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jbigelow76

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    I used to leave porn downloading overnight over 56k in the mid 90s. Literal, delayed gratification.

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    Comment #37279545

    In home school, there is less people and more choice. Choice for whom, the student or the teacher? The teachers are the ones with the agendas, in all senses of the word.

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    Comment #37072116

    I am not convinced this is widespread behavior. How many does it take to be widespread (or more crucially, addressable) behavior, is it N+you? Yes, if I saw myself on social media …

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    Comment #37018163

    Both are also serial liars. The small mercy with Musk vis-a-vis Trump is that his nationality and shifting demographics of the United States (Republican efforts at voter suppressio…

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    Comment #37017891

    Reading stuff like this makes me think we are seeing Gen-X's version of Donald Trump, and it worries me.

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    Comment #36903986

    As a lifelong resident of the Dallas area (Garland, Richardson, Plano, Addison, Dallas, Sachse, back to Dallas, and now Allen), I think Cheesecake Factory is successfully splitting…

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    Comment #36903855

    Unrelated to the original article or referenced tweet, but still took a second glance to adjust to the X rebranding bullshit of twitter.

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    Comment #36903802

    >McCormack was part of the company’s major expansion in the ’90s, and went on to design for clients like MGM Resorts , BJ’s Restaurants, and Seasons 52. If you had to summarize Che…

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    Comment #36650038

    Every time this comes up on HN I end up watching a decent amount of the video, if someone were to ask you "what does 'evergreen' content mean?" pointing them at this video would be…

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    Comment #36546643

    I'm pouring one out for Apollo tonight, I tried the official Reddit app and it's hot garbage and the Reddit website is somehow worse. Mastodon and Lemmy are fine, but I'm old enoug…

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    Comment #36476381

    Yep, not a resident though. There seem to be a constant stream of articles about housing issues in the Bay Area, don't recall any attributing the issue to wind farms, but I'd be in…

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    Comment #36476271

    LOL, yeah, housing prices in the Texas (ex|sub)urbs are high because the wind farms are squeezing the home builders out. Where do you live again?

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    Comment #36318143

    I've never been a big reddit user but I increased my usage as Twitter devolved into what it is now, but now I'm going to have to find something else. I'll most likely start paying …

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    Comment #36305610

    Saw this comment and realized how long it had been since I listened to "Punk in Drublic", has to be at least 15 years. I immediately went to Scavenger Type but then to "Linoleum", …

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    Comment #35923397

    but in reality the biggest advertisers have come back and with her at the helm even more will. I would bet advertisers like Apple got a huge sweetheart deal. The majority of advert…

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    Comment #35869952

    I was hoping to get thirty thousand for my 1998 Honda Accord, but the best offer I got was four hundred bucks. Thanks for ruining the economy Work-From-Homers!

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    Comment #35847505

    If you aren't diabetic you could pay for something like Nutrisense or Levels to get enough monitors to cover about 2-3 months of activity, learn what triggers spikes, and then cut …

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    Comment #35798152

    This was super cool to click around on the various techniques and see the examples. (Questions/Thoughts) - I was looking to see if there was a Steadicam group, wondering if I would…

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    Comment #35653152

    Also there are services like levels or January.ai which white-label Abbott devices and handle all the prescription stuff for you. Levels ships the Dexcom G6 currently (they have an…

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    Comment #35645045

    No I haven't, I was using sarcasm, to indicate that I think the CEO is straight up lying about the anecdote and it's just something he is using as cover for the policy change.

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    Comment #35643762

    "They gave it a try and claimed they got robbed of 30 months salary." Fixed that for you. I do software development too, if opening my laptop was the only metric by which I was mea…

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    Comment #35575405

    Won't somebody think of the shareholders!?

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    Comment #35535030

    I don't know if it actually does, maybe in theory, we would assume these companies would be incentivized to optimize for speed and experience but you can't use "the exception that …