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by bdunbar 14y ago
what does 'pax' mean? Passengers.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Why get rid of your credit cards? As long as you pay the balances in full every month, a modest selection of credit cards can easily lower your expenses by 3%, if not more. Why did I? Because it was too easy to use credit, not pay the bal
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I was not clear enough. My debit is visa and mastercard compatible. And no credit-card fees, I bank with a credit union. Were I foolish enough to pay money to spectate, I wouldn't even notice the VISA/Master Card thing.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
'In Free Market America, banks own YOU!' would be more appropriate. But wrong. Or at least 'they own the unwary and dumb'. I bank with a credit union, got rid of my credit cards in favor of debit, and working real hard to pay down my deb
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by bdunbar 14y ago
This is a problem with a solution: eschew credit for debit cards. Mine is 'visa-compatible' (and others), draws from my checking account.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
it takes something like 20 minutes anyway. Haw. The second time, yes. First time I changed a faucet it was an hours-long, two trip to the hardware store, job.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Specialization is good, it helps society move forward, don't fight it. Specialization is good. It can be taken too far. Put it this way: in America, in the 21st century, you can safely operate a motor vehicle without knowing even the mos
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Even if they'd kept 3 of the best and brightest they'd be hard pressed to keep up.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
This effectively makes it a right to own a firearm. Disagree. If the government _gives_ you something, it's not a right. It's just something they can take away from you when convenient.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Smart has the right number of syllables for the sentence I typed. Knowledgeable, too many.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I am not a hiring manager, but I am a guy without a college degree who works in IT. As mentioned elsewhere, it depends on what the equivalent experience is. But also consider this; Employers [1] look at a college degree as an indicator tha
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by bdunbar 14y ago
No, 'smart' is the right word.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Disagree. Depends on the meeting. If you're on a tight deadline, there are different workgroups involved, a quick meeting can .. Get all parties talking. Coordinate resources. Etc. Spend 10 minutes doing this, break until the next meeting,
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by bdunbar 14y ago
If this works on the level of a firm, would it work on the level of a whole society? If you can find enough people that take joy in working in your post-scarcity sewers, yes.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I would like to hear a good argument for why hidden files and folders are a good thing. They keep users from monkeying with stuff until they are smart enough to find the hidden files.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Of course anything can be better, but let's be realistic about what's broken and what isn't. Fine. But I'm going to hold on to my fantasy of wanting an app that does in bits what a secretary used to do in real life.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Bad analogies. Your car would fall apart long before it cranked up to a speed even approaching speed of light. It's not designed to do that - it's just a hunk of iron and plastic. Mail is 1s and 0s. There is no reason why we can't have in
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I feel it should be more than it is. A great deal of what comes into my mailbox are action items: Fix this. Attend this meeting. Do this by end of the week. Tell me what you think. Don't forget your appointment at the dentist. What shou
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I agree, but what politically viable solutions do you propose there? Note I was not speaking not just of American bad people but people everywhere. The intent of a thug in Boston isn't much concern to you, the intent of a Jo'berg (guessi
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Consider cars. Everyone drives. Yet only a small minority truly panic when something bad happens on the road. Most of us turn into a skid, slow down in wet conditions. Any road - absent something mind-bendingly drastic, I don't see more t
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by bdunbar 14y ago
You may be assuming that 'guns' are the only added factor. What appears to happen is that people who carry on a routine basis are more aware that they _are_ carrying and act accordingly. It's a theater. The good guys are in stadium seating
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I guess a lot of people (me included) would sleep better in a world that had less guns. Suggestion. It is not 'less guns' that should bother you, but the intent of the people who use them. Good guys with guns are not the problem - bad me
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by bdunbar 14y ago
The term assault rifle is laden with emotional and legal baggage in the US. Better to say 'rifle'. Which is what the shooter in Aurora had. What do I need a rifle for? Just because. They're fun to shoot. Because I like owning a few of t
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by bdunbar 14y ago
You might be simplifying the argument too much; I don't see it. The complexity (and expense) isn't Office or a database, but relationships between the various bits. Move it to Google ... the complexity doesn't go away. Might increase, depe
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Now if someone has my phone which is receiving my e-mails At work we have a policy that smart phones are locked by a PIN. No PIN, no email. This is not ideal: no mechanism to enforce 'good' PINs, force a user to change them on a regular
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by bdunbar 14y ago
when enterprise dries up By Enterprise you don't mean 'large companies that have 24/7 operations' because .. that category is not going away. What do you mean by 'dries up'?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Let's pretend Billy Bob is a heated rage Using a stereotyped redneck name is ugly. Next time use first letter of the alphabet, common name. Second person gets second letter, common name and so on. "Let's pretend Alice is a heated rage bec
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by bdunbar 14y ago
what if people with assault weapons were also outed in their neighborhoods? That would be fun. A list for criminals of 'houses not to rip off'. Also: list of houses to rip off with impunity. Would you be willing to share a wall with som
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I did not know that pervasive was synonym for 'took off'.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
There are a lot of guys out there that do this - are they lacking in some way that could be improved?

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