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by gherkin0 11y ago
Honestly, this doesn't read like a stimulus plan for the economy, but more like a plan to specifically help a demographic that's well-represented on Hacker News. Mortgages are closely linked to a lot of ongoing economic activity,
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> One thing to keep in mind, they're young. If they save the extra money, they've got a loooong time for compound interest to work on those dollars. But isn't that the exact opposite of what you want to happen? It you wan
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Are you talking about the scenario where the banks deposit money to the Fed? Yes, I thought that was what negative interest rates refer to. > I was talking about the scenario where the Fed gives out a credit in exchange for securiti
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> The way I understand it, the banks do not simply get money from the Fed. Combined with negative interest rates that would be "money for free". I don't understand this. Under a negative interest rate scenario, wouldn&#x2
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> Seems to me that the government has a much better way to stimulate the economy: lower rates on existing student loans. I agree about the banks, but how stimulating would lowering rates on student loads really be, though? While student
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by gherkin0 11y ago
After seeing too many videos like this, I'm starting to interpret police shouts of "stop resisting" as an indication that some kind of law enforcement abuse is happening. Here, it's seems like strong evidence of mes rea
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Everyone in the United States cannot be a programmer - its going to lead to the same problem we have with law, business, etc. Too many graduates leading to labour oversupply. I agree. This just seems like an attempt at a poorly though
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by gherkin0 11y ago
If the encryption is done badly, it's also sometimes possible to recover a shadow of an encrypted image from the cyphertext without actually decrypting it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operati
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Good luck with that. If you're being laid off and your replacement is already lined up for you to train, you're not really in a very good negotiating position. Plus, a company that would put you in that situation probably doesn&
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> The main reason why severance is offered is to keep people from portraying the company in a bad light. If anti-disparagement clauses were made illegal, fewer companies would offer severance. Then let's make anti-disparagement clau
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by gherkin0 11y ago
My guess is he just wasn't thinking about that, so he made an error.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> The rational of having just the one type of plane makes sense if you're Ryanair (who only fly Boeing 737-800). Of cause they only have ONE role for all their plane. Having just one type plane take the role of multiple others just
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I don't understand. Do you imply that in the US any organization can grant a PhD to someone? And/or that there is no control over the requirements to meet to get a PhD? In the US, the big distinction is between accredited sch
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Should no one be working on this problem? No. > How do we invest in potentially innovative ideas in more complex fields before they have proven it out? Honestly, you invest in carefully proving out those potentially innovative ideas
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> not being in compliance with an unknown thing. This is that "unknown" thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_Laboratory_Improvemen... > Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988
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by gherkin0 11y ago
When I saw a dermatologist about a year ago, and he had an assistant in the room whose job seemed to be to update the notes while he was interacting with me. I can see that helping with a lot of specialties, but maybe not psychiatry.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> That said, I do wish they'd make it a bit more organised than a long list of tersely named options; perhaps a tree view like many other apps' settings use. One or two sentences of description per variable/valid option wo
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> then you'd have a Settings app that has thousands of options However, some people would actually like that, me for instance. On Firefox, about:config is a great feature: if you know what you're doing, you can tweak any setti
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Couldn't that be gamed pretty easily by buying the takeout boxes and then selling them again under the table to a legitimate business?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> to increase the amount of poison gas entering the environment Come on, it's not like VW cars were emitting hydrogen cyanide. They were emitting excess pollutants, not poison.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I think it's a little bit of this, a little bit of that. We need regulation to attempt to enforce baseline security practices (e.g. no passwords in cleartext, encryption during authentication, etc), since that can be proactive if not
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by gherkin0 11y ago
My guess it's leftover semantic markup from whatever internal system they were using to author the page.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I don't think so. Given that it was reimplemented immediately, my bet is the company is just incompetent when it comes to security.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Honestly, I don't think a checkbox question is enough for equipment used to handle top-secret information. The government should have demanded and audited the source code before buying it.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Even so, why couldn't they be made in some standard form factor? It seems like that would be easier, even for those who want to use the board for their intended use.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I know someone at Atmel, and many employees are only still there because of promised severance packages.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Isn't it more that Arduino boards dominate the hobbyist microcontroller space, and they have historically used AVR? IIRC, most new Arduino models are now ARM based.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I'm not sure this would be near the top of my list of proposed criminal justice reforms, though. Though, if it has a positive effect, it seems like it would be a cheap and easy reform to make. I think it's pretty reasonable
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> The breaker-upper generally wants to break up right? I mean, that's why they are the breaker-upper. People can have mixed feelings about a relationship/SO, especially as the relationship ends.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Honestly, as a customer, I appreciate the honesty and clarity of this CSR. Ideally, the CSR would just do something to quickly resolve the issue without divulging details. But if they can't actually fix it, being honest about the rea

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