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by kscaldef 16y ago
Really? I've only ever heard it pronounced to rhyme with "mikey". What other variants have you hears?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
17% of the US adult population has Herpes. Something like 25% has HPV (the numbers on this are all over the place, but this seems like the most common result of studies).
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I don't know many people who go to the doctor every time they have a cough. Most people seem to just tough it out; even dragging themselves into work sniffling and sneezing, and potentially infecting everyone else in the office. I also kno
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Realistically, most people do not have choice in insurance providers. You get what your employer offers. If you're lucky you might get to choose either an HMO or PPO type plan from either of two different companies. If you're unlucky, yo
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by kscaldef 16y ago
That 60% is the "expected" costs. The categorization is just for the "extra" costs.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
For some reason Yahoo has incredibly talented engineers, all working on things that don't make Yahoo any money My observation was that that was because the divisions that did make money were a cesspool of internal politics, back-stabbing,
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I advocated that the family should resume the role of caretakers What do you think should happen to those who are unable to reproduce, or who choose not to, or whose children die before them, or whose children are just jerks who won't hel
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Ahh, I had been curious about that, and the statements don't really say.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
We do get annual statements from the SSA. The benefit amounts listed on mine are not insubstantial. (Whether you believe those numbers of the long term is a different question...)
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I think the bias in the table actually goes the other way. By breaking down, and omitting parts of, military spending, they make it look relatively minor compared to SS, Medicare, and Medicaid. They have also chosen to display SS intakes,
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by kscaldef 16y ago
You still don't need many of those $350k days before you can comfortably "retire" (or whatever we're calling it when you have enough money to live off it forever)
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by kscaldef 16y ago
In some cases, yes. More frequently this sort of thing has been performance issues (comment reading something like "don't do X here, or else it interacts with Y in a way that kills performance of the whole application"). Testing for perfo
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'm always amazed how few developers _read_ documentation of the code if it's there. I've had multiple instances where I comment a section of code explaining why it's very important that a certain thing be done just this way (or that a cer
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by kscaldef 16y ago
The situation where you can (could?) get screwed by AMT is if you exercise and hold, and the value of the stock drops. This isn't universal and there are different rules for different types of employee stock options, so make sure you know
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by kscaldef 16y ago
All of the code samples in the "models" that I've seen seem to be straight to database type code I think the problem is that you're looking at "code samples", which tend to be the simplest possible examples. One of the nice things about
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Unit testing not only replaces the need for strong typing, it does so without any extra effort on top of what you'd already do for unit testing That's not true. I work on an e-commerce system. Ensuring that people don't accidentally use
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's true, there can be a lot of complexity. Maybe Mr. Henderson ought to take some of his extra few hundred dollars a month and meet with an accountant so he has a better idea of how he could be affected.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I would say, after reading the original post, that even this is unclear. Note that he says "Our combined income exceeds the $250,000 threshold for the super rich (but not by that much)" and also "At the end of all this, we have less than a
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I don't feel like this is a particularly fair criticism of this post. First, this guy is rooting around in the kernel code for fun. Why are we criticizing this? Second, I've done a fair amount of C programming and mucking about at the OS
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I agree that the rent per square foot is higher in a coffeeshop than in a coworking space. OTOH, if I rent a desk at a coworking space, I expect to get 40-70 sq ft of semi-private space. At a coffee shop, I'm liable to be working at a 2-t
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'm not clear why that is a problem - you just loose your no claims bonus but surely that's reasonable? Typically your rates are higher if you haven't been continuously insured over the past N years, where N is something in the range of 5
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Well, there's two sides to this: the cost to the business, and the value to the customer. As you say in another response on this thread, if it's unprofitable to the coffeeshop, they should do something to prevent it. OTOH, if I'm working
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I don't believe that's how most banks handle lost cards, and I don't see how that would avoid the auto-renewals as the original author was trying to do. I assumed the the author was talking about closing the account and re-opening with a n
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by kscaldef 16y ago
This is sort of off-topic, but does anyone know how Zipcar affect your insurance record, since you don't have an individual insurance policy? If you use Zipcar exclusively for a couple years, then stop and go back to a private vehicle an
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I “lose” my credit cards yearly to avoid sneaky auto-renewals just like this. Doesn't this also damage your credit? Length that accounts are open factors into your credit score, and people who cycle through cards typically see it go down
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Your coffee shop doesn't have: phones, copiers, fax machines, professionally-managed high-bandwidth internet, copious power outlets, comfortable workstations, secure entry, indoor bike storage, whiteboards, etc. How about we call it a toss
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Right, in fact being in a recession probably makes this more stark as companies cut back and lay off underperformers. Meanwhile, high performers are more hesitant to change jobs, particularly to go work for a new company which might not su
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Consider the following three scenarios. They all start with Artie writing a song and offering to sell copies of it for $1. 1) Fanny copies the song from a friend (or downloads from a site for free) 2) Fanny agrees to pay Artie for the song
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Not to knock the SSD, but I actually don't understand why it should help significantly in the use case that the author was primarily talking about: large numbers of tabs open in your browser. My instinct there would be that more and faster
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's a tired stereotype perpetuated by shitty movies. What, and your statement that scientist and engineers don't care about anything else wasn't? Look, this is all anecdotal, but the CS/science/math/engineering students I knew in school

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