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by ttmb 1y ago
I must be well out of the loop because I had no idea that the notch was anything other than a cosmetic trick to hide the camera.
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by ttmb 1y ago
I was working in Sydney and the instructions for dropping off the off-site backup tapes said "turn left at the Woman In Red fountain".
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by ttmb 2y ago
I had never heard of the Babylon Bee and I just took a look at it. Are you saying you think The Onion is the very political one, or did I misread your sentence?
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by ttmb 2y ago
When a company says "cost of living" they mean their own, not their employees. So-called COLA adjustments are for Cost of Hiring, or Cost of Employee Retention. The distinction is that it is calculated based on minimizing unwanted
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by ttmb 2y ago
Maybe they did. Do you suppose they got scammed on eBay - which they "perfectly" remember buying it from - or from the Red Cross, which they have an invoice for?
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by ttmb 2y ago
Not all of the videos are Matrix City, some are real places.
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by ttmb 3y ago
The bigger companies used their cash during the pandemic to go on a hiring spree, both bloating their headcount and their overall salaries. The smaller/lower tier companies did not have the cash to compete with this, and now do not hav
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by ttmb 3y ago
At the same time, it also seems to accept unintelligible grunting as a correct pronunciation for many questions, and not just German.
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by ttmb 3y ago
I'm sure it's not the best language learning tool around, but it has taught me enough of three different languages to visit a foreign country, ask for directions, order things, etc, with a number of conversations never falling bac
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by ttmb 3y ago
Wasn't one of their initial monetization ideas that crowdsourced translations - from amateurs, not even paid contractors - would outperform AI translation? The translation thing never came close to panning out, from what I can tell. Ba
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by ttmb 3y ago
Delivery from online, it's not just for spammers. In fact, every medical insurance provider I've had for years has tried to push me onto their in-house pharmaceutical delivery service. Traditional pharmacies have been getting sque
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by ttmb 3y ago
They keep opening new branches around here. They are glorified ATM lobbies with minimal staff who will often direct you to use an ATM for anything that an ATM can do. But they do keep opening them. I sometimes wonder if it's just a com
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by ttmb 4y ago
To be extra pedantic, he only said that "early systems" had that limitation, and that that drove username culture.
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by ttmb 4y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if more runners do die from cancer. Because they're not falling victim to all the other things that are improved by cardio fitness, etc.
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by ttmb 4y ago
YMMV, apparently. For me, the standard medium for a meeting for decades been face to face, with videoconference in second, long before covid changed everything. I have always hated phone calls, and conference calls specifically are one of t
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by ttmb 5y ago
> VCS is truth VCS can only ever be intent at best.
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by ttmb 5y ago
This regulation is saying that if you did build an autonomous Russian roulette revolver, there's no requirement to outfit it with a pistol grip and a trigger. If there is a fully driverless (not driving itself with a human still in it)
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by ttmb 5y ago
So over 800k people over the age of 50 have died from covid in the US. Are you saying that it's "dishonest" to estimate that at least 1% of them are grandparents involved in childcare? By napkin math this more than works out;
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by ttmb 5y ago
It's a great analogy because the no-harm-to-others argument doesn't apply in either case. In an incident, an un-seat-belted occupant can turn into a projectile and harm or kill others in the vehicle that might be wearing seatbelts
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by ttmb 5y ago
There are only a few pieces in that set that don't appear in hundreds of other sets: The baseplate is custom and the most egregious example of what you are talking about, of course. The slope at the front with the swirl on it is also c
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by ttmb 5y ago
> it means that half the pieces are now custom made for the particular set I do not believe this is true. There are Lego enthusiasts that thoroughly review every new set and are careful to point out the introduction of new pieces and new
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by ttmb 5y ago
I think it's common in colloquial speech but rarely used in formal speech these days.
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by ttmb 5y ago
This event is not being regarded as notable because it is a goal in and of itself (to most people). It's notable because it has never happened before, was unthinkable in the not so recent past, and is a reflection on positive changes i
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by ttmb 5y ago
And then the brick and mortar store says "oh and also we want 30% of anything the customer purchases through your product for ever" - Yes, yes I do think we would be saying the same things.
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by ttmb 5y ago
These numbers do not seem to correspond to actual salaries. If I look up my company I can see multiple entries for job titles that I have specific knowledge of, and the quoted salary is much much lower than anyone's base salary has eve
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by ttmb 5y ago
You would think that any reputable news editor would know not to use an autoantonym in a headline.
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by ttmb 5y ago
> [0] His crew is run by Swedish woman who was trained as a metal worker It is a small world and I am 98% sure that your son has been in my house recently.
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by ttmb 5y ago
It is possible for both to be inflammatory. The comment you replied to only mentioned the article.
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by ttmb 5y ago
> 1. They've done this before. [1] Your link says nothing of the sort.
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by ttmb 5y ago
An important distinction is that these companies generally do not and have not ever described location-based pay differential as cost-of-living. They are pretty consistent in saying that the differential is due to hiring market competitiven

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