ejb999

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by ejb999 5y ago
How do you explain the ten's or hundreds of thousands of people in the world that already have financial freedom (i.e. enough in the bank to live comfortably the rest of their lives), and yet still get up everyday and goto work?
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by ejb999 5y ago
so you don't have any idea what 'they' should do, but clearly it's the hospitals fault. Maybe the 'they' that should do something is you?, but I guess it's actually easier to blame 'them', becaus
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>then push you out the door and tell you to find an AA group. What is it exactly you want the hospital to do if your friend won't stop drinking?
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by ejb999 5y ago
Every place I have ever worked reported incidents going down would be good, not up.
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by ejb999 5y ago
thats not the kind of progression you like to see - that is, error rates increasing over time instead of decreasing.
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by ejb999 5y ago
I don't disagree, it is so easy to build solutions on tp of dynamodb - and then I regret it when the access patterns change and the solution falls apart -thats when I wish I had stuck with tried-and-true relational. That is kind of t
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by ejb999 5y ago
Couldn't agree more - just like NoSQL vs regular old SQL - don't assume you need a NoSQL solution, until you actually prove you need it. probably 90-97% of solutions will be better off with a relational database; boring yes, but t
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>In the grand scheme of things those heaters probably don't make much of a dent in the overall energy consumption (but who knows), I think we should ban them though as it really sends the wrong signal. So instead of actually sol
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by ejb999 5y ago
I think the point is - its a non-story - there is no importance whatsoever to the article.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>> but I can't believe he could be that stupid. He is that stupid....and evil.
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by ejb999 5y ago
I'd close it again if I could, but that would required creating another one first. but seriously, closing your Facebook account and moving to instagram really doesn't send much of a message, does it? It's the same evil compan
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>A no-fly zone" is one of the worst misnomers out there. Its not a misnomer at all - it is exactly what it says it is - might not be a good idea, but calling it a 'no-fly zone' is completely accurate.
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by ejb999 5y ago
especially now where in all likelihood you are going to overpay for the property, and at anytime the government just decides that your tenants can stop paying rent for a year or more, but you still need to make your mortgage payments, prope
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by ejb999 5y ago
I agree - people need to be able to be called out when they are making bad decisions - especially w/regards to their health, and they especially should be called out by their health care providers - many doctors these days won't e
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by ejb999 5y ago
Its just the inconvenience of having to lug around multiple machines, and backup multiple machines - its nice when everything you need fits under your arm, but you are right - I could offload my old VM's, and may need to do that at som
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by ejb999 5y ago
Yes, but AFAIK, M1's will not support emulation of x86 based regardless of software vendor - and unfortunately, I still have to run some old VM's several times a week - include a very old Windows XP environment, and I don't t
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by ejb999 5y ago
I'd buy one in a second if only it would support running vmware fusion - I still have to have one foot in Windows world, and not being able to spin-up and old windows vm is a deal breaker for me. (M1 chips won't support it). Sure
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by ejb999 5y ago
bragging about how little electricity you use, and then excluding heat and hot water from the equation?
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>when you're much more likely to get a nice little coffee shop\eatery. Not sure why you are assuming it won't be a 7-11 or a Starbucks or a Subway or a McDonalds - because statistically, that is what you are going to get -
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>"obviously most people don't want it enough to attend town halls and learn whose business interests is blocking progress" So you should decide what people want, not the people that live there? People do show up at t
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by ejb999 5y ago
first of all, that is not true - there are places that allow mixed usage - and it is not 'the US' that doesn't allow it - zoning is almost always a local function, i.e. state and city/town governments make these decision
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by ejb999 5y ago
I couldn't agree more - and think it is asinine to tell developers to not comment code; most of the comments I write, are for me as much as for the next person who works on it. I find them invaluable. Recent contract at a big Fortune50
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by ejb999 5y ago
>> They get to pay back their loans with cheaper dollars but they also have to pay for energy, food and automobiles, all of which is going up much faster than the average person's salary. imo, the first area that is going to take
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by ejb999 5y ago
...so again, those stupid poor people to dumb to buy Teslas.
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by ejb999 5y ago
so what you are saying is you are in favor of trickle-down economics? - where people who make $300K+ a year, buy government subsidized Tesla's, and somehow, somewhere, the poor single mother who now has decide between filling her car t
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by ejb999 5y ago
yea, all those poor people who can't afford to fill their cars should just run out and buy Teslas instead.
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by ejb999 5y ago
we are not seeing 'corporate induced inflation' we are seeing government policy induced inflation - very big difference.
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by ejb999 5y ago
I don't have the figures handy, but based on what I am seeing I suspect we are entering a period of the biggest wealth gap in recent history between the rich and everybody else. Massive, massive asset inflation, for those that own thin
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Can't have the sales guy invent functionality out of thin air without a call. Exactly! Find out what the customer needs it to do, and then tell them your solution does exactly that, even if it doesn't. If you list all your
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by ejb999 5y ago
I am in the camp of requiring people to have strong passwords, and not requiring them to be changed - ever. When you ask people to remember too many passwords, they start writing them down and/or forgetting them, which leads to other p

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