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by buck4roo 5y ago
> many services only support a single device (looking at you, AWS). We can (finally) take AWS off that list. I can say I was pleasantly surprised recently by being able to enroll multiple MFA Tokens and device types, for a single IAM SSO
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by buck4roo 5y ago
For the love of humanity, pick a better tool to teach: Mercurial. Even teaching SVN would be easier. Both interop with github just fine. Anything but git. Git was definitely not designed for ease-of-use. Only Linus and friends need or use 9
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by buck4roo 5y ago
> no amount of open source code can tell a company if the candidate can work with others and solve problems. Balderdash. When was the last time an interview task involved working with others? I'd offer that open source PRs show thi
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by buck4roo 5y ago
"national security crimes" are actually "political crimes". There's a reason many countries exclude both "crimes" from extradition treaties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_sec
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by buck4roo 5y ago
At least in the US, tax calculations may round all inputs to the nearest whole dollar. https://www.taxact.com/support/14396/2017/forms-w-2-or-1099-...
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by buck4roo 5y ago
Emphatically agree. The git cli UX is terrible, cryptic, and forces one to think way too much. The number of GUI tools that wrap the git cli should tell us all something. I Mercurial. It - manipulates the identical data structure (the D
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by buck4roo 5y ago
Single room occupancy. A type of hotel, with shared bathrooms down the hall. Here's an article from yesterday's NYT that has a historical background section about halfway down: When No Landlord Will Rent to You, Where Do You Go?
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by buck4roo 5y ago
These findings should also apply to phone manufacturers -- mandate providing a more realistic number of years of security updates. Closer to 7y but definitely more than 3y.
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by buck4roo 6y ago
"Samoa" (nee "Western Samoa") since 1997.
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by buck4roo 6y ago
Same: SiriusXM
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by buck4roo 6y ago
Have both, still love my 15+yo Yaesu VX-5R way more than the UV-5R. I won't be getting more Baofengs.
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by buck4roo 6y ago
Is there a similar project that releases current Android distros for post-end-of-support android phones?
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by buck4roo 6y ago
Contract tracing != "gathering evidence of transmission in any particular location/context." Instead, please think of it as "one of the most powerful, non-medicinal, mechanisms for interrupting disease transmission.&quot
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by buck4roo 6y ago
"Rationally designed" drugs do this now. An example: Exjade ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferasirox
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by buck4roo 6y ago
Long before HFT firms, we had Market Makers -- they were often a separate department of the brokerage firm you were already using. Therefore, Markets don't need HFT firms to provide this service, they simply coopted a friendly-sounding
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by buck4roo 6y ago
This happens with automotive manufactures. Vehicle breaks, the part or component that fixes it is unavailable/backordered/allocated for months+. Manufacturers will offer to buy back the vehicle, at original sale price, rather than
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by buck4roo 6y ago
Did @onetimemanytime find this article to submit after reading The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24266056 Because I did.
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by buck4roo 6y ago
The problem is CAPITALISM. Capitalism prioritizes profits over people's lives. If it were profitable to stockpile resources to protect life and/or property, in advance of foreseeable adverse events, we would be more prepared. Prec
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by buck4roo 6y ago
Finally, free ticket changes & cancellations (read: usable travel insurance) to support the common good! Us consumers should have demanded this a long time ago!
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by buck4roo 6y ago
222nm (far uvc) is effective, studied, and has zero health hazards https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552051/
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by buck4roo 6y ago
Talk about doubling down with nonsense when you've patently spelled it the wrong way. SMH.
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by buck4roo 7y ago
I believe India may even be of more concern than Africa. Of the two, India has the older aged population.
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by buck4roo 7y ago
I'd add that folks should not be forcing the use of git, even within an organization that uses it. Mercurial works great, has a sane CLI and can both manipulate and interoperate with git repos. Many of the tools mentioned, at their cor
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by buck4roo 7y ago
+++ Wait 1 second ATH
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by buck4roo 7y ago
Or that "people can't learn from mistakes"
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by buck4roo 7y ago
It never ceases to amaze me that we allow our FCC to sell leases for so little. Instead of demanding companies share revenue or provide basic services for all for free, we allow this type of theft under colour of "fair governmental au
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by buck4roo 7y ago
It's not "any other business"; it's a shared resource that improves the lives of all citizens. And we WANT it that way. "Any other business" would not offer or employ any of the features we expect from our Po
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Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty(bloomberg.com)
35 points by buck4roo 7y ago|6 comments
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by buck4roo 7y ago
> Stop rewarding it and they'll stop. Stop categorizing it as a tax-deductible business "expense". It's not a requirement for doing business, and it should not be treated as such.
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by buck4roo 8y ago
> And we need to keep very hard working people motivated to keep working very hard by ensuring them that they will always keep the lions share of their labour's products. you're joking with this part, amiright? don't you t

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