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by asperous 5y ago
There’s a huge network of financial controls to prevent and detect this sort of thing, it’s one of the foundations of the fields of accounting. Often there are departments looking for fraud regularly. I suspect small or medium organizations
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by asperous 5y ago
Because they are professionals. Software engineers, lawyers, doctors... skilled people who have creative control often put pride into their work as a means of expressing their talent and enthusiasm, even if it doesn’t make a direct tangible
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by asperous 5y ago
Yes, you can go to a professional mental health therapist and receive CBT
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by asperous 5y ago
Whether or not it’s a science, applying the scientific method to psychology has uncovered extremely important findings in areas such as gender, personality, parenting and children, diversity, mental illness, work, marriage, and to a small e
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by asperous 5y ago
I doubt that high of a percentage is so paranoid or stubborn that they would quit over it. My guess is almost everyone will either get vaccinated or a medical exception, and then just complain about it in the office.
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by asperous 5y ago
MIT isn't a copyleft license, they are free to take it closed source and all future changes can be proprietary. What they aren't able to do is "change" the existing license, and for example, sue WinterCMS for forking the
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by asperous 5y ago
My issues with this are it's ageist and unequal, teenagers are people too. Many teenagers work harder and are smarter then many adults. It glosses over the fact that some teenagers sadly have to support children and adult parents as we
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by asperous 5y ago
At least with Mediatemple’s shared hosting, they had a “grid” service that would host your site on a cluster of servers and claimed to be able to handle large bursts of traffic. It worked because each page request ran a complete cgi php scr
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by asperous 5y ago
M2 is a better chart now since they added savings accounts in May 2020 making the M1 misleading and hard to follow. M2 is "M1 plus savings and time deposits, certificates of deposits, and money market funds". Washington post has a
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by asperous 5y ago
This what redis’s creator antirez suggests: “ the way I want to scale Redis is by improving the support for multiple Redis instances to be executed in the same host, especially via Redis Cluster” http://antirez.com/news&#x2F
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by asperous 5y ago
Unfortunately the government matrix for programmers underpays entry level positions. For example, here’s an open entry level programming job open right now: http://usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/599153100 But at l
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by asperous 5y ago
I believe the “real reason” to end the death penalty is that it’s so much more expensive the alternative [1]. If it doesn’t deter crime, and doesn’t save money, there’s really no point. [1] https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/polic
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by asperous 5y ago
I’m a Comcast customer and I don’t receive these at all. I just get “your bill is ready to view” and that’s it. Which makes me wonder what’s wrong with your account. Is it a regional thing where one comcast region is bugged? Do you have a d
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by asperous 5y ago
They didn’t prevent this specific hack so they are completely useless?
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by asperous 5y ago
The biggest difference is chocolatey is designed around admin installs. Even the command line tool needs to be run with admin rights. The advantage is things are installed the way Windows expects. Scoop, by contrast, keeps everything user l
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by asperous 5y ago
Plus it might be one of those things were once you have momentum there's a positive feedback loop. Top researchers may want to move to work with others in their field.
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by asperous 6y ago
1. Most valuable land have buildings or housing on it already so it’s kind of inseparable. 2. There’s plenty of reasons land can lose value: people moving away, economic, environmental (climate change), cultural changes. Population growth i
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by asperous 6y ago
Probably just through their HR service: https://www.upwork.com/i/payroll-client I didn’t see a HR person listed on staff, so it’s probably just easier to use a third party service to handle all of that.
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by asperous 6y ago
Employers generally do not have clear quantitive measures of employee performance [1]. With that in mind this informal survey is more likely gauging management’s perception of work performance... also during a highly unusual time. I’m not
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by asperous 6y ago
Although I do prefer the cmd setup, one thing to note is that the physical button on a Mac keyboard is 1.2-1.5x bigger. This makes it easier to press and less likely to miss. On windows with a windows keyboard, the lcontrol button is easier
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by asperous 6y ago
Yeah, instead of pulling the content it’s basically just putting the decision on the parents.
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by asperous 6y ago
Demonstrates what I've heard before as a warning about those cracking bounties. If someone is able to break it, is it more valuable for them to claim the reward or exploit it? Especially when the crack could be sold to or done by gove
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by asperous 6y ago
This is based on the narrative that IPOs are systematically underpriced and those able to participate walk away with gains as a rule. If IPOs are actually accurately priced or overpriced, then this doesn’t benefit customers in any way. With
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by asperous 6y ago
I think HN readers are interested in understanding how the world works. The article is a bit of a tabloid but it does have some insight.
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by asperous 6y ago
This makes sense to me, there is legal and cultural differences. China is a sovereign country, and Apple is just playing by the rules in that country, one that is rooted in authoritarianism and surveillance. In America, although companies c
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by asperous 6y ago
A little bit off topic but it is interesting that companies are shifting whole brands to fit in with other logos on home screens. The uniformity strikes me as very globalization, but I wonder if we will ever trend over to each company reall
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by asperous 6y ago
They may have to change it now since the fork, but before there was no problem since they were not trying to deceive customers, they were running elastic search. You can sell a Honda with after market parts and still say its a Honda. You ju
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by asperous 6y ago
There are actually quite a few of these sites: https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer There is a new chart of how the ranking of these sites have shifted over time: https://public.tableau.com&#
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by asperous 6y ago
Trying to piece together what the actual concerns are: * Mapping is not purely factual, some things can be mapped in different ways and corporations might map things that conflict with how normal people see them. Maybe an example would be d
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by asperous 6y ago
This is explained in the FAQS for Arrow, saying they use flatbuffers internally. Arrow supports more complex data types

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