genwin

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811.
by genwin 14y ago
By definition contracts are legally-enforceable , hence they are typically upheld by judges.
812.
by genwin 14y ago
I second what illuminate said. Plenty of society's systems hide info for potentially nefarious reasons, so that you have little choice but to draw your own conclusions. Just follow the money.
813.
by genwin 14y ago
I checked in Go (golang). Verbatim, it's false. But if I save at least one side of the equality to a variable, or cast at least one side to a float, it's true.
814.
by genwin 14y ago
> Are there any stats on how often they find for the corporation vs the consumer? The corporations choose the arbitration firms. The arbitration firms should know full well who's feeding them. So stats aren't really necessary. > ...
815.
by genwin 14y ago
The judge will throw out the class action when shown that the plaintiff agreed to arbitration only. Hence lawyers won't start the class action to begin with.
816.
by genwin 14y ago
I'm a few too, and also inactive in reality.
817.
by genwin 14y ago
Well, they count my inactive accounts as active daily accounts. They'll be at 2 bn soon I'd say, when they append "*2" to the formula.
818.
by genwin 14y ago
It's often "how can we serve our users without getting sued?" A user can sue because they find the colors on your site depressing.
819.
by genwin 14y ago
Automattic.com (runs WordPress) has this wording in their Terms of Use. The put those terms under a Creative Commons license so that anyone can copy it and re-purpose it for their own needs.
820.
by genwin 14y ago
And you can be sued by a nut on day one, for any reason. I've read that if an LLC has only one member, judges are free to ignore the "limited liability" part. It might be necessary to incorporate.
821.
by genwin 14y ago
I use this too. It seems undocumented.
822.
by genwin 14y ago
OK, thanks, I'm starting to understand. Good explanation. I quit being lazy and searched around too, to see that it's possible.
823.
by genwin 14y ago
> So index into your actual table, and check to see what's stored there But that check isn't a constant time lookup. The lookup time can vary. (Analogously, a lookup in a phone book can vary in time; we can't necessarily go to the exact
824.
by genwin 14y ago
Maybe because of this fact (according to Wikipedia)?: "The more elements that are added to the set, the larger the probability of false positives."
825.
by genwin 14y ago
Again just curious, but I'd still like to know how. Someone there asks the mod how it could be O(1), the mod replies it's a "hash table lookup". But Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation suggests that such lookup is no
826.
by genwin 14y ago
It's the opposite. Obama, the chief enforcer of laws in our country, said "Our law is by definition a codification of morality." Lying is legal when society deems the lies to be acceptable or not wrong enough. Tax evasion, however, is consi
827.
by genwin 14y ago
Even lying to raise social status and get ahead is better than cheating on your taxes, according to the law.
828.
by genwin 14y ago
Better analogy: You ask about the deposit not reflected and they say "Sorry, you didn't choose the account option to prevent the money from vanishing. It was noted in the fine print; didn't you read it?" Then you get a new bank.
829.
by genwin 14y ago
> Testing for membership is an O(1) op Curious how. O(1) an array index lookup, not a string lookup, I thought.
830.
by genwin 14y ago
People who own their homes don't have mortgages. They pay their property taxes on their own initiative, the same as the honest people paying their use taxes. You've stated your opinion about morality all right. You think it's okay to be a s
831.
by genwin 14y ago
You're rationalizing. It's tax evasion, a crime, regardless of ignorance. Many states have a simple online form for it. That it's voluntary doesn't make a difference; paying property taxes is also voluntary for people who own their homes. T
832.
by genwin 14y ago
waterlesscloud is correct. It's a crime (tax evasion) for you to not pay your state's use taxes. Much more serious than lying to an employer; at least that's legal.
833.
by genwin 14y ago
On my dev machine, Google's has an annoying flash / latency issue. Adobe's is smooth.
834.
by genwin 14y ago
I abandoned Google fonts because of the annoying latency / flash on refresh. The Adobe fonts are smooth on my dev machine. That might be worth the difference under the hood.
835.
by genwin 14y ago
The Gen Ys that didn't overshare will make it up the ladder. The highest ones and those seeking office will pay to have their online records expunged, hoping they can avoid blackmail. The oversharers will be ruthlessly exploited.
836.
by genwin 14y ago
So which is it?: are you lucky enough to live in a state without sales tax, or do you pay your state's use taxes promptly when you buy stuff online?
837.
by genwin 14y ago
> We've all done unethical things. Ethical people call those "mistakes" and don't paper over them. Not many ethical folk out there. States with sales taxes report that the vast majority of their citizens don't pay use taxes as required
838.
by genwin 14y ago
Good points again. I try not to underestimate poor planning on my part. My tertiary backup is an email attachment to myself. Someone might hack my account to make it inaccessible. It's interesting to me that people depend on tarsnap, when i
839.
by genwin 14y ago
Good points. I already have three methods. This would be one more, in the extremely unlikely event that all the others fail. A fourth backup would be overkill if it wasn't free.
840.
by genwin 14y ago
It's a little hard for me to feel sympathetic with the need to conceal problems with products, trash the environment, lobby the gov't to be allowed to trash the environment or whatever, set up shell companies for nefarious reasons, etc. Yet

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