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by marcus0x62 2y ago
> The counter approach is: - Make complete information available as transparently as possible and don't gate it. - Be forthcoming about weaknesses. Don't force prospects and customers to find them. - Ensure that when a prospect
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
> This is giving me permabear vibes. I’ve been reading Charles High Smith for at least 15 years. He’s definitely a permabear. Of course, that doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Do you have any recommendations? I was soldering earlier today and noticed a particular joint wasn’t flowing well at all. I looked over and had grabbed the lead-free solder from my spool holder. All the other joints with my crappy Radio
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
I get that you have an ideological position to defend and, based on your other comments in this thread have either an inability or an unwillingness to cede any ground. So while, yes, I do understand how loans work, I do not have any further
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
If you think payday lenders care one iota about debtors going bankrupt after collecting multiples of the original loan amount in interest, I cannot help you.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
I remember Pall Mall and L&M as the cheaper brands. Maybe they weren’t in your area?
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
"Plan" feels like it is doing some heavy lifting here. As Mike Tyson once noted, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
> This is absurd. When your debtors go bankrupt, you lose money. Nobody wants to lend money to people who cannot afford it. That depends, amongst other things, on how much interest you charge in the interim. Payday lenders makes lots
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
There were definitely "expensive" cigarettes and "cheap" cigarettes. It wasn't uncommon for my parents/their friends to go back and forth between a few brands as their fortunes changed.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
It's wild to see the ad copy promote the high cost of Camels ("costlier tobacco".) I grew up fairly poor, but my dad always had money for cigarettes and was a 2-3 pack a day smoker. Almost always Camels. Occasionally Marlb
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
> It was a different time and people genuinely did not know the harms of smoking like we do now My grandmother (born in 1928, started smoking at 13) said that, growing up, people casually referred to cigarettes as "cancer sticks&quo
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David Brin: The Transparent Society (1996)(web.archive.org)
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
1.8 A word about Unix standards ``The wonderful thing about Unix standards is that there are so many to choose from.'' You may be totally bewildered about the multitude of various standards that exist. Rest assured that n
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Of course Sun was a willing participant. I didn't claim otherwise. Netscape wouldn't have been able to use the name without Sun's support.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Maybe. I'm not a lawyer, let alone an IP lawyer, but Netscape creating a programming language called "JavaScript" seems like the kind of thing that would be likely to cause confusion in the marketplace. Netscape explicitly ch
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
No, Sun trademarked JavaScript in the late 90s. Oracle acquired the trademark when they acquired Sun. Netscape - as you may know - originally called JavaScript LiveScript, but changed it to JavaScript, at least partially to ride the Java h
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
> But I do believe that the job is fundamentally different when it's about selling a product that's needed compared to selling worthless crap. Definitely. Another big driver is recurring relationships, either with customers or
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
I worked (in sales engineering) at such a company with a market-leading product. For a few years there, at the height of the market/mindshare dominance for their main product, I observed a recurring theme: We'd hire a new manager
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Thanks. I updated the original post with an example using the turtle module. I'll admit I don't use Python a lot these days, and didn't know the Tkinter bundling/installation issues had been worked out. In the 2.x days
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Of course. That’s all possible. When I wrote this I was thinking about defaults, and what I could do and did do out of the box with nobody knowledgeable around to guide me.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Hi, author of the original post here. I think I mostly agree with this. My frame of mind when writing this was about starting from scratch, without an existing mental model of computers, or much outside help. Despite the odd syntax (by mo
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Its unfinished. At the moment, the links are randomly generated because that was an easy way to get a bunch of unique links. Sooner or later, I’ll just get a few tokens from the markov generator and use those for the link names. I’d also l
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Self plug, but I made this to deal with bots on my site: https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html . It is a simple markov generator to obfuscate content (static-site friendly, no server-side dynamic generation required)
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
The federal government already pays (either directly, for Medicare and Tricare) or indirectly (Medicaid) around 45% of healthcare expenditures in the United States, and regulates nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery in some form or fa
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Years ago I had a customer who had deployed around 300 WiFi voice handsets in a hospital for the nursing staff to use. They ran into this problem, which ended up being really difficult to troubleshoot. The user-visible symptom was sporadic
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Which is orthogonal to the case of knowingly hiring someone from a place where you can't conduct an effective background check.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
See also: Patrick Wardle's excellent (and free) Lulu firewall: https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html . He has a bunch of other excellent macOS security tools: Rei Key - identify keyloggers: https:/&#x
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Sure, but a lot of poor people get stuck in situations where they pay far more over time because they either can't get good loan terms or can't save up enough money (like rental deposits) to avoid higher-cost rental items. See al
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
> Try to see the forest behind the trees instead of just repeating yourself ignoring what is said. I'm not ignoring anything. I posted an analogy about how the US hospital business has some similar incentive structures as Google&#
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
I think anybody (especially a private employer, but really anyone ) hiring somebody from an adversary country who thinks they can conduct an effective background investigation is fooling themselves. There's not really any avenue of i

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