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841.
by amalcon 8y ago
Banks don't continue to represent assets on the balance sheet once they come to believe that those assets are without value. Or rather, if we find out they are doing this, they are subject to lawsuits like this one.
842.
by amalcon 8y ago
Re: employer, you can just make this illegal and let the police deal with it. Your boss can probably get in trouble with HR for even asking who you voted for (as it provides fodder for a later discrimination lawsuit), though you're fr
843.
by amalcon 8y ago
In a sense, yes. The argument would be that they're not really compelling you, because you don't need to park there. The city is allowed to make all kinds of crazy rules about who may park where and when on public roads. In anot
844.
by amalcon 8y ago
The best mechanism for that is old fashioned investigative work, e.g. in the North Carolina 9th district election. The worry is that, if everything works this way, some of the indicators used to discover this sort of thing are diluted. E
845.
by amalcon 8y ago
The author says that this is "why Rust is interesting". I've done a little bit with Rust -- no production code, but some simulations and things like that. While compile time memory safety was the first thing to interest me
846.
by amalcon 8y ago
Pedant: All fungal infections are antibiotic-resistant, because antibiotics kill bacteria. Antifungal-resistant fungi have long been a problem for anyone who spends time in hospitals, though.
847.
by amalcon 8y ago
I think the biggest problem here is that nobody can agree on the sort of information that they want to protect. Obviously everyone is fine with these organizations collecting their forum posts (this is the whole point). Likewise, few want
848.
by amalcon 8y ago
Demand for bandwidth has historically expanded to match the bandwidth available. Folks will find some use for it.
849.
by amalcon 8y ago
> Note that bicyclists and skateboarders also slow down busses, which are what lower income people use to get around. Bicyclists are substantially faster than downtown buses (due to stop frequency). It seems unlikely that they are slo
850.
by amalcon 8y ago
The problem is more that twilight is around 4:30PM from December through February, rather than the weather. Though I suppose this might be less of a worry if cycling infrastructure were safer.
851.
by amalcon 8y ago
It's true. It's actually very disconcerting how much less snow there usually is on the bike lane, than on the sidewalk it's built into. There are stretches where folks just walk in the bike lane, because the sidewalk is so
852.
by amalcon 8y ago
Most of the existing separated bike lanes are incorporated into the sidewalk, and therefore protected by the curb. There are a few that are "protected" by rows of parked cars or bolted-down pylons, but this would seem to not be l
853.
by amalcon 8y ago
This is what has happened so far. Retail business owners have... not been pleased (to put it mildly). Overall it's pretty clearly been a net gain, but there's definitely some short term pain there.
854.
by amalcon 8y ago
If it becomes a problem, they'll just ban them again. Students got by just fine twenty years ago, when phones were confiscated on sight.
855.
by amalcon 8y ago
That situation does not normally come up, because I stop trusting that site. If a page that just displays documents requires javascript to do so, then clearly the developers were not worthy of my trust. There are legitimate uses of javascr
856.
by amalcon 8y ago
Some do, and you're also going out of your way to require javascript from your site that just displays documents. The "modern web" is dramatically worse (slower, more compute intensive, less consistent, less secure) than the
857.
by amalcon 8y ago
It's kind of absurd that just using the web the way it was designed is now considered "catering to you".
858.
by amalcon 8y ago
It would reduce the number of vehicles if they let people take a bus or train in one direction, and taxi or rideshare in the other. I used to occasionally do this for groceries: bus to the supermarket, taxi back to avoid carrying everythin
859.
by amalcon 8y ago
At least the 1.0 version was very expensive. Roughly the same mass would cost twice as much. That would be one reason not to prefer it.
860.
by amalcon 8y ago
Per Wikipedia (and also this one time I was chatting with a Rabbi), the rule comes from a prohibition against ritual magic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_and_meat_in_Jewish_law#Ex...
861.
by amalcon 8y ago
A lot of the smaller shops just ignore the ban, though. It's still helped quite a bit, but it hasn't been complete.
862.
by amalcon 8y ago
I'm basically assuming five minutes to read the script, negligible time to change it, and another five to make sure it worked.
863.
by amalcon 8y ago
In this specific case (I have never encountered a proposal quite this bad), the correct answer is probably "Give me the proof of concept code and about ten minutes, and I'll give you a version that works despite the patch."
864.
by amalcon 8y ago
I've been Engineer Alice before (not with a security issue, but a pretty bad systems issue). In case anyone is ever in that situation, here are some more productive replacements for that existential sigh (in that they sometimes work).
865.
by amalcon 8y ago
From the release: > Our own review of hate figures and organizations – as defined by our Dangerous Individuals & Organizations policy – further revealed the overlap between white nationalism and separatism and white supremacy. It d
866.
by amalcon 8y ago
Why is that interesting? It's explained by the theories of both regulation proponents (industries that are dysfunctional get regulated) and opponents (industries that are regulated become dysfunctional). Therefore it wouldn't se
867.
by amalcon 8y ago
> With 33 out of the way, the only one left is 42. I know this is just a coincidence, but it's a rather poetic one.
868.
by amalcon 8y ago
There are definitely portions that can be delegated. I was doing interviews in the first month of my first job out of college. The trick is to do pairs: one person who's new to it, and one person who's had plenty of practice.
869.
by amalcon 8y ago
It still drops if snow is cleared, or if the bike lane doesn't exist in the first place. Freezing temperatures and 4PM twilight will do that.
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by amalcon 8y ago
I've always thought cities with a snowy season would be great candidates for bike lanes. Bicycling drops dramatically in the winter, so the bike lanes sit mostly unused. This makes them a good place to deposit excess snow.

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