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by drdec 5y ago
Any kind of meaningful coverage for shoplifting can't be dependent on having police reports. Under normal circumstances it is the shoplifting you don't know about that causes losses. I suspect that stores do not have insurance fo
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by drdec 5y ago
> Until the Microsoft account was introduced I could never could on authentication working to mount SMB shares. This still does not work properly for me when mapping SharePoint drives. (Since going fully remote this is is the only type
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by drdec 5y ago
Given that the current government bailed out private pension plans to the tune of $86 billion dollars as part of the latest COVID-19 relief bill [1], I am not concerned that they will soon tackle the government pension funds which have also
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by drdec 5y ago
Part of the problem here is that a variable in mathematics is a different concept from a variable in programming. Mathematicians are used to using one letter variables. Using a set of unwritten naming rules, mathematicians almost always kn
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by drdec 5y ago
> It says I don’t exist We were hoping you wouldn't have to find out this way.
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by drdec 5y ago
There are some definite non-trivial skills involved in successfully googling the solution to a problem. The biggest one is having enough reading comprehension to understand what you found (or alternatively, having enough time/patience
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by drdec 5y ago
Will Firefox containers do anything against fingerprinting however? My impression was that fingerprints was all about the specifics of the environment without utilizing a browser session. So different sessions in the same browser will hav
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by drdec 5y ago
Complete speculation - they operate multiple properties and were short a bed in another house. They may have had someone checking in and balking because there was no bed. Since you had already checked in, it would be much more difficult f
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by drdec 5y ago
I think that is the future for cities.
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> The rent is income, but they often make improvements to the homes and take a cash-out refinance to pay for the cash down payment on a new property. This is pretty much the situation that the tax is designed to combat - people using the
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by drdec 5y ago
The idea is to treat a loan against an asset with capital gains as a sale. So one would have to pay taxes out of the loan and then you get a stepped up basis. The exact rules could be tweaked to keep it from being a burden on families taki
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by drdec 5y ago
You have $100M of stock in Berkshire Hathaway. You use use that as collateral to borrow $11M. You use $1M of the loan to pay expenses (including the interest on the loan). You invest the other $10M in Amazon. A year later you have $11M i
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> Capital Gain taxes are delayed until you actually sell the stock. > Squabbling over a wealth tax is not useful. I agree that a wealth tax is not the way to go. But there are other ways to skin this cat. The big takeaway I got from
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by drdec 5y ago
What does one do it they don't have the Alexa app? It seems counter-productive to install it just to turn this off.
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by drdec 5y ago
In the USA we have a similar law that allows older people to use the resources of younger people to survive. We call it social security. My point is just that sometimes things seem very different in other cultures but are not so different
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by drdec 5y ago
They are saving Twitter+ for the name of the inevitable streaming service
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by drdec 5y ago
Unfortunately they have a way of making war last forever as well.
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by drdec 5y ago
A few years ago I was in front of a Mac for the first time in twenty years trying to browse the web. I couldn't figure out how to scroll the window. There were no scrollbars and no mouse wheel. I had to get someone to show me. Once
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by drdec 5y ago
When you are buying from a third-party via Amazon's website, exactly who do you think Amazon's customer is?
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by drdec 5y ago
Can't you use the X-UA-Compatible header with value IE=11? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/ie_standards/ms-i...
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by drdec 5y ago
I think it is because it is not implemented the way (I imagine) URL shorteners to be implemented with a database back-end to map the short tokens to the actual sites. Instead it just performs a reversible transform on the URL. This way th
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by drdec 5y ago
> I guess that's why top performing movie stars, NBA basketball players etc. have their wages depressed? I can't speak to movie stars, but as for the NBA, there is absolutely the concept of a maximum salary (depends on years of
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by drdec 5y ago
My favorite part is when they tell you "Don't take Oprexmia* if you are allergic to Oprexmia". * My first attempt at a made up drug name was Xaljenzia (my thought process was they seem to love the letters X, J and Z) but appa
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by drdec 5y ago
I think a distribution similar to Gentoo, where the software is compiled at install time, could do something like this. (I don't know enough about Gentoo to know if it already does.)
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by drdec 5y ago
With only HBO Now as the app you only had access to HBO content, not the full range of the HBO Max content.
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by drdec 5y ago
One big grain of salt to take with that NYT graphic is that they took taxes into account. If you are investing in a retirement vehicle (401k, IRA or Roth IRA), your tax obligations are going to be very different. Not to mention that tax l
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by drdec 5y ago
Bruce Schneier reports that Signal will do exactly that (sometimes): https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/04/security-vuln...
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Many "family" restaurants in the in my area of the US have tablets at the table which allows you to pay your bill when you are ready to leave with a credit/debit card with no interaction with the server required. Family resta
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I understand that and I happen to be one of those developers that has a customer that requires IE to be supported. So I was interested in the behavior of the site under IE. My experience testing the site in IE was different than that of a
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by drdec 5y ago
The following did not work for me in IE: - Drop shadow - Custom cursors - Smooth scrolling - Truncate text to a number of lines - Custom scrollbars - Sticky position - Scroll snap - Fancy text - The CodePen CSS button

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