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by mark212 8y ago
you probably did okay with it, but the better metric is to think of all those hours wasted struggling with financials and compare it to the cost of a bookkeeper. (Speaking here from the same experience, btw)
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by mark212 8y ago
ADP has been around since 1949 [1] and handles even single-employee businesses. It's far more of a value when you scale to 10+ as I recall, but even their one person pricing is far cheaper than this IRS debacle here. Don't forget
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by mark212 8y ago
As this article emphasizes, China steals an enormous amount of intellectual property from other countries, the vast majority of which is created and owned by US companies. That’s a “bad deal” by any measure. I agree that the US has ample re
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by mark212 8y ago
hasn't worked for me on the last several trips on Southwest. (I'm PreCheck, my wife isn't; same itinerary.)
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by mark212 8y ago
Is this the first you’re hearing of an interest only mortgage? They have been very popular in Southern California for a couple of decades. The theory is that it allows the speculator / owner to get a much more expensive home and just p
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by mark212 8y ago
The entire (expressly stared) reason to make mortgage interest deductable was to encourage more home ownership. You may disagree that that’s a desirable policy goal (and I might agree with you), but comparing it to some other payment that i
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by mark212 8y ago
I don't think you're using "fiction" in the same way that Harari is. He absolutely does _not_ mean that human "are free to un-invent if we so chose." Many of our myths / fictions / metaphors are deepl
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by mark212 8y ago
no, I wasn't being pedantic. I don't care enough about him to have any opinion either way, just that I'm pretty sure he defines himself as a journalist.
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by mark212 8y ago
in the old days, the libraries of the former Soviet states would only do trades for materials. I had a colleague who corresponded with a library in St. Petersburg and would trade microfilms (!) of Talmud manuscripts to get ones that hadn&#x
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by mark212 8y ago
The late Phil Hartman’s exploration as Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer was also trenchant and emotionally gripping
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by mark212 8y ago
I can’t believe this was posted to the BBC website and didn’t have a single GIF or video. This was amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj56IPJOqWE This was helpful too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0
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by mark212 8y ago
How will we know he won’t get fair treatment upon release until he’s actually released?
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by mark212 8y ago
Glenn Greenwald isn’t a reporter? I’m sure that’s news to him
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by mark212 8y ago
Just in case you’re as confused as I was, the project is to encrypt the Server Name Indication. Here’s the Wikipedia page: “Server Name Indication (SNI) is an extension to the TLS computer networking protocol by which a client indicates whi
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by mark212 8y ago
Sounds like a great set up. I have something similar (a bit bigger at 12’ x 14’) here in Southern California. No heat and in the summer it does get stuffy but I have a standing fan and a ceiling fan and that helps. When we built it, I had t
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by mark212 8y ago
One could very plausibly argue that the second point (making the candidate more electable / centrist) has been the entire point of political campaigning since the ancient Greeks. Politicians have been lying to voters (or more charitabl
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by mark212 8y ago
In her defense, there are a lot of people in the world with famous parents who don't do jack with it. Kudos to her for following through and building something. (Her lip plumper goop is outrageously popular, like shockingly so.) And un
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by mark212 8y ago
from the article, about 2700 employees have access to the specific databases from which the guy pulled sensitive data. That seems like a very large group of people to me.
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by mark212 8y ago
The US Supreme Court just made the distinction, when ruling that access to a cellular telephone carrier's location data for a particular subscriber required a warrant (and hence a showing of probable cause): The Government’s posit
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by mark212 8y ago
with a bit of CSS study and some experimentation, all of the themes can be turned into something appealing. Start with one that's close to what you like and dig in.
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by mark212 8y ago
I used Hugo 0.12 to build a 2200+ page non-blog website a few years ago, with Disqus commenting. Completely different than a REST api, but the jaw-dropping part was how quickly it all got parsed. Like under 2 seconds. Crazy fast.
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by mark212 8y ago
Netlify has a paid product that will work if you want to paywall some content, if that's what you're asking.[1] Not interacting with a database is sort of the point for a static website. [1] https://discourse.gohugo.io&
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by mark212 8y ago
Just as a quick example, the Florida Bar had a regulation that an attorney’s website could feature a picture of the lawyer, but the background was required to be either a single or gradient color or a generic courthouse.
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by mark212 8y ago
It’s a metaphor. Nobody was forced to adopt it with any kind of governmental or economic coercion, just a vocal minority that thought it was a good idea to elevate the standards and do more than just buy the cheapest product in the market.
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by mark212 8y ago
don't give up so easy. Think of Fair Trade coffee -- all it takes is a vocal minority to insist on a set of practices and that will come to be considered the norm. The social (and market) pressure of hiring only coders that have taken
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by mark212 8y ago
this is very encouraging to read, thanks for this comment
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by mark212 8y ago
I've never heard of this legal definition of "professional" that you put forward. Where is this in state or federal law? In law school, we were taught that a professional has obligations that go beyond his or her own self int
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by mark212 8y ago
from the keynote, no information is sent to Apple for processing. Whether it'll work if you're not signed into iCloud is a different issue but from the way it's described in various places in the WWDC Keynote, it ought to wor
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by mark212 8y ago
This is a great example of how owning the entire stack from CPU on up to user interface allows a company to do things that others just can't. Whether it's any good or not, well, time will tell. But it's not even possible for
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by mark212 8y ago
a big part of the improved Siri integrations is helping group the notifications and give you the option to shut them off. So it really is trying to get the software out of the way if you want

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