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by Spoom 4y ago
Or calling them this time, immediately, and mentioning "belligerent parents" who "may be intoxicated". CPS starts up a file on you and now you have a lot of people looking into your house, kids, and family. Maybe the
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by Spoom 4y ago
Ontario is worse than most places because, at least as of a couple of years ago, they send all alerts as Presidential alerts, meaning they can't be turned off at all.
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by Spoom 4y ago
> A lot of companies are hiring right now, and for fresh-out-of-college grads, the requirements are pretty basic and basically cover the schoolwork. And as a result, they receive hundreds or thousands of nigh-identical applicants. If yo
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by Spoom 4y ago
They've made moves that telegraph limiting this. There are now warnings every time you run a sideloaded app that doing so for reasons other than active development is against the terms of service.
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by Spoom 4y ago
"Prisoner #582954, your one year sentence has been completed. Do you currently have confirmed evidence of housing that is available to you immediately?" "...No?" "Prisoner #582954, you are under arrest for the crim
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by Spoom 4y ago
Maybe you've never had a project manager whose whims change with the wind, and interrupts the sprint to add yet another high priority bug in the middle that absolutely-needs-attention-right-fing-now... every sprint. Scrum tries to s
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by Spoom 4y ago
And the worst outcome is that parody is no longer protected under the First Amendment unless it is explicitly disclaimed. I fear that we may see that ruling come through.
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by Spoom 4y ago
Highly recommend reading the brief. It's actually pretty hilarious.
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by Spoom 4y ago
I agree with sibling comments that you should talk to a therapist about this. My layperson understanding is that this seems like depression, but obviously take that with a grain of salt. If it is depression, there are a number of ways forw
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by Spoom 4y ago
As a manager of a distributed team at a non-central office in a large company, this is most of my day. Yet, I still need to be in the office three days a week...
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by Spoom 4y ago
Revature is well known and generally advised against in r/cscareerquestions as they come up regularly. There are unfortunately a few companies with this model now.
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by Spoom 4y ago
Force hospital to provide care for indigents -> hospital raises prices for everyone to cover -> same effect as a tax. I'd much rather just be up front about it.
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by Spoom 4y ago
I hope Nintendo is ready for the refund requests.
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by Spoom 4y ago
(February 23, 2022)
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by Spoom 4y ago
FWIW the calorie counting model has worked well for me where others have failed. Anecdata, of course. But counting calories, as well as making some general, loosely-held shifts of what I eat (near zero liquid calories, minimize sugar, mor
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by Spoom 4y ago
No worries, inevitably whatever framework you're using right now will be deprecated and replaced within a few years anyway.
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by Spoom 4y ago
One of which, to his credit, appears to have been Pence himself.
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by Spoom 4y ago
As others have said, true movement and turning is an option in a good number of games. Having tried it myself, I won't do it again. I had a headache that lasted several hours as a result. Honestly, I was surprised how much it affect
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by Spoom 4y ago
You say "tours of service", I say "perma-temp", because that's what companies would do to make this a thing. Add a mandatory six month unpaid vacation (to keep up the legal fiction of them not being employees) and
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by Spoom 4y ago
I'm seeing more companies terminate accounts immediately upon cancellation, especially for free trials. This makes people back out of cancellation while it's on their mind, and then they forget to cancel before the deadline. It&
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by Spoom 4y ago
Imagine Bell was down too. What then? I really hope this results in the CRTC starting to allow more competition. I hope, but I'm not optimistic.
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by Spoom 4y ago
There are plenty of laws where intention does not matter. Why would this be any different? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal)
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by Spoom 4y ago
I bet these places will start to threaten folks now that their state likely lets them. "Well, now that we have your data, we'll track you since births are public knowledge. If we don't see a birth, we'll turn it over to
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by Spoom 4y ago
I get the impression that a lot of gynecological care is in the same realm, but I don't have the equipment to have first hand anecdotal evidence. Heard many a horror story about IUD placement / removal, where folks were told that
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by Spoom 4y ago
> Okay, would there have been an outrage if it "only" cost $1000 to full gear-up in the game? Yes, since AAA games are typically $60 - $70. The amount here just highlights that they have no real ceiling to the amount of money
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by Spoom 4y ago
Just be very careful in the third party realm of the store. There have been a lot more "free to play" games released recently on Switch.
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by Spoom 4y ago
Google | Full Stack Web Developers | Mountain View, Pittsburgh, NYC, Atlanta, Boulder, Playa Vista, Chicago | ONSITE | VISA | Full-time https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/136944374823953094-w... Seeking exper
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by Spoom 4y ago
That's the engineering argument. The societal expectation, however, is that it's 100% better than human drivers, as in, it must not cause harm, ever. The reality is that the vast majority of folks won't accept autonomous ve
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by Spoom 4y ago
Can confirm based on my experiences with lower income folks. It's incredibly difficult to do things the "right way".
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by Spoom 4y ago
It was invented by Twitter as a code for "you're exceeding our rate limits" and just sorta stuck. Less cool companies use 429.

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