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by donarb 7y ago
Here's a link using outline.com https://outline.com/ajm9j7
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He did mention Redis, so I assume some sort of message queueing was in play.
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This happens all the time with people who apply for bank accounts. Chex Systems provides a vetting service for banks. If you ever have a checking account closed by the bank, they report you to Chex Systems who then blacklist you for five ye
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Really? In Europe, take a look at Berlin's Brandenburg airport. It took 15 years to design, was supposed to open 5 years after that and now may not open until 2021, 15 years after construction started. Other example projects that are d
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Cashiers helping one customer at a time are a bottleneck in a fast food restaurant. It's not that those jobs are eliminated, food still needs to be cooked and served. Kiosks allow up to 2, 3, 4 times the number of customers to order fo
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A lot of times, you'll find a product that manufacturers have flooded the market with, like frozen pizzas with trendy buzzword ingredients (buffalo chicken arugula) that consumers didn't go for. They're good deals, but you&#x
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For starters, I'd say that overloading the multiplication operator to concatenate strings and insert path separators is one very bad code smell.
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The problem with insurance across state lines is that insurance companies would create a policy in a state with lax regulation and rules and sell that policy everywhere else. It's the same sort of crap that allows credit card companies
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Not in Ohio. There is a marital exception for certain acts that would constitute rape anywhere else, like drugging your spouse and then raping them. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2019/04/
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Postal Address Insanity: Why I Switched from Spotify to Apple Music(tidbits.com)
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The nice thing is that Harry's sells through Target stores. I stopped the subscription and now I can buy them on my schedule.
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Here’s the link to the document that describes the rule. Basically requires disclosure of list price if it costs more than $35/month for an average regimen. Price must be posted in a readable font and also be announced verbally. Compan
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I call the the “one little button syndrome”, where a client thinks that just adding one little button to a web page should take a few minutes. They don’t realize that that one little button may require a whole bunch of code to support on th
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UPS does a lot of seasonal hiring during Christmas. This includes workers in distribution centers as well as helpers on delivery trucks.
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On the iPhone, you just go to Safari settings, then Advanced and switch Javascript off.
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The UK may have banned slavery early on, but the US was the first of many British colonies to gain independence, something which took a few hundred years for the UK to relinquish world-wide. Colonization was a milder form of slavery, but op
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In Washington State, photographs of each ballot are taken as the ballot is removed from the envelope and after it has been electronically tabulated. This prevents someone from replacing a paper ballot along the way.
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Note that this is good not only for Apple, but the agreement also stops Qualcomm litigation against Apple's contract manufacturers (Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron, and Compal). This helps Apple immensely by steadying their supply chain.
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The Washington National Cathedral in DC was started in 1907 and took 83 years to build.
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The Reims cathedral suffered very heavy damage during WW1 and was rebuilt in about 20 years. Looking at it today, you'd hardly know the extent of the damage.
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AWS is now pushing Alexa for Business, which I assume is a corporate wide AI product along similar lines as IBM's Watson.
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Southwest Airlines was allowed to fly all of their grounded jets to a facility in Arizona a few weeks after the initial grounding. The FAA allows this as long as there are no passengers on board.
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If you're using Safari, it will auto-fill the virtual card number automatically for you.
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May not be for long. Microsoft is in the middle of a multi-year plan to renovate their campus to make it more open and collaborative. https://news.microsoft.com/modern-campus/
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They used to hand out as convention swag a little rear view mirror you attached to the corner of your monitor so you could see what's behind you.
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50% has been a standard in print publishing for a hundred years.
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Texas? The place where anybody can build a house in a flood plain and then expect the government to bail them out when the river rises? The place where currently a blazing chemical fire is allowed to burn for days and neighbors (to a chemic
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Here's my quick port to Swift. It can run in a playground. https://gist.github.com/donarb/1502a12cb16fa74f4fd2e295867da...
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Middlemen help you buy a car from competing dealers. Buying only from Tesla means you can’t negotiate for a better price.
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In Kenya, you can use M-PESA. Money is transferred digitally and quickly.

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