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IsoldesKnight

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    Comment #40827722

    Only the delivery team had to actually lift a 400 lb TV by 1/2" sloped handholds. I'm the warehouse, we had forklifts and pallet jacks to handle that.

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    Comment #40764550

    I remember the KV-40XBR700. Those suckers were heavy. I worked at Circuit City in 2003 delivering those behemoths to customers until I dropped two in a single day (the handholds on…

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    Comment #39906854

    Been awhile since I've thought about FSR. Back in the day, I used to listen to WoW on repeat while putting far too many hours of my life into that game.

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    Comment #38875699

    I'm not sure that going for the candidates who are desperate enough is the winning strategy.

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    Comment #38850361

    Yup. The company I started with last year had layoffs. I wasn't impacted, but I didn't like how they were done. So I applied at a few places and accepted an offer at a new company …

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    Comment #38764517

    The answer is probably related to why a paid premium tier negates the value of an ad-supported free tier. A person who can't (or won't) afford the paid tier is probably not going t…

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    Comment #38521351

    Let me be the one to tell you not to look up tubgirl or meatspin. The turn-of-the millennium internet was a dirty place.

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    Comment #37886957

    Pretty sure if it was the American dream, it would be 7oz of chocolate.

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    Comment #34173226

    > it literally says 'we have a Filipino woman, who works for us'. It _literally_ does not say that. You added a comma which changes the expression.

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    Comment #31616300

    Invites weren't what got me hyped about Gmail. My Yahoo and Hotmail accounts had 2-5 MB storage limits at the time. Gmail offered a 1 GB storage limit. The idea that I'd never have…

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    Comment #28367275

    > The iPhone (or whatever phone you want) is the equivalent of a Walmart store. The major difference here is that while I don't own the Walmart store, I do own my phone. What is al…

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    Comment #25985447

    Back office system in the financial sector? You're probably looking at COBOL, although I know Caché gets used as well.

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    Comment #22574841

    I got zero ads when I opened it. I'm using Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger extensions.