paypalcust83

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Comment · 6 years ago
The current best scientific guesstimate is that there is no panacea. A suite of lifestyle changes and maybe some medications would be the mostly likely way to increase quality of life until there's an amyloid removal technique or vaccine.
Comment · 6 years ago
SideCar (using the enabler trick) between a Mac mini (Late 2012) and an iPad Pro 10.5 was very laggy over USB. It wouldn't work over wireless. I'd rather try an app instead.

I've been trying the built-in screen sharing VNC, and that too is very laggy.

The Mac mini has tested fast (iperf3.. latency and bandwidth are good) over WiFi, so I think an app has the potential to be fast.

Comment · 6 years ago
I recently bought 4x WD HGST WUH721414ALE6L4 512e 14TB. The 4Kn's were the same price but on lengthy backorder/dropship from WD, so that wasn't going to work. Also, I absolutely refuse to buy the WD Gold (WD141KRYZ) that is effectively the same product but at a much higher price ($480 vs. $346). Marketing people can take a long walk from a short pier.
Comment · 6 years ago
No, it's intentional and with a goal. "Brave" in his overt disregard for the lives of others in the name of money. There is, as of yet, no vaccine and there is no cure, and the pandemic curve will restart and kill more people if reopening happens too soon. Lockdowns certainly aren't ideal, but they won't kill nearly as many people as horribly as hunkering-down for as long as possible and when the government should be doing more UBI to help people. Dying alone by drowning on a respirator is a terrible way to go.
Comment · 6 years ago
For-profit corporations without employee ownership and regular employees on the board of directors will inevitably treat employees like disposable cogs or dirt. The mistake many people repeatedly make is the line-up to be abused when they should form their own business ventures with civilized, humane, and Golden Rule treatment of others rather than rent-seeking investors to squeeze blood money out of them and cheat them out of livable wages.
Comment · 6 years ago
You're making some assumptions here and taking third-hand information as gospel. It depends on what "generous" means in fact, how much notice they were given, and their prospects or help to get other jobs in a job climate that is worse than the Great Depression. What if it were you?
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Comment · 6 years ago
HR departments will still require degrees. Dropping out won't change that. Either get a degree that is necessary for a desired job, or don't bother wasting time and money on any of it.
Comment · 6 years ago
Nope. An honest man of integrity already knows how to play the bagpipes and doesn't need to lie or name-drop to seem important. Bullshit is only appropriate to save the face or lives of others, or as entertainment amongst people already savvy enough to see through it.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's difficult or impossible for dual parent households working 2-3 minimum wage jobs each to have time to plant a garden or do anything else but drop dead asleep every 18 hours only to do it all over again the following day.
Comment · 6 years ago
When poverty or existence becomes a crime.
Comment · 6 years ago
And don't call it the "Spanish Flu," it's the "Kansas Flu."

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