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by himom 8y ago
Destroy the US economy and foreign relations in order to appease the class schadenfreude negative attention-seeking behavior of the alt-right base.
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by himom 8y ago
Personal taste, not factual One-True-Way™ It looks on the surface like almost Rust meets JS with a sprinkling of Ruby/Smalltalk. Semicolons in 2018, really? Indentation and line-oriented parsing makes code more beautiful. Heck, in ge
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by himom 8y ago
Even though most jewelry and gems are seldom capital-efficient investments, moissanites likely retain more value as a percentage of retail purchase price than do diamonds. The main reason diamonds are expensive is demand, manufactured by sh
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by himom 8y ago
Diamonds have little resale value because of high retail markups, on top of previous De Beers monopoly price controls. If someone paid $3000 retail for a ring, good luck getting $700 for it.
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by himom 8y ago
Poor De Beers: a vertically-integrated monopoly, keeping diamonds more profitable, low resale value and artificially (pun intendes) desired by brides since 1938.
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by himom 8y ago
Way back, I had an 18yo Colombian gf whom I considered visiting under the assumption of buying reasonably-priced, short-term K&R insurance. At the time, Colombia was the top kidnapping spot, more-so than anywhere in the Middle East or A
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by himom 8y ago
She’s already won in the court of public opinion, I hope she recovers a reasonable amount of fees and damages if her story is legit. Always post reviews anonymously using an anonymous email address over Tor or free WiFi. It seems bad busine
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by himom 8y ago
Our experience has been yarn is fast and reliable.
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by himom 8y ago
Shhhh... mutually-reinforced job security from unnecessary development churn and endless novelty.
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by himom 8y ago
Overall inequality issues include taxi drivers, gig economy, etc.. but many of those types of jobs will mostly disappear due to automation. UBI maybe unavoidable as there won’t be enough un/low-skilled work to go around and people have
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by himom 8y ago
Yup. Portugal and Prohibition also proved it yet again. Drugs, gambling and prostitution oughta be decriminalized in order to drive out the criminal element from the supply side and drive down the risks on provider & consumer sides. For
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by himom 8y ago
Grrr. Google Authenticator and such are free. It would be mostly user support costs to deploy. Heck, could even SMS or robodial (Twilio etc) a TOTP code for people without smartphones.
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by himom 8y ago
Wasn’t there a study of hotel cleaners whom had an overall increase in health because they were told their jobs already included exercise? This also seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy effect, whereby a “healthy” thinking person makes sli
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by himom 8y ago
The worst outcome of this is other so-called democracies exploit incidents like this to follow suit and take away more rights from their citizens. If one looks at the fall of Rome, the first autocratic emperor was Augustus followed by the r
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by himom 8y ago
People must demand privacy protections similar to HIPAA for their digital lives. And to have ownership over location and contact details. If not, the corporate stalking and creepy targeting will continue.
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by himom 8y ago
I worked at a university that frittered away $150 million on a software rollout that was eaten by consultants and ultimately failed in every regard. Also, the same university is on a building binge, replacing donated buildings barely 10 yea
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by himom 8y ago
Someone fix the title plz. “Talent” is both singular and plural when referring to employees.
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by himom 8y ago
Yup. Also, we maybe so dopamine sound-, color- & effects-addicted that we’ll subconsciously make any excuse to keep the glowing box neck hunched over. Even street signs to watch for oblivious pedestrians on smartphones, as well as signa
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by himom 8y ago
It’s well-intentioned but why not just use the OS to solve this? Seems like too narrow of a solution to a much bigger problem.
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by himom 8y ago
IANAL. Last I checked, successful prosecution of perjury results in a wobbler felony sentence in most parts of the US. Were you trying to say lying under oath is usually very difficult to prove?
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by himom 8y ago
Only in the minds of children. Utopias never work because corruption, greed and ignorance bring tyranny, fear and misery. Progress is also a populist myth to wish away human nature, and the forces of nature, like some flu that will subside.
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by himom 8y ago
Eagle-Picher of Joplin, MO is the primary DoD supplier of thermal batteries, comprising 80% of the market, as mentioned. ATB and ASB also make them, but not necessarily in the US.
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by himom 8y ago
... or SE China. ;)
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by himom 8y ago
UBI N O W.
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by himom 8y ago
This college student I dated: the sex was great but she also had some quirks (and other thigs). One quirk was crazy, verbatim ABM. Good luck debating someone with a “CCTV footage” memory.
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by himom 8y ago
I remember putting money into Kiva around 2007, it was increments of $50 IIRC. Unfortunately, I lost a job and the ability to work, spent 401k, went bankrupt and lost access to the email address to my Kiva account. It seems ironic as I no l
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by himom 8y ago
Shouldn’t money be Dukka, not Dharma? Or is money too often an amoral scapegoat for many individual acts of greed?
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by himom 8y ago
Male birth order-linked gayness probability is epigenetics in the mother IIRC.
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There’s a word for elaborately-constructed imaginary worlds(en.wikipedia.org)
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by himom 8y ago
Yeah, I use the very old KeepassX 0.9.x because dev jumped the shark after that. I should have a look at XC. Ty. My setup uses iCloud, Box and Google Drive to sync the kdb.

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