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by defen 7y ago
Doesn’t that concede the point that married couples can have different credit profiles? How much higher is her score? What is the max amount of credit GS will issue to a household? DHH has a history of acting righteously angry without havin
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by defen 7y ago
That won't do much to combat wealth inequality though, because the ultra-wealthy typically do not have high incomes, at least relative to their overall wealth.
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by defen 7y ago
It's actually educational and was cowritten by Scott Aaronson, who has a great lecture that explains the idea of "quantum mechanics as complex probabilities": https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9
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by defen 7y ago
Any more details about how/where to do this? My grandmother recently passed, and as we were going through her things we found a large amount of V-mail that my grandfather sent to her during WWII. I'd love to preserve it, although
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by defen 7y ago
My point is that any time an "anonymous government official" or "high level intelligence official" or whatever leaks something to the prestige press - meaning, the article says "according to anonymous government sou
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by defen 7y ago
How could you be a member of any standing in the elite media if you don't have access to "leaks"? If something leaks that wasn't actually approved by the agencies, what do you think is going to happen to the leaker?
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by defen 7y ago
"Run the media" in this context doesn't mean there's some CIA commissar approving every article or broadcast. What it means generally is that access to "leaks", scoops, "anonymous government sources",
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by defen 7y ago
Kyler Murray's rookie contract is for $35,158,645. You're talking about the league minimum rookie contract. The veteran minimum is higher than the rookie minimum but there is no prohibition on paying rookies more.
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by defen 7y ago
According to this random quora link: https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-McDonalds-make-in-a-day the average McDonald's unit in the USA has $2,670,320 in annual sales. 25% - 40% profit margin sounds really high for a r
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by defen 7y ago
> in general, you are responsible for whatever is done with your account/machine, authorized or not. if you are doing even the bare minimum to secure the computer, you should not be vulnerable to these kind of pranks from siblings&
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by defen 7y ago
Because it's old or has a whitelisted set of verbs that hasn't been updated since 1999.
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by defen 7y ago
> SAG-AFTRA absolutely does restrict entry, you need $3,000 to pay the joining fee on top of having a year of qualifying membership in another union. A year of qualifying membership in another union, or 1-3 days of work in a movie. The
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by defen 7y ago
Professional sports, Hollywood writers, and Hollywood actors all have unions without seniority-based pay or restricted entry.
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by defen 7y ago
> In this scenario, the K/K ratio could be perhaps 3/1,000,000, assuming a 10-percent accuracy and only a single one-gram shaped charge per drone. So you "only" need 10 million drones and 10 million grams of plastic e
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by defen 7y ago
The first part of your post (seniority-based rules, certifications, etc) shows a lack of imagination in terms of what a union can be. > With software, what do you think will happen if a union somehow manages, via Swiss law, to unionize
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by defen 7y ago
People generally have an intuitive understanding of the security properties of doors. On the other hand, my mid-70s in-laws still have not internalized the idea that the threat model for bad / reused passwords is not "some guy sit
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by defen 7y ago
I would like to know which mainstream economists blame trade deals. Ideally stuff that was published more than 5 years ago.
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by defen 7y ago
Pretty mind-blowing. Any Haskell experts want to attempt a point-free version of the function that calculates the next generation for an arbitrary matrix in Conway’s Game of Life?
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by defen 7y ago
> I'd honestly like to divorce the name entirely from its physical counterpart. How about (bit) or (randbit)
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by defen 7y ago
> What it comes down to is that I expect Blizzard to have a system of values guiding their decision on this, and I want those values to line up with mine - everyone gets human rights, democracy is preferable to authoritarianism, freedom
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by defen 7y ago
My parents pay Comcast $219/month for cable TV (with HBO/Showtime/Netflix) + internet + landline. I've told them multiple times that this seems outrageously high but they're remarkably blasé about it.
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by defen 7y ago
Um, kind of weird edit. All I mean is that both made the point that the "good" parts of technology cannot be separated from the "bad", and that people will rationalize their participation in the system.
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by defen 7y ago
I feel the same way about Oregon's "kicker" tax rebate
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by defen 7y ago
Reminds me a lot of the Unabomber Manifesto, except 10 years earlier.
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by defen 7y ago
Ah, very cool, I guess I missed that announcement.
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by defen 7y ago
> once iCloud launches file sharing I'm 100% done with them. Do you mean something other than this? https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/share-files-with-ic...
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by defen 7y ago
No concrete evidence, just my opinion based on personal experience. I attended Princeton as a lower middle class white, non-athlete, non-legacy admit. Most of the undergrads aren't particularly intellectually impressive - you'll f
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by defen 7y ago
What I'm trying to say is that Harvard has a selection process in place, for which thousands of people per year count as "qualified", and I don't think there's a strong reason to believe that the admitted students a
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by defen 7y ago
Sure, but this is about undergraduate admissions, not graduate.
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by defen 7y ago
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard. Neither Brin nor Page went to Harvard and are both more famous for their connection to Stanford as graduate students IMO

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