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by ejb999 5y ago
>>What you are describing is tech support. No that is customer support - big difference.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>You are suggesting that a service that has no idea of what your business is should curate your data and "simply drop it"? yikes. As opposed to just shutting down the customer because TWILIO forwarded the spam, that we alre
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by ejb999 5y ago
I remember, many years ago, a story of someone who took a whole pile of blank deposit slips from the banks, and MICR encoded his account number along the bottom - when customers came in to make a deposit and the slip was scanned electronica
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Different people have different parameters for success. True, but I would say close to 100% of people who build and business and try to sell it have a pretty singular definition of what success really means - and it isn't &#x27
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by ejb999 5y ago
so an author that creates a blockbuster book at 25 years old is automatically worth more than an identical work created by a 85 year old? I truly don't get it - why do you feel that you are somehow owed the free use of something someon
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by ejb999 5y ago
why limit it to books or other creative creations - if you buy a house, you get exclusive use for 20 years - after that, other people just get to move into the unused bedrooms - after all, your kids are probably grown by now and you don&#x2
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>90+ years is really WAY too long. Way too long for who? I don't own any copyrights - probably never will - but why am I supposedly owed the right to use something for free that someone else created after some arbitrary amount
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by ejb999 5y ago
>> If the answers seem fishy, take your business somewhere else. If you know enough to know whether or not the answers you might get are fishy, you probably already know more than the guy you are trying to get advice from.
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by ejb999 5y ago
Buying a new car is one of my absolutely least favorite things to do - even worse then doing my taxes. I will avoid it at all costs. Current vehicle is coming up on 10 years old, hoping to get another 10 out of it - not because I can't
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Did Home Depot ever teach their employees that kind of stuff? I always assumed they hired people with previous knowledge/experience. I think they used to hire people with industry experience - i.e. semi-retired or retired plumb
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by ejb999 5y ago
>> In the lawsuit they allege and present evidence that damage caused by construction on the adjacent property contributed significantly to the collapse. Which is pretty much the same thing the developers/owners of the millennium
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>without ReSharper I find VS to be a terrible experience Resharper was always one of my favorite must have utilities to use for C# development in VS - but I have had the opposite experience as you, it became so slow and so bloated
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by ejb999 5y ago
Couldn't agree more - love visual studio (on windows), and vs code even more (lighter weight, but less features) when I am on a mac or ubuntu. Also use Visual Studio on the Mac - that one I could agree is terrible - but hope it will im
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by ejb999 5y ago
I gave up twitter, facebook and most all other social media about a 18 +/- months ago (though was never a big user to begin with) - it is truly a cesspool (and yes, I realize that HN is a minor version of social media). I even went so
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by ejb999 5y ago
Pretty much agree - it would be traumatizing if my house burned down no doubt, but other than family and pets, I have no emotional connection to anything else in the house - its just stuff. If the house was on fire, I'd grab my laptop
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by ejb999 5y ago
Is there somehow a lack of affordable - and in many cases free - email options that we need a government solution to this?
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by ejb999 5y ago
protecting free speech really just means protecting free speech of people they agree with. No surprise here.
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by ejb999 5y ago
shelves are empty, ships not getting unloaded, not enough deliveries being made by truck - 10M open positions that can't be filled - who is the genius that thinks knocking 20% off the work week of people already doing those tasks is go
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by ejb999 5y ago
This article is pointless clickbait - what percent of systems don't have some sort of throttling or lockout after X number of bad guesses - damn few I would say. Even the most basic, low budget systems I have developed or worked on hav
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by ejb999 5y ago
so they they are greedy for collecting payments for visits to keep writing prescriptions, but if they spend their time treating them during the visit, they are not greedy? How does that work? do you think somehow they get paid extra for wri
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by ejb999 5y ago
because that is what the insurance companies will pay for - they CAN take 30 minutes, but the only get paid for 15 in many cases.
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by ejb999 5y ago
I agree - goes on still, all day everyday all across the USA. Easiest thing for a doctor to do to not have to deal with a problem patient (i.e. a drug seeker - not saying your aunt was one of them), is give them what they want, and send the
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by ejb999 5y ago
I don't think there is any proof of that - look at VT, or in fact most of the New England states - among the highest percent of vaccinated people anywhere in the US and yet for many of those states, the cases are at a much, much higher
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by ejb999 5y ago
are you sure about that? - seems right now the most vaccinated states also seem to have the largest spike in cases - I agree the vaccine, at this point anyway, seems to be reducing deaths - but not sure I agree on transmission - seems like
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by ejb999 5y ago
How do you propose to wipe out humans and leave the animals intact?
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by ejb999 5y ago
same here - used to buy everything I could from amazon, without really checking the price (they were always generally lowest price or close to it especially if you factor in the free and quick shipping and previously not having to pay sales
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by ejb999 5y ago
maybe they learned from squirrels how to behave when crossing the road and a car comes
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>There is no need for late fees when libraries can use much simpler and more effective incentives like not allowing you to check out more books until you return the ones you have. You just come back and get a new library card under a
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by ejb999 5y ago
great, now you can go to the library, take out rare books and sell them on eBay.
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by ejb999 5y ago
no they can't

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