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by mason55 3y ago
Yes, if the SEC chooses to refer to the US Attorney then the gov't will need to prove to a jury that insider trading occurred. But, to start, the SEC will just come knocking and asking questions. If you have a good explanation then th
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by mason55 3y ago
> It does not matter how you got it Well, it sort of does. In fact, that's almost all that matters. Insider trading is all about obligations . If someone who had the obligation to keep the info secret gave it to you and then yo
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The problem is it works badly. You have to open the app which has to load and then you can get access to your key. But if you’re on an elevator then you might not have service and the app won’t load and then you can’t get to your key to us
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> Or do they have some sort of unstable reaction when they get mixed? Yup this is what it is. My understanding is they have different enzymes that clean better but need to be mixed at the time of washing.
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Super annoying that RDS Proxy doesn’t support IAM auth against the DB. We moved all our DB users to use IAM auth based on instance roles and then found out that RDS proxy doesn’t support it.
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> and now in the era of surge pricing I really don't understand it. Hasn't surge pricing been a part of Uber from day 1? I remember that being one of their original pitches, dynamic pricing being touted as a feature that wil
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I think the question is whether the donations create more resources than what is used up by a legacy admission. For example, imagine I donate $1B to the university, with two stipulations. First, they admit my child to the CS program. Seco
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Grab some Arduinos, LEDs and buttons/switches and you'll learn about electricity pretty quickly with no real risk. It'll get you to a point where you should be comfortable enough working on mains electricity because you&#x27
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The brain isn't a perfect machine - you can't just isolate the chemical reaction that your tastebuds have and say that anything else is lying to yourself about taste. Breathing through your nose is lying to yourself about the tast
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> and also my terrible ADHD FWIW, programming and ADHD tend to go well together once you can get past the basics. Especially when you're in the flow of things, it's just a constant loop of small change -> visible progress
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None of these are counterarguments > Maybe they want to make sure you're there There's not even an a real scenario here > maybe their issue is dependent on the time "Hi, I have a time sensitive question about X, are
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Is that the typical range in a normal year? Or is that the all-time extreme record? One thing people tend to do when they look at heat pumps is look at the typical extreme low for the year and size the heat pump based on that. But even if
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by mason55 3y ago
> Then, what's the point? If you still have to have gas lines and infra, just use the gas. It's vastly cheaper. A) Not everywhere B) Heat pumps can be powered with solar, reducing costs even if your gas would normally be chea
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> Can someone comment on the current state of local-only voice recognition for home automation? I can't speak to quality because I haven't tried it, but Home Assistant is focused on local voice control for the entire year: h
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by mason55 3y ago
Certainly your prerogative. I get a lot of value out of running Home Assistant (open source) + Zwave lights (local only + industry standard + physical switches for everything) + things like a Bluetooth controlled valve on my hose spigot th
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by mason55 3y ago
I’m pretty blasé about control of my digital data, but the one place I won’t compromise is with smart home stuff. Run everything locally, or at least everything important. Use it as a convenience layer on top of physical control. Don’t eve
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> The country does not freeze completely every six months, for starters. Neither does the Sahara desert. That doesn't seem like much of an argument for or against geography.
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> They don't, and in 10-20 years corporate leaders will bemoan the shortage of high-skilled experienced people that they created through their own decisions. Of course, they won't take any responsibility or change their approa
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by mason55 3y ago
Siri today is built on what’s essentially completely different concepts from something like ChatGPT. There are demos of using ChatGPT to turn normal English into Alexa commands and it’s pretty flawless. If you assume Apple can pretty easil
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by mason55 3y ago
> And you would do exactly what you suggest in the last paragraph Assuming you mean this: > Would it involve installing Windmill (or some component of it) on the mailserver, and setting it up as an individual worker group? I was l
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> One is clearly the result of getting a handful of hardware engineers in a room and telling them “we need to put our catalogue online!” The other looks like it has been infected by “UI” and “design” and other non-engineering concepts.
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Large tech companies don't exist to serve as employment programs for software engineers. If they believe it will increase profits without longterm harm then layoffs/salary freezes are the right thing for them to do as a company e
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Well, OP did say > a corporation is there for its shareholders Which is a little different from maximizing shareholder value and is kinda true. As the second link says > a CEO or board is not legally obliged to maximize shareholde
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> It's not an idea, it's a literal legal duty. It is a legal duty but there's a huge amount of leeway. You could certainly implement lots of policies that put employees on close to equal footing and argue that it's
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At that point it's just an argument about "what is a service"? But people typically find that using the database as an API ends up with the services so coupled that they might as well be one even if they technically run as d
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In addition to what other people said, the arguments under You should consider using this pattern if are all basically "you currently have a shared database and don't feel like splitting it apart." The only bullet on the li
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> There's more to Colorado than "cities are liberal". The CO general assembly has big Dem majorities in the house and senate, along with a Dem Governor. Sure, but the Dem majorities are exactly because the cities are lib
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The short answer is basically "cities are liberal" and Colorado has a large city unlike the rest of the surrounding states. The next question is why Denver is in Colorado and not anywhere else? The answer is that, from the beginn
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The term "XTC" was a lot more common in the 90s rave scene. As far as being synonyms, people generally differentiate between "ecstasy"/"E" as MDMA in pill form and "molly" as MDMA in powder form.
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> where the judicial system seems truly out of control I don't think this is true at all. The judicial system is following the laws that the legislature has laid out. Unless the laws are unconstitutional (which no one seems to b

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