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by larkost 5y ago
These are board members. They are not hired in the first place, and generally need to be re-appointed every few years. This law has been slowly ratcheting up, so either people have simply been not re-appointed to the board, or they have inc
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by larkost 5y ago
The problem with this thinking is that in most cases having the server send all of the data back to the client to do their own search is going to be far more expensive than running the search (even of unindexed data) on the server. And I am
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by larkost 5y ago
McDonalds operates in the U.S. both in corporate-owned and franchise models. Internationally I am not so sure if there are franchise models, but I know that corporate owns many of the high profile restaurants internationally. But even in fr
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by larkost 5y ago
Where do you get this idea? In the US there is a line on the income tax form that explicitly asks for how much you earned in tips, and that is explicitly counted into your wages for income tax purposes.
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by larkost 5y ago
I get capital gains from dividends and stock sales. How do you figure that that is not income? I literally do no work for that money, but am charged less in taxes for it than that on my salary. But it is new money adding to my wealth. How i
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by larkost 5y ago
My impression was that because of the PIN used it was a lot riskier for the consumer with European cards: the credit card companies essentially said "the PIN was correct, so it could not have been fraud" so the default assumption
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by larkost 5y ago
It is the "easy to get one" part that is often the kicker. There are a lot of examples out there, many of them concerning poor people, but I will use my late grandmother as an example: In 2011 Wisconsin instituted a Voter ID law t
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by larkost 5y ago
The argument against this is that when the Sackler family realized that this was all going to go south they started sucking all of the profit out of Perdu Pharma (over 10 Billion dollars shortly before it declared bankruptcy). So is it Ok t
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by larkost 5y ago
Very true. But they have hedged that very well with long-term contracts, so they are effectively first in line for most of their needs. I would guess that this is still biting them on some components (they have so many in so many products),
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by larkost 5y ago
Correction: there are a bunch of screenshots and videos about people saying they would not trust a vaccine just because President Trump said so. Given all of the awful advice that was common from the then-president (e.g.: hydroxychloroquine
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by larkost 5y ago
This is a curious response. I would have used the same reasoning as an argument against Electron (or similar unified development systems): they are not consistent with all of the other native apps that people use. I don't know if your
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by larkost 5y ago
You are mistaken about the cause of the the Boston Tea Party. It was not about taxation without representation; it was about lack of taxation on tea from the East India corporation (which the King and his friends had a financial interest in
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by larkost 5y ago
Note that the mushroom in question has been growing just below the surface for some time. The part we are used to thinking of as a mushroom is, on many species, something like an inflatable flower that is used to release their spores. It is
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by larkost 5y ago
Where do you get the idea that people "have equal chances"? I and my wife both have great jobs that both pay us well, and allow us to have the time to spend with our children where we are not stressed out about making end meet. We
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by larkost 5y ago
The Supreme Court recently ruled that this is pretty general. Specifically they ruled that Chicago could take land (with payment) in order to give it to a chocolate factory that wanted to expand: https://www.bloomberg.com/ne
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by larkost 5y ago
My Kids' iPad is on iOS 9, and I was able to download Netflix for it. I remember there was a "older version" button I needed to press when I downloaded it, so you might still be able to get at least Netflix on that one.
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by larkost 5y ago
On MacOS most of the files that makeup the system are now write protected (not just the file permissions, but something called "System Integrity Protection" or SIP). So you can't overwrite them. You can add a new install, but
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by larkost 5y ago
So, you are saying that the TV license you are paying for is actually being used by the renters in the house you own. Is that a fair statement? That puts a bit of a different spin on it.
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by larkost 5y ago
Missing an entry about "Missed the Balmer peak by that much"
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by larkost 5y ago
In many of the cases of those loans, they are structured to be payable only after the death of the person receiving the loans. And at that moment the cost basis for all of the investments goes to the price at the end of the day of death...
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by larkost 5y ago
It is not perfect, but Apple at least does this on every piece of hardware as it finishes assembly. Of course things slowly get out-of-spec from there, but at least they try.
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by larkost 5y ago
For accuracy, please note that those people were more upset that the king exempted a company he had a stake in from that taxation (East India Tea Company), mostly in order to make up for some disaterous business dealings that threatened to
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by larkost 5y ago
In most states in the U.S. all employees can be terminated at will. It is generally called "right to work" (yes... it is a questionable name). So essentially that first category does not exist in the U.S. (outside of a union where
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by larkost 5y ago
I think you are conflating two thing: drivers being classified as employees, and being able to pick and choose (with some rules) their hours. Yes, in most cases employers decide to set the work hours, but that is not necessarily a condition
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by larkost 5y ago
Same here. I want a replacement for my 27in iMac and would have held my nose at the slightly smaller screen, but really want more memory than 16GiB (docker, etc...). So Apple will just have to wait to get my money until fall (or whenever th
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by larkost 5y ago
I don't see any evidence of coordination or organization. Rather they all saw a dangerously out-of-control situation where they could be found liable, or at least involved (in the court of public opinion) in armed insurrection. They al
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by larkost 6y ago
That also only shows you values that have been set. There can be values that are defaulted within the program itself that can be set, but do not have their default values written to any file, so do not show up in the `defaults` command exce
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by larkost 6y ago
From Amazon's perspective you have not poisoned the well... you are someone who is likely to buy those things. Amazon does not care if you really like or even use them, it only cares if you buy them.
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by larkost 6y ago
But you are still missing the point. The same program that lost many on Solyndra made the government money overall (despite losing it on Solyndra and a few others): https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2016&#
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by larkost 6y ago
I think there are good arguments on both sides of Concealed Carry Permits, but how do you come to the conclusion that this is a "basic human right"? If you feel that, please outline what age you think is too young to exercise this

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