mFixman

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721.
by mFixman 8y ago
Raising income tax rates is unpopular, so the UK government adds hidden income taxes that aren't reported anywhere. You need to add 12% to your marginal tax rate before £46500 per year for national insurance payments (and 2% after that
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by mFixman 8y ago
I agree without all the smugness. The stockmarket isn't shrinking (or consolidating) because there are less American companies; it's shrinking because it's easier for companies to receive funding while staying private.
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by mFixman 8y ago
Cultural norms are different for different kind of events. In the US and most of the West, it's expected to be okay to be around one hour late for big house parties. However, Americans wouldn't normally be late for job interviews
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by mFixman 8y ago
20 years ago it would have been unthinkable to find water in any other planet in the solar system. Mark my words: in 20 years, we'll find extremely simple proto-bacterial life in Mars and in many other planets.
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by mFixman 8y ago
People used to engage in hate speech in every subreddit. Several months before /r/hatpeoplehate was banned, every single submission containing a fat person was flooded with insults unrelated to the topic. The same thing happened w
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by mFixman 8y ago
> I also proposed adding slice syntax to C, so, when you want to talk about part of an array, you do it as a slice, not via pointer arithmetic. I highly disagree with this. One of the advantages of conflating pointers with arrays is an o
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by mFixman 8y ago
American citizenship is probably the next choice, if just for extra State Department freebies. It's normal for troublesome countries to give more more security to journalists and other American citizens, and the US government rescues i
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by mFixman 8y ago
You could always get help from the embassies of your other passports' countries.
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by mFixman 8y ago
It could also be a national divide. I pretty much abandoned paper books when I got a Kindle on a vacation. Many years later, after moving to a country where I can find any book I want delivered to my doorstep in 2 days, I abandoned e-books
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by mFixman 8y ago
I just remap Caps Lock to the escape key.
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by mFixman 8y ago
> I need more than one tap to change the brightness, volume or skip to the next song. > > The buttons are in different locations depending on context, so it's not possible to use it by muscle memory. You can add Volume/Br
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by mFixman 8y ago
The part you are missing, like most people who aren't used to exercise and see city planning in a car-centric way, is that a bicycle can go at a serious speed in a city. Bike lanes in sidewalks work in beaches because bikers tend to dr
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by mFixman 8y ago
I would guess this is a legacy of Communism. Eastern European governments build homes at a much higher rate than its Western counterparts, thus making property values much lower many years later. Commieblocks may be aesthetically ugly, but
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by mFixman 8y ago
Reminds me of the kind of hacks you would find in an old-school K&R book.
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by mFixman 8y ago
I can't make sense of the captcha. I get an image with 5 Hanzi embedded, and I'm supposed to click in 5 different places – but clicking on the characters doesn't work.
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by mFixman 8y ago
On the other hand, online check-in makes it so you can arrive to the airport ~30 minutes before an international flight if you don't carry any luggage, which is extremely convenient.
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by mFixman 8y ago
I've read most of Atul Gawande's books about the medical industry (Better, Complications, and The Checklist Manifesto) and I found the three of them extremely relevant to my career as a computer scientist. The latter book is by fa
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by mFixman 8y ago
Entertainment One owns Peppa Pig[1]. It's likely that Content ID thinks Elsagate is legitimate Peppa videos. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_One
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by mFixman 8y ago
None of those places have anywhere near Bar Area salaries: London, by far the city with the highest salaries in the West outside of the US, has salaries that are 70% of the ones you'd get in California before counting a significant amo
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by mFixman 8y ago
I have an account in BMO that I'm in the process of closing. Besides kicking myself for opening an account in a 6-digit password site, what should I keep in mind regarding my compromised data?
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by mFixman 8y ago
Unless you have 100% precision in finding bad actors, this may end up zip-bombing some poor unlucky human.
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by mFixman 8y ago
I'm lost. Why is it significant that they supposedly create Tether during market crashes?
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by mFixman 8y ago
Are you talking about cellphones?
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by mFixman 8y ago
So what happened during the Irish Potato Famine?
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by mFixman 8y ago
You got old.
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by mFixman 8y ago
This is an email client vulnerability, not a PGP one. The obvious solution is to not use a client that autoloads HTML to decrypt your emails.
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by mFixman 8y ago
Get some context, FFS. These are seem close to "dystopian crud" because they are new technology. I'm sure that people seeing a hypothetical AT&T I/O 1980 would think that automated telephone attendants were the end t
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by mFixman 8y ago
I think the biggest issue won't come from phishers, but from resellers and other occupations that are helped by automation. I could easily call every hot restaurant in San Francisco a several a day to try to snatch a table. On the othe
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by mFixman 8y ago
You can globally remap Caps Lock to Escape by going to Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys.
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by mFixman 9y ago
I never understood the hate for the touchbar. I found no decrease in productivity after remapping Escape to Caps Lock, and both the special options for applications and the more granular volume and brightness controls make it more enjoyable

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