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by ellisv 3y ago
They will say what for and give you the opportunity to dispute it. You can even call and talk with someone. They aren't faceless, heartless, or infallible. If it's their mistake, or an honest mistake on your part, they're pre
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by ellisv 3y ago
What a ridiculous take. Use of the software wouldn't be compulsory. The IRS already (mostly) knows what the payer owes.
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by ellisv 3y ago
They will if you get it wrong enough.
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by ellisv 3y ago
That might be true in theory, but in practice companies like Intuit and HR Block use dark patterns to trick users into paying when they should qualify for free filing. You can read about the settlement from ProPublica: https://ww
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by ellisv 3y ago
There's no new feature. It's an old feature (transferring money) but faster.
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by ellisv 3y ago
I assume it would accelerate.
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by ellisv 3y ago
This is good, although I probably benefited from it because one of my recommendation letters was from an alumnus.
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by ellisv 3y ago
This correct but really applies only to health insurance. Other forms of insurance, such as life or disability, can deny you coverage based on having had genetic testing.
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by ellisv 3y ago
> I assume you are trying to break into the game industry? Curious what lead you to this assumption.
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by ellisv 3y ago
Eh. I think we should be complaining about the court all the time. They're not doing a great job.
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by ellisv 3y ago
How was rejecting ISL was legislating from the bench?
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by ellisv 3y ago
> I don’t love the decision, but I actually like the process. And I don’t think it is legislating. It is interpreting the law. I think this is naive. Roberts is not "calling balls and strikes" despite what he would have you bel
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by ellisv 3y ago
> I don't understand cutting all funding for reversing such technology. As I understand it, only "secret, unreported programs" would lose funding.
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by ellisv 3y ago
> The only excuse for the law being around so long was that it created jobs. Which was lame reasoning. This was my understanding and I agree it is bad reasoning. It might have created jobs, but certainly not good ones.
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by ellisv 3y ago
I like the spirit of this idea – to remove outdated and unenforceable laws from the books – but I think this is unpractical at most levels of government. I also think legislative bodies would adopt work arounds that would nullify the desire
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by ellisv 3y ago
Ugh I hate those. I’ve been using Jira for nearly a decade and have written numerous filters for dashboards, etc and I always have to look up the bespoke nuances of JQL. Recently I was burned by a bad query in Google Log Explorer. There w
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by ellisv 3y ago
Agreed. The last thing I need is more flexibility in how people write queries. It would be shortly followed by numerous aggressive query formatting tools. Things would get messy fast.
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by ellisv 3y ago
Eh. I’m not convinced by this. I may know what I want to query as often or more than knowing where it comes from. I suppose it could be nice if the user could specify clauses in an arbitrary order but it’d certainly add complexity. I don’t
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by ellisv 3y ago
> Heat pumps heat your house much more cheaply than other types of heating, since they’re incredibly energy-efficient. So you can save money. Yes, but no. Heat pumps are more efficient but generally natural gas prices are much lower than
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by ellisv 3y ago
As a statistician, I greatly appreciate this.
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by ellisv 3y ago
I've known a couple of people who previously worked at Reddit and I can't imagine they'd quit over something like this. I think most employees don't feel any personal responsibility or sense of control for the situation
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by ellisv 3y ago
I've seen similar sample sizes in medical journals, but I wouldn't necessarily call those junk. From my personal experience, the problem is that people who study psychology are not interested or skilled in statistics. Unskilled pr
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by ellisv 3y ago
from the docs: "Out of 177 mandatory features required for full Core conformance, PostgreSQL conforms to at least 170." [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/features.html
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by ellisv 3y ago
Wireless data transfer isn’t tenable for people taking hi-res photos or videos with their phones. According to Apple a one-minute 10-bit ProRes video is approximately 1.7GB in 1080p and approximately 6GB in 4K. If Apple ever revives AirPowe
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by ellisv 3y ago
Whenever my professor said "it's easy to show" and then moved on it felt very hand wavy. The steps weren't obvious to me and didn't become more obvious as the course went on because no one taught me how to think of
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by ellisv 4y ago
We do this by making the md5 a char(32) generated column of the text column.
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by ellisv 4y ago
Probably meant as something like this: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/message-queuing-using-nativ... But I find that listen/notify seem to be drastically underused.
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by ellisv 4y ago
You're correct, thanks for noting this – I had it backwards.
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by ellisv 4y ago
Also good to remember that booleans can have 3 values: true, false, or null. Creating a partial index on `WHERE NOT NULL` can be helpful too.
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by ellisv 4y ago
> generating constituent response drafts and press documents; Not too worried about that one since most responses are already automated > summarizing large amounts of text in speeches; Again, this seems fine. > drafting policy pape

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