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by thaack 6mo ago
Was in similar situation. For me, what worked was filling up my time with productive fulfilling hobbies/tasks. This kept my mind off the drastic change. Think of all the things that you wanted to, but didn't get to do because you
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by thaack 6mo ago
This works because California requires licensing for payphones and Riley was able to FOIA state payphone database. I'm not sure if other states require licenses for payphones.
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by thaack 7mo ago
William Onyeabor got me into African fusion. He's definitely one of the most interesting characters on the scene and the synthesizers in his music were some of the best. RIP.
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by thaack 7mo ago
Afrobeat (of which Fela Kuti pioneered) and Afro-rock are genuinely some of the coolest fusion genres to ever exist. If you need an introduction, the Nigeria 70 compilation is a great place to start: https://www.youtube.com/
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by thaack 7mo ago
This is essentiality the concept of LDAP/Active Directory.
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by thaack 8mo ago
Matt Lakeman's recent "Notes on Afghanistan" actually covers this as he first-hand experienced a similar situation in Afghanistan where the Taliban had shut off the internet: "The internet was out. Everywhere. Across the
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by thaack 8mo ago
I think it's also understated that competition in the consumer TV market is very strong. South Korean, Chinese and Japanese manufacturers are all fighting each other and it's a market where the average consumer wants the lowest pr
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by thaack 9mo ago
Facebook[1], Google, etc all use (or used to use) MarkMonitor that offers domain squatting monitoring as a service[2] that utilizes the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy to remove offending domains violating their trademark. The
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by thaack 9mo ago
The floor on refurbished laser printers is about $100 on Amazon and remanufactured toner cartridges are dirt cheap often times less than $15 for 2000-6000 pages. This is the way. There is no reason to buy ink based anymore.
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by thaack 11mo ago
That's a lot of broadcast traffic at scale. How would you handle the ack of the broadcast? UDP can be unreliable. If you do send an ack from the destination, that singular endpoint that sent the message is going to get a number of resp
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by thaack 11mo ago
I have no involvement with the plant directly. My understanding is the best luck they had was getting in good graces with local probation officers & craigslist classifieds. Job portals were pretty useless from my understanding.
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by thaack 11mo ago
It's all full time 4x10 work with the employer covering 100% of health insurance premiums.
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by thaack 11mo ago
> Most people in Western world also cannot imagine staying at conveyor belt or table doing the same assembly task whole week. I work in a factory and see this daily. My family owns a small plastic manufacturing plant in the US. This is t
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by thaack 11mo ago
"Umberg’s bill faced resistance from Hollywood giants this summer. The Motion Picture Association and Streaming Innovators Alliance, which together represent entertainment conglomerates including Disney, Paramount, Amazon and Netflix,
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by thaack 1y ago
I think streaming is part of why I DON'T watch baseball. The DTC streaming package for my local team is $20/month. Baseball is something that I would flip on the local team and watch after work passively. The value just isn't
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by thaack 1y ago
EquipmentShare is located in Columbia, MO not Columbia, SC.
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by thaack 1y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44978815
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by thaack 1y ago
Same with University of Iowa (American College Football) https://www.ncaa.com/video/football/2014-09-12/traditions-io...
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by thaack 1y ago
Sure if you commit to a 500 user minimum.
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by thaack 1y ago
You would think it would be that black and white, and under normal circumstances I would tend to agree, however pay is well above average for the location and skill especially when you factor in the benefit package. I really think it comes
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by thaack 1y ago
Then tell me where these poorly qualified, undereducated Americans who can fill these low skill jobs are? The business's biggest success with finding employees was getting in the good graces of the local probation officers who refer ex
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by thaack 1y ago
>If an employee is doing an unpleasant, dead-end job with no prospect of advancement, they have to make a value judgment. If there's no prospect of advancement or any kind of wage growth (they're "low skill", so they&
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by thaack 1y ago
Fascinating article. They have toyed around with automation but the capital required to retrofit for such a small business would be intensive but is coming down. Interestingly the automation pieces that they have been testing (multi-axis ro
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by thaack 1y ago
My family runs a small plastic (injection molding) business in the USA. Second, soon to be third generation. The only reason it still exists is because the products made are too expensive to ship from a country with cheaper labor as they ar
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by thaack 2y ago
I'm building something to bypass this entirely. As an IT Director I absolutely despise when I'm evaluating a SaaS product, and they don't have public pricing and my only option is to book a call. This is annoying because: 1)