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Never understood it.. I know it sounds dumb.. But fb tied to a person. Instagram not necessarily..

Anyway.. My adult kids will decide when to migrate off FB.. And we will follow

Give me a photo sharing site that my kids use and I'm gone from FB.

Has to be easy-peasy. Clip save pics. No cloud crap. Open and see the latest post. See others' comments. End

<never have been Oswald. It convinced me.

If you ever go to Dallas visit the Sixth Floor (jfk.org). A 30min - 2 hour visit. Stand near where oswald stood. Talk to employee/volunteers about jfk the movie and other theories.

It's moving and if you were alive in '63 a place you recognize

My comment was totally anecdotal from a big data insider who said cvs is already extremely concerned drones remove store visits..

Cvs big fear is drone delivery.

Amazon will solve last mile.

Doug Mcmillon said Wal-Mart reached total maximum employment (sry cant find quote) as in no net increase in associates.

He also points out when a "job goes away." often referring to improved convenience for the customer. (i.e. pick up towers)

Robots will always be experimented with..

Yea it does...and people often forget to pick it up

Here is what many do.

Week or 2 before Christmas tape a card/envelope to your door. One marked "UPS" and the other "USPS"

(my town USPS delivers most Amazon like dog food and UPS delivers heavier Amazon packages)

Tips are optional.

Often, people who came up from the working class tip because they recall crappy pay, poor conditions etc when they started and appreciate my hard work with a tip. Others do not look at it that way and have your own thinking.

Im okay with either. I get it. Many of my patrons are unemployed due to retirement, living off interest and savings. They all tip. The young up-and-commers hardly tip. I think it's because the young had a different kind of life (ie easier) than the older retired generation.

A. Cash B. Cash C. Cash

No dunkin, please. No bottles of wine, please. No home made cookies, please. No gift cards, please.

Cash is best and greatly appreciated.

Look at it this way... If everyone gives cash it is a nice stash. (only 43% tip me and i bust my butt)

Having 10 $5-15 dunkin cards (the most i had one year was $135 Dunkin. And i don't even like dunkin!) cant buy your spouse a nice christmas gift

How much? My range is $5-$400. $35 is a sound number

I got a small route (all residential) and have delivered over 15,000 parcels ytd. Less than half is Amazon but Amazon is by far the most

Edit: if u are wondering.. Stay at home new mother (now "new" 2+ yrs ago) is absolute gold. Locked into ultimate convenience. 2-3 packages a day.

Wont trust Amazon Fresh. Tried once. Never again

There are a few on my route that would embrace this. They are Amazon addicts. Over 550 parcel deliveries a year. Trust has been won by Amazon.

The Minot toxic spill and senator Dorgan's outrage is appropriate

" When a train derailment in the middle of the night released a frightening cloud of anhydrous ammonia, Minot police sought to notify the citizenry of the crisis. They called KCJB, the station designated as the local emergency broadcaster, but no one was home; the station was being run by computer, automatically passing along Clear Channel programming from another city.

Clear Channel argues that only a technical glitch prevented word from getting through. But glitches aside, the six stations now have only one news employee among them."

Radio is key in disasters. Why do this?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/20...

Yes.. but my thinking was not that that so much as the level of effort to research any topic.

Say, for example, you wanted to know how your representative voted. Or, you wanted to see how other universities planned for the March on DC January 20? Or, you simply wanted to know the preamble to the Constitution (which we now have on our phone but I know my family didn't have that at home).

Oh how the internet has changed things. We are so much better off now than we were back then. Information then was totally controlled by the network and newspapers. No such thing as mass optional news sources. Like blogs. Or videos. Or direct contact with author.

This poster time warped me. Recalling my father saying while at the wheel of our Impala, "Look at that girl," to upset my older sibling. The boy had long hair like in the picture.

Teens and young adults died in a war. The news machine was all citizens had. I suppose you could say it was all fake news to some point but we never new any different. The draft was a ticket to potential death.

Now, anyone with a keyboard can publish anything and anyone with a phone can read it. No more Walter Cronkite or NYTimes to dish out news in a manner they believed was fit.

Growing up in a midwestern university town life meant you believed your happily married parents; They were conservative. Voices that disagreed had to be sought out. And it was very hard to do so. Like if you really didn't believe in the war or wanted to learn more. Where could you get it? Look, Life, Time, Newsweek? The Library? All forces with editors.

