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by callmeal 5y ago
>Or would the state come down hard on any such manufacturer? Remember what happened to the Quest CEO when he refused to allow his company to spy for NSA? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/20
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by callmeal 5y ago
>I'm used to retrospectives taking about 15-30 minutes, and even then we usually have to scratch around for things to talk about Depends on the size of the team. For a 2-3 week sprint, and and team of 10-12 devs, a six hour relaxed
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by callmeal 5y ago
Back in the before times, we would carry around a crossword or sudoku puzzle as time fillers. Being quiet with your thoughts is also an option.
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by callmeal 5y ago
Shouldn't that be : developer = {mozilla: {org: 42}} ?
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by callmeal 5y ago
> I won't be able to ever understand why historical persons in the movies should be black even if they couldn't be black in that position at that point of history. There're even more crazier examples. Ooh, I got a crazy ex
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by callmeal 5y ago
I don't know if somethings going on, but the last couple of weeks, Bitbucket has been incredibly slow, with pull request merges taking minutes for a tiny (< 14Mb) repo. Their This pull request is being merged in the background.
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by callmeal 5y ago
It's also been linked to gingivitis: https://www.newsweek.com/dementia-gum-disease-alzheimers-lin... DNA tests on three brains with Alzheimer's disease and six healthy brains also had the gene associated with
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by callmeal 5y ago
Some of my friends use Xero.
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by callmeal 5y ago
>So I ask again, will the IRS make a painless tool? If the answer is yes, but Intuit is lobbying them not to, then I understand your point. Yes, IRS would have made a painless tool, but for that lobbying. https://www.nbcnews.c
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by callmeal 5y ago
> https://www.atr.org/trump-budget-cuts-irs-funding-239-millio... President Donald Trump's 2018 budget blueprint is out, and it wisely cuts IRS funding by $239 million. Compared to pretty much any metric wher
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by callmeal 5y ago
>It's totally reasonable to think there's at least 40 drug dealers in the whole Tenderloin. And that they're all from Mexico/Central America right?
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by callmeal 5y ago
I see two things wrong with that statement: 1: the obvious attempt whip up racism/xenophobia, and 2: Score means 20. Scores to me mean at least 40 (more than one score). Is the writer implying that there are at least 40 drug dealers in
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by callmeal 5y ago
>>It does not meet basic journalistic standards. >what does this even mean exactly in this day and age From the fine article: >Scores of dealers, nearly all young males from Mexico and Central America, openly sell narcotics. Sco
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by callmeal 5y ago
Putting my snarky hat on: Are they finally going to ban smoking in open-air? Reading the article: wow it's like a warzone out there. >Scores of dealers, nearly all young males from Mexico and Central America, openly sell narcotics.
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by callmeal 5y ago
>In fact, people who are working are much more likely to engage in other community activities and volunteer. I can definitely say that people who are forced to work with capricious scheduling, or those that have to work more than one job
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by callmeal 5y ago
>I appreciate the moonshot thinking, but I don’t think this is a realistic framework for human civilization. We already live in a society in which not everyone contributes (rich and poor), and it’s problematic. That's right - "
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by callmeal 5y ago
>But if it is enough to survive on, then too many people who are capable of working will choose to instead just survive on it indefinitely. And why is that a problem? I see it as a net benefit. The only people working will be those that
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by callmeal 5y ago
> "three strikes" policies has the effect of significantly reducing violent crime. That's not quite true. The three strikes policy had the effect of increasing violent crime. After all, if it's going to be their third
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by callmeal 5y ago
>I’m in favor of a light version of salary transparency. In countries with salary transparency, (the ones I've worked in anyway), there is usually a published grid of roles, and salary ranges. Similar to how the government does thin
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by callmeal 5y ago
>With transparency, they might choose not to hire her, because they are only happy to pay her 2× if the existing engineering team are not aware, and she might refuse to take the job if they won't give her 2×. What's stopping th
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by callmeal 5y ago
>It's kind of an interesting problem because Google drives cars around and reads the all the networks and saves the location for use later. It's worse than that: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01&#x2F
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by callmeal 5y ago
>I'm not sure how "associating a publicly broadcast BSSID with coordinates" is tracking a person. But it's not just that is it? If you log in to a google site from that publicly broadcast BSSID, you will get tracked b
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by callmeal 5y ago
wow. This means that there is no guarantee that the code I published is the code that gets installed. Does no one else have a problem with this?
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by callmeal 5y ago
> As long as you pay them by the 15th of April each year that money is yours to do whatever throuhgout the year That is not quite true. You do need to pay quarterly taxes, and there is a late fee if you don't make that tax payment e
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by callmeal 5y ago
>you are undercutting them with no discernable benefit to yourself. GP does have a discernable benefit. It's just not discernable to us because it is not monetary.
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by callmeal 5y ago
>I take the approach of how big a deal it is if I get a counterfeit. You could lose your global entry / TSA precheck privileges. [0] https://www.racked.com/2018/1/8/16849298/amazon-counterfeits...
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by callmeal 5y ago
>> ...stream(). map(e -> e.getKey().getPrice().multiply(new BigDecimal(e.getValue()))). reduce(BigDecimal.ZERO, BigDecimal::add) >That's very pretty to look at and easy to read. But it's a huge pai
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by callmeal 5y ago
>This isn't true. >Firstly in a totalitarian state they can already freeze your assets at will. I see this a problematic because now non-totalitarian states will have that power. And it will give them an ability to go "oops
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by callmeal 5y ago
>To be fair, I thought the dev’s response was adequate here. Just posting on the issue section that the “colors are wrong” while comparing with uxrvt I went and looked at the issue, and the title is not "colors are wrong" but
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by callmeal 5y ago
>Is there any real competition to USPS? I don't understand. USPS is not a business. It's civic infrastructure. There is no way any competitor will agree to delivering a letter from one end of the country to another for $0.55.

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