drdec

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by drdec 4y ago
Places you do business with (like your bank) are already allowed to call you regardless of your Do Not Call registry status.
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by drdec 4y ago
I will break steaks in apps on purpose, to fight the gamification. At a certain point it is not really helping and just manipulating you for the application's benefit as the article explains. Do it because you want to, you are getting
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by drdec 4y ago
> running non-compiling Java code yet I don't mean to sound rude here, but that just sounds like nonsense to me. How are you supposed to run code that won't compile? Does eclipse just generate random bytecodes for the party t
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by drdec 4y ago
> So far no one has, there must be a reason no one can. I am reminded of the story of two economists walking down the street. One spots a $20 bill on the sidewalk points it out to the other, who says "Don't be ridiculous, if t
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by drdec 4y ago
Care to share the results of your research?
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by drdec 4y ago
> It'd be like building a house and finishing and immediately changing something on it, or fixing something that broke, forever So it would be like owning a house?
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by drdec 4y ago
It depends on the relationship you have with your spouse. A solid, long term relationship with trust makes this much easier. We've done this for 17 years now on my salary which has been maybe a little over the national median for soft
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by drdec 4y ago
Sure it's difficult for you to see, but trust me, it's obvious to a fungus.
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by drdec 4y ago
> I saw examples like picking the same suffix as their landline I did that, to make it easier for people to remember, which is moot now. And now when I log into my bank or other account, they ask me if I want to get a text to XXX-XXX-84
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by drdec 4y ago
> Baby formula isn't some magical combination of ingredients. And I get it, authorities are wary to recommend recipes because of the risk of people fucking it up. But when people are out of options they'll likely make worse dec
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by drdec 4y ago
Thank you, now I don't need to write this comment
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by drdec 4y ago
Try https://linux-hardware.org/ for a good source of known good hardware.
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by drdec 4y ago
This kind of analysis - that safety gear inspires reckless behavior - is used over and over again to argue against safety measures. The automobile industry used it to fight against seat belts. More recently, some people used it to argue a
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by drdec 4y ago
Just because raising rates is the tool of choice for central banks to fight inflation doesn't mean it is the only thing that affects inflation. E.g. if supply chains were restored and suddenly there was a lot more product to purchase t
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by drdec 4y ago
You don't need the new document to hold up in court, the gambit is to deprive them of having your legal agreement. Granted, a court might still see that as fraud, IANAL.
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by drdec 4y ago
It would be dischargeable in bankruptcy so there is a practical limit.
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by drdec 4y ago
IMHO there was definitely a period when jQuery solved a whole host of problems for you and allowed you to write client side code much faster. If you weren't using jQuery or an equivalent you were kneecapping yourself unnecessarily.
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by drdec 4y ago
Weren't Vines only a few seconds? This reminds me more of MTV, back when the letters stood for something.
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by drdec 4y ago
> in fact it could destroy a revenue stream if I slept on a bug. There are plenty of staff positions where incompetence could be very damaging or deadly to the business. E.g. in-house lawyers or accountants, even HR in some circumstanc
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by drdec 4y ago
> The main point of a “stimulus” is to stimulate the economy. Yet, at the same time, they were forcing parts of the economy to shut down. Nothing like hitting the gas and the brake at the same time.
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by drdec 4y ago
That wouldn't stop them from shipping it by default.
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by drdec 4y ago
Aborted(Assertion failed: draw_list->_VtxCurrentIdx < (1 << 16) && "Too many vertices in ImDrawList using 16-bit indices. Read comment above", at: ../extern/include/imgui/imgui.cpp,4269,AddD
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by drdec 4y ago
I suspect you are better versed in this subject than I am but what about the idea that the US has essentially already committed to heavy borrowing to finance the government for the foreseeable future? Wouldn't that be a deterrent alon
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by drdec 4y ago
I think it is more to avoid having to pay out accrued vacation time when an employee leaves.
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by drdec 4y ago
I buy unlocked phones without financing them and use Ting for mobile service. I don't buy phones from the cell providers.
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by drdec 4y ago
Exactly. I was recently talking to a guy who had had his iPhone stolen. But it was no big deal - he had replacement insurance and the deductible was only $200. Which is more than I have ever paid for a phone in my life.
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by drdec 4y ago
I think that the point is not that non-crypto systems are perfect, but at least they do not have flaws which could make the reversal of a transaction a mathematical impossibility. In non-crypto systems if you convince the right humans, thi
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by drdec 5y ago
Psychopathy
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by drdec 5y ago
> The government has every right to decide the content of the material being provided to kids in public schools. An interesting nuance to this particular case is that it is the state government that is imposing the requirement while it i
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by drdec 5y ago
An electrical provider is typically a government-granted monopoly, and given that, it is not unreasonable to extend the protection of speech against government action to the electrical provider. Banks are not however, and in fact, banks and

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