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by jotux 9y ago
You could write dot files and have graphviz generate the diagrams for you. http://www.graphviz.org/
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by jotux 9y ago
If quantum chips work out then a ton of existing financial infrastructure using non-quantum-resilient security will also fail.
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> Is it because - gulp - Kaspersky is Russian? Having worked with government IT, I suspect that the answer isn't any more complex than that.
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Getting married for taxes/insurance/power-of-attorney/etc is at least a tangible benefit that can be shared and appreciated between two people. So many people get married simply because they used to like each other, are afrai
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by jotux 9y ago
>I know Redfin is trying to work on reducing this but it doesn't look like they are doing something disruptive. I sold my house and bought a new one with Redfin last year. I wouldn't call them "disruptive" but I would
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>It seems like you could cut out a lot of the complexity just by giving the money directly to the people who can't afford housing. Or, being a little less trusting, pay some portion of their rent directly. Isn't this Section 8?
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by jotux 9y ago
A Veblen good, by definition, doesn't have additional value due to real craftsmanship or any other tangible characteristic. It gains value because of it's high price. Compare this Louis Vuitton leather briefcase: http:/&#x2F
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by jotux 9y ago
This is where the concept of Veblen Goods[1] originated. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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There are a bunch of android alarm apps that will launch spotify/pandora stations as an alarm in the morning. I used one for a long time until I had a kid.
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He's returning to the truck in the middle of the night to give the guy water and had just found out he'd been shot in the head (meaning someone else had been there). This is where he turns around to see someone standing next to hi
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by jotux 9y ago
McCarthy's "No Country For Old Men" is one of the only books I've ever read, as an adult, that actually made me jump in my chair because a scene was so tense: >He was half way back up the caldera to his truck when som
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by jotux 10y ago
There are a few kits available: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14032 https://www.seeedstudio.com/RPLIDAR-A2-The-Thinest-LIDAR-p-2...
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by jotux 10y ago
A great resource I used when purchasing my last mattress: http://www.sleeplikethedead.com/ My wife and I ended up with a foam mattress, which we really like. Our only complaint is that it's noticeably warmer in the sum
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by jotux 10y ago
Microbrewery is defined as <15k barrels/year. Stone, according to wikipedia, is outputting 325k barrels/year.
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Sacramento isn't even mentioned but there are dozens of breweries here: www.sacbeerweek.com/breweries
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>There's no right or wrong in the situation, there's optimal and suboptimal. >In my opinion having the character in the logo is crucial to the marketing. How do I persuade her that we must do this? These statements seem to c
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by jotux 10y ago
>Ammiibo hacking is buying the basic version of a software program, and then bypassing the security code that protects the pro features. It seems very similar to cracks that spoofs USB dongles to unlock pro versions of software. I guess
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by jotux 10y ago
If you buy the standard edition of a CAD tool, say Solidworks, and the premium edition is unlocked via a USB dongle do you have a right to apply a crack to unlock the premium edition just because the code is present in the standard edition
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by jotux 10y ago
This is awful advice. Never, ever, do this.
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The research likely behind the book: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2853669
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by jotux 10y ago
The best part about structured interviews is that it gives you historical data on the interviews performance.
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The same way it works for teachers that give tests. Come up with a bunch of questions and only ask a random subset of those questions to each person. Occasionally evaluate the questions and add/remove some.
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I think people should just do this: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
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>they want those that care more about having fun than just keeping their nose down and doing the work This is purely anecdotal, but many 4.0 students I knew in college were not at all interested in "keeping their nose down and doing
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by jotux 10y ago
From this paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2853669 > On the basis of meta-analytic findings, this paper presents the validity of 31 procedures for predicting job performance and the validit
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by jotux 10y ago
My wife and I joke that our two dogs taught us to howl when firetrucks go by with their sirens blaring. We catch ourselves howling in the car, by ourselves, when a firetruck passes.
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The law in question has a numbered list.
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>Give an example that doesn't use parentheses or a bulleted list. Why the arbitrary restriction on bulleted lists? Situations like this seem ideally suited for a simple list.
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The macro recorder in Notepad++ has saved me tons of time processing or parsing files.
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The actual education part of a university is really a small part of what students leave with. What you're really getting is a network of professors (with ties to employers) and other students that become your friends. Once everyone lea

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