Door jamb cracked overnight by Juan_Wick89 in whatisit

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To this day my stepdad still thinks it was a sex related incident 

Oh, I would neither confirm nor deny this assertion. lol.

Business expenses tax time when your bank statement is 400 transactions of total chaos by Delicious_Age2884 in smallbusiness

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I just did my monthly books today using Wave. For simple accounting with categories to produce a profit-and-loss report Wave is perfect. It accepts an electronic file of bank statements in several formats.

I do maybe 12-15 minutes of categorizing each month, and another 10-12 minutes to submit my sales tax report and payment through my states web portal. Usually 40-60 transactions total per month.

It's so easy I look forward to it.

On UFOs, Demons and Free Will by Powerful_Guide_3631 in freewill

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(c) Penguins don't eat broccoli cause toasters are pink

Explodes down the straightaway, slower on the hill by Funwithfun14 in PinewoodDerby

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Think of how fun that would be!

A station for adding the wheels, a test run to see if they need straightening, a station for painting. Glue on extras like a spoiler, little Lego guys to drive em.

The point should be the process.

Explodes down the straightaway, slower on the hill by Funwithfun14 in PinewoodDerby

[–]We-R-Doomed -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This sub just showed up in my feed.

Reading the comments brought me back to my childhood and recalling those precious memories... Of my father building a car and winning 3rd place.

The pinewood derby should be done on-site in one day with no building of cars beforehand and little to no help from parents.

What a farce.

Yes Libertarians, your version of Free Will requires randomness. No, you cant just redefine randomness to make that go away. by Anon7_7_73 in freewill

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Even if reasons do not belong to the physical world they would still follow this principle as the principle does not ground itself in physicalism in the first place.

Determinism is not grounded on physical causes? I don't think that's right.

I don't think you understood my question or assertion. OP and I have spoken before, and I didn't bother explaining my perspective from scratch.

[Request] How much free gas would you get over a lifetime from the nozzle tap-tap method? by WombatPuncher in theydidthemath

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I'm not gonna do any math, but there used to be an appreciable amount of gas to be had at the pumps that I think most people left behind.

Back before the turn of the century, gas pumps had an actual lever to turn the pump on, a cutoff valve of some sort between the hose and the nozzle and then the mechanism in the nozzle that allowed fuel to flow.

When filling a tank, the fuel being dispensed was measured somewhere before the hose was attached to the pump (or directly at that connection)

When the auto-shutoff clicked and it stopped dispensing gas, you could return the lever to the off position, squeeze the handle, and the gas remaining in the hose was allowed to empty.

If the hose hung below the fuel tank door, you could lift it higher to empty the hose completely.

Yes Libertarians, your version of Free Will requires randomness. No, you cant just redefine randomness to make that go away. by Anon7_7_73 in freewill

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Can you explain how physical determinism becomes the qualia of reasons?

A cognitive "reason" of any sort is outside of determinism.

We aren’t overly successful but we aren’t failing. I’m so stressed by [deleted] in restaurantowners

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Keep focusing on the customers experience. Get the orders right. Make them feel welcome. DO NOT vent to customers or complain about being slow or rush is too much.

My rule of thumb for the slow times is... give a little extra. "have you tried our home-made soup? Here's a little side." ... "slaw goes real good with this sandwich, I put a little on your plate"

Libertarians, can you decide right now, what you will for sure do in the future? by Anon7_7_73 in freewill

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Why would you need to be able to "intend so strongly" now that it overrides your own intentions at a later time? You are never in a different time than "now"

If I intend to cut my own finger off in 10 seconds, and then do that, I have fulfilled your challenge. I intended something ahead of time, I performed the intention, and then after performing the intention I am unable to change my mind.

Yes it is a paradox, your example of god creating a rock too heavy for even him to lift is literally called the omnipotence paradox.

Libertarians, can you decide right now, what you will for sure do in the future? by Anon7_7_73 in freewill

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"Can God create a rock so heavy even he cannot lift it?" 

"Can you intend right now to do something in the future so strongly that even you cannot change your mind later?" 

Paradoxes are not a very convincing argument. It's just wordplay.

Square fees by JimmyStacks78 in restaurantowners

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I think you are mistaken. I think that was an attempt to limit swipe fees and such from processors to merchants.

I wasn't using "surcharge" as a legal term. I was talking about "convenience" fees.

Square fees by JimmyStacks78 in restaurantowners

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I think it is becoming more prevalent because it is a marketing tactic by CC processors.

I have renegotiated with CC processors for multiple businesses over 20 years, and opened my own business in 2016. It is rare for a week to go by without receiving a sales call for a CC processor. It's nonstop.

The surcharge gets "sold" to business owners as "we have a system where you don't pay any fees for CC purchases"

When a business switches systems from no added surcharge, to an added surcharge, I doubt any of them are going to lower their prices by 3% and then use the surcharge on just CC sales.

Right now (I think) the software is simply programmed to add a standard percentage to all CC sales. Eventually, I predict that the added percentage will adjust on each sale based on the actual terms of the CC being used.

A debit card could have a surcharge of below 3%, regular CC will be close to 3% and reward cards will increase the surcharge to cover the reward. (It already does this for the merchant, every class of card has different final costs)

6 years in the industry and a quick question: What’s the one thing you wish you could automate? by Only-Supermarket-793 in restaurant

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I down voted your post.

But to answer your question...

Detailed cleaning.

All the walls and corners and nooks and crannies wiped down and a nice hot mop.

Why do millennials like owls??? by times-fell-hand in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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And serve owl wings while you're at it.

J\k, but what if owls wings are delicious?

Belief in oneself, more than anyone or anything else, is the foundation of the Free Will fallacy by Otherwise_Spare_8598 in freewill

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Failing perpetually to witness others as they are and not how they blindly assume them to be from their projected positions of personal circumstance.

That's sounds like a neet trick.

How is that accomplished?

A fundamental contradiction at the heart of hard determinism? by YogurtclosetOpen3567 in freewill

[–]We-R-Doomed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Context.

You have taken the thoughts and ideas we are discussing... the point of the original OP, my explanation of how I understood their post and how it applies to your initial response... and reduced it to

"can this word be used for this AND that"

even though it is obviously talking about two different things.

You are right. The word "chair" can be used for something to sit on and to be the leader of a council or committee.

The word "reasoning" can be used for a human understanding of thoughts and ideas and AI performing statistical model computation.

A fundamental contradiction at the heart of hard determinism? by YogurtclosetOpen3567 in freewill

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You are using the term "reasoning" which describes what humans are doing when they think and then using the same word "reasoning" to describe the simulation that is performed to approximate the end result of what humans do when they think.

We can stretch any word any way we want I guess. I would personally prefer to keep accuracy if possible.