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by KMag 3y ago
Back around the turn of the millennium, there was a company called AllAdvantage. They paid you to install spyware/ad injection software and watch you browse, and sold the add space and analytics to corporations. They'd pay you f
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Presumably, the allegations were during his second marriage. This letter was to his first wife. If the love of my life were to be cut down in the prime of her life, I imagine I'd be emotionally scarred for life. Sure, I'd make e
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by KMag 3y ago
"But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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The Kowloon District is much bigger than the (former) Kowloon Walled City.
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> Start spreading rumors that Apple Card savings is about to be insolvent and get everyone to withdraw their money. That they hate. Ask Silicon Valley Bank. You haven't stated, but seem to imply that the stated rumors would not be f
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I remember Bush got a lot of flak in the press over his attempts at partial privatization of Social Security, with a payroll tax going into named accounts invested in broad-based equity indexes. (The details differ substantially, but it wa
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by KMag 3y ago
If I were engineering a light gun from a blank slate, I would probably first try Nintendo's method and see if I could meet requirements that way. It seems less timing-dependent and faster to market. It may also reduce the differences
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Maybe it's not a good idea for the company. However, avoiding the echo chamber feedback loop in AI training data is absolutely a good idea for society.
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by KMag 3y ago
Based on my family's history, my guess is that success rates are generally higher for the first kids. My mom's side of the family is from East Friesland. My maternal grandfather was born in the US, but didn't speak any Engli
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Wasn't it the USPS that used to have much more complicated postage rates, until someone did the calculation that the extra employee hours required to calculate and enforce the system were more expensive than reduced revenue from just m
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by KMag 3y ago
Historically, many pensions were defined benefit, rather than defined contribution. Market risk (and benefit) fell upon the employer rather than the employee. My understanding is that defined benefit pensions are pretty rare these days.
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See also WOZ's SWEET16 for the Apple ][ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16
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In the US, it's a $2,000 tax credit per kid, so you effectively only get paid if your household income is high enough to owe federal income tax, and low enough that the 5% phase-out doesn't eat up the whole benefit. Also, it come
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by KMag 3y ago
It's going to be a rough retirement for you if population drops too quickly. Other people's children are going to need to provide labor to support your retirement. Even if you and all of your friends intend to die at your desks,
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People hear that 57% of households paid no federal income tax. They look at their own W-2s and see their combined Social Security tax and income tax withholding payments exceed their tax refund, and believe they've paid income tax. Th
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I'm with you. Half the time that I dismiss someone's statement as just hyperbole or a figure of speech, I later find out they were serious and seriously misinformed. I'd say it's probably 50/50 odds someone saying
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by KMag 3y ago
Though, at 40 F, you could have put on some socks, shoes, shorts and a t-shirt and sat outside, instead of peering out through the window in your underwear. Or, were you fully clothed and this was in Florida or something? (I half joke, but
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> monetary price is paid by the deeply ironic invention of dynamite by Alfred Nobel. Note that net-net, the invention of dynamite probably saved many lives. Nitroglycerin-based dynamite invented by Nobel isn't very useful for milit
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That doesn't prevent the problem of length limits encouraging users to break their programs into networks of smaller programs communicating over pipes. I'm sure that sort of thing can be done well, but it certainly takes discipli
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... and Van Halen's "5150" in the background?
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MRI?
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by KMag 3y ago
Can you explain a bit more how this worked? The food item harvested energy from the microwave, and modulated the leaked microwaves/transmitted its own signal to hijack nearby bluetooth audio devices to play audio ads?
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I'd also love to see the % of scoldings that miss an important subtle difference in the questions being asked.
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I've only ever heard "soap operas" or "soaps" in the Upper Midwest and East Coast. Let's blame Australia.
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Do any of you know if this just hides the UI, or actually prevents it and all of its components from using any resources other than disk space? Also, expect the registry key to change in a future release, "accidentally" re-enablin
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G'day, mate? (I've never heard the term "soapies". Is it Australian slang? Having lived a decade in Hong Kong, I got exposure to a fair amount of Australian slang, and this fits the character.)
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I think the GP was just ambiguous with their wording. I think they meant "I originally thought this was within our galaxy, but later discovered it was 22 million light-years away."
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Also, it makes it easier to append new files to an existing zip archive. No need to adjust an existing header (and potentially slide the whole archive around if the header size changes), just append the data and append a new footer.
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Exactly. Unauthenticated encryption increases the costs of pervasive dragnet surveillance at a minimal cost/hassle.
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But your complaint is about QUIC, not generic UDP. QUIC implements TCP-like flow control on top of UDP, designed to play well with TCP congestion control. QUIC does play well with others. It's just implemented in the userspace QUIC l

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