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by ejb999 4y ago
Do password managers have FDIC coverage? banks do. Big difference.
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by ejb999 4y ago
It's not.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>The Internet is filled with such conclusions; another adds nothing. reply Problem is, the internet is also filled with studies that prove or disprove anything you want, best to be skeptical. I personally don't put much credence
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>The professor recommends across the board pay cuts as an alternative to layoffs. Terrible idea imo, there is almost no company that can't cut 5% of their staff without negatively impacting the company as a whole if done more or
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by ejb999 4y ago
I agree. Which is worse: never getting hired by google, or getting hired, working for a few years making a great or even outsized salary and then getting laid off after getting great experience? - or never having had the opportunity to in t
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by ejb999 4y ago
I've used this one with great success (and its free): https://github.com/tuespetre/TuesPechkin its basically a wrapper for wkhtmltopdf but I develop an app that has probably generated a million +/- invoices&#
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by ejb999 4y ago
Possibly is a result of the SEC rules regarding insider information - not sure a company as big as MSFT or AMZN can give a heads up to 'insiders' before investors for something that may materially affect the company - and big layo
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Are all iOS/Mac devs buying new machines every five years? I buy one every three years - just before my AppleCare expires.
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by ejb999 4y ago
I have a feeling Apple will be next - CEO announces he will be taking a huge pay cut in compensation was maybe an effort for him to preemptively show he is 'sharing the pain' (though 'only' 50M comp is not really much pa
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>The article is correct that this misses many important situations but it is still better than nothing. I am not really sure its better than nothing - what it does do imo, is muddy the waters a bit for casual users, and perhaps make
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by ejb999 4y ago
and the hits just keep on coming ...
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by ejb999 4y ago
It's not just vaccines - lots of examples where we do one thing to solve one problem, and it causes several problems down the road that then need to be solved for. draining the everglades, using ddt, importing asian carp, lionfish, rel
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by ejb999 4y ago
Gee, what could possibly go wrong? mankind doesn't have a particularly strong track record of messing with mother nature without all kinds of unintended side-effects down the road.
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by ejb999 4y ago
I'd probably have the same opinion if the resume I got was from someone who worked in the porn industry (developing websites/infrastructure etc) - yea, it is a lot of the same technologies I would be using in a non-porn company, b
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>I can see a regulation that mandates that you wire any new residences up so they can support gigabit, but how is this going to work if the municipality / ISP does not offer it? If read the article, it says the cap is 2000 pound
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>I’ll be a C student and graduate in 3 years vs. being an A student who graduates in 4 Why be a student at all then? you can finish in zero years.
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by ejb999 4y ago
Its also possible that it is very hard to be truly homeless in the winter in many places in the USA, and being someplace warm year-round, makes being homeless easier. Just like being someplace that is less likely to arrest you for openly do
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Those are great opportunities to teach your children about the consequences of an apathetic voting base I think you would be much better off using those opportunities to teach your kids to stay away from drugs and alcohol, and to st
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>This is why higher orders of government need to step in to "force" municipalities to enact some of these sorts of policy changes you describe. The people that live there, don't want their city/neighborhood to cha
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by ejb999 4y ago
Correct - its not that farmers have outsized voting influence - they don't - what they do have is contracts and rights that can't just be taken away without compensation. The longer states wait to buy back those water rights, the
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by ejb999 4y ago
what is the legal mechanism for taking someone's properties (in this case water rights) without compensation?
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by ejb999 4y ago
Your math isn't really accurate though, is it? you say 7 homes uses 1,008,000 gallons and then you eliminate 50% of that usage because it's for 'pools and landscaping' - but homes have pools and landscaping, so you can&#
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by ejb999 4y ago
correct. The law is on the farmers side, water rights that were negotiated over 100 years ago can't just be canceled because of a current need - only way out is likely to use taxpayer money to buy back those rights from farmers that ar
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by ejb999 4y ago
The 'bad experiences' with HR are usually because of some employees not understanding who HR serves - I also have never had a problem with HR; you only deal with HR on your first day and last day for the most part. It's not m
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>What I have seen as a senior tech executive and old person is that young people entering the workforce after around 2015-6 often rely on HR to be a neutral arbiter in workplace conflicts, analogous to parental chaperones or universi
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by ejb999 4y ago
I agree - and the additional benefit of lots less opportunities to track you in ways that you don't want to be tracked.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>I’d rather it be harder to get a job, but have higher job security when you get it. If you were out of work, 3 months behind on your mortgage, and wondering if you have enough money saved to keep your kids fed until you get another
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>That you expect that the law is a tool available to the wealthy. Why would it be like that? Its really not that complicated - wealthy people can hire lawyers to sue someone, poor and middle-class people not so much.
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by ejb999 4y ago
on the other hand, the USA has close to 100K drug overdose deaths per year and singapore has close to none - not sure we are being very humane in the USA by allowing so many people to die from a preventable causes - maybe singapore is harsh
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by ejb999 4y ago
Never underestimate the tendency of many SWE's to make things more complicated than they need to be.

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