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by mcny 5y ago
I agree that there must be a strong correlation. I had a classmate who was horrified to learn I checked the organ donor box in my driver's license. Their parents told them if you check that box, the medical staff will be more likely to
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by mcny 5y ago
> Real time billing is actually a Hard Problem to solve. I refuse to believe there is no workaround. I can understand it is not easy to fix for corporations who need AWS to make money but that is not the use case for students. If it were
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by mcny 5y ago
» This sounds a bit like Ed Colligan's immortal "they're not going to just walk in." Some context for others like me > Sarah Jane Tribble and Dean Takahashi, reporting for the San Jose Mercury News on Palm CEO Ed Coll
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by mcny 5y ago
Your comment makes me think of Theranos. Imagine if they could string us along long enough and meanwhile the researchers there figured out some breakthrough. Would we see the con artist as a visionary?
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by mcny 5y ago
Absolutely. The fraternity of police says police officers should ask their superior officers in a certain wording if answering the questions is required as a part of their job duty. Even the police will not talk to the police.
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by mcny 5y ago
I like the short story “what men live by” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Men_Live_By My conclusion from the story isn’t that we shouldn’t do our best but we shouldn’t worry. The universe existed before I was born a
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by mcny 5y ago
> The issue with fees though is that you might need a billable address for tax purposes. Maybe there is room for some simple innovation here. Is it possible to do “coarse” address for tax purposes? After all I imagine they only care abou
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by mcny 5y ago
Thank you. Seems like I had just really poor search skills. I somehow reached here https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortalit... which I guess has not been updated since the early nineties? http
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by mcny 5y ago
The last time I checked afghanistan had an infant mortality rate of over one hundred. That's a hundred babies dying per thousand live births before the age of five I think. I know once you get infant mortality rate down to about five,
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by mcny 5y ago
I don't know anything about desalination but from what I've seen on YouTube, desalination does not result in clean water and powder table salt. It results in water and very salty water. What do we do with this very salty water? Ap
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by mcny 5y ago
I am positive growing up I read about how some anesthetic they used during childbirth in the sixties was linked to some kind of birth defect but it is ridiculous to say that about vaccines. Why is there doubt that vaccines are safe and that
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by mcny 5y ago
Your statement makes me wonder - how much does petroleum actually cost? I mean if we could somehow ignore the rent, royalties, and direct taxes, what is the true cost of a gallon of gasoline in terms of capital, goods, and labor? Or is this
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by mcny 5y ago
From what I understand, I am amazed we have anyone willing to teach in New York (the city) public schools. You need a master's degree and more than three (not sure) certifications. It is insane. Yes, I agree we should have some standar
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by mcny 5y ago
I don't get it. Why is the crackdown on e-tutoring bad? I am not saying you are wrong. I do t know enough to say that. However, it is clear that we can't have a "free market" in many things, perhaps anything at all if yo
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by mcny 5y ago
> Is there some reason the seller needs to have the buyer's contact info? I have the same question, except I'll narrow the scope a little bit. In case the order is fulfilled by Amazon.com (FBA), is there any reason for the sell
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by mcny 5y ago
Does the hood vent outside? Or does it throw air right above your face? I think we are supposed to change the filter in a range hood every so often but I’ve never done that even once in my life nor do I know anyone who has… I didn’t think o
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by mcny 5y ago
I remember the first story my (baby) economics professor told me: A local gas station changed gas prices to above a dollar and got a visit from the Sheriff's office. The demand was simple: you can either continue to charge ninety nine
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by mcny 5y ago
Vanguard index funds are pretty much anyone who isn’t wealthy needs. The only think I can’t figure out is why isn’t it possible to park USD 5k in cash in my Roth IRA at Vanguard every April and have them buy VTSAX if it goes below some thre
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by mcny 5y ago
I support banning cars specifically in certain neighborhoods in Manhattan. Probably not in any other borough or Jersey City but I want a ban on cars in Manhattan for exactly the same reason you are describing - building empathy toward peopl
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by mcny 5y ago
I am ok with it as long as the people with more money than me cannot simply create/find loopholes that allows them not to pay. The main argument against higher taxes to me is it becomes very easy for "them" to allocate a smal
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by mcny 5y ago
Speaking of https, I will give my own example. I can get to the cockpit (local ip:9090) of my fedora machine on my android phone if I continue past the scary warning but not on my iphone.
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by mcny 5y ago
> IE6 was actually a perfectly fine browser at launch, the trouble was that it stayed current for so long that getting IT infrastructure to abandon it took far longer than it should have. XP and Server 2003 had a similar predicament. My
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by mcny 5y ago
I still think developers should not be able to upload binary blobs to the store. The store should prescribe an official set of tools and build options. Developers should be required to upload their source code and build instructions. The st
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by mcny 5y ago
> That said, there is a place for 30-day rotation. That's when the so-called "password" is actually a shared secret for extremely high-value systems. Payment gateways, for example. Should we even attempt to let the user de
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by mcny 5y ago
We should discourage this stupidity of expiring passwords wherever we can. Maybe make it a point to put your passwords on a sticky note stuck on the monitor prominently on display if $work requires you to change passwords that frequently?
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by mcny 5y ago
Japan also treats non Japanese people differently. Nobody says anything bad about Japan. My opinion is Hong Kong people have the right to keep mainland Chinese people out of Hong Kong. Why should we be afraid of China PR?
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by mcny 5y ago
» Wasting meat is also disrespectful. This I can completely agree with. Wasting food is completely disrespectful in so many ways and is mostly avoidable. Yet, just last year we saw supply chain breakdowns that caused farmers to dump so many
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by mcny 5y ago
I know stadia is so poorly managed that it is not even a worthy competitor but the concept is sound and nVidia’s GeForce Now and Microsoft’s x cloud will eventually work well enough on Google Chrome that between that and Proton, Windows’ ga
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by mcny 5y ago
I don’t get the point of not allowing administrator to the local machine to employees. The local machine is practically a throwaway in my opinion. Why should we care about it? The shared folder is much more vital to the business.
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by mcny 5y ago
> This is why I decided to bite the bullet and go flatpak for the likes of teams, slack and other proprietary software. I always recommend this now if it is an option. Even if Microsoft does nothing wrong, it is way too easy for me to ma

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