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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AT&T's CTO tells his US team there won't be 'one-for-one seating' upon the return to 5 days in office — read the memo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is where you plan the number of monitors. I’m one of the few desks that don’t have two, so no one else wants it and I never need to readjust

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically if for retirement, time is your best friend. Anything you can put aside will be multiplied down the years and be much more when you need it most

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But of course we don't want to poison our child.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does not help if no one enforces it. About 10 years back we were on vacation and had to rush our little one to the ER. Since it was a breathing issue and the waiting room was crowded, they suggested we wait outside. Sure enough, then we had to get away from the smokers congregating near the “No smoking on hospital grounds” sign.

  Of course the personnel weren’t interested in helping to clear that, and we decided people waiting at the ER were already under enough stress

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relevant advertising 🤪⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if you do it deliberately it’s no different to any other weapon.

  Of course but at least there’s the possibility of it being an accident. Absent other proof, such as that possession of a manifesto, you can quite possibly get away with it

  On the other hand there’s no way to spin as an accident that you walked up behind someone and shot them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely will "Cloud Storage" eventually replace Local Storage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’re already there but not in the way OP describes. People haven’t had great experiences with Chrimebooks and storage is cheap

  Think of your Google drive, OneDrive or Apple drive. The most common scenario is you use local storage for reliability and responsiveness, but it’s always aynching to the cloud. Many of your files may not even exist in local storage but it looks like it does

  Or consider Apples approach to photo storage. You can choose to use iCloud for photo storage and it keeps only a thumbnail on local storage. Your basic browse and search operations are reliable and responsive, and but you download the full photo as you need it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s not just insurance companies that need to be disrupted. There’s that whole convoluted ecosystem of profit-takers that should not even exist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a human, here is my human take on unions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do know plenty of people who think this way, and I find the post quite plausible. There’s been so much disinformation about unions in the US, for the last couple generations, that people don’t know any better.

  However as an edge case, I do believe it was true for my brother working part time minimum wage. As far as we could tell there were no benefits for the part timers, no extra pay, no protections, no perks, just extra dues to pay. It’s too bad too, this could have been the unions chance to re-educate, show them benefits when someone is starting out so they support unions the rest of their lives. Instead it reinforced his prior attitude and he remains anti-union to this day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is everything with buildings is slow. Who can afford to replace functional buildings, and buildings remain useful for decades or more? There’s only so much you can do with infill. The only other option I can think of is to change zoning radically enough that it becomes profitable to bulldoze functional buildings. Of course that has additional environmental costs but over time should be fine

  I’m personally not a fan of higher density buildings by themselves. That’s just a recipe for annoying people enough that you hope they demand better before they give up and move away. Higher density buildings needs to have some thought put into walkability, personal mobility, and transit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch drama is getting real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus they’re too breakable. My kids have a few and they break if you knock them off a table

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch drama is getting real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not just country codes, but match a list of two character country codes defined by the UN

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Massachusetts has a regional transit system, and just used that to mandate transit oriented development for all towns and cities served. It requires they zone higher density housing “as of right” within half a mile of transit. I have high hopes for that, but it will take decades and we’re starting at such a high cost of living.

  However we also have the problem of a stagnant population and very little room for new development. It’s infill and replacement housing so will be even slower

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have an avocado.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could have an avocado that looks so perfect! Of all produce, they’re the most difficult to find in good condition, good ripeness.

  This week I did pretty good …… out of three avocados, one was good, one was bruised and ugly but mostly useable, and one had to be thrown out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This happened today at a company in India. Better keep a smile on your face⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s that easy to “effective immediately “. I know my company managed them out over months. Employers in India are much better protected than in the US.

  www.rippling.com/…/labor-employment-law-in-india

  India doesn’t recognize at-will employment

  Barring cases of severe misconduct, you generally can’t dismiss an employee in India without notice or paying the employee out. Employers need reasonable cause to involuntarily dismiss employees, which includes willful insubordination, theft, fraud, extensive unexcused absences, and disorderly conduct on company property

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get it, but you're both part of a bigger problem.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about don’t use any footage if it’s not relevant to the article?

  I’m tired of seeing articles like this ”UHC CEO murdered in the street”, with a stock photo of a CyberTruck …… unless there’s a connection they don’t want us to know about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still better than the real thing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How to get in and out? Is this a “Dukes of Hazzard” scenario?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I live in the green part⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, anecdotal, but you might not have to … the one time I succeeded in losing wait, they encouraged me to eat breakfast and it did seem to help. Without breakfast, my metabolism was slower - mornings were miserable. With breakfast, I became much more odor a morning person, plus better at moderating lunch or snacks. Of course I eat breakfast now also, when I’m no longer fit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I live in the green part⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have any dtata, but my manager is from China, and that’s what she always claimed. It’s not easy to emigrate from China, it’s not easy to pursue US immigration and naturalization, so there is a strong selection bias. Not necessarily smartest, but definitely the most driven people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woolworths grocery shortages: Protesters delay reopening of Dandenong South distribution centre⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Woolworths exists? Does anyone know whether this is the same company that used to be a department store in the US?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's right!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that was depressing. Google does indeed list regular speed dating events near me, by age range and preference. However I’m really not happy where my age lands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California lawmakers to begin special session to 'Trump-proof' state laws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re all depending on California, especially for anything climate or environment related. Other states are not allowed to regulate our own environment in some cases, but can only choose federal or California rules. We need to continue having that choice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What 175 years of data tell us about house price affordability in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing it was relatively stable 1920-1990

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, OP should definitely prepare for the worst and hope it doesn’t happen.

  Mental Illness is not only an invisible disability but has been scapegoated before. “Just suck it up”, “fake”, I’m sure your brother has heard those and worse. While there’s no way to predict what they’ll consider “waste”, we know they can’t make their goal without cutting a lot of necessary programs. This one does seem risky

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The darkness of hell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably it says more about their faith ……

  Here’s a ridiculous analogy

  After a lifetime of falling from grace at the hands of two liter sodas, I understand that I’m weak in my self-control. Now I only drink soda in cans (despite the cost and environmental impact) as part of my commitment to moderation. Controlling the temptations I may not prevail over is part of my battle for moderation.

  That says nothing about the power of big sodas to impact my health, my life, merely that I understand where I’m all too human

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good News!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have about two months to do that, then it’s banned and you’re probably burned at the stake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good News!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He loses faith in his life choices of treating woman as property

  That’s too unrealistic. No one would believe that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of cryptobros claim to have gotten rich, or seem likely to be flashing their money around. If someone is throwing money around, why not be somewhere you can catch some

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you sure it’s not the part of a car engine collecting exhaust from all cylinders into a smaller number of pipes? Because I can use my ignorance of that and play up my environmental credentials as owning an EV

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you said that on our first date, I’d be there on our second!

  I’m getting a bit tired of home automation as a hobby anyway - i don’t meet many new people inside my home. 3D printing was next on my list but then I’d have to collect WarHammer miniatures

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We had a brief talk where I said I like my name and wouldn’t change it. I also said that while I prefer the tradition of her changing hers, that I understood it’s not really my choice. She did anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What your coffee preparation method says about you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have one of those for camping but never actually got to trynit