stupidbird

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by stupidbird 8y ago
Assuming this child is 15 or older and not developmentally delayed, a parent should absolutely not be intervening for the difference between an A or an A- This is how you get kids with parents who go to job interviews with them. I actually
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by stupidbird 8y ago
You mean no one's lining up to get low pay and frequent parental abuse? You don't say.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
>She told me of an email she received that said "X is trying to get into Princeton - an A- isn't going to get her in. What extra credit can she do to make this an A?". Get off your kids ass, for starters, lady
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by stupidbird 8y ago
For comparison, you can easily pay $500/oz on the east coast.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I remember reading that the average player spends $80 on DLC for Fortnite — so there are a lot of people out there spending well over that to bring up the average from all those $0 players.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Fortnite makes over a million dollars a day... ON iOS ALONE. They've built a money machine.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Unless Apple drags their feet with PWA implementation a native iOS app might not be needed?
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by stupidbird 8y ago
It's easier to do with GA
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Facebook has sold all the private messages that you've shared with your wife.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I guess you could start your own private subreddit and invite all your friends? Though of course, I'd imagine all your friends would tell you to fuck right off.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I'd say it's about the value of low-cost alternatives from an industry (medical devices) that very often disregards cost entirely. I understand the precision and expertise that goes into medical devices, and they've saved mil
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Feels real to me generally — actors are usually easy to spot, and these would be surprisingly good actors. The police are not going to do anything in my experience. I literally caught someone in the act of stealing a package and the police
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Right, that has happened to me before. I've just returned the item in that case. It seems less likely to happen if the item is fulfilled by Amazon.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I'm at the point now where I've gone from trusting a review consensus to seeking an individual reviewer on a product that seems thorough and reliable. My favorite example might be trying to find outdoor solar-powered lights. Mount
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Less than the extent that Americans do? absolutely. In many ways they're obsessed with it. Look how much the gambling industry makes there.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
The bulk of the design industry is in wealthy countries with an Apple presence. But yes, there are professional designers who don't use Apple products. They're just not the majority in a global sense, but I'm sure they'r
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Most professional designers are still using Macs.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Omnigraffle is very bad for visual design
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Honestly they should have abandoned it earlier. Instead of building monoliths of legacy features/code they need to build full-on replacements every 5-10 years. I can't believe they're still actively developing Dreamweaver to
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by stupidbird 8y ago
uhh... duh I'm amazed that they haven't had massive layoffs. They're both popular enough to the point where they could turn a profit with a significant shift in how they operate.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
The American Dream is to accumulate wealth, and often involves looking for a way to get rich quick, some people think they can do it by day trading. There's a certain American stereotype of playing stocks to become wealthy.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
The average person is more likely to lose money day trading than gain (especially considering the time sink). It's basically boring slow gambling wrapped in the guise of The American Dream.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
who would prosecute them for it if it is national security related?
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by stupidbird 8y ago
It's pretty common to distinguish your font from others with a description in the name, be it sans/serif/slab/mono/condensed/extended, etc — it does communicate "this is a font" clearly but it's
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by stupidbird 8y ago
It's better for eye charts, not running copy on websites.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
The biggest use would likely be to recreate eye charts
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by stupidbird 8y ago
If it's a national security risk they might not have needed to be compelled to lie at all, but decided to do so themselves. This would be big enough to damage their entire supply chain if they did publicly verify it as truth.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Yeah that's fair, and an avenue they should take first.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Sure, but they let everyone read this specific story for free. They could have easily kept it behind their paywall. Overall Bloomberg as a company does not sustain itself on news revenue.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
If newspapers were in it for the money they wouldn't be newspapers. It's not an incredibly lucrative business.

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