Delmania

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by Delmania 8y ago
Absolutely not, that was a breeding ground for worse corruption that the current administration.
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by Delmania 8y ago
I found YNAB to align the most with how I think about budgeting. Zero-dollar, category based that only focuses on the amount of money you have now and not to worry about cash forecasting. However, your description sounds like you need a b
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by Delmania 8y ago
> While I am a single freelance developer, things wouldn't change much with a family. I disagree with this statement because this claims assumes you keep up to date on tax code changes. Getting married, buying a house, and having a
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by Delmania 8y ago
Something that's not specifically mentioned is that, as far as I can tell, the author is a single freelance developer. Most people don't need a bookkeeping system, a simple budget application is enough to handle personal finances
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by Delmania 9y ago
The last I checked, Microsoft doesn't create shadow profiles of people who don't have accounts. Nor does Microsoft make it hard to turn off privacy, or sell the data to research firms in an attempt to create profiles that be used
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by Delmania 9y ago
No, they didn't. They had some good ideas inspired by the Enlightenment and by Romanticism, but quite a few expressed the idea that the Constitution should be reviewed regularly and updated and adjusted for changing conditions. The i
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by Delmania 9y ago
The sentiment about the harms of long duration wars is echoed in the Art of War. When I read that book, I wonder if our politicians and military leaders have bothered to (not Trump or the Republicans, that much is obvious). Astute thinker
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by Delmania 9y ago
If anything, we need more gatekeepers like this that are shedding light on the dark money used for political advertising.
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by Delmania 9y ago
> You can disagree with the means of the war, but the intent was to help society and the people most vulnerable in society by eliminating drugs through force. Ha, ha, no it wasn't. It was started by Republicans to get people angry a
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Emulating the GameBoy CPU on .NET(ax-h.com)
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by Delmania 9y ago
I didn't really read any symbolism into this. I think it's more that it was a great mystery. The island is so out of the way the presence of a derelict lifeboat is going to intrigue people and motivate them to figure who was the
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by Delmania 9y ago
Yes, that's true. But how many times when they need to solve those problems are they placed in front of a whiteboard in a fairly high pressure situation? Wouldn't they rather have a chance to collaborate, think, research, and te
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by Delmania 9y ago
> How can you feel bored instead of guilty? Whenever I pause, I just feel bad about things undone. It's a bit cliche, but if you were to die soon, what things would you seek to finish before you die so you can die content? What do
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by Delmania 9y ago
He's got another set of courses on Coursera for deep learning, but that ML course still forms the foundation.
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by Delmania 9y ago
Note-taking and to-do apps, the entry level "I need to make a product" submission.
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by Delmania 9y ago
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/unhappy Also, there's a passage in Meditation by Marcus Aurelius I think would do you well. To paraphrase, if you turn your full attention to the present task, not worrying about the
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by Delmania 9y ago
I jokingly told my father-in-law he can get his full retirement now (he retired from Kodak as over 3 decades). I don't think I'll ever look at the Kodak tower again... The only benefit Kodak has done for it's hometown is fos
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by Delmania 9y ago
SEEKING WORK, Remote only: - .NET, Python, or JVM (Java/Kotlin) development. - Web development. - Mobile development. - Any other dev tasks in any language or technology, I'm flexible. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rober
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by Delmania 9y ago
I'd disagree the political left was interested in dialectical materialism or anything to do with communism. Most of them are interested in a society with elements of socialism (education, healthcare) and capitalism. The reason many o
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by Delmania 9y ago
> Most people won't have either 1 or 2 going for them. Not at first, no, but even Patrick had to start at zero, right? It's true that there's a lot more personal branding and content marketing going on, but that doesn&#x2
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by Delmania 9y ago
> We have plenty of tools to enforce a thing. We have existing legislation, and we have the power to enact new legislation. We have existing regulation, and we have the power to effect new regulation. We have voices, and we have votes. I
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by Delmania 9y ago
It's not ideology getting in the way, it's pure corruption. If the Republicans truly believed in free market competition, they would seek to end the agreements between ISPs and local governments that create monopolies. They woul
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by Delmania 9y ago
No, they haven't, not yet. There is lawsuit being filed by multiple state attorneys general stating alleging the FCC violated the Administrative Review Act, and there is reason to believe they have a strong case. During this whole pro
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by Delmania 9y ago
> On this one issue, it's possible they're even right. IF there was competition. However, the ISPs have sought to end that.
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by Delmania 9y ago
Here is the definition of arbitrary: "The term arbitrary describes a course of action or a decision that is not based on reason or judgment but on personal will or discretion without regard to rules or standards." Most of Pai&#x27
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by Delmania 9y ago
This would be a valid concern if, and only if, the growth of the bandwidth consumed by the streaming services exceeded the growth of the available bandwidth, which is not the case.
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by Delmania 9y ago
That's capricious, not arbitrary. If Pai wanted this to go by the book, he would have pushed the vote out until the investigations into the fraudulent comments was completed, at the least. Someone who was determined to see this go thr
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by Delmania 9y ago
It's "arbitrary" because Pai, on multiple occasions, indicated he will not take the comments into effect. Even after the reports of the faked comments, the calls to delay the vote by some senators, the faked DDoS attack, he
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by Delmania 9y ago
Administrative Review Act.
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by Delmania 9y ago
Yes, the intent is to let the public weigh in, help the committee make an informed decision as opposed to a capricious and arbitrary one. The decision is clearly arbitrary, as Pai has stated from the beginning he's going to do this, h

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