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by magduf 7y ago
>Well, isn't that just like evaluating the difference between whether or not you're a self-taught programmer? Not quite. Self-taught programmers can get high salaries too. Notice what the OP said about how having a MBA did no
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by magduf 7y ago
Interesting; that never, ever, ever happens where I work, and most of our engineers are fresh-outs.
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by magduf 7y ago
>Fusion is also known to be limited by the lack of funding. I've read stories about 13 year old teenagers building their own fusion reactors. Wrong. Fusion reactors you can build at home are just novelties, and don't produce m
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted; this really isn't that simple an issue and there's good points on both sides. While I think the police response here was utterly ridiculous, I would like to know why the homeowner su
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by magduf 7y ago
There have been laws banning masks for ages. There were laws like that in parts of the US well over 100 years ago. It should be pretty obvious why: you can commit a crime with a mask and not be identified.
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by magduf 7y ago
>Just wondering when we're actually going to reconsider that premise and its legal cognates. We're not. It's very simple: you're talking about something like the EU's GPDR. We can't do that, because the EU
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by magduf 7y ago
I don't see what first-sale doctrine has to do with this: Amazon is a private (publicly-held) company and is free to disallow certain products from being sold on its site. First-sale doctrine means you're free to take your used Ni
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by magduf 7y ago
>but there are commercial alternatives (I'm thinking of Perforce) that make even less sense. Have you ever worked with Rational ClearCase? It's a true horror show.
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by magduf 7y ago
>If you are successful as a one person business, it makes sense to scale it past a one person business. That's not necessarily true. A lot of businesses just don't have enough demand out there to justify scaling up. For insta
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm guessing the idea is that a .com looks more "official", but I think that's becoming less and less over time as alternative TLDs get more uptake. This probably depends on your customer base though.
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by magduf 7y ago
From his posts here, it looks like this is just a small side business for him, and he still works a normal day job. If UK customers are already a small fraction of his total customer base, it's not going to make any economic sense to
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by magduf 7y ago
Addendum: after watching an interesting YouTube video on the disaster, it seems that not filling the lifeboats actually wasn't all that incompetent. A lot of people didn't think the boat was really sinking, and there was another
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by magduf 7y ago
>The last time I got any interest worth mentioning on money was more than a decade ago. What's "worth mentioning"? My bank gives me about 2% on savings; it's not huge but it's certainly enough to switch banks ov
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by magduf 7y ago
Good point, I forgot that too. Here in my state, yearly inspection is a bit of a PITA but pretty cheap, but there's a "car tax" ("personal property tax") that's usually hundreds or even into the thousands per
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by magduf 7y ago
>I don't think an Airbnb with only verified legal listings would be very profitable. I think it absolutely could be. As I said in a post above, I've used it once, to stay at a private home (with the family living there) when I
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by magduf 7y ago
I've only used it once, about a year ago. I wanted to visit Nuremberg, Germany, but I picked a terrible time of the year when the hotel rates were atrocious. So I looked on AirBnB and found an older couple renting a bedroom in their
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by magduf 7y ago
>what authority would you even send it to? Well, you could send it to various foreign news outlets. I'm sure RT would love it.
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by magduf 7y ago
>PS toilet paper: can’t they get prison safe bidets? This is America: we absolutely refuse to use bidets, no matter how much sense they make.
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by magduf 7y ago
>he has no career to protect by not screwing up the details on this one. Sure he does: he has a career as an expert witness apparently.
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by magduf 7y ago
If they had been broken for a long time before this, why would they put the highest-profile prisoner in the entire country in there without fixing them first, or moving him to a cell where the cameras do work?
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by magduf 7y ago
I thought the Titanic disaster was pretty well-explained as an accident caused by incompetence and hubris. The ship wasn't "unsinkable"; they just advertised it that way, but it was no match for a big iceberg. The ship was
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by magduf 7y ago
Well in that case you're losing potential interest on that money, and also (much more significantly) depreciation.
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by magduf 7y ago
That's because many of them are surnames. Parts of the US (namely the South) had/have a tradition of naming boys with their mothers' maiden names.
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by magduf 7y ago
I don't think Angel has anything to do with Buffy. Angel is a traditional Hispanic male name. It's become more poopular because there's a lot more Hispanics in the US now, and they have a lot of kids. Other Hispanic names
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by magduf 7y ago
>Also you always have to decide, do I want to/can I spend 50 Euros today just to go hiking? Or you know you could use your own car. Yes it also costs money but its way less and more spread out. That sounds like someone with very stu
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by magduf 7y ago
Mass transit doesn't really work in US suburbs because everything is just too spread out; it's not economical, nor logistically effective, to build subways to subdivisions. But even in built-up cities, Americans cling to their car
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by magduf 7y ago
>It would also mean drivers would be based more locally to points of loading, rather than having to be constantly on the road away from home. Which would probably make it much easier to hire drivers, too. Lately, long-haul trucking has
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by magduf 7y ago
Old diesel vehicles are horrific polluters. It sounds like this telescope needs to be relocated to the Moon. There just aren't many places on this planet left where you can avoid EMI/RFI, and where anyone would want to live.
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by magduf 7y ago
This is a silly argument. Do a Google image search for "cars in the 1800s" or something like that, and you're going to see "cars" that have tillers instead of steering wheels, and resemble horse carriages much more
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by magduf 7y ago
>1) sitting on the seat is awkward/uncomfortable when wearing a skirt or dress Try watching a video of people in Copenhagen riding bikes. Women wear dresses and skirts there all the time while cycling. Same goes in Japan; women co

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