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The median working American earns something like 60k. Part time working adults are around 24k. People might not have 20k in the bank, but if most are doing a part-time employment's…

> I don't want to hire out a cleaning service and deal with the whole human component. I've used on in the past, but I found that I was routinely dissatisfied with how they were do…

Eh, I'm a pretty social and outgoing guy. I think its fair to have some reservations about people in one's own home. I'll admit I'm slightly neurotic in my own household in that I …

I'm not sure. I think house cleaning/chores require at least a "part-time" job's work of work for the average household (especially with children). We may be atypical, but my partn…

I'm a very satisfied home assistant user, but I don't run much in the way of addons. Any you'd recommend?

Its hard to say what happened internally, but Biden could have stepped down in time for them to have a proper primary.

Agreed. When I was younger, talking to older (40+ year age gap) people was a bit of a minor shift in vocab or syntax, but I wouldn't call it a "code switch." If we have hit a point…

One could give themselves hyponatremia by overdrinking water, so might as well not have laws preventing children from buying alcohol.

I think both can be true. Most liberal western economies are highly individualistic in terms of form and law, but large firms naturally come into being and thrive. I guess one coul…

I had a similar question. I've been using fuse for years and have had almost no qualms with the data it returns after some light tuning.

> Whereas if they have two separate $1 charges, that reduces the loss somehow This is what is being questioned. I've spent several years working in merchant processing, and I've ne…

Schrödinger's refrigerator light.

> I think companies not prone to this are ones where their product is a technical one like cloud services where the business really is the engineering and engineering isn't a means…

> All of this textual information is defined in a JSON object I describe to GPT Do you get json back from chat gpt as well? Is this consistent? I hadn't really though about using i…

I think there is a crucial semantic disconnect here, that may be partially stemmed from how much heavy lifting the relatively new term "military industrial complex" is doing. I'm l…

I'd say that, colloquially at least (and maybe in a literary sense as well), the "military industrial complex" broadly covers the flow of money from a government and its military t…

I feel like I am and always have been a "day-to-day" optimist, but I struggle to apply that to larger, societal problems. Our impact on the environment is measurable and the impact…

> the reason why content creators get paid is because people buy shit they don't need, and AI will amplify this much more easily than humans Eh, I think this may be undervaluing th…

They give you really nice incremental builds out of the box, which are particularly easy to set up with gatsby cloud (the actual purchase here). Their abstractions are more opinion…

I switched to "vscode-restclient" about a year ago and never looked back. It has variables, everything is saved as text, and I can commit my request suite to source control for col…

I this true? Wouldn't the IRS have something to say about apartments being classified as a business expense when it is used as housing in addition to "office space?"

Our stories sound similar. I led a small corp and our whole play was to declare war on high-sec mining corporations (a formal war deceleration allowed one to avoid the wrath of the…

> Energy and material intensity of GDP is falling. Is this true globally, or just for specific economies? (My true quandary is probably evident:) Are those economies getting measur…

I've no experience with a Tesla, but Boston is a particularly unforgiving driving environment. I find it less stressful driving in NYC.

> what today will sound absurd in the future? The social acceptability of reliance on caffeine has always struck me as a bit odd. The effects aren't as stark, but I regularly have …