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by gergles 15y ago
Full ZIP codes are actually 11 digits: a 5 digit prefix, a 4 digit delivery-route-location code, and a 2 digit delivery point number. This 11 digit number uniquely identifies every single place the USPS can deliver mail.
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by gergles 15y ago
Let me tell you about my tiger attack-preventing rock.
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by gergles 15y ago
Loans and by extension remote deposit all require a military connection, like I said. (It turns out anyone can get a credit card, which unfortunately is not 'enough' for RD) From https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/no_fee_checking_main?offerNa
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by gergles 15y ago
You can't get a credit card, loan, or insurance product (and by extension, remote deposit access) without a "military connection". I really wish the breathless USAA cheerleaders that come out of the woodwork all over the Internet every time
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by gergles 15y ago
Schwab.
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by gergles 15y ago
Have you considered that 85-93% of the candidates don't want to do an hour's worth of unpaid work for you before you've even given them an interview?
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by gergles 15y ago
Yet amazingly the 40,000 "OH HAI SEXISM" posts that blanketed HN for the last week don't?
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by gergles 15y ago
For "online" games (like this one), your picks are transmitted to the lottery office which stores them and then transmits the serial number back to the terminal, which prints the ticket. This prevents a ticket from being issued that the lot
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by gergles 15y ago
And the customer fucking paid for a program that worked right the first time. Customers are absolutely 100% entitled to bug fixes for free.
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by gergles 15y ago
> "Single-sex education results in better student outcomes" Um, citation needed. See http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6050/1706.full for a counter-citation from Science . Single-sex anything does not provide long-term benefits,
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by gergles 15y ago
Older sims are missing the USIM "applet" that contains the data necessary to negotiate with UMTS networks.
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by gergles 15y ago
No, no, no, no, no, no. First off, your analogy should be "if there was a digital way to replicate a bottle of grey goose without doing anything to the bottle at the liquor store", but that notwithstanding: The things that "content creators
703.
by gergles 15y ago
I think he meant "opt out of having reviews filtered", not "opt out of being listed on Yelp". I think that would be a more valuable thing.
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by gergles 15y ago
Want a deadly weapon you can bring on a plane? http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/editorial_1...
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by gergles 15y ago
Yeah, except for the sexual assault. No big deal at all.
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by gergles 15y ago
Probably because people want to be able to change browsers/computers without the bullshit of transferring around an SSL cert and doing so in a secure fashion?
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by gergles 15y ago
Hypothetically, I'm gay. If I have sex with a man, I'm "breaking the law" in tens of Islamist countries. Are you proposing that they should be allowed to extradite me for breaking their law? Because, that's really what's happening here. Bod
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by gergles 15y ago
Factorization and graphing aren't actual skills, though. They are mechanical computations that basically scream "please use a tool to do this". We don't pine for the days when people had to hand-calculate logarithms, because we've come up w
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by gergles 15y ago
To be fair, it was the Supreme Court ruling on the (big-business backed) Federal Arbitration Act[1]. The Supreme Court didn't just decide out of thin air "hey, we should really fuck everyone over and make it so that all your grievances have
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by gergles 15y ago
Which makes one wonder why they pandered to the content industry with it at all. There's no requirement they make such a system, and it makes their service less desirable and usable. Google's responsibility is to respond to DMCA notices; th
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by gergles 15y ago
>.. anyways. people who want and use the library should pay for it. people who don't should not pay. isn't this fair? People who want and use the roads should pay for them. People who don't shouldn't be allowed to drive or walk anywhere
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by gergles 15y ago
The whole point is that cable companies are lobbying the FCC to remove the requirement that lifeline be unencrypted, with the ostensible purpose of "reducing truck rolls". So, maybe your cableco isn't one that is lobbying, but several of th
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by gergles 15y ago
You shouldn't have to prove that you're "serious about development" by paying money to write and distribute software. How many developers started as hobbyists? Charging $100 just to be capricious is not a good move and is certainly not a go
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by gergles 15y ago
This is incorrect - they are allowed to ask whatever they want... they just can't use the information as part of their decision making process if it reveals membership in a protected class. So, there's no point in asking, but it isn't i
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by gergles 15y ago
You mean with someone with physical access to my machine can trivially bypass software security measures? I am shocked, shocked , good sir!
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by gergles 15y ago
Even not using profanity but just failing to have someone else review all your translation strings can cause a serious problem: http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/images/acidiot.g...
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by gergles 15y ago
The CDMA radio is disabled on iPhones originally sold to GSM providers. Apple's just as complicit in the lockin as everyone else.
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by gergles 15y ago
Well, whatever it is, it supports 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi, at least, so that's a plus. > and use Bluetooth to connect to other home electronics equipment. Signifies a link with an Android phone, I assume. If it was a SageTV, it wouldn't nee
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by gergles 15y ago
It's a stupid name, because it also parses as a sentence, and a wrong sentence at that. The product seems fine, but the name is irreparably bad.
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by gergles 15y ago
The bigger problem with standups is when you are in a role such as operations, where you are often involved (extremely peripherally) with many development teams, each of which wants you at their "20 minute" standup. I regularly spend a full

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