devney

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by devney 4y ago
It is interesting to me that you have income and outflow so tightly coupled that you think in terms of "N% of income". I did that for several decades. These days I take pains to decouple income and outflow. That is: I judge the
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by devney 4y ago
I am frankly astonished by this article and all of these comments. Right now I have only 3 digital subscriptions totalling $20.58/month. (Admittedly that's low right now; I usually have an additional 2 streaming services, rotate
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by devney 4y ago
"The people at this company actually believe in the mission of bringing the world closer together. They recognize and embrace the huge responsibility it puts on us." Bro if that were true then the end product of Facebook would be
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by devney 4y ago
The main point to remember is that the fones we carry aren't for us. They are data-gathering tools for various spy enterprises. Any utility we get out of our fones is largely incidental, or at best it's bait to get us into the
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by devney 5y ago
I just feel like this author could have chosen a better example. The if/else block that he complains about is easy to read and simple to understand. The ternary he advises raises the bar significantly for anyone trying to read the co
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by devney 5y ago
Not really related to the discussion at hand but I often wonder if that's the right way to make laws? "Intent is king" is the watchword of modern American jurisprudence but I ask you: If you killed 3 people, are they less de
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by devney 5y ago
Discussion question: If something is immoral and debatably illegal, does documenting it in the quick start guide make it somehow less immoral? Or does that just mean it was documented?
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by devney 5y ago
Of course there's more nuance to this. As I mentioned, these cases usually involve coercion (someone held a gun to your head and made you sign the contract) or not speaking the language (interpreter wasn't available/translat
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by devney 5y ago
"If you could have read the document but didn't, that is your own fault and the contract stands." That's the point, isn't it? Gideon v. Wainwright clearly established that no non-lawyer can be expected to win agai
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by devney 5y ago
That raises whole other legal questions.... One basic pillar of contract law basically everywhere is that one can not be bound by a contract that they didn't read, even if they signed it. Usually these cases involve coercion or not kn
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by devney 5y ago
On the surface this seems blatantly illegal: after the sale is made the no-longer-owner removes functionality. Can someone please explain how this is legally not some sort of theft, or bait-and-switch, or ... something? I read comments abou
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by devney 5y ago
That's great! As other commenters here have mentioned an online menu accessed by a QR code can have lots of extra features: multiple languages, filters for gluten/nuts/etc. Meanwhile since I, speaking the local language and
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by devney 5y ago
We could talk about why all day long but I want to make this fact super clear to any restaurant workers/owners: If you ask me to get my fone out of my pocket then I leave and give my business to your competition. Literally all it take
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by devney 5y ago
Adblock doesn't break sites. If your site doesn't work with adblock, that means your site is broken. 27% of American internet users use adblock in some form. Better go check right now that you're not losing 27% of sales to
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by devney 5y ago
For years I've been asking: Why does my toothbrush have to connect to bluetooth? Why does my refrigerator twitter? These were always useless mis-features and we can hope some of them can get pared down now with the shortage. Bring b