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by drdec 2y ago
Why would you expect checks to be free? The people who print checks need to eat too. I'm curious what else is under your "perks" umbrella. If you want a checking account with no minimums try Ally. EFT payments are also free
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by drdec 2y ago
You don't think you will want some support when a tragedy befalls you? A child or partner is hospitalized or dies? You develop a potentially terminal illness? A partner betrays you? Are you just going to "follow your goals&quo
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by drdec 2y ago
I had none for a very long time. Happy to report I have someone now. Your dismissal of people with small emotional support networks angers me if I'm being honest.
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by drdec 2y ago
> We wouldn't allow that with email. We allowed email to be the wild west for years and I'm not sure it's better than telephony now
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by drdec 2y ago
If you read far enough into the math-y explanations, stiffness is a quantity in the equations. That makes it more than a hand waving explanation in my book.
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by drdec 2y ago
> Why is the changing terminology something that needs to be stopped? It does not. If we were merely talking about the current young person slang word for something good (e.g. rad, sick, amazeballs, etc. (don't ask me for the curre
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by drdec 2y ago
Personally, I took the comment to imply that we are not really solving the root issue behind what is driving the change in terminology and thus we are doomed to continue to apply the same (ineffective) solution.
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by drdec 2y ago
> why is college getting expensive Because of government subsidies. (If you were willing to pay $100k for college and the government will give you $50k, now the college can charge $150k. Yes that's simplistic but it's the cru
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by drdec 2y ago
To clarify, it benefits people who have previously borrowed.
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by drdec 2y ago
>> Final note, inflation helps encourage people to use their money and keep the economy moving. > This is just something people say. Do you keep your savings under a mattress? Or do you put it someplace where the money can do work
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by drdec 2y ago
What does the government do with the monies they receive from said securities? They use it to fund programs, pay salaries, etc.
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by drdec 2y ago
> But then thinking something is "worth more" because it costs more dollars a year from now is deceptive.. how much did its value increase vs the dollar decrease? You have missed the point. Inflation encourages activity because
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by drdec 2y ago
> Inflation makes it harder for the current generation Inflation benefits borrowers and penalizes lenders. I would posit that younger people tend to be borrowers and older people tend to be lenders (bond owners). That said, it's not
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by drdec 2y ago
My impression was that they wanted to be notified of new blogs via RSS, not the content of the blogs. But I could be wrong
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by drdec 2y ago
Do you want to put in your shipping address to every website before you can shop?
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by drdec 2y ago
Requested of who? I don't think we need to wait around for people to ask us to start calling their country what they call it.
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by drdec 2y ago
I believe the GP meant that some keyboards will produce '. ' when the spacebar is tapped twice.
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by drdec 2y ago
It depends on if Monty has the option to show another door or do nothing.
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by drdec 2y ago
>>the free market-based US healthcare system >market, maybe, "free" market? I doubt it. The consumer of healthcare is doubly removed from the price of healthcare. This is the opposite of a free market. The patient did no
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by drdec 2y ago
> has anyone done a 80x24 TUI client for HN lynx still exists
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by drdec 2y ago
This principle is clear if you apply a real world analogy. Just because you happen to have keys to a building doesn't mean you can enter without authorization from the owner. (E.g. you may have kept copies after a lease expires or a s
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by drdec 2y ago
> let me document this for myself, at the appreciated behest of sis. Tell me you live in the information age without telling me you live in the information age
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by drdec 2y ago
>> they need guidance on basic QA practices > Microsoft has a loooong history of botched (security) updates, so I'm not hopeful they can teach Crowdstrike much. Experience is the best teacher
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by drdec 2y ago
> On your sixth birthday we put a big 5 on your cake and call you a 5 year old all year. If you are going to be that pedantic, I would point out that one only has one birthday. (Well, unless one's mother is extremely unlucky.)
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by drdec 2y ago
> so you're holding that up as snobbery, when it's the exact opposite? I've offended you. That was not my intention. My apologies. > but someone had to start. It didn't just come out of nowhere. Your statement is
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by drdec 2y ago
What about this driver version has you excited?
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by drdec 2y ago
> The more complicated verb tenses in English are pretty damn hard for people, even native speakers. So they adapt. You might hold some consideration that for some people, this is how everyone around them talks. And thus they consider i
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by drdec 2y ago
> This choice was designed to spread the pain equally among all operating systems of the day; each has to translate to and from the CR LF convention when text was transferred across the network. On the one hand, this seems clever and fai
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by drdec 2y ago
I think you were right the first time. If a particular 50% chance event does not happen, then the complementary 50% chance event does happen.
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by drdec 2y ago
I don't understand the downvotes of the parent post. I am unfamiliar with the details of this incident and my reading based on the facts presented is similar. Could someone provide more information?

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