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by ci5er 9y ago
You're just saying that abstract nouns have no explicit referent like a brick or apple. I take exception to democracy as a noun or attribute like 'truth', however. Truth is an abstract attribute. Sometimes a noun. Democracy i
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by ci5er 9y ago
Well, certainly if your carried balance goes up as a percentage of revolving credit, that will affect the score. But this would hold true whether you did a cash-advance or bought a TV, no? EDIT: IIRC, the Debt-to-Income ratio calculation (i
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by ci5er 9y ago
Sure ... it was a chip-less Visa debit card. My point is simply because it was routed to a DDA, not a credit line, the typical protections for a credit card don't apply. (This was the US). They are pretty clear about this in the contra
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by ci5er 9y ago
Well, yeah. There is little beauty or structure to the mainland's new-new writing system, but the traditional one found in Taiwan can be used as a great help when homophones confound.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Note - none of these are chip-and-PIN. 1) Every day IRL use 2) Backup 3) Restaurants. This is the only use-case where my card is out of my possession, and I try to isolate that. 4) MOST on-line purchases (Except for #5 below) 5) Online subs
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by ci5er 9y ago
It does not hose your credit rating in the US (assuming you pay your CC bill on time). It doesn't even show up as an event on your credit rating, as the decision to extend credit up to your limit has already been approved.
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by ci5er 9y ago
> You have _much_ less fraud protection with a debit card. Having had ~US$20K sucked out of my debit card (which was ~$10K more than I had), I can verify that you have essentially no recourse. Why the stupid bank authorized someone to go
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by ci5er 9y ago
I'm sorry, but ... what?
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by ci5er 9y ago
As niche consultant, we use a lot of D3+React for real-time dashboards (in the world of clinical informatics)
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by ci5er 9y ago
Since most people buy phones in 20 packs, and change devices between each charge, this is a non-issue, no?
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by ci5er 9y ago
> If google wants to survive, they better shape up and put their awesome software contributions front and center, remove the broken pillars, and stop trying to weaponize their 3 letter control grid. Would it be possible to restate this i
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by ci5er 9y ago
Are you sure?
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by ci5er 9y ago
https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/CB-Insights_Amazon-Strate...
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by ci5er 9y ago
Ha! I know that restaurant. Pretty abysmal - but I think it's the only place in town that's quite that bad. But the town does have two redboxes, so it's got that going for it... I know a couple of people in that area (a bit u
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by ci5er 9y ago
Fair enough.
556.
by ci5er 9y ago
Stick with 1989, and you donb't have to worry about it.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Well, if you don't know me well enough to have my phone number, you certainly shouldn't have the privilege of making my computer beep at me, whenever the hell you feel like it. But, that's me. Maybe you like people interrupti
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by ci5er 9y ago
If they need an immediate answer, they are not children and know how to use a phone (I would hope).
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by ci5er 9y ago
I did not know that! I think it said //e on the case and ][ when booting, but I'll have go dig it out of storage. (You'd think that after spending thousands of hours in front of the dang thing, that I'd remember...)
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by ci5er 9y ago
Can that be true? (I'm channelling 1985 here, so I could be well off, but...) IIRC, some of the janky stuff I did on the Apple //e 6502 did run on the Apple IIc 65C02. I'm pretty sure they didn't fall of into NOP-la
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by ci5er 9y ago
To clarify, you are saying 'the Internet didn't make us dumb, but now the dumbest of us now have equal access to a microphone'. Is that a correct reading of you? If so, that's interesting. Because of feedback loops at mu
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by ci5er 9y ago
Woah! So about +$30 for a bottle of vodka? I assume that this is just for ethanol to drink, right? Bio-ethanol as fuel wouldn't work if it weren't separated. How do they keep the ethanol-as-fuel out of ethanol-as-commestable apart
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by ci5er 9y ago
Does that exist for tech books?
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by ci5er 9y ago
That's a great question. Let me go through my collection and see if I can find any that might provide guidance. I found that it was like a fraternity, though. I only learned it by hanging out with them. Kind of like how doctors call br
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by ci5er 9y ago
Seriously - good luck. IF I knew then, what I know now - I would be too afraid to start. But all progress is made by people who are not too afraid to start. I wish you all the luck and fortune in the world.
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by ci5er 9y ago
I hear you. I had a pretty amazing job at Motorola (remember them? :-) ) when I moved back to the US from Japan. They wanted me to run around the world (on their credit card) to figure out what business they needed to be next. I found one.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Can I ask what you are looking for in terms of stories? Sector? I'm a B2B guy - so I never build anything until I have ~1M~2M/year in soft commitments. Then as I build it, I try to get the soft commitments to sign-off on early pur
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by ci5er 9y ago
I could easily see that! :-O
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by ci5er 9y ago
Sorry. I'm a little bit raw (at the moment) at the (average) quality of advice I get from doctors in Taiwan and Japan. EDIT: That being said - almost all of the advice from the Japanese doctors is allopathic.
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by ci5er 9y ago
So you are saying that food has calories, and therefore, based on caloric content, keeps you energetic or fat (depending on) fulfulling it's "food function", and that supplements are not macro- devices, so not only do they la

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