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by dannypgh 10y ago
Except you have the right to tell debt collectors to stop contacting you (sue or get off the pot, essentially) over any given debt, and they face statutory damages if they ignore that. See paragraph c of https://www.law.cornell.e
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by dannypgh 10y ago
The tactic seems questionable. I'd rather give money to people who provide legal assistance to folks getting hassled by debt collectors, and spread information about people's rights under the FDCPA and other laws. The reason for t
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by dannypgh 10y ago
You're proud of the fact you've pre-judged Trevor Noah's performance without watching a single episode?
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by dannypgh 10y ago
"Lower body weight reduces terminal velocity," How does this work?
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by dannypgh 10y ago
Hitler offed himself and Germany surrendered months before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Your thought experiment has no bearing on reality because Germany had already long lost the war.
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by dannypgh 10y ago
Well, you're much more likely to be killed in a car accident wherever you live, and I don't have reason to believe that risk is particularly different in Canada or Australia. It's the delta between countries that matters, and
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by dannypgh 10y ago
By what definition is this an "isolated" act? And why do you think a death by earthquake is more likely? I don't think the data supports that.
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by dannypgh 10y ago
It irks me whenever anyone makes a claim about the "stated goal of that war" and completely omits talk of WMD, despite their alleged presence being key to the claimed legal basis for the war, presentation to the UN, etc. GWB: &quo
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by dannypgh 10y ago
Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower-curtain_effect
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by dannypgh 10y ago
Given they are measuring a response to a photo, change the photo? This seems much more like challenge-response than other forms of biometric data.
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by dannypgh 11y ago
Citation? I thought a lot of the waste products, and what they decay into, are chemically toxic. Hardly "harmless"
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by dannypgh 11y ago
I'm not sure I object to just-good-enough solutions, but, there's still an awfully large benefit from paying down technical debt, and I hope your students appreciate that. My approach is to pay down the technical debt before start
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by dannypgh 11y ago
Yes, but, which download feels longer?
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by dannypgh 11y ago
What were the highly profitable industries built around expert systems and logic computers in the 1980s? The fact that AI seems to be proving itself with real-world, commercially interesting results in the fields as disparate as advertising
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by dannypgh 11y ago
Let me walk back that a bit - there's an exception. A good programmer can have boring work if their managers forbid them from building the tools necessary to reasonably do their job. I had a job once that did exactly that; they were h
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by dannypgh 11y ago
I don't understand how good programmers can have boring work. Any work you have that's not interesting is work that should have be done by a computer for you. If your computer can't trivially obtain and solve the work, the in
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by dannypgh 11y ago
Microsoft, by charging OEMs for a license regardless of whether you bought a computer with Windows or not. It took a consent decree to stop the process. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Window...
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by dannypgh 11y ago
And, don't call your proofs "mathematical" if you're happy citing numbers with no citation two orders of magnitude off from reality.
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by dannypgh 11y ago
0.1% really? I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 25% of households here have no car, and we don't have the world's best transit system. Per http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/01/21/vital-signs-
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by dannypgh 11y ago
If you run out of grains of salt, I know how you can get some more with shockwaves...
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by dannypgh 11y ago
shrug maybe, maybe not. I sometimes have rather low cash reserves; credit cards and a checking account that lets me overdraft for free (via margin borrowing) can give me a bit of liquidity. But credit cards come due every month, and mar
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by dannypgh 11y ago
If the market declines significantly, and you're still a long-term bull (inherent to the buy and hold strategy), you probably don't want to sell until the asset recovers.
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by dannypgh 11y ago
Nope, I don't agree. Total tax revenue does not need to equal total expenditures in the long run. Fiat currencies are created when the government spends money, and it's a choice (based on monetary schools of economics) to have the
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by dannypgh 11y ago
Anyone else chuckling at the "big idea" of having a million people raise a billion dollars... so that a billionaire politician can run for office?
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by dannypgh 11y ago
GDP per capita can easily be increased without raising the median standard of living, or ending poverty. Increasing total wealth doesn't guarantee anything when the maldistribution of wealth is the underlying problem.
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by dannypgh 11y ago
Your taxes also fund the IMF, the legal system used to defend drug parents, and the promotion of "abstinence-only" sex-ed. The reality is federal programs aren't started or canceled based on total, let alone an individual&#x2
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by dannypgh 11y ago
This all depends on your frame of reference.
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by dannypgh 11y ago
You really think the opinion of game developers should matter in a discussion about how to make browsers reasonably secure for people to use without getting their hosts compromised? Because I don't. Anger towards browser developers or
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by dannypgh 11y ago
I think it's more interesting that people who relinquish their mobility to cars end up thinking that cars are the only potential source of mobility, forgetting that walking, mass transit, and bicycling are all viable means of transport
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by dannypgh 11y ago
Most atoms- and certainly most hydrogen- are in stars, no? Not exactly places where water "breaking down at high temperatures" (really, never forming) can be ignored.

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