RHSeeger

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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> Even adults need protection, depending on circumstances I think the argument is that it's not protection. If someone won't lend to you at 25% (but they would at 27%), then you can't borrow. Is it protection to just preve
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Along the same lines, I see this a lot long delay = (5 * 60 * 1000); // 5 minutes, in millseconds And it's perfectly clear to me. Now, I think the comment is really helpful there (indicating intent), but I don't
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> I find it quite disturbing that high taxation is seen as a negative aspect of Europe. High tax rates and, in fact, ANY taxes area a negative. However, that negative is (hopefully) offset by the positives that the things those taxes go
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
I was talking about the domains under ccTLDs. The domains <something>.<country code> aren't "vanity domains", they're for a country to control. The country may rent them out to be used as a vanity domain, but
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> I certainly don’t think it’s a good idea to register a domain under a ccTLD for “vanity” purposes: because it makes a word, is the same as a file extension you like, or because it looks cool. Well, they're NOT vanity domains. They
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> And yeah I’m pretty sick of this framing. It’s an anecdote where employees are direct victims, and then the focus gets shifted to hypothetical and indirect victims (businesses). No, the focus gets shifted to > We need to make sure t
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> In the state of California, tips are a gratuity paid on top of minimum wage. This is also how it works in many other states, in Canada, and in many countries around the world. > So you earn $16/hr for all time you’re at work, p
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> we were required to give 10% of our tips to share with the back-of-house employees like bus boys The places I worked - busboys were not back-of-house employees; they were out on the floor helping take care of tables (bussing them, refi
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> The true crime is as always the impact on businesses It's hard to tell if you meant this as sarcasm or not, but... it really is a big deal. If all your competitors are screwing their employees in order to increase their margins, t
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
With the caveat that I moved away (due to work) a little under a decade ago... what you describe doesn't match my experience with NYC at all. Maybe back in the 80s, before it was cleaned up... but I was less frequently there back then.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> But somehow it's OK to pay a person less based on their location? At the end of the day, it winds up being a choice between - Pay someone based on their location - People in lower COL areas complain, but are (in theory) being paid
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> Nyc is the worst I love NYC. I don't mind going into Boston or such for the day, but there's nothing like NYC on east coast. It's fantastic.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Many of us are in situations where we get calls from various people we haven't had contact before (nurse at the child's school, parent's doctor, there's a lot of them) that should be answered immediately; waiting until l
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
I got bifocals for driving, so that I could read the gps when necessary. Turns out it's not really very useful because it's hard to "glance" that the gps and get it in the right area of my vision to use the "reading
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> Despite the name, heat pumps do not generate heat – they move heat from one place to another. Literally nothing about "pump" implies it generates heat. That being said... > In colder climates, an electric heat strip can be
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Which seems to indicate fairly clearly that, at least as far as time investment, 50 line PRs are objectively worse than 250-line PRs.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> the very high caliber of software that must be put forth to live on Apple hardware No offense, but... that's nowhere near the truth. There's a ton of horrible apps and scamware on their app store.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Admittedly, the time you know if a ISP is good or not isn't reached _until_ there's a problem. Because it's all about how they work with you to get it resolved.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
And what happens if they transfer money to you via debit online in real time, and then _that_ turns out to be fraudulent. Does the bank that paid the money to you get it back from your bank, or does it eat the cost? Note that, when we'
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> You can lay more of the burden on the upper middle and middle income deciles This seems like it just means everyone will pay whatever the highest cost for anyone is. Doesn't seem like it burden's the middle more than anyone e
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
In the US, it's possible to become overdrawn even if you wait for a check to clear. Assuming there is a check "writer" and a check "casher" - A portion of the check is made available to the casher (said to be "
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> Usage based billing isn't that hard. It's just less profitable. But, by that same logic, they should just be charging you by how much you watch. So it's no longer "don't charge them for the month they didn&#x27
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This is already a thing, and many companies and government agencies have been spending time and money on it for years. It is, indeed, a viable approach.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
This falls into the category of "effects their ability to perform their work" and (to some extent) "more harm than good" (because it impacts their ability to to do their work. And, in that case, it may be reasonable to n
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> Are you causing harm through your actions? 1. I would argue the bar should be "more harm then good", otherwise most of human activity would be banned. 2. Since you've given no compelling evidence that that is the case, y
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> But people-a husband and wife pleasuring each other? Intolerable! Exactly this. There are plenty of couples out there making videos of themselves having sex, and it's not my place (or anyone else's) to tell them they can&#x27
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There's many places where everyone on the call being recorded must consent.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
As someone who has IntelliJ open right now for some project work, and uses vi on a regular basis (but not skilled at it)... I use Emacs regularly. Literally, 5 minutes ago I opened a couple files in Emacs, right next to IntelliJ, because it
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
I'm making the assumption that they're _also_ still hiring, and that the people that were fired could, instead, be transitioned into other roles. I would be amazingly surprised if they were not still hiring.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
I seem to recall Google saying that they don't hire for a specific position; they hire good developers and then find the right position for them. This idea is directly countered by the act of firing developers in a specific position be

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