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by mcherm 4y ago
Not yet.
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> it was almost certainly not individual error. At places like NYSE you pretty much always have 2-3 people who should be in a position to catch a mistake like this. That's exactly the point that is being made here. Either the messag
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> The cashier said, "Don't worry about it, the tips just go to management." This happens, but it IS illegal in most jurisdictions.
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No - the alternative is to hold the same fight over the budget rather than the debt ceiling. Let us use the analogy (as Kevin McCarthy suggested) of a credit card. Suppose we (the country) have been overspending and now we owe too much and
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> I'm hoping OP got a private message. I'm not. I have the same problem -- or I will if I ever lose my 2 factor identification keys, which are held by Authy NOT by myself. I always assumed that my one-time-codes (which I have c
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by mcherm 4y ago
No, I think the question is why the metric system isn't used by default for most purposes -- like road signs.
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So, basically this: https://classicsofsciencefiction.com/2022/11/27/the-roads-mu... (Or https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780739410516 if you want to actually read it.)
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> It's not like they can just ask to see Amazon's code to see if the knowledge has been ported over to there. If they can get enough evidence to make it through the pleading stage of a lawsuit, then they can ask exactly that du
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What's clever about that, is that it also avoids Amazon's "best price here" policy since the two half-books would be Amazon exclusives.
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> "Protected class" isn't very protected, as it leaves burden of proof to the victim Surely though, you understand and agree that having this law is better than the alternative, where employers ARE allowed to fire someone
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> The flipside is that it's a lottery. Steam is overflowing with new indie games every day, and many very good ones die in obscurity. Sounds to me like an opportunity. There may be a demand for a service that reviews indie games and
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The author seems to believe that the fact this error was not reported is an indication that no one reads the printed market data page. That conclusion is not at all supported by the evidence. First of all, I think everyone is willing to ack
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Language debates are over once a substantial amount of the code has been written. Policy debates continue eternally.
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The irreversibility of payments in nearly all crypto systems does NOT prevent providing a refund to a customer. That can always be done by making a new payment to the customer. One might argue that crypto makes customers unable to demand
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Your reasoning seems unsound. It would [let us assume for the sake of argument] be better for society if proof of work systems did not exist. But if we ban it it will just happen anyway. It would be better for society if murder did not exis
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Yes. It provides exactly what I need: text notes, reliably saved to the cloud, which are searchable. Being free ($) is a nice bonus but not required; being not-free (open source) a minor negative.
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The article had a whole section about that -- they shared the on-call duties across both teams (but required a high-quality playbook for each team's systems).
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Years ago I found a solution to this problem I was comfortable with. I opened a separate (no fees) bank account just for linking to PayPal. I keep almost zero balance in that account except when I am in the process of moving money into and
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This occurred in Canada, not the US.
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> bankruptcy proceedings take a long time and to a retail investor ‘you might get some money back in N years’ isn’t so different from ‘you get nothing’. Does anyone actually remember MtGox? It wasn't actually that long ago!
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I just can't get myself to see this as a genuine disadvantage. On Mastodon you can choose the server to use (and thus the moderation). Sure, this means you can choose a server run by a 12-year-old who moderates poorly. But if you don&#
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That sounds like it might be something I hadn't heard about. Can you provide some sources I can learn from?
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Yes. Printed on paper in a sealed envelope. My wife knows where it is. Every 5 or 6 years I update it.
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Hypercard. It started from a-drag-and-drop equivalent of today's PowerPoint and scaled all the way up to creating the game Myst, all with no bumps or steep sections on the learning curve. I used to teach it to middle schoolers and the
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> No engineer is going to want that to happen as a default operation — it must be explicit. I would go so far as to say that it would be unconstitutional (first amendment; free speech) to restrict the act of "making a map" (alt
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> I believe many US states have similar procedures. Most US companies follow similar procedures because they are a sensible thing to do. But 49 out of 50 US states have "at will" employment which means that employers can fire a
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> Why would people want to build a UI in Rust except for speed? Lots of reasons. * The developer is familiar with Rust. * The rest of the project is written in Rust. * The primary function of the app is something for which a library exis
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> if there are clear rules (like for example existing laws) of what is allowed and what not the scale really doesn't matter If that were true, then mature legal systems (which have had hundreds of years if not more to reach a point
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It's unfortunate that they rejected my attempt to create an account because my phone number wasn't from one of their standard providers.
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> Yes, space is an issue if you think of it in terms of the customer's attention span. I don't hear independent developers griping that Apple is failing to advertise their apps and bring those apps to the attention of iPhone us

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