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by curun1r 9y ago
The tragedy, for me, is that while I agree with most of what you've said and my transition to ebooks has been similar to yours, I've also begun realizing what we're losing by moving away from brick-and-mortar retail. I look b
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On the other hand, it would be great for consumers and those wanting to offer software in the banking ecosystem if there were more standardization in the banking industry. I'd be surprised if anything a bank does is so unique that it r
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Some of that was covered by a couple of videos Xiph put out [0]. I was really hoping they'd put out a bunch of them since I found them quite informative, but they seemed to stop. It's too bad since I, like you, would've liked
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This. If more managers were given a budget rather than a headcount, they'd hire more juniors. At my last managing gig, I was the only manager at my level to hire junior devs. I prefer a little mentoring/supervision to the "to
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Taxes are especially pernicious for athletes. Beyond the fact that they can't structure their income to get out of the top tax brackets like those in the business world (there's no stock compensation, dividends or anything else th
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> require them to sign a consent form for arms-length management of their capital for some time period All 4 big professional leagues in the US have pension plans [0] that, while not making them rich, will at least provide enough money t
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He's probably going to be sued by Waymo, likely with Uber's full cooperation. The part of Google's case that always seemed the strongest was their forensic evidence of his misconduct just before he left. He could also be sued
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Escapism. We like vicariously experiencing drama that is more than we want to personally experience. We love watching violent movies but don't want to experience or commit violence. We love stories with convoluted romantic intrigue and
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Sounds more likely, and the causality of the effects GP observed may also be transitive through tightened finances. For example, more businesses could be encouraging/allowing more casual dress, in part, because they know they're n
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It wasn't just porn they didn't like, Blockbuster edited any movie they considered unsavory before the transition to DVD. The last movie I rented from Blockbuster was "Bad Lieutenant." The normal, R-rated cut is 91 minut
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It may not be racism, but it's still a largely-unsubstantiated accusation of racism designed to elicit support for their cause. This story hits very close to home for me. I had my tonsils and adenoids removed 37 years ago at the same h
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Partially true, but with size comes negotiating power. It's not like health care or prescriptions in this country have a fixed price. Insurers help set that price and the more lives they represent, the more they can dictate to provider
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The same could've been said about Microsoft 10-15 years ago. Now, we could probably get by without them. Intel may be too big for an abrupt failure, but they can absolutely fail in a decade-long slide into obscurity.
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Rather than taking his PC away, you might consider moving it into a shared area of the house and setting a curfew on it. My own experience with depression has led me to believe that some of it is caused by light-exposure and stimulation bef
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> Maybe some provider only allows FTP downloads with checksums via HTTPS? curl -O -u user:password ftp://whatever.site.com/filename Curl comes with MacOS and still supports ftp, even if they removed the ftp execut
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FWIW, I wasn't trying to be critical. Or, at least, I was trying to be constructively critical. Getting to a Terraform setup is an excellent start...lots of companies can't get that far. I guess I'd just encourage you to view
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Sure, but in every environment? If a developer is pushing a feature that's mostly business logic, it's probably okay to test in a single-AZ environment. Given their setup, it looks like they still have QA and a final go-no-go test
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Their AWS bill seems like it would be a lot higher than it needs to be. They're spinning up always-on staging, testing and development environments in 3 different regions. I know they've got autoscaling configured, so their produc
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I think the point is that when someone is a victim of identity fraud, their credit report contains entries which are untrue. Making credit reporting agencies liable for those untrue entries would force them to accept the pain of identity fr
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It's worth noting that Soros is likely to be predisposed to seeing the "red flags" (pun intended) of oppressive government spying and despotism having experienced first-hand during his formative teen years the Nazi occupation
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My experience with people who don't float easily is that they're not expanding their lungs enough. When you train in diving, you realize just how much different your buoyancy is when you have a full breath compared to an exhale. O
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> Instead of raising capital by issuing new shares, companies burn their earnings buying back existing shares from the public. It's insane! You're ignoring all the ways that companies use their stock as a currency. From employe
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Perhaps Canada could be a location that's beyond US jurisdiction but mostly solves the SoL problem.
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I think it comes down to respect and social status. In the times that the marketplace was a place of meaningful interaction, the vendors were merchants or tradesmen selling their products and those were relatively respected stations in life
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The part you're not taking into consideration is that all of this will be paid for with cuts to Social Security and Medicare for people not already receiving benefits. So if you're still in your wage-earning years, that $4k tax cu
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Microsoft was never a monopoly and Google can never be a monopoly. It's not something that a company is, it's something that a company has. In Microsoft's case, it was Windows and it was considered a monopoly not because it w
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Xargo isn't that bad, and neither is using a Docker container to build. Plus, a lot of teams generate their build artifacts in CI environments that are already Linux. So there's a bunch of pretty easy ways to get Rust code running
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And more effective. IIRC, while vitamin deficiencies have been shown to cause problems, vitamin supplements haven't been shown to "fix" that problem [0]. You can't eat food with no nutritional value and then add the vita
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Very Buddhist in nature, but I've really enjoyed everything I've read from Jack Kornfield. "A Path with Heart" is a good place to start.
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Not just genetics, but also our gut microbiome. The studies linking depression and other thinking to our gut bacteria raise some profound moral implications. I've had really interesting conversations with some of the gay people I know

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