MrMorden

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by MrMorden 8y ago
Bryce. The Ambrosia Software games (Handsome Harry, the Escape Velocity series, ...).
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FrameMaker is still a thing, but it's very targeted now (and no longer cross-platform).
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adafruit.com doesn't load resources from external sites that don't obey DNT (e.g. YouTube) without an explicit user action.
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“Are—are you with the Friends of Sleep?” she asks hoarsely. “I told you, we’re from the govern—” Agent Jones begins, just as Agent Smith says, “Yes.” Agent Jones clears his throat. “We are the Friends of the Lord of Sleep, and we’re from th
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This business model would have a problem with Maryland's all-payer system—hospitals are only allowed one price list; they can't give any individual insurer their own schedule. Of course, being a reasonable idea means it's ill
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Amazon is moving their own systems off Oracle; I don't see anything in those stories about Amazon ending AWS customers' Oracle deployments.
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I can't speak for other governments, but the US feds use contractors for most facilities work, not direct employees.
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The current locality rate for the DC-ish area (which actually goes halfway to Wilmington and Richmond) is 28.22%; thus, a GS-12-05 salary is $72k in a low-cost-of-living area and $92k in DC. The Federal Salary Council's recommended loc
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Amazon's big draw for someone currently doing cleared work is being able to ditch the clearance without taking a pay cut or moving. The people who want to work for Amazon and keep the clearance have already made that move.
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There are two equitable solutions: either allow everyone to opt-out of Social Security, or allow no one to. The second is closer to the system we have now; the first would require major changes (subsidizing retirement for low-income workers
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Directive 96/9/EC, perhaps? https://eur-lex.europa.eu/lexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...
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Whoops... missed the link to the article for some reason and thought it was a question? I must be under-caffeinated; pls ignore kthx.
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Goods/services purchased from a business? Given the fees for completing a Bitcoin transaction, I'd say no unless you start getting into at least mid three-figures USD. (That's not counting any fees to convert fiat into BTC.)
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And many states prohibit polygraphs for all private-sector employers.
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Hanssen never took a polygraph; Ames took many and passed them all. If there's even a single spy who was caught because of the polygraph, neither the US nor any other government using them has said so.
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I really want to believe that polygraphs are just used as an interrogation tool and not as a substitute for the SSBI. But the FBI gave Nada Nadim Prouty an SCI clearance even though she wasn't even lawfully present in the US, let alone
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I'd describe Google's interaction with applicants as more average than dismal. Ghosting is far more common than you'd think (hence the recent stories about employees ghosting back twice as hard), and if you want utterly cluel
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Herbert Hoover (and Lou Hoover)'s translation of De Re Metallica is still both useful and in print a century later. http://store.doverpublications.com/0486600068.html
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The executives who think good developers are "expensive" are generally happy to throw gobs of money at BPO firms to do the job half as well as in-house staff for twice as much money. Besides which, an employee with a fully-loaded
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by MrMorden 8y ago
But until the government starts breaking them up, "too big to fail" will be the goal of every large financial firm.
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Just as well this article doesn't contain a technique for locally making P=NP. I've never trusted Vidona, and I never will.
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Or, in the case of Mr. Levenson from the article's first paragraph, break the rules entirely. https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.122a.4?ven=William_Davidson_...
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It's not even remotely true that "[o]nly the most necessary jobs are done" on Sunday; restaurants have no restrictions whatsoever, just to pick one example.
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If your employees can get a 10%+ raise by switching employers, but nothing by staying, what exactly is the purpose of advancing inside the organization?
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Or because your company has a policy of not putting anything in production without a signed license and/or current support contract. (See e.g. SQLite which is public-domain but if you want a commercial license anyway they'll sell
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The current MINIs' size is, for the most part, dictated by safety requirements. They don't sell as well as large cars because they're BMWs and are priced accordingly. Kei cars (which are similar in size to the classic Mini) d
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That could be because for the really expensive stuff they'll pay for you to be transported back to your home country, where your primary insurance will treat you.
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Every keyboard has an MCU. They used to be 8051s, but now ARM (or PIC or AVR) is more likely.
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In a sane universe, both of these things would not be true.
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Dell and Lenovo both come to you if you choose the right warranty plan. It beats the heck out of the Genius Bar.

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