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by mfoy_ 7y ago
That had more to do with "who owns what, and who gets what when they die" than anything else. (Citation needed...) In a modern society with strong property rights and gender equality monogamy would be unnecessary from a purely &qu
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
If you consider system oppression to be a form of validation for bigots, then it follows that removing that validation would result in reduced bigotry.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
It's almost as if the cloud is a fair weather friend. ;)
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Affected services include but are not limited to: * SharePoint * Dynamics 365 * OneDrive * Business Central * PowerApps * Flow * ...and many others, I'm sure.
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Microsoft Cloud Outage(outage.report)
2 points by mfoy_ 7y ago|3 comments
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
And Dynamics 365, and Flow, and the admin centers...
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
But they take a percentage of transaction, and the "freelancers" do pay a monthly fee, I believe... Admittedly I just googled "Freelancers.com business model" and found a Quora answer, so I don't know how accurate i
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I know our consulting firm has a "director of market development" in part because there is no place we could just hang our sign and get business. It's mostly networking and word of mouth.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
It's not even free though.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
That's the problem with a platform-as-a-middleman-service that uses a commission business model: they have to aggressively, and I mean aggressively , take measures to ensure neither the providers nor the recipients of the service cut
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
It's as if legal parking costs $20, the parking ticket is $5. However you may not even get the parking ticket, so obviously you would never pay for parking.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
In Ontario, at least, "engineer" is a protected designation. http://www.peo.on.ca/
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
How exactly does a 22-year-old have a $3k+ rent?
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
It depends how much you value material possessions. Is "winning" the rat race important to you? Money, after a certain threshold, has very little incremental value.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I've long thought that tech needs like.. a guild or trade union, or a professional association of some kind. The problem though, is that it's so easy to get into, so there's no easy way to "police" ourselves, becaus
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I agree, but the optics are awful. It's not a technical problem, it's a psychological one. I don't have any sources to back this up, but I'd wager that people, on average, would prefer to take a risk an order of magnitud
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Why? Why not serve the ISO over HTTPS?
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I don't see why a https:// site would serve up a http:// download link to an .exe in the first place. Mixed-content rules would block even loading http:// images on a https:// page, so
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
My bank only allows for up to 6 alphanumeric (no special!) characters. https://www.bmo.com/olbb/help-centre/en/my-profile/change-pa...
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
It's more about form than flavour. Two different raviolis can have totally different stuffings, but no reasonable person will confuse a lasagna for a ravioli... although I suppose you could put a ravioli layer inside a lasagna...
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Mother sues over daughter's suicide attempt in school isolation booth(theguardian.com)
16 points by mfoy_ 8y ago|1 comments
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
It really is, these people could also threaten to use their influence to smear places as well. So small business owners may feel the need to kowtow to the influencers' demands. Very much akin to: "Oh! You're the duke's n
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Yeah it's a pretty self-absorbed thing to do (and say). Like, there's no harm if the outcome is mutually beneficial... but you just have to know deep down that posting one picture of a beach out front of a resort for your 2,000
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Cut out the first two paragraphs of your comment, they are irrelevant and misguided. Although there are issues with online mobs and the kangaroo court that social media has become, that has nothing to do with this. Also, complaining about
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
No matter how good or enthusiastic the teacher is, under-performing students simply require more time . Time is a precious commodity, and if the class size is large and professors have other (non-teaching) responsibilities then something h
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
But you can't force a piece of knobbly wood into a straight line. You work with what you've got. If the wood is twisted and knotty you have to play with that, you can't say "I make little identical figurines and I can do
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
The real problem is that society is more and more treating universities like companies that sell a product instead of educational institutions. The idea that "I paid for this, so I deserve it" is toxic.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
That's not how it works, as history has shown us.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I mean, developers are building houses in flood plains as we speak and no one bats an eye.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Your initial point was that we should not assume "Evolution" means biological evolution. Let's remember that and proceed: In a pedantic sense, saying that "it evolved" means nothing because everything "evol

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