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Ajay-p

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About Ajay-p

I am a Point of Sale engineer and comic book collector.

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    Comment #43433156

    Really it goes back on to the seller. Because if I don't get my item, I'm going to dispute the charge on my credit card. Eventually, someone pays, but not me.

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    Comment #43398201

    Because people believe it, and courts have accepted as fact that DNA evidence is infallible. Certainly there have been cases where DNA has been successfully challenged, but those a…

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    Comment #43373434

    Same thing happened to Barbara Mukulski of Maryland. She just stopped showing up unless her vote was absolutely necessary

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    Comment #43255018

    Remember when Steve Jobs returned to Apple and simplified the product line? I feel like Apple needs that again.

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    Comment #43255003

    I love my iPad because of the pencil. I got rid of an office overflowing with paper, and I write everything in an app on the iPad. It then gets saved up into the cloud. That alone …

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    Comment #43159454

    this already exists in the form of medical facilities for inmates with mental and physical limitations.

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    Comment #40690547

    I maintain that we do NOT have a housing crisis, only a crisis of not enough housing in cities and places where people want to live. Instead, we have a neighborhood and zoning prob…

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    Comment #40690503

    I think you can convince just about anyone to hate given time and the right circumstances, but it's even easier IMO when it is prescribed to groups. Then in-group dynamics reinforc…

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    Comment #40690108

    As I mentioned, older Boeing's. The Dreamliner been flying since 2011, that's an older Boeing for me, compared to the 737 Max which has only been flying commercially since 2016.

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    Comment #40690078

    Large quantities of chili pose a risk That may be true, but what about a small quantity of a potent chili? While I am not a fan of very spicy foods (quite mild if you don't mind) I…

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    Comment #40690071

    It is definitely regional. I read in a book about grocery stores that the stores only stock about 10% of items that are uncommon for a given market area. Everything else is based o…

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    Comment #40685599

    I think Musk should get the pay package. It's an obscene amount of money, but the shareholders voted for it, and it would be wrong for the court to stand in the way going forward.

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    Comment #40685565

    I thought the EU had solved a lot of this by unifying the markets.

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    Comment #40685525

    I am ok with older Boeing airplanes. While I am skeptical of the company's current safety program, and attention to detail, I think the older planes - with many C checks done - are…

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    Comment #40672434

    Like Mark Zuckerburg, I do.. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/22/mark-zuck...

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    Comment #40672425

    I don't trust the device, the maker, the company behind the facial recognition technology, and you. If I give software access to analyzing my face it opens the door to overt and co…

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    Comment #40671900

    Maybe this is unrelated but I refuse to do facial ID, or any type of facial verification. I don't want my phone, or any device that I am using, to record or analyze my features. Ma…

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    Comment #40669894

    Not enough pip movement.

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    Comment #40669887

    Public funded news is a terrible idea because it's too easy to become corrupted by politics. This makes it easier for Netflix to raise prices, but it is what the people seem to wan…

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    Comment #40632839

    "Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit" https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/09/rto_quit_study/

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    Comment #40599771

    And then there's this on the front page of HN https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh8369 which says that "Major disruption of the Atlantic overturning circulation (AOMC) i…

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    Comment #40599218

    For greater insight into how grocery stores are run in America, I highly recommend the gripping book "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" by…

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    Comment #40599069

    For those who were just as mystified as I was when I clicked on the link: The main goal of EU.org is to provide free subdomain registration to users or non-profit organizations who…

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    Comment #40598054

    Ever seen the incredible classic Moonraker? Larger satellites, larger rockets, it's about more at a lower cost. Bigger trucks, bigger ships, bigger lifters.