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by jldugger 6y ago
Seems like they can easily borrow 100 billion in one shot. Tendered Accepted Primary Dealer $77,850,000,000 $10,790,550,000 Direct Bidder $6,350,000,000 $2,009,150,000 Indirect Bidder
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by jldugger 6y ago
What do you think the fuel charge would be on a martian round trip?
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by jldugger 6y ago
Sure, but the dichotomy being offered here is: "instead of listening to our users, we just had to listen to our own good taste." The original "41 shades of blue at Google" A/B rant is a tale of designer disenfranchi
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by jldugger 6y ago
Didn't Apple argue in Apple v Samsung that Apple invested millions in focus groups?
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by jldugger 6y ago
I honestly assume the author tried this with nudes first, then realized it was horroshow and decided "actually, keep the clothes on"
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by jldugger 6y ago
People marched into the capitol with handguns, zip ties, and an intent to award the presidency to the loser. I'm not waiting for someone to actually succeed before I declare them insurrectionists, and I don't know why you want to
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by jldugger 6y ago
"It's just the same 20 galaxies, and the universe is just wraps around itself."
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by jldugger 6y ago
> who are all these people where HR is part of their day-to-day? This post is _especially_ for folks like you. When something shitty happens at work, you might contemplate contacting HR for the first time in your life. This post is a war
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by jldugger 6y ago
I suspect this is a response to the about face that MS/Github took recently about firing a Jewish person for saying things like 'Stay safe, Nazis are about'. In the end, someone in HR no longer works for Microsoft but it beho
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by jldugger 6y ago
Though If I'm reading this right the minimum tax rate for citizens of Quebec is 30 percent: https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/... You will not have to worry about medical bills,
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by jldugger 6y ago
Yes, this was a source of many problems when firefox moved its history and bookmarking engine to sqlite (I think) which used fsync for consistency guarentees. Leading to situations where making a bookmight might cause your entire computer t
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by jldugger 6y ago
> On the other hand, DBs call fsync() very often, which would presumably trigger this frequent "stop the world, write the data" behaviour vastly more than otherwise, which could make your I/O very stuttery. But that's
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by jldugger 6y ago
Probably not much -- the main win is not having to fsync files unrelated to your work, which is great for desktops which run multiple unrelated tasks (browser, terminals, rss readers, email clients, steam/game updates, package download
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by jldugger 6y ago
Because we _let_ people choose cheap plans, and don't use federal taxation to shift the costs to the wealthy. And we tie health insurance to employment, so all those fringe benefits you were unaware of suddenly cost real money when you
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by jldugger 6y ago
That was such a cringe pivot.
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by jldugger 6y ago
I mean, I really don't have a spending problem. It's a joke.
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by jldugger 6y ago
> A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. > The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your
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by jldugger 6y ago
Well, IDK where I fit on the skill curve but... my total comp is personally well above that line. There's definitely a bi-modal effect with tech companies issuing RSUs that appreciate dramatically vs. random insurance company or telco.
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by jldugger 6y ago
No, FSA and HSA are similar but different. They both exist, the use-it-or-lose it variety you're talking about is called an FSA. HSAs, on the other hand, can carry over year to year, and doubles as a source of income in retirement. The
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by jldugger 6y ago
I've been using GNUCash since 2007, while in grad school earning... grad school wages. It worked out well for me earning IT specialist wages now, and I don't think the regular joe will need/use plaintext accounting specifical
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by jldugger 6y ago
As I understand it, Fisher had two complaints. First, that the trifactorial data was just wildly too accurate (using a chi-squared approach). This seems to be resolved in the scientific community as an off-by-one error: if instead of 10 see
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by jldugger 6y ago
Any chance you can recall enough of that paper to find a citation? I'd be interested to read such a paper.
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by jldugger 6y ago
> Unless we're going to start saying biology isn't real. It probably helps to recognize that statisticians caught one of the first modern biology researchers fudging his numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by jldugger 6y ago
The way I did this with a stats book was: 1. Ten pages a day 2. Do all the exercises, and redo all the ones you get wrong. 3. Add anki cards for all the key terms, ideas, formulas, etc. The best textbooks include a summary the end o
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by jldugger 6y ago
> an "autonomous zone" in the middle of the United States Well, in the middle of Seattle. It's not clear whether chaz intended to secede from the US or merely Seattle policing; their demands were certainly very local so I
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by jldugger 6y ago
I mean, I definitely recall the need to turn off unauthenticated DMs because of all the IRC bots recruiting racists to their "ChimpOut" network, which purported to ban black people. So it's not like you really need viral ampl
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by jldugger 6y ago
Wrong capitol hill.
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by jldugger 6y ago
I mean, IRC can do the same damn thing in a federated way.
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by jldugger 6y ago
>I hope there are enough people in between There are -- the football is merely used to inform the relevant parties that the president has made the order, and, except for the submariners, those soldiers are probably aware of the events of
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by jldugger 6y ago
At least where I work, we're required to configure computers to lock after 10 minutes of inactivity.

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