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by hrunt 4y ago
Children are not in daycare for their parents' entire lives. Once children reach kindergarten, many public school systems provide after-school care for working parents that is significantly cheaper than private daycare. Some provide be
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by hrunt 4y ago
At a previous job, we had a product that was attractive with criminals. We were seeing some elevated chargeback rates and refund rates, so I dug in and determined that at least 25% of our new account purchases were fraudulent (unreported st
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by hrunt 4y ago
The scary thing about this reply is I cannot tell whether it was written by a human or by Bing trying to gaslight me into believing that factual correctness is not important. It reads just like Bing trying to explain why the year is 2022 or
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by hrunt 4y ago
"Please don't anthropomorphize the AI. It doesn't like that."
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by hrunt 4y ago
According to the article, as the owner of the duplex, you would not be subject to the vacancy tax ("It applies to buildings with three or more units, not to single-family homes or duplexes"). As for your other points, yes, the gov
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by hrunt 4y ago
At ABIA, the terminal is between the parallel runways.
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by hrunt 4y ago
If you believe that the payload was a sophisticated signals investigation platform, sending a radar-homing missile towards it potentially gives your adversary access to information about your missile's capabilities.
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by hrunt 4y ago
If I take that amazon.co.uk URL and replace it with amazon.com, I get zero scam-looking SSD drives. The only results that are 10TB are 7200rpm portable drives, and the largest SSD drive is an $800 8TB drive. I wonder what makes Amazon show
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by hrunt 4y ago
I "retired" at the end of 2021, in my mid-40s after a 25-year career in technology, all with a single company (until they got bought out mid-2021). Both my wife and I used long careers with a small company to reach executive posit
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by hrunt 4y ago
As someone with a software development background, I always found legal language very interesting. It is like a very verbose, programming language. All sorts of words and phrases have very specific meanings that, when arranged in a certain
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DoNotPay will not bring AI lawyer to courtroom(twitter.com)
1 points by hrunt 4y ago|0 comments
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by hrunt 4y ago
I was a co-CTO for a small technology company. Having separate distinct roles is what made it work for us. Downstream, the roles are treated with equal authority and responsibility. Upstream (to the CEO in our case, to the board in Netflix&
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by hrunt 4y ago
> I'm not sure what the solution is, but the fine line between positive framing and intentionally misleading investors is crossed way too much, and in the long run, it hurts both the founder and investor community. The solution for
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JPM Shutters Financial Aid Site Frank, Accuses Founder of Fraud(cnbc.com)
72 points by hrunt 4y ago|46 comments
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by hrunt 4y ago
> > So, I personally don’t really get the pushback. > Right, you don't. So don't rag on those who do. This new UI is terrible for my workflow. In my experience, when people say, "I don't get" something, wha
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by hrunt 4y ago
> "I used to work for a large company trying to fill the void [huge gap in the market for good aviation scheduling software], and our software was damn good too. SW was one of the airlines interested, we would demo it exactly like t
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by hrunt 4y ago
That's a good idea, but not really feasible for a family. After the rental car fell through, we resigned ourselves to not getting to our destination and decided to make the most of the situation we have (explore a new city we have neve
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by hrunt 4y ago
The agent this morning told me that they are using the next three days to move staff and planes where they need to be, and the result will be a lot of cancellations when the routes don't serve that. That's why nothing is getting r
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by hrunt 4y ago
SWA has been telling affected passengers to keep their receipts for reimbursement later, so hopefully once things clear up, they will go beyond the letter of their policy to help make things right with their customers. No guarantees, but al
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by hrunt 4y ago
> Here’s the baffling bit. I make a reservation this morning at Enterprise in a KC suburb and get back a confirmation number, cool. Five minutes later I get a call back that they don’t have any cars available. I ask him why, because I go
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by hrunt 4y ago
> Car rental inventory is absurd, and renting a box truck is even worse. I've learned over the years that a "reservation" is a best case scenario. - nothing's real until money changes hands. As Seinfeld said, they&#x2
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by hrunt 4y ago
Both can be true. Some people will swear them off. Some won't. Some SWA will win back with steep discounting. For me (I am affected), this is actually another in a series of recent events that are making me reconsider my preference for
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by hrunt 4y ago
I am affected by this. We got halfway into our flight only to find our next leg was cancelled. SWA will not (cannot?) rebook anyone until the 31st. Our return flight was going to be Sunday, so we rebooked from our halfway stop back home on
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by hrunt 4y ago
Similar to you, I left my job about a year ago after working non-stop for 25 years (worked through college, software development, architect, director, eventually C-level, all at the same small company). My break was to focus on spending tim
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by hrunt 4y ago
> However, the technology does have quite a few advantages, provided that you’re investing in a legitimate project with a good & planned-out vision: > > 1. It’s a great and risk-free way of earning interest on your crypto hold
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by hrunt 4y ago
Also, this study focused on Italian schools, and the authors readily admit that while Europe more generally also sees the same grading bias, the reasons for that in other countries may be different. > She adds that although other Europea
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by hrunt 4y ago
I worked for a Usenet provider for a number of years designing and writing the software that powered their Usenet feeding infrastructure. The Usenet feed is basically a giant stream of articles, and we used queuing theory to scale out the s
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by hrunt 4y ago
I think the most interesting part of this article is that Ryanair was able to immediately offer affected fliers $100 tickets to their destination. Being a primarily US flier, I am amazed that their systems and flight vacancies allowed them
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by hrunt 4y ago
In Firefox 105.0.1 on MacOS, the button also always fails when I click it. EDIT: In my case, it appears to be some extra "<div style=\"position: static !important;\"></div>" text added before the closing
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by hrunt 4y ago
Is it cheating if you make decisions to purposefully not gain an advantage (ignoring gambling-induced outcomes, like throwing a match)? "He was cheating! An outside influence was telling him which move to make and he purposefully didn&

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