Haul4ss

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by Haul4ss 8y ago
In America, anything worth doing is worth overdoing. :) (I live here too, I'm just poking fun at our culture)
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by Haul4ss 8y ago
No it's not. You can be behind on payments without filing for bankruptcy. You can have a debt sent to collections without filing for bankruptcy. There are all sorts of cases where a person is not trustworthy with money that do not show
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by Haul4ss 8y ago
Earlier this year there was a good EconTalk episode[1] with the CEO of the Burning Man Project. I've never been to the festival, but I'm fascinated by the economic and logistical challenges of keeping the thing going (in contrast
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by Haul4ss 8y ago
> Also, you sound like the kind of person that would spread the positivity to others around them Well, I wasn't always, but I'm trying to be now! :)
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by Haul4ss 8y ago
"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with" -- Jim Rohn. It's not literally true, but it's a great way of thinking about who you surround yourself with and the subtle ways they influence you. I
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by Haul4ss 8y ago
CarMax is not the cheapest option, it never was. Their whole business model is to sell the car at a good-enough price, and to make the sale frictionless. And they've succeeded. Today they are the market leader, but as the article sugge
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
My wife also passed away unexpectedly in her sleep in 2016. My heart aches for Matt. I don't know him or his wife, but I know the feeling of being unmoored. In fact I've used that same word to describe it. I agree that people neve
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
You can exist in many American cities without a car. However, America is a gigantic land mass and we are spread over areas of very different population density. You may not need a car in NYC, but you need one if you live in the middle of Io
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
I do not believe that is a solid argument at all. A man in the 17th century would likely have to bury at least one of his children because of disease. The man himself might succumb early to painful illness or infection. If he needed to trav
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
I was hoping someone would mention being a pilot in this discussion. If you learn to fly, you will learn to follow checklists. Many, many checklists. A good instructor will tell you that while you do need to follow the checklists, it never
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
Except that you would know which account was the real Donald Trump, because Donald Trump would be on TV telling you so. Extremely well-known figures have other ways to let you know which account is theirs. The harder set of people are the s
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
People understand the platform better, no need to lure famous people to the site, there are other ways to verify (e.g., link to twitter account on web page), many more people across the spectrum of "famous" so it's hard to bu
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
Eh, I understand why it made sense to denote official accounts of well-known people and organizations in Twitter's early days, and also why it doesn't make sense anymore. The culture of the platform and the world it exists in have
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
Well considering you're doing it all by yourself, you are doing an awesome job! I look forward to each new interview. I like that you give the guests time to provide an in-depth answer without peppering them with too many questions. Wh
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
I've been subscribed to this podcast since his 2nd or 3rd episode. He's had some interesting guests. I think the podcast is a one-man show. He could probably use some help with mixing/production (and a new intro theme), but f
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
Gosh, I loved Eudora! I used it into the 2000s. Eventually was (forcibly) migrated to Outlook at work, and Gmail came along in 2004 to convert me off of desktop mail clients at home. Seeing the picture of that box brought back memories (suc
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
Smartphones have already killed off the casual camera market. I don't think Canon or Nikon would be willing to help Apple kill off the high-end camera market, too.
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
Innovis is usually an intermediary for financial institutions to check all three of your reports. If you've ever seen a hard check on your credit report from CBCINNOVIS, it's them. They're not one of the "big three"
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
There's no technical reason, but there are plenty of political ones. And since our government derives its power from the consent of the governed, if enough people don't want national IDs we won't have national IDs.
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
Something non-US folks don't always get about the US -- in a lot of ways, the US is more analogous to the EU than it is to any one country of Europe. That is to say, the US Government is the national entity, but quite a lot of power is
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
Upstate NY to greater DC area.
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
I'm like the opposite of this. By my mid-to-late 20s I was disillusioned with my job and career choice. I also felt trapped in my situation because there weren't a lot of choices for developers where I used to live. It took me a f
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
It is entirely possible Bing's market share is improving because Bing itself has improved.
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
I also remember LOAF - Linux on a Floppy I'm not sure I even have any floppy disks laying around, much less a drive to put them in!
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by Haul4ss 9y ago
But they do have to do something. In fact, they're constantly doing a whole bunch of somethings to keep people in their ecosystem. Apps. Messenger. Instagram. They didn't get that network by just being first(ish). They got it by c
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by Haul4ss 10y ago
What do you have against mandatory access control?
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by Haul4ss 10y ago
Because that's not Apple's business model? They did the licensing thing in the mid-90s. Mac clones were a thing. To license macOS means to support infinite hardware variations, and to rely on OEMs not to suck. It is an impossible
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by Haul4ss 10y ago
To be fair, in Jefferson's time newspapers were overt instruments of a political faction. You started a newspaper to spread your point of view. We have at least a veneer of nonpartisan purpose to the major newspapers of today, although
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by Haul4ss 10y ago
Is every intriguing headline called clickbait now? It's not like they said "9 great traps all Americans fall into. Number 3 will blow your mind!"
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by Haul4ss 10y ago
When Apple makes an iPad app to teach kids a programming language useful only in the Apple ecosystem, they're promoting STEM education. When Microsoft leverages a massively popular game to promote STEM education, they're weaponizi

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