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by furyg3 5y ago
Yes, but we all know that business rules and logic can be very complex, but you can still simplify the interface for the vast majority of users. The IRS collects tax information from most businesses with employees, banks and investment firm
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by furyg3 5y ago
I recently needed to access some information on the IRS website, and had to do a 3 hour, very annoying, ID.me registration. Everything failed. The OCR software thought the issue date of my passport was my birthday (so I wasn't old en
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by furyg3 5y ago
I totally agree with you... but I disagree that the car should be the enforcer of this behavior (unless there is actual danger of hitting a barrier, other car, etc). Drivers should not have an adversarial relationship with their cars. On a
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by furyg3 5y ago
Hear hear. I sold my old 2004 Skoda Fabia (which for Americans has the technology of a 2000 VW golf), since repairs were costing more and the car sharing here in Amsterdam is really becoming reliable for the few times I need a car. Recent
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by furyg3 5y ago
No. I said "The only solution here is legalization, treatment, and general social welfare." That last one is what makes the gang bangers go away, but it's a long process.
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by furyg3 5y ago
Arresting dealers / busting drug rings is one of the few policing activities that directly leads to MORE crime. What happens when you bust a drug ring and arrest some big players? You immediately create a power vacuum, which leads to
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by furyg3 5y ago
For a second I thought you were one of my roommates, because we had a very similar setup for our (free) hot tub. Ours was a few years earlier and using older hardware. We had an actual server in the garage, with a X10 firecracker on one se
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by furyg3 5y ago
I think one of the reasons why this system exists is to keep airlines from buying slots they will not use, which could both be anti-competitive and bad for the airport (passengers = money, planes = service, support, fuel, etc). That'
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by furyg3 5y ago
This exactly. I like comparing the absolute bottom denominator. I would never want to find myself in a US prison. They appear to be some of the worst in the 'developed' world. I would easily choose a US prison over a North Ko
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by furyg3 5y ago
On the one hand, I think you're right, it's more the job of science journalists to summarize scientific literature and communicate its significance based on research methods and potential impact. At the same time, this goes wrong
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by furyg3 5y ago
Most of the collective bargaining agreements I've heard about here in the Netherlands involve an automatic inflation correction at the end of the year.
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by furyg3 5y ago
My employers automatically corrects for inflation at the end of each year. Of course it's still 'behind the curve', since inflation happening this year is only compensated next year, but it's still something. Pro-tip, i
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by furyg3 5y ago
I don't know if the "rent pixel ads" guy is insane or brilliant.
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by furyg3 5y ago
I think one of the key characteristics of HN that eliminates this to some extent is the focus on discussion and not jokes. This drives real debate, conversation, insights, or support instead of snarky-ness, in-group signaling, or memes.
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by furyg3 5y ago
The examples of the 'good guy' spies carrying out 'bad intention' activities are legion, and so the conclusion that trusting any covert intelligence organization is a good idea is extremely flawed.
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by furyg3 5y ago
Haha your are absolutely correct. Of course they are much more prominent in the news at the moment and my mind totally slipped.
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by furyg3 5y ago
They are definitely black hats. Intelligence services operating in foreign countries (physically or digitally) are by definition criminals, in that they are breaking the local laws where they are operating / accessing. That they are d
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by furyg3 5y ago
Just as Truth Social can use Mastodon's source code to spread lies and hate as long as they comply with the license, so can Mastodon use their own blog to disprove of Truth Social... as long as they enforce the license. Their statement
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by furyg3 5y ago
I'm glad someone else noticed this...
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by furyg3 5y ago
Yes this reeks of someones KPI needing to be hit.
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by furyg3 5y ago
If this is true, this should only inconvenience people for a week or two. Unlike toilet paper, average citizens don't really have a way to store 100x more than their normal weekly consumption of petrol. So if there are no supply issu
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by furyg3 5y ago
A whole lot of city dwellers, especially outside the US, don't have a license. On top of this they may be wishing to get stuff to/from places that aren't very accessible by car, and additionally rental car prices are heavily
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by furyg3 5y ago
I think this is solving a problem too literally: "I have a bike, but sometimes want to carry more stuff." Though the problem is actually: "I have some stuff, and I want it to get somewhere" It's cute that a little c
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by furyg3 5y ago
Yes, the 'great levelers' which seriously reduced income inequality were the Plague, the Black Death, and the two World Wars. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/19/his
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by furyg3 5y ago
You're putting the cart before the horse here. The reason why the other developed nations get cheaper access to to medicine is because of collective bargaining from more organized insurance schemes (e.g. single payer), or because of p
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by furyg3 5y ago
Hey Cliff, I just have to say thanks. I read the Cuckoo's Egg in the early 90s and while I was already interested in computers, the idea that there were "networks" of them out there... well... it blew my mind. I immediately
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by furyg3 5y ago
I remember a speech by the British comedian David Mitchell. There had been recent scrutiny on a celebrity figure when it came to light that he used all sorts of dirty (but legal) tricks to avoid paying income tax. Tax avoidance is, of cour
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by furyg3 5y ago
I know nothing about Slovenia, but my hypothesis is that this is (kind of) by design. Those with good incomes subsidize those with low incomes, and everyone subsidizes those with no income. The only way to 'earn more' is through
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by furyg3 5y ago
That’s the thing: It’s not evidence at the time you set the trap. There are plenty of legitimate reasons you may want to protect your computer from Celebrite users. It’s not just cops that use this software. Bad foreign actors do. Privat
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by furyg3 5y ago
They may have been paying him. (it would still be slavery, however, you have a right to quit your job).

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