drdec

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by drdec 1y ago
> It turns out it was full of holes and we mostly got by on the honor system. 100%. The Constitution was designed with good faith actors in mind. It was not designed in an age of gamification, in which we find ourselves now.
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by drdec 1y ago
Anyone who does crosswords in the US knows that "triple e" is a shoe width.
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by drdec 1y ago
> Of course this means that the next administration will need to start with tax increases just to get to neutral, but maybe that is a feature? Oh no. What you have missed is the incredible end run around the spirit of the reconciliation
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by drdec 1y ago
In America, at least in restaurants, employers are allowed to pay a lower minimum wage to tipped employees. So tips are an essential part of a servers compensation and should not be considered optional. Let me put it another way for my for
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by drdec 1y ago
I'm surprised nobody has suggested this yet. Just use a different name for the function. In your example, the new function should be prettyPrint(). No booleans required. No extra structures required.
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by drdec 1y ago
extraterrestrial != aliens extraterrestrial = not from earth
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by drdec 1y ago
> For now, there exists no evidence whatsoever that the physical space and time are not infinitely divisible. What is your evidence for it? You want to make a claim about something being infinite, it is up to you to provide evidence. &g
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by drdec 1y ago
If you do not accept that space is infinitely divisible, then the diagonal of a unit square does not actually exist in the space.
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by drdec 1y ago
Math in general needs to have a big blinking "don't confuse the map for the territory" label on it. E.g. when you calculate the area of a plot of land do you take into account the curvature of the Earth? You have to make a b
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by drdec 1y ago
Vowels are sounds, not letters. [1] Some letters always represent vowel sounds. Some letters never represent vowel sounds. Some letters are the letter Y [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel
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by drdec 1y ago
As a US citizen I am curious to hear examples of the EU holding back enforcement. That's not the sort of thing that would get reported here.
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by drdec 1y ago
Think about what happened when we got advances in agriculture. We have gone from something like 90% of people employed growing food to something in the single digits (I'm too lazy at the moment to get exact figures, but this is close e
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by drdec 1y ago
The reason you do money laundering is because the source of the funds is illegal. If the source of the funds is legal, just claim it. There are plenty of occupations that get paid in cash and are expected to report it. The IRS isn't
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by drdec 1y ago
If you did not commit a crime to receive the money, there is no reason for money laundering (at least in the US). The IRS does not care as long as you claim it. You don't need a fancy story or anything, just claim the income.
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by drdec 1y ago
Just because some people abuse the language out of ignorance does not make them right ;-)
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by drdec 1y ago
A calzone should have ricotta cheese not mozzarella. Stromboli is closer to folded up pizza as it typically has mozzarella cheese.
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by drdec 1y ago
Former intelligence agents are not veterans Not sure which country this looks bad on given that
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by drdec 1y ago
Can't say I like the tone of this article. Google is trying to do something good it is not in any way obligated to do. Painting this like they were responsible just encourages people not to try such things.
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by drdec 1y ago
It shouldn't matter what the program is doing or not, it's an OS (or kill) level bug. Even if you can make changes to the program so it doesn't happen, it's still an OS/kill level bug. The OS is supposed to termin
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by drdec 1y ago
This sounds like an OS or kill bug not a with the program. Sending `kill -9`, aka `kill -KILL` is supposed to terminate the process immediately without giving it the opportunity to catch the signal and respond. (This is why you should sta
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by drdec 1y ago
If you pick the right bank, you can get the same deal in the US. Actually, you can get no fees at any ATM
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by drdec 1y ago
Clearly a possibly amount since he did it. Would it be possible for someone who was not supporting themselves that way? I.e. for someone with a 40 hr / week job?
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by drdec 1y ago
> Around the same time Clinton got caught lying about chasing (consenting and of age) skirt in the Office: nearly ended his presidency, definitely ended his policy agenda, real consequences and he caught a shooting star to avoid far wors
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by drdec 1y ago
How many hours per day was he swimming?
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by drdec 1y ago
> But I'm also skeptical of drawing any conclusions from questions phrased this way. In my experience, the fraction of people who think everything is worse than 5 years ago has remained unchanged in the last 30 years. Oh no, there a
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by drdec 1y ago
Yes we had a couple good issues in there. In particular I remember one bug where a pointer to a local variable was returned by a function. It worked on our development environment which was apparently more forgiving than our production env
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by drdec 1y ago
I was not around for the original design. Plus this was very early in my career. It was also early web, around the year 2000. The architecture involved a custom Apache httpd module to handle requests. That most likely drove the decision
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by drdec 1y ago
> helping our other Americans find work In the same way that laws against pumping your own gas help other Americans find work. It makes everyone else poorer instead of naturally created jobs which provide goods and services people want.
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by drdec 1y ago
> How long would the development cycle take, if everything is to be written in C? Once upon a time I worked on a website backed by C. Development times were not appreciably longer. We had a in-house templating language for generating HT
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by drdec 1y ago
Most of the people on this board are upper middle to lower upper class (thinking American, apologies to my non US friends). Such people can afford products outside the grasp of most Americans. What naturally happens to such products is tha

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