ago
How does one become a _professional_ caver?
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by sky_rw 4y ago
Well clearly there is an elite class to whom body autonomy is granted, and an underclass who must follow arbitrary and capricious rules. OP appreciates that celebrities and entertainers are our betters and should not be held to the same sta

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