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by hiram112 4y ago
I've been using this service on my dev laptop, tablet, and phone for a few years now. It works well, and every time I turn it off, I immediately notice a huge difference as it blocks so much garbage that brings my phone's browser,
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by hiram112 4y ago
Haha, where's your "cash" sitting? I'm in the same boat, but mine is in equities, which have already lost 25% of their value since January, and there's probably more pain to come. Of course I could have kept this ca
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by hiram112 4y ago
Bingo. When I smoked cigs, I'd end up smoking half as many if I had access to a really strong brand e.g. Marlboro Reds or Newports. Likewise, I'd go through a pack of light cigarettes twice as fast. It wasn't conscious - my b
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by hiram112 4y ago
It's taken in small strips from the back and sides of the scalp which, for whatever reasons, aren't prone to the mechanisms causing male pattern baldness on the top of the head and hairline. So theoretically those areas where the
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by hiram112 4y ago
Can't remember where I saw it, but IIRC about half the homes sold in the last year in various Atlanta and Dallas suburbs were by corps, REITs, etc. Phoenix and parts of Florida are in a similar boat. That doesn't mean half the hom
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by hiram112 4y ago
Your friend bought and sold a condo in the same year or so? Maybe I'm interpreting this wrong. Cause the transaction costs alone are about 10% on a home sale, so it's not something you want to treat like switching apartments every
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by hiram112 4y ago
Your friend bought and sold a condo in the same year or so? Maybe I'm interpreting this wrong. Cause the transaction costs alone are about 10% on a home sale, so it's not something you want to treat like switching apartments every
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by hiram112 4y ago
This is exactly what happened in 2009-2010. Not everyone lost their job. Not everyone had taken out an adjustable rate loan that reset at payments they couldn't afford. Some people were perfectly able to continue paying their mortgage,
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by hiram112 4y ago
> BTW, Israel has nothing—absolutely nothing—to do with this. Not sure where you got that crazy idea, but it's time to move on from it. I mentioned Israel because our support of them during various Arab-Israeli conflicts in the 1970
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by hiram112 4y ago
> "There are very few tools the US administration has because the biggest drivers for gasoline prices are driven by global fundamentals" More "disinformation" being peddled to excuse this administration of the high pr
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by hiram112 4y ago
This has increasingly been the M.O. of all the "activist" media outlets in the US for the past 5 years. Issue exaggerated if not outright fraudulent explosive headlines and articles - Russian Pee tapes, bounties on American troops
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by hiram112 4y ago
It was refuted by showing that there were several more compelling reasons that the United States invaded, including WWI i.e. Germany controlled the majority of Haiti's economy and would have been able to seize the island, thus the US p
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by hiram112 4y ago
> But what if we flipped this? What if we first look at the position of the elements that we want to render and then create all the columns and rows from them. What's old is new again! This immediately brought me back to 2005 and ap
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by hiram112 4y ago
I've grown anxious the past few years watching salaries skyrocket while I've played it safe, remaining at my company with years of seniority, but average pay that has been eaten away by COL and inflation increases, though in a ve
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by hiram112 4y ago
I honestly can't tell if this a joke or not.
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by hiram112 4y ago
Bingo. There are at least a dozen tools and languages and syntaxes that I've used sporadically over the years - awk, sed, bash, Mongo, perl, etc. I don't use them often enough to remember exactly how they work, and so I always hav
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by hiram112 5y ago
> But somewhat right because the antidepressant effect isn't very durable, so it's mostly useful in emergency situations (suicidal tendencies) and for kickstarting conventional therapy. Even the rare patients who convince their
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by hiram112 5y ago
Yes I remember a few similar stories that made front-page news on various establishment sites. Most of them were very similar: - older person has some sort of non-covid related serious illness or injury - can't get ICU bed in the &quot
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by hiram112 5y ago
Slf4j is definitely the way to go, but it is still VERY hard for typical enterprise devs to get it working correctly, which means that both your own code and then all the dependent libraries are all on the same page w/ regard to what l
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by hiram112 5y ago
The line coming out of the US gov't no longer even makes sense, IMO. They've claimed, like you, that the labs were just general biolabs you'd find at any university, and anything related to WMD is just Russian "disinform
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by hiram112 5y ago
But of course, nobody uses the standard library since it came late to the game, and instead there are at least half a dozen popular HTTP libs commonly used (Apache, Jetty, Spring, OkHttp, Google, etc.). It's not too different from the
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by hiram112 5y ago
Wonder if this has anything to do with Canada tightening its control of their citizens' banks accounts and money flows between the US, etc. which was, of course, done under the excuse of "dangerous" trucker protests. The prom
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by hiram112 5y ago
Haha, back in those days my mother could just pick up a phone in another room, and it would disconnect my modem from the internet. Maybe that was just an issue in how my own home's POTS line was installed, but it would infuriate me so
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by hiram112 5y ago
Agreed. I was forced to get the vax due to my company's business dealings with the federal gov't. One of my developers, meanwhile, refused to get vaccinated, and so far the threat from my employer has just kind of stalled as diffe
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by hiram112 5y ago
> You might have empirical data now, and you feel that your gut feeling was correct, but merely trying to justify this now with the knowledge of hindsight feels ironically shortsighted. This doesn't sound like something a health soc
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by hiram112 5y ago
Money is imaginary. They can just print it up with no consequences. At least that's what I'm told by the majority of young people these days who demand everything from tuition-debt jubilees to Medicare4All (including undocumented
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by hiram112 5y ago
I follow a few progressives on Twitter, and I've been flabbergasted by just how naive a lot of younger (supposed) college grads are about gov't finances, modern monetary theory, etc. There's apparently a whole generation who
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by hiram112 5y ago
I'm middle age and have begun to feel as if I'm being surpassed by younger engineers who've had more relevant CS and engineering curriculums in the 15 years since I got my bachelors. I enrolled in a masters of CS (online) at
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by hiram112 5y ago
> High inflation and rising wages is a great time to have lots of debt! Yes I know there are a lot of progressives / young people who were hopeful the current administration would "cancel" their student debt. While the ide
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by hiram112 5y ago
> That’s crazy talk. European countries have virtually vaccinated their whole adult population with a number of deaths linked to the vaccine so low it’s negligible. Yes, it's quite low. But so is the number of covid fatalities for y

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