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by curun1r 9y ago
> Maybe the system actually works in California (blue state?) I can't speak for food stamps, but for unemployment, it's a complete mess. My one experience dealing with it involved a perfectly justified claim where my former emp
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by curun1r 9y ago
> VC is a "trend to avoid"? Avoid "Hypergrowth"? I guess companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest and a hundred others all really messed up I'm not going to say that VC
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by curun1r 9y ago
It's clear that you and I simply have very different world views. You use the term "has to" in talking about what I believe is a pathological need to dominate every other country everywhere. I favor a far more coalitional app
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> Employer-sponsered plans are banned No need to ban them, which would likely be challenged successfully in court. But removing the tax deduction would come pretty close to ending the practice. If you look at why employers started offeri
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by curun1r 9y ago
If you've got Netflix, check out "Dope." Episode 2 is most applicable to the opioid crisis, but the other episodes are all worth a watch too.
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> Also, the military cannot afford weapons programs it needs to compete with 'near-peer' threats such as China and Russia. Defense spending by country (from Google): Russia: $84.9 billion China: $171.4 billion US: $618.7 billio
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by curun1r 9y ago
I don't know how we'll view psychology, but I believe we'll look back at a number of psychological illnesses and realize that they're a result of our environmental factors much more so than they are naturally-occurring d
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Or the drives could be refurbished, returned or otherwise unable to be sold as new. Based on the pricing, that always seemed like the most likely explanation.
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I didn't say that I agree with the current administration and neither did the poster I was agreeing with. All I was saying is that I don't agree with the current H1-B regulations. There's a third approach that neither the Dem
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by curun1r 9y ago
I agree entirely. We should be shortening the path to permanent residency, not stringing out a temporary arrangement indefinitely. Having intelligent foreigners commit their future to the US is a win for everyone involved. Temporary foreign
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by curun1r 9y ago
Perhaps not type declarations, but I think GP is onto something when it comes to Rust and how it handles types in a way that often lacks explicitness. There's a lot of Rust code where you have to have familiarity with an API to underst
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I think we'd do better to, at least at first, start solving some of the reasons why our jury demographics are so skewed. Stronger protections for workers that need time off (there should be no work hardship exemption and employers shou
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by curun1r 9y ago
> we'll also do interviews that are one-on-ones with engineers on actual issues that they're facing. Be careful with this approach. If you're not paying candidates for their interview time, you're not allowed to use t
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by curun1r 9y ago
Well, it's the same authentication problem of validating US citizenship without documentation. And the passport I was issued was in no way a backup, it was valid for the normal 10-year period and, apart from the note that said it was i
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by curun1r 9y ago
I can testify to the process for something similar since I had a passport stolen when I was traveling in Spain. I went into the consulate, told them what happened and they asked me a few questions about my hometown (high school I went to, f
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by curun1r 9y ago
> The advantage of having three regions is that any one region can fail, and the other regions will step in handle all the members in the failed region. At a previous employer, we met with AWS engineers who told us that this sort of thin
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by curun1r 9y ago
> Being better for the planet is not the main part - for starters, homo sapiens dying off would likely also be better for the planet George Carlin had it right. There's nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine and will be f
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by curun1r 9y ago
The article states that overdrawing is one half of the equation, but excessive paving is the other half which prevents the significant rainfall that the city gets from refilling the water table. California is a much more arid region with dr
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by curun1r 9y ago
It's not just triggers, though having the post-build equivalent of build.rs would be a nice feature that doesn't really change the nature of cargo in any way. It would be quite useful for doing post-build logic...for example, when
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by curun1r 9y ago
> Specifically, system package managers are about providing a unified set of packages to end-users. Language package managers are for developers to build applications. One thing that might help people see this distinction better is if Ca
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by curun1r 9y ago
I meant that more as a description of people who don't understand finances. Anyone who knows anything realizes that a tax return is returning you your own money. But some people treat it like a windfall rather than a restoration of the
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by curun1r 9y ago
You should probably credit Yogi Berra if you're going to steal his quotes.
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by curun1r 9y ago
What does equivalent mean? Is BitCoin an equivalent? Stocks? Real Estate? Food? An Education? Do like-kind exchanges count as income? What about non-like-kind exchanges? (i.e. what if you sell real estate and buy stocks?) What about barter?
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by curun1r 9y ago
They'll only feel fleeced when the follow-up cuts to Social Security and Medicare get felt. Republicans have been very careful to say that only the benefits of current recipients of those programs won't see cuts. The rest of us wh
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by curun1r 9y ago
It depends on whether an abstraction is intended for novices or, for lack of a better term, power users. Tokio is, IMHO, more of the latter. It's a complex set of concepts that is designed to scale up very well as the complexity of the
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by curun1r 9y ago
While I'm as angry as anyone about the way that districts have been gerrymandered in the US, it also bugs me when I see critiques about gerrymandering that try to provoke outrage by showing the shapes of the districts and implying that
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I doubt it's revenue. A little Googling leads to estimates of the total global number of new cars sold annually being between 75 million and 90 million. Divide 400 billion by the more conservative estimate and it still gives you a bit
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by curun1r 9y ago
I find that I frequently want to dump a table from some webpage into a sqlite db file and run queries on it. Most sites don't offer a CSV or XLS download option, so a simple script to scrape the data usually ends up being the simplest
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by curun1r 9y ago
I'm curious how you can reconcile your second and third bullet points. If tax hikes on the rich are an unavoidable part of the solution, one party just rammed through a huge tax cut for the rich and the other party did everything they
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by curun1r 9y ago
There's an old saying (IIRC, attributed to Seneca) that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. I like that way of looking at things because it neither minimizes the work and insight that someone put into their success

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