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by butlerm 4y ago
All database designs have foreign keys whether they are enforced in the database or not. If they are not obvious from the documentation, that is a documentation problem.
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by butlerm 4y ago
All on 5-4 votes, which is not exactly a compelling vote of confidence for a contract case. "Justice McReynolds wrote the dissenting opinion. He protested that gold clauses were binding contracts, and that allowing the administration&#
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by butlerm 4y ago
The name of dd(1) may have some tenuous connection to the JCL DD statement, but otherwise any similarity seems virtually non-existent. They don't even remotely do the same thing, none of the options or parameters are the same or have
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by butlerm 4y ago
Fertilizer prices are rising in part because ammonia production is a rather energy intensive process and the price of natural gas used to produce ammonia is way up due to war time shortages. Ammonia, of course, is the primary source materi
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by butlerm 4y ago
I don't know what to say except that the death penalty is too light a sentence for government agents guilty of offenses like that.
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by butlerm 4y ago
If a state did it, it would be a straightforward violation of the Contracts Clause. With regard to Treasury bonds and gold certificates it was the government rewriting its own contracts. It was a violation of the contract on every Federal
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by butlerm 4y ago
True. However DHS is largely composed of relatively essential government functions that go far beyond the remit of the terrorism preventers. Customs, Coast Guard, Border Patrol, Immigration, ...
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by butlerm 4y ago
If the corruption is deeper that just means more officials deserve to be imprisoned for decades. The only reason not to shoot malicious prosecutors at dawn is we can't be entirely sure we have the right ones. Official malice is a thre
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by butlerm 4y ago
>It was formed after 9/11 to make sure knives and explosives didn't get on planes. That is the TSA. DHS was formed as a major reorganization of existing government agencies dealing with immigration, customs, border patrol, and
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by butlerm 4y ago
In 1933 Congress unilaterally devalued the dollar by nearly seventy percent, rewrote the gold clauses in private contracts, largely forbid the private possession of gold, and managed to get away with it. The Supreme Court conveniently deci
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by butlerm 4y ago
If there are government agents out there that do that sort of thing as a matter of course, they should be prosecuted without mercy and imprisoned for decades as the criminals they are, if not lined up and shot at dawn.
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by butlerm 4y ago
1.5x isn't a real increase in staff rates if all it accounts for is taxes and benefits that the employer covers for regular employees anyway. It is like certain government employees who complain about being paid too little when the ac
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by butlerm 4y ago
Non-profits generally use substantial income in excess of revenues for expansion, just like many for-profit organizations. Excess revenues can also be absorbed in salary and other compensation or cost increases, usually top down of course.
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by butlerm 4y ago
The only way to produce a higher density metal at standard pressures and temperatures would be to get it to go through some sort of allotropic transformation to a crystal structure that is more tightly packed, but the ordinary solid phase o
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by butlerm 4y ago
Not the creative part, no. Someone could presumably use the non-creative stuff as far as copyright is concerned, although other means (notably shrink wrap licensing) are often attempted to restrict that. I used to regularly see books at th
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by butlerm 4y ago
In my experience, most browsers cache "Permanent" redirects indefinitely, which of course makes it impossible for the user to access the original URL again, or at least until they clear the cache.
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by butlerm 4y ago
Violations of various regulations aside, who exactly is getting defrauded in this scenario? Are you implying that the paid preparers in question predominantly commit or help their clients commit various forms of tax fraud?
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by butlerm 4y ago
You might want to check out Feist v. Rural Telephone Company (1991), and also look up the Berne Convention (on copyright), which the U.S. joined in the 1970s. If by "information" you mean mere facts without creativity in selection
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by butlerm 4y ago
> Companies want to build product identities that can last for more than a year, but also want to be able to react to changes in the supply chain. A fixed product identity for something that materially changes would best be described as
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by butlerm 4y ago
If it takes 15 seconds to get Teams on a Mac to do anything substantial like start up or start a meeting, it would hardly be a surprise if no one wanted to use it. Perhaps Microsoft should do something about it, or rewrite Teams using an e
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by butlerm 4y ago
I suppose there might be backward regions out there that can afford neither computers nor electricity adequate to teach computer science students anything they can't do with a pencil and paper, but they certainly are few and far betwee
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by butlerm 5y ago
Yes, and it still takes three seconds to warm start.
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by butlerm 5y ago
A Hong Kong style takeover of Taiwan would never happen unless a supermajority of the Taiwanese wanted to give their country away to a totalitarian genocidal police state. Where is the upside?
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by butlerm 5y ago
It might have serious problems on the Mac. On Windows it is generally quite nice, and I have never seen any unusual delay joining a meeting. Warm startup for the application is about three seconds on a relatively old machine.
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by butlerm 5y ago
I believe you are being unnecessarily pedantic. Real world computer science programs cover software and hardware architecture as a matter of course. If they didn't 90% of them could be shut down for lack of interest.
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by butlerm 5y ago
Some news outlets falsify their inflation reporting as a matter of course. Consumer prices obviously did not rise 8.5% in March, they rose 8.5% over the preceding twelve months ending in March. https://www.bls.gov/news.rele
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by butlerm 5y ago
Almost anyone with a wage, salary, or rate that doesn't trivially adjust is hurt by inflation - unless of course they have more than enough debt to make up for all of that.
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by butlerm 5y ago
M2 includes M1 and it did not move nearly as much, suggesting that the nominal change in M1 was much larger than the part which had real economic consequences. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
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by butlerm 5y ago
Government regulations can affect the cost and supply of just about anything, especially housing and energy. Tariffs on foreign goods can be a major factor as well. Beyond that it is a question of government borrowing and central bank mon
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by butlerm 5y ago
Public school is available pretty much everywhere in the US, but it is not necessarily very high quality depending on demographics primarily, which is deeply unfortunate. Most "normal" families cannot afford to go anywhere else.

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