jdmichal

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by jdmichal 5y ago
Yes. There are often entire offices that specialize in radiology and do only that.
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by jdmichal 5y ago
> Your identity can create new credit cards. It can take out loans. It is inherently a higher order security risk, and therefore should by default have more restrictions. It's a security risk because of the first couple things you
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Well that depends on whether you're defining middle class as an income or a lifestyle. If the latter, I would certainly not consider any shared living arrangements as "middle class" in the US. Even if your income band puts
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by jdmichal 5y ago
> I know a few people who signed up for master degrees in say Germany and found that almost everyone in the program is a few years older then them. Is that because of gap years, or an interest in actually getting industry experience befo
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by jdmichal 5y ago
I know him from Serious Eat's "The Food Lab": https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-5118015 I think this is the first article of his I found. An adventure into how to make fries like McDonald's: htt
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Realistically, this has barriers in legal and tax implications. Employing someone in the EU has an entirely different legal and tax burden than employing someone in the US. For large companies, guess what: They were already doing this any
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by jdmichal 5y ago
There are definitely counties here in Florida that value land and improvements separately. But there's often no separation as far as how they're taxed. It's just all added together. Here's the listing for Tropicana Fi
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Of course they aren't, which is why they're perfectly happy to continue refinancing. They make money on the interest, not the principle. And each refinance increases the bank's total collected interest. As long as they e
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Maybe. But it's a pretty strong component of the interaction between legislature and judiciary. Ambiguity should be resolved to make fewer things criminal. And then the legislature can disambiguate if they deem it important enough b
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by jdmichal 5y ago
> If Google/Humana/Tinder wanted to go further to protect themselves from bad-acting employees, they could use actual access controls (instead of mere policy) to restrict the ability for employees to access such data and only g
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by jdmichal 5y ago
I believe this would still be covered by the first clause, the one not even being argued in this decision. > Subsection (a)(2) specifies two distinct ways of obtaining information unlawfully—first, when an individual “accesses a comput
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by jdmichal 5y ago
> What should really happen is that the law should be changed. And the way to make that happen is by limiting the scope of the law as much as possible, in order to force law makers to rewrite it. Which is what has happened here. If l
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by jdmichal 5y ago
I don't know if Arrival has a book, and if it does I didn't read it. But the movie seems pretty solidly in what you're describing as "sci-fi" here. Takes a single premise and then builds the world around that &quo
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by jdmichal 5y ago
I had a teacher in high school that liked to dole out life advice. Even looking back decades later, most of it was actually pretty good. One of them was: You can be smart -or- hard-working and do fine anywhere. But you will always be bes
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Hey! The rule is and always has been: Driver chooses the music!
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by jdmichal 5y ago
The merchant should have passed through KYC and AML in order to set up a relationship with Stripe. And then transactions for that merchant would typically be monitored for both AML and fraud alerts. I'm not sure whether there's
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by jdmichal 5y ago
I'm getting "video unavailable". It looks like you missed a couple characters on the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqAfzcJurMM EDIT: I like this video better for actually seeing the process: https:&
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Spanish <t> is dental, which requires the dental diacritic: [t̪] However, since there is no alveolar [t] in Spanish, it will generally just be transcribed as /t/ rather than having to put the diacritic on all the time.
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by jdmichal 5y ago
> I imagine it's because although the sounds are very different cross-linguistically, maybe there aren't any languages where these phones are contrastive and thus they don't warrant separate glyphs in the IPA. I think this
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Yes! This is known as "voice onset time" and has a lot of variation between languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_onset_time
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by jdmichal 5y ago
The word would be "phones" -- distinct units of sound regardless of meaning. The next level up would be "phonemes", which must contrast against other phonemes within a particular language. For instance, in English &#x2F
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by jdmichal 5y ago
Wikipedia has a large number of "Help:IPA/<lang>" articles that I refer to a lot. Here's the English one, with its abundance of vowels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> Price goes up slightly. How much of a swing in pricing are we talking about here? Because that storage mechanism is maybe 80% efficient. So the price swing would have to be at least that big to break even. And in that case, if they
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by jdmichal 6y ago
The source I provided has the following: * 80 unarmed. * 65 "armed" with a vehicle. * 180 armed with a knife or other sharp object. * 59 armed with "another object". * 670 armed with a gun. * 73 undetermined. So sure, le
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by jdmichal 6y ago
What is a "justified" killing? Police are not a jury, and they are not executioners. I understand self-defense, but often these claims are made when the other person was a perceived threat and not a demonstrated threat. And
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by jdmichal 6y ago
You're saying that the US, which is also number one on incarcerated population per capita, doesn't put enough people in jail? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra... If recidivism is
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It's statistically less rare than airline flight disasters, and yet those rightfully get plastered all over the news. https://policeviolencereport.org/ 1,127 people killed by police in the US in 2020. https:/
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Yes, please. One of my biggest peeves are posts that are meant to be educational, but yet don't define the types used for variables nor define the namespace / package they are from. Java posts are rife with the latter, and I&#x2
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This is one of those "$10 for the hammer hit, $49,990 for knowing where to hit it" situations.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Firefox allows you to lock fonts based on serif, sans-serif, and monospace. I have done such, along with also setting a minimum font size. And honestly the only thing it ever seems to break are those stupid icon fonts.

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