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by manacit 7y ago
I'm guessing you live in Ballard, which I do think ST3 hasn't prioritized getting done quickly enough. I would love to see Seattle kick more money into getting Ballard <> Downtown done sooner than 2035, that is a perfectly
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by manacit 7y ago
Disclosure: I work at MSFT, but not on any campus. I do, however, live in the Seattle area. A significant amount of employees take MSFT shuttles/busses from around the greater Redmond area, and I imagine part of their plan is going to
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by manacit 7y ago
I agree with you completely -- I switched from a local CU to Chase because the experience was, almost uniformly, better: - The iOS app, website and other digital tools are significantly better. My local CU's app is some whitelabeled th
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by manacit 7y ago
Turo doesn't own the underlying asset that they're renting out, and is just a marketplace for others to bear the capital costs of buying a car, and most of the operational costs of keeping it running. Their model is quite differen
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by manacit 7y ago
It exists outside of Robinhood: - Sofi: https://www.sofi.com/invest/fractional-shares/ - Schwab: https://www.wsj.com/articles/schwab-in-bid-for-younger-clien... I'm not totally sure how
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by manacit 7y ago
Does anyone have a test IP address for this? I'd love to see how far away it is from where I'm sitting in Southern California right now.
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by manacit 7y ago
It might be a few simple features, but it's a few simple features for every single bank in the USA (or in the EU), which is an absolutely huge number of them. It's a marginal amount of work to link against a few big banks that hav
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by manacit 7y ago
> But given that a home server can run on 10W of electrical power, and potentially off of a solar panel I found this unpersuasive. I didn't have any quantitative estimates then, and still don't now. However, it's likely th
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Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome Could Allow Arbitrary Code Execution(cisecurity.org)
3 points by manacit 7y ago|0 comments
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by manacit 7y ago
When we want to, I think it's possible. It's not apples to oranges, but the incidents that come to mind are usually when critical transportation infrastructure fails and is too important to let sit. An example is https:/&#x2
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by manacit 7y ago
Is this level of precision actually necessary in a well-maintained retail store? I go to and use the Home Depot app in part because one can search for the aisle and section that any item is in for their particular store, and quickly find wh
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by manacit 7y ago
If you're vesting enough equity, your brokerage is only holding on to 22% and you don't have enough of your salary withheld, it's very possible to end up with a marginal rate that is in the high 20s or low 30s, and not enough
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by manacit 7y ago
This is dangerous advice, and I wouldn't recommend that anyone assume that everything is 'just handled' when it involves taxes and anything more complex than regular salary. RSUs, bonuses, etc. will likely be withheld at the
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Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+(theverge.com)
2 points by manacit 7y ago|0 comments
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by manacit 7y ago
It's issues like this that make me sympathetic to people who are "anti-science", or generally lack belief in the status-quo of generally accepted health safety. There are a myriad of instances of the government and the scient
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by manacit 7y ago
For me, it's the difference between having to plug in at least 5 things when I set my laptop down at my desk (or use a very specific dock that only works with a single size and model of laptop) to just plugging USB C in and having my l
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by manacit 7y ago
I (and a number of people I know) have a CalDigit TS3+ and it's worked extremely well for me: https://www.caldigit.com/ts3-plus I can't speak to what else is on the market, but there's not more I'd want
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by manacit 7y ago
If I'm remembering correctly, it's not that far off from the (blue?) color coding with the USB A connector to indicate USB 3 support for particular ports? Either way, when power gets involved as well, that is a terrible user exper
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by manacit 7y ago
I've had a USB-C capable device (MBP) for a few years now, and it originally was extremely annoying. Needing dongles for _everything_ was annoying, and getting rid of Magsafe meant a lot of my existing chargers that I'd accumulate
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by manacit 7y ago
Indeed, the bond market is liquid and deep. If China wanted to dump the Treasuries they own, the US could easily opt to buy them back to prop the price up as a method of last resort, which would likely not have a huge impact. It would proba
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by manacit 7y ago
It's not obvious to me that Uber stock is not also priced for a future where autonomous driving solves a lot of their current problems, do you disagree?
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by manacit 7y ago
When you vote on a paper ballot, you are entitled to request a new sheet of paper if you've messed up a vote. In effect, this would allow you to take a picture of one ballot, toss it, and get another. So, yes, it is quite different - a
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by manacit 8y ago
They're not just mail order - the article wasn't clear, but perhaps that 1,400 number includes all of the people that work at their retail stores: https://www.warbyparker.com/retail There are certainly enough of t
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by manacit 8y ago
Microsoft Build is this week as well (the keynote is going on as we speak). Facebook F8 was last week. I guess this is developer conference season?
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by manacit 8y ago
Manhattan (and parts of Brooklyn) != NY. I wouldn't call it "cheap", but there are plenty of places in NYC where one can rent a bedroom for under $1,000 a month easily (and maybe closer to $500/m in some places). That, c
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by manacit 8y ago
> Am I the only one in my spinning class at Equinox in Manhattan who’s fed up paying $200 every month for a gym with clean showers, $3,000 in rent every month for an apartment without cockroaches and $8 every morning for a cup of coffee?
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by manacit 8y ago
Code that isn't executed and doesn't have anyone to care for it will often 'rot' inside of a larger codebase in my experience. When that happens, it adds mental overhead whenever anything related is refactored or changed
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by manacit 8y ago
Because you wouldn't be earning $300k+/y if you headed straight to the beach? You have to do it for many many years to build the amount of wealth you'd need to live a life of idle luxury
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by manacit 9y ago
My ISP (Spectrum / Time Warner) will not return a proper NXDOMAIN, and will instead send you to an ad-filled "search" page. They're also slower than Google DNS somehow, and generally not much more than an opportunity for
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by manacit 9y ago
Those resolvers are technically for Level3 customers only - they'll return one of those ad-filled "search" portals where an NXDOMAIN would be proper, see: ; <<>> DiG 9.9.7-P3 <<>> thisprobablydoesn

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