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by ejb999 5y ago
so because Jeff Bezo's is rich, I can steal?
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by ejb999 5y ago
...because they are losing money? stores aren't in business to feed you; they are in business to make money. Would you continue to own and run a store if it lost money for you? Better have deep pockets then.
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by ejb999 5y ago
VB/VB6, with some Clipper and Foxpro mixed in. Switched to c# instead of picking up vb.net - in retrospect a good call.
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by ejb999 5y ago
loved turbo pascal a long time ago - got my professional start there - but I will forgive him for Delphi anyway :>)
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by ejb999 5y ago
Interesting - never heard of him, that I can remember anyway, over my career my three favorite programming languages were (in order from oldest to newest) - Turbo Pascal, C# and now Typescript - and apparently he created all three.
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by ejb999 5y ago
not a surprise - most of the supposed 'outrage' found on social media - and repeated by the mainstream media - is completely manufactured by foreign governments.
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by ejb999 5y ago
where were all the offended people when we had the 'spanish flu' or the 'german measles'.
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by ejb999 5y ago
Yes they are - sometimes the most obvious explanation is the simplest one: it leaked from a lab. If radioactive animals were found running around outside a nuclear power plant in the USA, would anyone believe the owners of the nuclear power
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by ejb999 5y ago
nowhere - there is NO PLACE you get safely get 10% guaranteed per year. Zilch, none. Better plans is to plan on living off 4% of you nest egg if you don't want to run out when you are too old to start working again.
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by ejb999 5y ago
thats why I don't use google anymore (well one of the many reasons actually)
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>You find the employees who wouldn't steal because they believe that money isn't everything. Or just the ones that want to be able to sleep at night without worrying about that knock on the door by the feds in a midnight ra
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by ejb999 5y ago
>> "we'll fund it back up" This part puzzles me to - immediately agreeing to plug the $320Million hole really makes you wonder how there is that much money freely available to just pay people back so easily.
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by ejb999 5y ago
Is it though the same thing? obviously taking cash spewing out of an ATM is illegal - but I honestly not sure if this is the same thing. I am thinking more along the lines (made up example), you studied the trading in certain stocks and fig
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by ejb999 5y ago
Sorry for this possibly stupid question - really not into crypto space (and not in small part because of these types of stories). But, these hackers walked away with $320M in ether, but is what they did actually illegal or did they just exp
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by ejb999 5y ago
wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole - and for the same reason I won't own tobacco stocks.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>So in your opinion it was the companies fault that they didn't purposely leave a competitive advantage on the table while their competition surely utilized it? Are you OK with upper middle class and rich people getting in line
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>So in your opinion it was the companies fault that they didn't purposely leave a competitive advantage on the table while their competition surely utilized it? Yes, absolutely. People who are making money hands over fist should
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by ejb999 5y ago
I used to listen to a podcast I enjoyed about a small and rapidly growing tech company in Oregon, someone I had personally met a few years back at a conference - which is where I first learned of the company; they work in the e-commerce spa
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>But we (rich white people) don't exactly have a good track record in these types of situation Wow, nice generalization - do you get all your 'facts' from the movies?
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>His 20 year experience was that the more expensive the kitchen, the less it is used. My builder told me the same thing - the people that spend the most on kitchens, are those that use them the least.
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by ejb999 5y ago
This tool is just another way to write those very same SQL queries - I have yet to see any tool that purports to write the SQL for you, output SQL that is better than someone that actually understands relational data and sql can do - it is
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by ejb999 5y ago
I am not really sure we need a 'better SQL' - SQL has been doing what SQL does in pretty much the same way for 50+/- years - if you work with relational data, learn SQL. Very few technologies have had the staying power that S
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by ejb999 5y ago
nothing makes an article seem more legit than having moronic gif's play on a continuous loop while you try to read it. </sarc>
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by ejb999 5y ago
LL Bean used to always have super high quality products - stuff you could buy and wear for years, even decades. Sadly, now that they no longer offer warranties like they used to, the quality has decreased greatly. I am on my second pair of
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>so why not The 'why not' only matters if you care about the planet, buying and replacing things that don't need to be purchased in the first place is horrible for the planet in every conceivable way. I recycle things
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Meanwhile my most recent clothes purchase was 6 identical plain black t-shirts. I do slightly better, find a shirt I like, then buy identical set in 5 colors, and I am all set until next years shopping 'spree' of $60 (5x$1
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by ejb999 5y ago
My experience exactly.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Wow, it sounds like they did eat the costs, 3 out of 3 for LA again. That does seem rather thorough. 'they' didn't eat the cost of anything, 'we' are paying the cost thru higher prices on everything we buy.
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by ejb999 5y ago
While I don't think you are wrong, and that is a very common viewpoint - in my own experience I always preferred fixed price jobs - but you do need to be careful about the projects you choose. I love the freedom of just building what t
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by ejb999 5y ago
Phones need to have two passwords; one that when you unlock it just has the built-in apps and a small selection of your emails/images that you don't mind other people seeing. Second password would actually unlock the entire phone

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