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by lastofus 6y ago
Are there any actual examples of innocuous flirting earning someone a scarlet letter? Otherwise, this kinda reads like some "men's rights" propaganda.
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by lastofus 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what changed between now, and when proposals for generics came up in years past?
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by lastofus 6y ago
Start crash testing expired seats and compare results to new ones of the same make/model. They expire relatively quickly, so they would not be difficult to find. For example, our Graco Keyfit 30 expires after 6 years.
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by lastofus 6y ago
How does one learn about finance enough to do something like this?
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by lastofus 6y ago
I believe the cutoffs are for taxable income, not gross.
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by lastofus 6y ago
> Why should I care about recompiling? That's an implementation detail. Sometimes you don't have access to 3rd party src code you call into, hence why you can't always modify and recompile it.
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by lastofus 6y ago
Something to keep in mind is that once you own a few rentals, it's easy to pull equity out for a down payment on another rental, and buy the rest with a loan. Leveraging is easy when there you are buying physical assets that retain val
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by lastofus 6y ago
If I wanted to start a grassroots local competitor for collecting delivery orders without screwing over restaurants, what would be the best way to handle payment processing? Using Stripe + manually sending money via ACH doesn't sound s
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by lastofus 7y ago
How does one join gigster as a contractor? There’s no obvious way to do this on their website.
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by lastofus 7y ago
I used to set up each fresh VM by hand as well. After doing that 5+ times, each time taking around 2-3 hours, I realized learning to automate things might save time in the long run. Ansible is an investment for sure, but one that’s already
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by lastofus 7y ago
$5/mo Digital Ocean droplet + Ansible deploy scripts based on https://github.com/jcalazan/ansible-django-stack
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by lastofus 7y ago
Back in March, the FAA was still insisting the 737 MAX was airworthy, even after it had been grounded by other countries. It seems like at the very least, the FAA is worried about the business interests of manufacturers.
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by lastofus 7y ago
From my experience 7+ years ago, I saw an order of magnitude difference running Postgres on higher end bare metal hardware (think $6k rack mounted server w/ nice RAID controller) vs a supposed high end AWS VM w/ an EBS volume. Tha
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by lastofus 7y ago
More generally, the world is simply not fair or just. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
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by lastofus 7y ago
Something that I wish was made clear to me beforehand is that there is a huge variance in children, even between siblings. This means that what works well for some kids will fail terribly for others. Half of parenting is trying out a bunc
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by lastofus 7y ago
I had the same experience with the take home project applying as a Python/Django dev. I would have normally billed around $2k for what they wanted for a throwaway test. I also declined.
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by lastofus 7y ago
This seems to be the end goal of https://writtenrealms.com/ . A lot of time was spent making the UI responsive and work well on mobile resolutions!
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by lastofus 7y ago
You are correct - my mistake. It was the "Amazon.com Store Card" by Synchrony Bank.
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by lastofus 7y ago
A warning for using the Amazon visa: their record retention is horrible. I had to call in and talk to someone for them to send me a paper statement for charges from the previous year when doing taxes. Their export for current records is als
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by lastofus 7y ago
Isn’t this a restatement of trickle down economic theory (sans raising inheritance tax), which has not really panned out when attempted?
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by lastofus 7y ago
It's an alias given to an imported module name. In Python it might be: import really_long_name as rln rln.foo()
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by lastofus 7y ago
A visual LED cue is pretty standard on baby monitors, at least on the 2 cheapo ones I got on Amazon. I also appreciate that neither monitor relies on my Wi-Fi network working.
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by lastofus 7y ago
I was in the same boat as you around 5 years ago, when I finally bit the bullet and started down the "modern" path. My recommendation is to just start on your project, and see how far you can get using your 15 year old skills. Onc
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by lastofus 7y ago
As a 1099 consultant: * You pay 7.65% more in medicare taxes * You are probably eligible for the new (as of 2018) 20% pass through deduction * You can possibly deduct expenses (hardware, software, home office, mileage) * No paid vacation&#
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by lastofus 7y ago
Considering lie detectors are inadmissible in court, probably not. Being the cause of further investigation on the other hand...
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by lastofus 7y ago
Comparing VB desktop app dev to web app dev is a little bit apples to oranges. Regardless, Django gives you everything you need on a silver platter, with fantastic documentation. To make your life easier, you could probably just use SQLite
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by lastofus 7y ago
PyCharm offers similar functionality of sending code from the editor to the REPL. The biggest difference between Python and Clojure is that everything is an expression in Clojure, meaning you can send much smaller chunks (assuming vars are
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by lastofus 7y ago
Isn't partaking in thought-provoking discussion reward enough? This also seems like one of those things where Goodhart's law may apply.
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by lastofus 7y ago
Even if there were no free alternatives to Oracle's JDK (there are plenty), who looks at the cost of engineering time, opportunity costs, and thinks "yeah, this is way cheaper than paying Oracle"?
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by lastofus 7y ago
Assuming your product is live, you should have hard analytic data to support your decision making one way or the other. If you don't have browser stats, your first step is installing google analytics or a similar offering (or just craw

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