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Why would I ever trust a notary? As a person being notarized it sounds like I have to give that business more personal information about myself than I usually have to do to get an online identity, as suggested by your subpoena statement. As
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Not only is sh so widespread that it won’t die, but my own backlog of sh scripts, code snippets, config, and muscle memory is so deep that I refuse to use anything that doesn’t have good compatibility with sh. I also hate it. It’s not the
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Anything that either A. Improves the transparency of the process B. Improves the entertainment proposition of the gamble aspect of hitting the jackpot. Maybe with a live event you can do both at once.
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Was that really the case? Netflix delivered DVDs for a decade before it started online streaming. If I remember correctly Netflix’s original business model was more like a gym membership than brand building for an online platform that was a
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I’m highly skeptical of jackpot generation, as there has been multiple high profile examples of corruption in this process. Yotta would have to insure me this is fair before I consider saving with them, but to be fair I’m probably not thei
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It sounds like what you’re describing is what is commonly referred to in the HN crowd as a lifestyle business. They generate a good life for their owners, although less than billions, are self sustaining, are privately owned, and often time
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There is a scene in Shrek where he compares himself to an onion because he was emotional layers.
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If you need to do air travel, these larger airplanes are better then smaller airplanes per passenger.
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Their two systems one county deal with China is being taken away, which effects not only Hong Kong people, but British honor.
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I’m a software developer, that commonly talks about software development with a diverse group of software developers. I’ve never had a conversation with a software developer where they didn’t know what vim or emacs are.
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It’s a little annoying, but you can do the math with a spreadsheet and a scale. Also many online resources has nutritional information for an item per 100g, and adjusting measurements of weight to other measurements of weight is much easie
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Weight watchers will allow you to scan a barcode of some food and it will tell you how many “points” it is, and someone in weight watchers has a limited number of “points” they can consume in a day. This is an example of an existing solutio
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> The problem is that people are latching to the idea that such-and-such diet allows you to eat however much you want, and you'll lose weight. This argument is often used not to say you can literally eat an arbitrarily large amount
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> My preference is to get the government out of the nutrition science business, but that's about as unlikely. It’s critically important that the government is in the nutrition science business and it does nutrition science correctly
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This article suggests that internationally speaking government warnings begin at 200mg of caffeine a day, which you are almost certainly going over. I seriously suggest you do your own deeper research on the health effects of coffee as it i
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The abstract says that the majority of the benefits of coffee probably comes from phenolic phytochemicals. This implies you can receive all of the same health benefits like lower risks type 2 diabetes by eating other vegetables. Is the wes
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Assuming the company has to pay the employees for their vacation time I don’t see how this saves the employer a significant amount of money in any situation other than paying out vacation during a mass lay-off. Am I missing something?
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> a mechanical difference Insurance and gambling have very different legal regulations in almost every jurisdiction.
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> Are wind and solar just vanity projects? Solar is great for lots of non-grid applications, such as places without a grid connection or satellites. The entire technology isn’t vanity.
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I think you missed the main point. The most important part of root comment’s advice is networking —- to meet and work with other devs. If you start your own open source project there’s not guarantee people will work on it with you.
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> Most cops should be issued a radio and a bicycle, so you attract people who want to look like [1] instead of [2]. Having police on the roads is having a huge positive impact on drinking and driving. Let’s be careful not to over-correct
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PepsiCo products are typically very unhealthy options. Giving consumers more access to them is bad for public health. I typically support the free market, but I think most of their products are addictive and harmful enough to have their co
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Each token is worth 1cm^2 of the painting.
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A significant portion of social media posts are filled with simply false information. I recently got into an argument with someone on Facebook, but stopped when they admitted they weren’t confident Covid-19 is caused by a virus. The level
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I can imagine a hundred products that can benefit from 5G, and I’m just one person. WiFi is great for high power products that stay within trusted networks, but not everything does stay within a trusted network. 5G can also offer a convin
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I think it would be painfully slow to have it learn in real time, especially if a grad student had to put the ball in between every game like what is demoed.
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I imagine if Uber hadn’t pushed so hard for growth most local markets would still be using their old taxi system.
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> The idea of making conscious AI scares me, because we could potentially create an AI that just experiences constant suffering People choose to have babies with the knowledge that their children will suffer, and that their children migh
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In the United States most motorcycle accidents involving more than one vehicle the motorcycle is not at fault. It’s really common for a car driver to not use a blinker, or not see a motorcycle and cause an accident with a motorcyclist.
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I’ve seen plenty of elderly people use trains.
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