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by callmeal 6y ago
The original comment came across as dismissive of India because it's a third world country and therefore cannot be better at anything.
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by callmeal 6y ago
>Can you sue the yellow pages if they're wrong? Or a wrong map? Yup. You can also win. https://www.pmmag.com/articles/84301-oops-the-yellow-pages-b... >>A Pennsylvania caterer had an outdated phone number
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by callmeal 6y ago
The main problem with software development is assuming that the leaky abstractions we are using is reality. >So I stole it instead. Is a leaky abstraction. Reality would be (in a sci fi universe): "So I brought out my trusty replica
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by callmeal 6y ago
The sad part is that most of the jobs that have great value pay so little. Imagine considering sanitation, seasonal farming, teaching, childcare and other jobs as "low value". Says quite a lot about our values as a society doesn
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by callmeal 6y ago
I don't know about everyone else but with my eyesight, the text on that page is pretty much impossible to read. Strange for a blog post url that begins with "accessible".
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by callmeal 6y ago
There's some co-relation between receiving the BCG vaccine and symptom severity, which could explain some of what we are seeing.
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by callmeal 6y ago
They started doing it after SARS-COV-1 back in 2002. The rest of the world actually respects intelligence and science (so far) but unfortunately in India it looks like the Fox-News/AM-Radio playbook is starting to win.
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by callmeal 7y ago
>But recently I saw that a lot of music I owned was missing from both services. It's not just that, it's also that apple "transparently" changes the version of the music that you "bought". I had a version of
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by callmeal 7y ago
>I was called in to consult on a database problem and they did the same but with XML. It was really bad, and bad for performance and comprehension. I can see XML being really bad for performance, but given that json column data is handle
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by callmeal 7y ago
Actually there is - firefox does it all the time. It's simple really - just add a new obscure configuration parameter and tada - the browser starts ignoring your dns resolution setting and automatically uses a preconfigured one. No ne
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by callmeal 7y ago
Depends on the perspective doesn't it? If the software does what it advertises, and gets to market faster than the competition, then by definition it is good software. It's only in our blinkered views that we ignore these consider
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by callmeal 7y ago
Free to use based on need. You can also buy private catastrophic insurance. It's also mostly affordable (unless you need specialist surgery). States have their own hospitals and prioritize their residents. You need a local id card and
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by callmeal 7y ago
given that the US has spent[0] over $5,000,000,000,000 on pointless wars, redirecting even a fraction of that toward a necessary one should be a no-brainer. [0]: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/war/
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by callmeal 7y ago
>in times of shortage you could sanitize and sterilize multiple use metal parts in house Got one word for you: prions. Standard sanitization procedures do not work with them, and if the hospital is not setup to decontaminate for prions,
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by callmeal 7y ago
If you live in the San Francisco Bay area, sales taxes in SF are 8.5% Tax rates in Oakland are 9.25%. South San Francisco: 9.75% Mountain View: 9% Humboldt County: 7.75% Sonoma: 8.75% The mental effort is not in the calculation but in figur
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by callmeal 7y ago
I was talking about this[0] instance and not stealing from the store. If there was a crime committed with an item available in the store, will everyone who handled, bought or looked at that item now be considered a suspect? [0] https:&#x2F
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by callmeal 7y ago
From TFA: >Shoppers can think of this as similar to typical security camera footage. Great. Now they know not just what I bought, but also what I browsed as I was walking through the store. How long is this footage going to be stored for
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by callmeal 7y ago
>Are the prices not listed on the individual items? This is not aimed at deanCommie, but I just want to comment on the massive cognitive dissonance in effect when the issue of listing tax-included prices on individual items in America is
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by callmeal 7y ago
Hah reminds me of the spirit of fuckitjs ( https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs ).
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by callmeal 7y ago
A crash is hazardous to inattentive pedestrians more so than a cyclist who is better protected (helmet/gear). What to do, what to do?
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by callmeal 7y ago
>The "oops" have begun... Try running gmail in firefox. It's abysmal. A single click takes a few seconds to open email. This is malice, not incompetence. And I'm not even going to get into the whole endless captcha on
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by callmeal 7y ago
Or modern ones for that matter.
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by callmeal 7y ago
Lots of them: https://www.google.com/search?q=french+handwriting+analysis
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by callmeal 7y ago
Nice of them to change their minds after lobbying for that rule in the first place. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/thanks-to-doctors-there-a...
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by callmeal 7y ago
>The State has always been able to look up phone records, bank records, land records, criminal records, medical records etc etc as in order to pursue justice and prosecute. >How is this any different? The cost of doing those lookups.
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by callmeal 7y ago
>I was going to buy a Sonos speaker, but this changed my mind. I'm not buying a device that was built to be bricked. I had a complete sonos setup that I rage donated after moving and accidentally connecting it to the internet at whi
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by callmeal 7y ago
I thought it was Surface Mount Technology and was wondering what kind of replacement was being proposed.
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by callmeal 7y ago
>I suspect that Amazon does not want to put additional cognitive load on the purchaser right at the most critical point of the conversion funnel. They can do it off the side, like how you can select an amazon locker to ship to (but still
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by callmeal 7y ago
You forgot to add: "increasing management bonuses" /snark since it's mostly invisible on the internet.
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by callmeal 7y ago
Lets look at the facts as reported by the NYT: 1. Fedex owed 1.5 Billion in taxes in 2017. 2. They owe 0 in taxes after the bill. 3. As for capital investments, the company spent less in the 2018 fiscal year than it had projected in Decembe

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