Declanomous

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by Declanomous 8y ago
I mean if I'm only going to read a book once I'm not going to spend $10 on it. The only books I buy are books I'd like to own so I can read them again in the future. If I'm paying $10 to read a book once that basically m
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by Declanomous 8y ago
I ripped all my CDs at one point, realized it was a pain in the ass, deleted all of them, and then redownloaded them from Oink.cd/What.cd. I stopped buying albums for a while, because I have a Google play music subscription, but a coup
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by Declanomous 8y ago
You don't own the book itself though, you own a license to the book. The doctrine of first sale does not apply, and they can revoke your license at any time. They have revoked licenses in the past and deleted books from people's d
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by Declanomous 8y ago
I think this is partly why "old money" isn't flashy like nouveau rich money. It's easier to blow a fortune than it is to make a fortune.
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by Declanomous 8y ago
I don't really think it is fair to include hardware in that list. It makes sense to memorialize the death of a hardware line, but it doesn't really make sense to memorialize every single piece of hardware. That's a bit like m
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by Declanomous 8y ago
I think using an employer-provided card is superior for a lot of reasons, but spending 5 figures on a personal card and being reimbursed for it doesn't sound bad as someone with an extremely high credit limit and rewards cards that giv
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by Declanomous 8y ago
I got chewed out when I expensed WiFi at a hotel once because "it seemed unlikely that I was using it for business." The funny thing is that I spent way less than everyone else on that trip, to the tune of maybe $400 over the cour
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by Declanomous 8y ago
"You'll never guess who I saw?" "Who?" "Elvis" "Elvis? The Elvis or a Elvis?" " The Elvis" The doesn't imply someone is inanimate, it just means that they are a specific one.
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Not to mention that if someone had several hours of CPR done to them they are almost certainly going to need to go to the hospital anyways. Not to mention the average person can only sustain effective CPR for a few minutes.
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by Declanomous 8y ago
That's nonsense. It's literally illegal to change your car so that it pollutes more. You don't need a second law making it illegal to modify any and all software to make sure that doesn't happen.
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by Declanomous 8y ago
How many people turn off their computer regularly? I suppose people with laptops probably do. I leave my computer on 24/7/365.
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by Declanomous 8y ago
I like the automatic cars that allow you to choose your gear using the stick. I have a 2010 Impreza, which has the god-awful 4EAT, but you can avoid a lot of the issues if you just downshift manually when you'd like to.
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by Declanomous 8y ago
I test drove a manual 2010 Impreza before I bought mine in automatic. The automatic has a 4EAT which sucks, but the clutch on the 5 speed would have sucked so bad in traffic. As one of my friends with the same car said "it's a hea
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Buying a cheese fondue is the most Swiss thing about this story. Cheese fondues were a fad in the US before I was born, and I know a lot of people's parent's who own them and use them maybe once every 5 years.
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by Declanomous 8y ago
That's how it is on my car, but at the same time my car basically has no fancy electronics. I understand software engineers pulling stunts like this, because there isn't actually a regulated engineering license, but I'd hones
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Most of my experience is with non-profit orgs, but unlike a lot of people in the NPO space I have a fair amount of for-profit experience. I think people who work for NPOs tend to burn out at even higher rates than people in for-profit orgs
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Well you can block them, it just means you lose advantages of a JWT, like not requiring a database hit.
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by Declanomous 8y ago
The US won WWII through superior logistics as much as anything else. The Japanese strike at Pearl Harbor was in recognition of the fact that they would lose any prolonged war with the US because of the manufacturing capacity that we possess
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by Declanomous 8y ago
It kind of looks like they are in a plains state somewhere. Having lived in the midwest nearly all my life, I can say with confidence that you are going to spend a lot of time waiting if you are waiting for a calm day. They probably just ma
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Commission typically isn't paid out until the company is paid in my experience. Bonuses are different, but some companies I work for actually tracked how many orders were actually fully paid for vs. how many were entered into the syste
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Eh, I really depends. I think softphones are great if you use the phone infrequently, or if you use the phone so often that you always have a headset on. If you use the phone a several times a day for really short periods using a softphone
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by Declanomous 8y ago
At my last job they replaced the POTS telephone system that had been around for 30 years with a new POE touchscreen phone. The backlight never dimmed and it occasionally showed an animation. I wrote an angry ticket about it after about 2 da
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by Declanomous 8y ago
I visited a friend who had moved to Europe when I was in high school. I was astounded when I learned that German apartments came with no appliances, and if I recall correctly, things like counters were also brought with. It makes sense if y
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by Declanomous 8y ago
A quick follow-up to this point. The exome, or coding region of the DNA is approximately 1% of the genome, so arguably the chances of a mutation randomly occurring in a coding region are 1/100 as probable as I suggested here. There are
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Not to say Chevy's are reliable, but they are definitely better than Chrysler. I don't understand brand loyalty with cars though. I can understand wanting to buy an American car, but even then it might make more sense to buy a for
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by Declanomous 8y ago
I majored in Biology, with a focus in genetics and computer science because I wanted to go into bioinformatics. I could literally write 30 pages about why what you wrote is incorrect, and it would take several orders of magnitude more time
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by Declanomous 8y ago
> Buying a Chrysler was a huge mistake One of my good friends is an automotive engineer. He's told me never to buy a Chrysler product, no matter what. That includes Jeep, Fiat, Dodge, Ram, etc. It's pretty bad when the people w
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Floating point inaccuracy in software someone built to trade?
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by Declanomous 8y ago
>Even if it were the case that each replication made the chromosomes smaller (personally I would guess that there is a non-zero probability of them not getting smaller and even a non-zero probability of them getting larger thanks to a mu
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by Declanomous 8y ago
I don't think you are accounting for the inevitable trip to the emergency room. Or galvanic corrosion.

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