Now, we don't need them. We have Facebook to get others' thoughts; we have email to direct connect; we have web pages of groups positions; we can meet virtually. Want to know history, Google is my personal librarian.

Paywall

Grad students aren't grad students forever, right? So it must be darn hard to have union membership turn over.

Grads today in the union will leave in a few years and not stay decades.

Unions i know work when lives in the same job are represented. And contracts last 4-6 yrs.

Not sure i see a chance for long term benefit.

Do you manage time so that there is planned downtime? Like no moderating weekends or 8/40/5? Or is it a mostly 24/7 look-at-all-new-posts thing

I never gave thought to the moderator position till this analysis.

I wonder if it is a full time job. Do other sites have full time moderators?

Moderators are needed, of course and im glad i am not one. But i can only imagine how much of a burn out job with little satisfaction it must be. Like data entry jobs in the past.

To compare and contrast, if you are a construction worker making residential housing, you and see its effect on people and humanity. Year after year and perhaps decade after decade you can drive by and know your work helped a family. Yet the effort of a moderator goes away within hours and is hard (for me) to see the long lasting value.

This write up helped me think about a topic i never thought of before. Thanks

(HN moderators: i know u make this site a good read. Thanks)

"If we don't have it, you don't need it." manager or w. Paris ME DG told me.

DG was closest anything 17 minutes from vacation home

I think about ebay. No other place to search (learn/discover) used collectable stuff, like maps

A far as buy it now, that is a "wish" price for collectable stuff we buy. Everyone knows the real bidding starts with 2 minutes left in the auction.

Where else is there? When craigslist could search every city - that was the closest.

This seems to be the norm for us; VRBO a very nice place with a lousy mattress.

We buy a $100 foam in the box mattress (at walmart.com), pick it up at nearest store and put it in top of existing one

Then we say to owner your mattress is awful.. We won't review it that way..(they are very appreciative)

Next time we rent there there is a new non-foam mattress

Curiosity gets people to open mail. Postcards work too. Large ones like Chewy (works like "dialing for new customers" champion).

Not too many UPS flats go through the US mail, but they look important and curious.

My experience with direct mailers from several ends makes me never to really trust numbers.

<mistakes a human never would

A great line! Have to keep that top of mind reading anything online

But G has no Murrow-esque anything and i think its unrealistic and unfair to expext it can.

G is simply a live canvas where everybody splatters paint and people walk by the gallery at different times seeing different things

I dont know if i could disagree with the author more.

They didn't fail me. I don't want or need to know about shootings, crashes, floods, etc. Not instantly, anyway. I did not seek news in las vegas: I avoid it.

If anything the previous news gatekeepers got us used to believing that if we dont stop everything we are somehow uncaring. So plane crashes, shootings etc hold a "insta-pass" to news. All hands on deck approach.

To me, the authors premise of FB and G as bad gatekeepers is wrong. Information is hardly ever right right away. Nobody i know expects that. Even with that, i believe people know the difference between a photo sharing site, a email and search/map site and a news organization.

When you have been married decades, for me, this article has "historical" relevance. As in our past.

I would not say it's a gender thing though

Everything became clear to us once "we were at the head of the table." when both sets of parents died.

Our greater understanding of each other gained clarity when we were parentless.

I just saw on a catalog the 20 or 25th anniversary of a certain Bic pen. It was on the cover page

I thought it signified some milestone in printing where component pieces combimed with easy logo/name printing changed the logo game

Thus, more pens made with plastic (rubbery) grips had to do with manufacturing

Now i am enlightened

A good read. What about very stable high paying non-tech jobs in very techicnal companies? That is the advice i looked for.

Sales/marketing, finance, investor relations, training/ hr, event planning, etc

For me back 25 years ago, the thought of being in my 40s & 50s learning the latest version was tiring.

CEOs back then came from finance or marketing.

I accidentally rode an elevator mr gates was in. Just me, him and an EA from exec area

He was carrying a laptop. No case.

It was well before cell phone ubiquity and way before smartphones.

I thought "wow, the richest man carries an unprotected laptop, no briefcase, his hair even uncombed (probably because he just came from heliport)"

I felt "LC" because i cared about a celebrity (and even noted my diary).

Later, the parking guard said it was to be a low key meeting. We all speculated and believe it had to do with using unused bandwith?during overnight hours...

I still feel LC because i read the article...

Piggly wiggly retail story always surprises me as much as the first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise was in Utah!

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700217162/Story-of-first...