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by maxk42 6y ago
The total number of CEOs this is likely to affect is zero. > According to reports, Wells Fargo, the bank headquartered in San Francisco, increased its CEO’s salary to $23 million in 2019. It would have to pay its median worker in the cit
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by maxk42 6y ago
This is particularly exasperating for me. I can't tell you how many times in my professional career I've ended up speeding up systems by removing two or three layers of improperly-implemented "caching" and using good ol
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by maxk42 6y ago
The taxicab industry had every moment of the last decade to get its act together. If it hasn't happened already it's not likely to happen.
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by maxk42 6y ago
Let's not forget the outrageous prices.
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by maxk42 6y ago
These are beautiful. I worked in a Malaysian restaurant as a young adult and unfortunately they didn't serve cakes. I'm a little saddened to think I may never get to experience one.
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by maxk42 6y ago
To answer your first "Why?" it's because employees have to be paid much more when working over 40 hours / week. Drivers will no longer be able to work an extra 5 hours when they need extra money: They'll have to ha
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by maxk42 6y ago
If anyone is interested I have found the press release directly from the Argonne National Laboratory: https://www.anl.gov/article/turning-carbon-dioxide-into-liqu...
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by maxk42 6y ago
Real shame. Toshiba always had the best value for low-cost laptops.
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by maxk42 6y ago
> NN forbids ISPs from interfering with the service, that's it Again - that would have been great if it were what the ruling actually did. It's not.
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by maxk42 6y ago
I'll probably be downvoted for this but I actually read most of the 900+ combined pages of the Obama-era net neutrality order plus the Communications Act of 1960. Pai isn't actually making a bad decision here. The problem is that
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by maxk42 6y ago
Dog-walking. My roommate used to make six figures by setting up standing dog walking appointments for affluent clients. She only worked six hours a day. Note that this was before the days of Rover which probably dominates the market in l
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by maxk42 6y ago
You misunderstand me: They didn't call me back to get the evidence I had, which they had no other way of obtaining.
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by maxk42 6y ago
Well that's just it: I had IP addresses and public posts from the perpetrators and NCMEC never called me back.
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by maxk42 6y ago
I tried calling the FBI to report an uploader on one of my sites who had posted child porn. They wouldn't take the info and instead directed me to NCMEC - a volunteer non-LE corporation. I don't know why this is standard practice
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by maxk42 6y ago
That was in 2017. The 2020 numbers are 52% and 77% respectively.
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by maxk42 6y ago
If you're not vegan and you eat at least one serving of meat a day, (or if you're taking a multivitamin) you're probably already getting all the B12 your body can use, and supplementation is unlikely to have much effect.
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by maxk42 6y ago
This is called "productivity". It's the reason the world isn't full of unemployed horse-and-buggy drivers right now.
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by maxk42 6y ago
Same thing happened to me. Paying account and when I asked what rule I had violated I was directed to the paragraph that said something along the lines of "CloudFlare reserves the right to terminate an account for any reason." I
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by maxk42 6y ago
This is the worst idea I've ever heard. If I were a VC and I found out one of the founders in my portfolio had become involved with FounderPool I would immediately drop them and cut my losses. Being a founder takes a huge amount of con
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by maxk42 6y ago
Decimate in the classical sense would be to reduce by 90%, not 10%.
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by maxk42 6y ago
I didn't mis-type. I press 'd' and Firefox fills-in the site for me. If I type 'e' I get 'en.wikipedia.org'. I was redirected.
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by maxk42 6y ago
I'm sure you were joking but they actually are: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...
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by maxk42 6y ago
I've never even heard of the site before. Nor have I searched for "attorney" any time recently.
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by maxk42 6y ago
Discord attempted to route me to: everydayconsumers.com/displaydirect2?tp1=b49ed5eb-cc44-427d-8d30-b279c92b00bb&kw=attorney&tg1=12570&tg2=216899.marlborotech.com_47.36.66.228&tg3=fbK3As-awso (Visit at your own risk.) Ha
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by maxk42 6y ago
downdetector is down. Discord is down. Cloudflare is down. Looks like a major DNS attack.
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by maxk42 6y ago
You should give Cinnamon a shot next time you're looking at Linux GUIs.
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by maxk42 6y ago
So... Trello. No wonder Atlassian bought it.
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by maxk42 6y ago
A ship is safest in a harbor. But that's not what ships are built for.
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by maxk42 6y ago
And yet we've seen hosts, domain registrars, and other service providers restrict certain ideas on their platforms. How practical is it in reality to be your own ISP, domain registrar, certificate authority, hosting service, web dev ag
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by maxk42 6y ago
What I really want to know is: Can someone describe what "heat" is to me?

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