derekp7

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by derekp7 7y ago
Realistically, if the employer doesn't have to pay out for healthcare, won't they have funds available to give the employee a higher salary to make up the differences in taxes? Ideally I'd like to see universal healthcare ta
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by derekp7 7y ago
That actually makes a lot of sense, in that if there is a limited amount of funding then that 50K should go to a treatment that will give someone another 10 years. Under the US system, private insurance is just as quick (if not quicker) to
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by derekp7 7y ago
And even once they get burned, they don't understand what they did wrong. Instead of cashing out part of their stash for taxes (equiv. to the taxes owed on the coins they traded, plus the taxes owed on what they cashed out), they effe
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by derekp7 7y ago
What's worse than losing your life savings, is those that made a huge profit on one coin, then traded that directly for another coin that then lost everything. The IRS considers that trade to be a liquidity event, and you owe taxes on
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by derekp7 7y ago
I've often wondered about how to deal with a future where there is a lack of lower skilled work. After all, half the population is below the median when it comes to skill, IQ, or self motivation. I'm thinking that future educatio
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by derekp7 7y ago
Do you live in Oregon or NJ? Was wondering if your opinion applies to self serve gas stations also (it's ok if it does or doesn't, just more food for thought). This can also extend to changing your own oil, or doing your own lan
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by derekp7 7y ago
A lot of shrinkage is also caused by store staff too. So the two may offset each other.
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by derekp7 7y ago
Other than the arguments about negative externalities, it seems more ethical (or fair, if you will) to have less or no tax on items that are necessary for life (food, shelter), vs items that are more of a luxury (big screen tv, party suppli
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by derekp7 7y ago
There are often multiple ways to make a make a skinny cat, with no particular way better in all respects than any other method. Programmers end up designing code based on their own mental model, held in their head at that time, and would n
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by derekp7 7y ago
It sounds like walking a tight line between over engineering, and falling into technical debt. If you design code specifically solves the immediate need, that may need to be thrown away or extensively worked on / around when future ne
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by derekp7 7y ago
Did that company happen to have a logo that looked like the Batman Signal?
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by derekp7 7y ago
Fortunately with cloud and open source tooling, there isn't anything to buy. And management is already excited about cloud because they read it in CIO magazine and their buddies mention it on the golf course. The only thing needed is
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by derekp7 7y ago
Too bad it the sound amplifier app only works with wired headphones, with Pixel 2 and above not having a headphone jack. So now that they got me to switch over to bluetooth headphones, I have to dig out the USB adapter and an older pair of
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by derekp7 7y ago
Regarding sentiment, and stock valuation, this is the way I look at it, which to me makes sense (although it doesn't account for irrationality in the market). Let's say you have $100.00, and the market figures that you need to mak
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by derekp7 7y ago
Got a question, what is the standard workaround to the fact that Readline's forward search (Crtl-S) is also XOFF (effectively pauses the terminal)? Other than turning off software flow control via stty -- I'd like to keep that on
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by derekp7 7y ago
3:2 is great for tablets or convertibles. For me, 16:9 vertical (9:16?) is way to narrow for most web sites. Whereas 3:2 is the sweet spot that works in either orientation fairly well. The other thing I like about it is when watching pre-
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by derekp7 7y ago
I believe you can switch your yum (or dnf) repository to point to a Red Hat source, then use yum to reinstall all your packages from the RHEL equivalent. There's a couple tutorials out there for it, and once finished your system will
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by derekp7 7y ago
It seems that hackerspaces would be the perfect place for retirees and younger folks to mix. The older people tend to have more mechanical skills through life experience, and can help the younger ones learn to make things (wood / meta
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by derekp7 7y ago
Payscale is a pro for unions where the labor is fairly uniform. It is a con in professions where an individual can get much higher salary by providing much higher value to the employer than his/her peers. Example: if I was in a union
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by derekp7 7y ago
Is that true everywhere, or is it mostly a West Coast web dev shop cultural item? In systems engineering / operations / devops / architecture roles in the MidWest, I have never experienced any of that BS.
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by derekp7 7y ago
I think it is probably fair to say that unions have pros and cons, and the pros outweigh the cons for factory-type workers, whereas in the professional fields the cons may outweigh the pros. Here are some items to consider: 1) Payscale --
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by derekp7 7y ago
Sometimes the biggest hurtle to getting a job is just getting to the interview.
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by derekp7 7y ago
I would love one with a downloadable ringtone. Or a selection of different tones. But the one item I want most of all, is to clear the timer if food is removed early, say after 5 minutes or so.
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by derekp7 7y ago
What is the economic and environmental impact of manufacturing and installing that number of solar panels? And the biggest issues has always been getting the energy from where it is harvested, to where the demand is.
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by derekp7 7y ago
Is there less plastic though (due to the rigidity provided by the aluminum)? Also, does the plastic typically separate from the metal and get into the environment, or does it stay with the metal until recycling (in which it gets burned awa
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by derekp7 7y ago
Yep, that is why I phrased it that way -- plausible deniability.
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by derekp7 7y ago
That's why I maintain my DVD Netflix subscription, and keep stuffing my Plex server.
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by derekp7 7y ago
I thought the expression derived from the use of Greek alphabet characters in advanced math. With complex formulas looking like a bunch of Greek writing, this idiom fits perfectly.
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by derekp7 7y ago
This attack can also be defeated by seeing how long the signal takes to respond from the fob so it knows how far away it is. Thieves can't get around the speed of light. Or use multiple antennas to triangulate the signal from the key
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by derekp7 7y ago
Hybrids are ok, since the initial acceleration is done using the electric motor, and is instantaneous. But some non-hybrid cars will stop the engine when the car stops, and start it real quick as you move your foot off the brake. This get

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