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by nvahalik 3y ago
> The lack of regulation is concerning. You should go talk to some teachers at large school districts. "Regulation" can be both a blessing and a curse. There is plenty of bullying, drug use, etc. at large schools where nobody w
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FrankenPHP: Package PHP apps as static binaries [video](youtube.com)
3 points by nvahalik 3y ago|0 comments
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by nvahalik 3y ago
I was always told that folks who litter don’t have ownership. It’s not theirs so they’ll mistreat it.
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by nvahalik 3y ago
What benefit does this have besides just being a thought experiment? Nobody would adopt this, so why bother?
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by nvahalik 3y ago
Are the contents of push notifications not encrypted? Or are we talking about payloads rather than transport?
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by nvahalik 3y ago
Yes, but _why_ are they poor? This is the thing that bothers me about this conversation more than anything. It's like giving pain killers to someone who has pain—in some cases that may be the only real solution but arguably the vast, V
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by nvahalik 3y ago
aren’t they a publicly traded company? Doesn’t this mean that the shareholders (like pension funds, held by teachers and gov employees) will suffer?
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Reflector: Stream AirPlay to your Mac or Windows computer(airsquirrels.com)
1 points by nvahalik 3y ago|0 comments
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by nvahalik 3y ago
The iPhone's AVAsset* framework system is... intense. For "simple" stuff nowadays it seems like the amount of work you have to do just to get bootstrapped is a lot. But it also seems insanely powerful for all kinds of stuff a
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by nvahalik 3y ago
I love seeing more Angular projects in the wild like this. Angular is an under-appreciated, solid, no-gimmicks framework. Been using it for years rather than React and it seems the the pendulum is swinging back toward "this side"
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by nvahalik 3y ago
This seems completely dishonest: Warren Buffett - $125M income reported - $23.7M taxes paid "real tax rate" = 0.10% I mean, this math only makes sense if you rewrite how math works...
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by nvahalik 3y ago
The middle ground here seems not only theologically sound but biologically coherent as well. We have a constrained will. Free will has never and will never exist since we are finite beings. We have a _constrained_ will that is boxed in by a
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by nvahalik 3y ago
The Star Fleet Technical Manuals were so cool as a kid. The Last Starfighter was an amazing movie and those ships were so cool. Inspired a lot of kids like me to draw their own ships.
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CSS in Email Support Guide(campaignmonitor.com)
2 points by nvahalik 3y ago|0 comments
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by nvahalik 3y ago
Anyone else get an invalid certificate on this site? What's the deal? ETA: Hm. OpenDNS (family) blocks them...
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by nvahalik 3y ago
See: January 6th. There are still many people in jail who haven't been to trial.
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by nvahalik 3y ago
> maximum 60 days In the US, political prisoners have been jailed for years without trial. 60 days would be a major respite.
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by nvahalik 3y ago
> This of course assumes that the employee has no stocks in the company I'm grateful that I get to work for a company that encourages growth and promotes heavily from the inside. Not all organizations are like this. But Servant lead
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by nvahalik 3y ago
> I think it fundamentally changes what you should expect from one and not the other Not exactly. I want my kids to become great people. I genuinely care about them and their well-being. This is the same thing with the people that I work
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by nvahalik 3y ago
I've been reading _The Servant_ among a number of other books recently as part of a "management focus" in my role and in many ways so many of these books overlap on many of the hot-areas of leadership. One of the big takeaway
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by nvahalik 3y ago
> Another money-saving trick I know of in insurance is to severely downsize the claims department. It's lawfully mandatory to process claims, but I'm not sure if there's a statute on how long to process them. P&C compa
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by nvahalik 3y ago
> I was under the impression that most insurance was moving to an efficiency:cost-optimized model. Can't speak for every avenue, but I can definitely say this is not happening with property insurance. The claim amounts are sometimes
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by nvahalik 3y ago
> Do insurance policies get packaged and sold as financial products, or are they re-insured on the backend but continue to be held by the originator? I've never seen this happen. Smaller carriers carry re-insurance since most smalle
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by nvahalik 3y ago
> Take the video of the damage immediately and through your own app. ... You can also refuse to pay for any damage unseen in the video. A good adjuster—especially an independent adjuster—is actually incentivized to find and pay for relat
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by nvahalik 3y ago
For car insurance, this is already happening and is fairly reasonable. A lot of car claims are handled by desk folks because you take it to a repair shop and they figure it out and negotiate it. But P&C is a different beast. > and th
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by nvahalik 3y ago
> Nearly every customer should be able to use an entirely automated online form for signing up and for making insurance claims. Claims should be settled entirely with the customer uploading a 1 minute video showing what damage occurred,
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by nvahalik 3y ago
I wonder which part of the business they laid off those folks from. The article doesn't say. In general, there are 3 main parts of an insurance company that are "in house": underwriting, claims, and accounting. Accounting isn
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by nvahalik 3y ago
I tried taking notes and then organizing them afterward. Then, I switched to spending a little bit of time organizing my notes before taking lots of them. This changed the game for me considerably. It definitely doesn't make me smarter
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Snowdrifts (Brr.fyi)(brr.fyi)
3 points by nvahalik 3y ago|0 comments
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by nvahalik 3y ago
Wholeheartedly disagree. Advancements to CSS have made front-end way more reasonably than they were in the 90s. Stuff that took weeks to figure out with tables can now be done so quickly with `display: flex` and the whole grid system. It&#x

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