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by csharpminor 3y ago
As someone who participates in these lotteries, the lack of transparency is the biggest issue. If there's a way to view estimated odds I have not seen it. Additionally, these lotteries usually have a second level of rules that impact y
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by csharpminor 3y ago
The messaging around managed fires by indigenous peoples is a smart narrative for California. You will not persuade hardcore preservationists in California by listing out the economic/quality of life benefits of controlled burns. They
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by csharpminor 3y ago
It's funny, I remember talking to an engineer from JPL(?) at a fundraiser in Palo Alto who was convinced of this link back in 2011. The conversation really stuck with me because in truth, I wasn't sure if this was a wishful conspi
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Yes, I think the detail and lyricism of the prose intentionally causes us to look for a moral framework for the story. Many readers feel cognitive dissonance from this book: there’s so much detail, it must add up to some moral lesson. You’l
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I'll just add: in my own opinion this epilogue is a bit of literary trickery. Like the past, it's difficult to parse. As the epilogue, it naturally occupies a place of significance. This must be the key to understanding Blood Meri
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by csharpminor 3y ago
It's often interpreted as a critique of manifest destiny, the idea that settlers were destined to expand across North America. He's describing that westward expansion in abstract terms. The man digging holes is a pioneer. McCarthy
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by csharpminor 3y ago
If you work with Postgres a lot I'd recommend Postico. It's not a necessity but I've found it to make me much more productive and worth the cost.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I have both and prefer the AirPods Pro. The Bose noise cancelling always felt a bit unnatural; there was a pressure difference that would make me feel slightly dizzy. For me, the AirPods Pro do not cause the same dizzyness issue and have co
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Yes, and would lead to iMessage spam and FaceTime robocalls.
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Fertilizer prices have been historically high, which impacts the underlying costs of most things you buy at the supermarket: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2022/10/fertilizer-prices-so... The root cause is econom
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by csharpminor 4y ago
I highly recommend reading old press clippings from your area. Reading headlines from 100 years ago personally made me feel as though not much has changed.
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Just a note: this is a great explanation of how it works for scam calls, but not SMS spam as mentioned in the article.
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by csharpminor 4y ago
There is a Hugo Award-winning SciFi book about this called The Wind Up Girl. It imagines a future where petroleum is depleted and “Calorie Companies” wield power by controlling the supply of blight resistant crops.
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by csharpminor 4y ago
IMO WhatsApp is also a great option for 2FA in many countries. OTP is one of the approved outbound templates that WA will let you deliver without an inbound message.
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Another technology to read up on is Silent Network Auth: https://www.twilio.com/blog/silent-network-authentication-sn... If you operate a mobile app, this allows you to force a data packet over the device’s SIM that th
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by csharpminor 4y ago
You can also use geo-permissions to block delivery to certain countries: https://console.twilio.com/us1/develop/sms/settings/geo-perm...
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by csharpminor 4y ago
To be honest you should probably delete this post and just go directly to a lawyer. Naming the company could make things harder for you and your wife if they are able to identify her. Lawyer up or move on.
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Yeah the underlying issue is that telecoms networks naturally trend towards monopoly. So often times there will be only one route that is cost effective / reliable to deliver traffic.
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by csharpminor 4y ago
I share the frustration but to be fair a lot of this madness is just bubbling up through them from The Campaign Registry and carriers.
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Most employers provision ~100sq/ft per employee. In SF real estate goes for $50-$70 per sq/ft per month. Obviously there’s negotiating that happens. You could do a lot of travel with a 5-7k budget per month. There are a ton of var
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Same situation: AirBnb bedbugs ruined our family vacation. They gave us a partial refund and paid for a night in a hotel but didn't cover the rest of our stay. We were staying in a super touristy area during peak season, and the last m
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Yeah I second the scout handbook. You can also volunteer with your local Troop as a leader if you want. All of the classes offered by my local REI are in the $600-$1200 per weekend range. Scouts got me outdoors 12 weekends a year for about
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Where does the report say that lake collapse would cause the region to completely run out of water?
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by csharpminor 4y ago
There are many reasons this is bad, but personally I find the arsenic release to be the scariest. If I were starting a family in SLC I would be thinking hard about if it’s where I want to stay long term. Really hope the policymakers are abl
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Just curious because you didn't mention it - have you considered putting a captcha in front of your OTP flow? Are the fraudsters also defeating that?
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Aesthetic taste and fashion are hard to predict; people said the same thing of Crocs. In fact, many workplaces banned Crocs because they were considered so aesthetically offensive. Crocs, Inc. is up 725% over its lifetime. People are really
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by csharpminor 4y ago
To answer your question, they told us directly in our first sales meeting (we didn't close the deal over live chat lol). The director we were speaking to said something along the lines of "and to think we probably wouldn't be
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Agree. At one of my startups we hooked a $350k ARR enterprise customer over webchat. We also received some of the best early UX feedback through webchat. Developers are somewhat different from the general population in that we like to read
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by csharpminor 4y ago
Had it, felt completely exhausted for 3+ weeks. Standing for more than a few minutes was hard. Recovery was very gradual. Afterwards I developed a strong abnormal heart rhythm (PVCs). I had had these previously, but the ones post-COVID were
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by csharpminor 4y ago
The issue here is that power among people tends to concentrate rather than diffuse. CEOs are comped disproportionately because the top 1% have an exceptionally better network and power structure over others. Why? Because people bandwagon on

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