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by giaour 4y ago
If you’re in the US, you can get some detailed quotes (and information on what tax benefits, if any, you may be eligible for) at healthcare.gov
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by giaour 4y ago
I’m sorry to be blunt, but unless you have specific reasons to be concerned about custodial kidnapping, “foil baby snatchers by putting an AirTag in your car seat” is nonsense. So is using this form of consumer tech for shipment tracking, f
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by giaour 4y ago
AirTags are actively tracked by every iPhone. That’s a pretty big difference!
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by giaour 4y ago
Apple’s turning on Find My Phone by default arguably did more to normalize tracking than anything else. Tile (and other niche products) were largely seen as nerdy and an extravagance at best, but AirTags were seen by the public as a logical
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by giaour 4y ago
This feels like the responsibility of the pharmacy more than that of the grocer who sold you juice. Pharmacies typically put stickers on medication bottles that say, “Do not take with grapefruit juice,” “Avoid sun exposure,” “Take with food
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by giaour 4y ago
How does this work for "specialty" savings accounts like 401Ks and HSAs (which are typically set up for an individual by their employer)? Does each one of you list the other as the sole beneficiary of each account, or have you bee
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by giaour 4y ago
Calves today are just the worst, amirite? Why can’t they just play “terrorize then eat the seal pup” like we did in my day? I attribute the trouble with today’s youth to an overall decline in the importance of traditional pod values in Orca
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by giaour 4y ago
I’m not sure I’ve heard the Teams folks explicitly blaming Electron. I run other, more complex MSFT programs (eg Office) on the same computer, and they use a fraction of the memory and CPU that Teams does.
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by giaour 4y ago
Teams is also very bloated (or "full featured" depending on how you want to spin it) compared to other chat apps, which does make it special by comparison. Teams is trying very hard to make itself a platform, and it supports telep
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by giaour 4y ago
As a user with a finite amount of memory on my computer, I also regret them choosing Electron.
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by giaour 4y ago
> The problem is when housing is allowed to become a speculative investment I don’t think the distinction you’re drawing makes sense; there are plenty of ways to speculate in an otherwise healthy housing market (e.g. move to a gentrify
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by giaour 4y ago
> So you'd need 51% of the network to agree with your made up chain, which would mean controlling about $100 billion in Eth. Does that sum assume that every coin will be staked? As I understand it, coins staked for validation are he
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by giaour 4y ago
This may happen more at large companies than at startups, but having interviewees sign NDAs is normal, isn’t it?
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by giaour 4y ago
> What are you changing during your drives? What are those critical adjustments? Lights, wipers, and cruise control are critical adjustments. I also often change A/C and audio settings because I can do it without looking (though it
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by giaour 4y ago
You'd think there'd be a lot of pushback from incumbents in that space.
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by giaour 4y ago
That amount of cash is heavy and difficult to obtain. It's possible, but it's certainly not ergonomic, and in the US, withdrawing $10K+ in cash from a bank will create a paper trail. The 500 euro note, which would allow you to car
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by giaour 4y ago
It's only a single factor if your password manager login is compromised. If you're instead the victim of a phishing attack or you somehow spill the password + an MFA token for a single service, then you still get some of the prote
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by giaour 4y ago
I've shipped .NET applications in organizations where adding Windows hosts never would have been contemplated, but adding a new application framework that ran on our standardized Linux environments was no big deal. Ops folks are often
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by giaour 4y ago
> Students who are unemployed two years after earning their degrees, including any who are in graduate or professional school, aren’t counted.
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by giaour 4y ago
Cash is unwieldy in large amounts, which is why most authorities don't care about cash transactions. When cash is used at scale for anonymous transactions (e.g., when the US airlifted cargo planes full of cash to Iraq in 2004 to pay go
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by giaour 4y ago
US voters, at least, have voted in representatives at all levels of government based on campaigns centered around a “tough on drugs” message, especially during the crack cocaine moral panic of the early 90s. It’s not much of a stretch to sa
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by giaour 4y ago
> If the government said “we’re now keeping a database of cash serial numbers that are hereby banned” would everyone need to install the “cash checker” app and scan each bill they receive? This database exists, but only banks and police
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by giaour 4y ago
> Isn’t the whole point of it being decentralized to make it unsanctionable? No. Guns and bullets are decentralized, but murder is still illegal. Law enforcement agents can investigate crime committed using crypto just like they can inve
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by giaour 4y ago
It's a question of scale. Laundering a small amount of money via a business entity that accepts cash isn't hard, but people get caught when they get greedy and start trying to launder implausible amounts. TC clones can probably fl
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by giaour 4y ago
I guess I was drawing a false distinction between things modifiable via medical intervention and things modifiable via lifestyle modification. The relevant thing must be that you have a condition, not what could be done about it, and there&
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by giaour 4y ago
> evaluated the relative contribution of 8 modifiable risk factors—physical inactivity, current smoking, depression, low education, diabetes, midlife obesity, midlife hypertension, and hearing loss—to ADRD risk How are depression and hea
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by giaour 4y ago
You can request that your local library purchase a copy, then check it out.
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by giaour 4y ago
Memory is not infallible, and I find it more plausible that Adams is remembering his (maybe fair, maybe unfair) inference as an explicit statement.
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by giaour 4y ago
We do in fact require more than a report before meting out punishments. Whether that means "everyone who reports a crime should be presumed to be lying" or "everyone accused of a crime should be presumed to be innocent"
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by giaour 4y ago
Business school tuition is probably less affordable than you think it is. In the US, university admins know that most business students are getting tuition covered by their employers, so it is typically the highest cost per credit hour. $10

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