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mrlala
6y ago
I kind of suck at reading but I can whip through a Dan Brown book fully entertained and not constantly struggling. But then I try some "real authors" as you would say and I have a bit of a hard time. So which author is better? No
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6y ago
>I've run into this issue in every language What about C#? One could argue it's pretty much the most bullet proof in terms of "just working" without any issues. Open up visual studio.. start a project.. run it. There
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6y ago
I mean.. you think any major provider like Amazon is going to just blatantly rip it off and sell it saying "We created this!" That's just not going to happen.
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6y ago
What's your point? If you are developing an application/website and it doesn't work with 50% of your market share- then you are a dumbass for not implementing it. ESPECIALLY for an AP EXAM with consequences. This isn't l
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6y ago
Just a guess, but it seems like you work in theoretical lala land and never have to deliver something that works. I'm not saying you are wrong- sure you can argue that it's the iPhone that is broken, from a non-standard format. H
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6y ago
Have to agree with this guy here.. if you are doing Q/A testing and you notice that an iphone doesn't work by default, you have a problem.
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6y ago
>I won't ever willingly donate them. >I hope you'll reconsider. Yeah well, I hope you'll reconsider too. This is all basically a "greater good" argument end of the day that you either agree that if your body c
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6y ago
By that argument aren't the controllers experiencing more latency on RiftS than Quest already? I realize there is more post-processing with hand tracking, but given that it already experiences the latency of having to process the contr
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6y ago
>It's time we did what we should have done after two weeks of quarantine You seem to know better than the experts.. not sure what qualifies you to believe that.
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6y ago
Exactly.. really hate the attitude of "oh well someone might abuse it so let's just screw everyone instead"
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6y ago
Shrug. I'm pretty sick of getting in the middle of this shit. I'm already in the middle of it every time I eat out- having to add an arbitrary tip to the end of the my bill and always get surprised because I'm supposed to si
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6y ago
I think that is a great point. And I agree with musk's general point on finance. I did my M.S. in finance, I work (somewhat) in the industry still. It's a ridiculous amount of smart people basically wasting everyone's time
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6y ago
IB automatically closes out your position before delivery can happen if you don't close it out.. so not sure why you are surprised IB lets them trade? >I worked as a risk manager in a commodity trading firm and only hedgers qualifie
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6y ago
>Speculation on futures seems dumb if you have no intention of taking delivery What? How is it any more dumb than speculating and buying a stock hoping it will go up? Speculation in futures is what gives those farmers liquidity in the ma
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6y ago
What a weird article.. first of all, what does sending it with gmail have to do with anything? He says the company is USING gmail to receive.. that's where the spam-filter comes in. He could have sent this with any service and it st
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6y ago
>What apple does is in the interest of the shareholders and nothing else Honestly what is with this attitude? Yeah, I get it.. you took a business class and learned that everything a company does should be to maximize shareholder value.
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6y ago
I scroll for light-years because of my logitech mx master 2s which has a ball bearing on the wheel so it can go flying. With a high refresh monitor it's just fun to scroll around!
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6y ago
[Patent Clerk] Anti-gravity... um... anti-depressant? I could put you through to someone on that?
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6y ago
Holy shit it's that expensive now?? Graduated from there about 15 years ago and it was maybe 8-10k a year..
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6y ago
Well.. the problem is how can lenders "be careful" when loaning to an 18 year old, which we can call an adult all we want but an 18 year old on their way to college is basically a grown child with no money. So how can a lender pro
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6y ago
>That's about the same as K-12 Are you forgetting the entirely free K-12 option here that most people grow up with? >$15k/yr is not expensive Ok....
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6y ago
I have been working from home for nearly 8 years now with a very small team (2-3 other people over the years max, mainly just with 1 other). We have been using VSee to keep a constant video/audio feed going. We both have microphones w
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6y ago
>A stock buyback is theoretically the same as a dividend I don't think that is true at all. A dividend is literally "We are paying out some amount of cash. If our stock price is $40 and we give $5 to each shareholder the share
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6y ago
>Bingo. Would you rather have a poorly managed company hold on to their cash and spend it internally, or return it to shareholders? I think it's a bunch of bs the way you are wording this. I know these are not your words alone, it&
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7y ago
Definitely great advice! I have always felt the same with my kids. Be honest and try to answer your best even if you know they won't fully understand.
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7y ago
Yeah I'm sure there are no possible scaling issues between your service (how many people use it / repos acitve) vs github or gitlab....
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7y ago
>I want to be able to pay 50¢ here or $1 there for an interesting article That sounds... fucking terrible! I assure you that you are in the minority. The last thing in the world I want online is to have to think about every click costi
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7y ago
Both.. I know nothing about this person but very possible he just got lucky on some really big investments but anything he tries to really do is shit. Luck is such a huge factor sometimes...
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7y ago
>They're all generally a week out So what? Then get your week out slot. Then when you get your order next week, reserve a slot for a week out. I have to wait 2-3 days here, so I've adjusted and planning on that. If there are
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7y ago
Well, at least by me you can order groceries from walmart to have them delivered/picked up. They have an excellent website for it, so it's very easy. Everyone who can should be ordering groceries.. I have been ordering groceries
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