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by breischl 13y ago
A few things I've done and/or seen done: * Keep the prod DBs in an isolated VPN that requires a separate login outside of the SQL client. Stay logged out of that except when you explicitly need production access. This keeps you fr
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by breischl 13y ago
So if you randomly bump into someone on the street who has more money than you, you give them half of whatever you've got? It's only a simulation insofar as people are governed by mindless rules and random chance, with no thought
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by breischl 13y ago
The redistribution rules strike me as being closer to a simulation of games of chance, perhaps blackjack when played with good strategy. If you have a big bankroll to start with, you can afford to ride out the bumps in the road so you'
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by breischl 13y ago
Much as I personally dislike Paris Hilton and the related series of celebrities (the Kardashians come to mind), I have to respect the business acumen. A lot of people have made sex tapes, some of them professionally, but very few have made
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by breischl 13y ago
Apparently you guys took this the wrong way. I don't personally hold the view that part-timers aren't as good. I'm planning to be one at some point, hence the question. My intended emphasis was on the full-time vs. part-time
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by breischl 13y ago
Ironically, my dad's advice to me was that college-level English is completely useless, maybe even counterproductive, and I'd be better off doing almost anything else with my time. He had a master's in English and made his li
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by breischl 13y ago
For people who are already doing part-time dev work, do you find that people are curious and/or suspicious about why you're doing it part time? ie, "If you're actually good at this, why aren't you a full time employ
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by breischl 13y ago
Certainly the duration and density of secondhand smoke matters, but I doubt that any amount of it is good. I can go dig up the research if you really care. To your particular example of being in a restaurant, the increasingly-popular ban on
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by breischl 13y ago
But at least with private insurance it's a voluntary contract between you and the company, and not a forced one between you and every other taxpayer in the country. While other members of your insurance group have a financial interest
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by breischl 13y ago
Once we've chosen to subsidize health care, then everyone has a financial interest in everyone else's behavior. I agree that it's a vile situation, but I tend to think it's a reason to avoid government-subsidized health
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by breischl 13y ago
I agree with your overall point. However, the implicit claim that there are no externalities to cigarette smoking is silly. There are clearly effects on everyone who might be nearby when you're smoking. In the event that you're co
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by breischl 13y ago
>>I've managed to open a lot of unlocked doors Me too! My success rate is over 90% for unlocked doors. Locked ones are harder. ;)
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by breischl 13y ago
I think the point is that there is no intrinsically "right" level of health care spending. Spending 50% of income on health care would surely require some trade-offs, but that might be worth it, at least to some people.
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by breischl 13y ago
The IRS does accept voluntary donations, but despite the rhetoric Mr Buffett has not actually given more to the government than he has to. So I'm a little skeptical of his claims. Also, part of the reason his secretary pays more is bec
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by breischl 13y ago
I don't disagree, but the problem is that writing laws is really damned hard. There is a lot of complexity in the real world, a whole lot of special cases to think about, and also a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money if t
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by breischl 13y ago
I see your point. The thing is, nobody trusts the government to spend their money well, or at least not as that person thinks it should be spent. Therefore everyone avoids taxes to the extent they can. I take every deduction I can, I bet yo
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by breischl 13y ago
1. Decide who you don't like. 2. Create a massive, retroactive tax on something they did. Make sure it's big enough that they can't possibly pay it. 3. Why stop at retroactive taxes? Add in retroactive penalties and fees for
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by breischl 13y ago
And bullets can be stopped by vests, or tank armor, or a sandbag, so we might as well just stop using those as well. It ups the ante for anyone that wants to fight the US. That's really the point. And I'm guessing that making your
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by breischl 13y ago
Unless you've got x-ray vision, it can be pretty difficult to verify the quality of work. Is there a proper footing under that wall? Is there gravel under that? Was the mortar mixed to the proper consistency? Is there a second course o
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by breischl 13y ago
That seems like a great opportunity! Put a big recycling bin right there, but before recycling the contents go through and catalog the mass marketing mail that was discarded without being read. Then sell that information back to the markete
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by breischl 13y ago
I think it would be more accurate to say they're getting a promise to pay back their investment with interest (the "bond-like" comment in the article), and also 10% of the company stock. It could turn out that the "bond&
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by breischl 13y ago
While I have no particular knowledge of the case, the FDA checks that services are safe and effective . Basically that the company isn't selling proverbial snake oil (or literal snake oil, I guess). Providing incorrect or misleading i
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by breischl 13y ago
Optional unless you work there, like the guy that got trampled in 2008. Sure, it doesn't really rate on the same scale as car accidents and cancer. On the other hand, this is entirely avoidable, and done for what many (myself included)
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by breischl 13y ago
Let's see, there are approximately 1.22 trillion US dollars in circulation [1], so that would amount to a massive .001% of outstanding dollars. It may not come from "nowhere", but neither is it such a massively huge amount of
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by breischl 13y ago
Yes, it's called a capital loss. A loss can be used to offset an equal amount of capital gain, or a small amount (up to $1500/year) of earned income. http://www.irs.gov/uac/Ten-Important-Facts-About-Capital-Ga
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by breischl 13y ago
Actually not, since that "right" hasn't been created yet. Which is just another indication that it's actually an entitlement rather than a right. Rights exist without government, governments merely recognize them. On the
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by breischl 13y ago
Interesting idea. I hope Switzerland does it so the rest of us can watch from the cheap seats and see how it works out. Human nature being what it is, there will still be some people who manage to wreck their own lives. The guaranteed incom
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by breischl 13y ago
I really wish people would quit declaring anything they want as a "universal human right." The real universals are things you naturally have that must be taken away from you. If you were the sole person on an island, you could spe
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by breischl 13y ago
The money did come from someone else in the first place, where it would almost certainly have been better-spent than on getting wasted. And you may just be enabling a substance abuse problem to continue and worsen. To put it another way, yo
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by breischl 13y ago
Yep, outside Des Moines. I don't have a reference for the rest of it, that was from conversations with MS employees. http://www.eweek.com/cloud/microsoft-parks-cloud-over-700m-i...

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