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by patmcc 11y ago
Yes, BC sets sensible maximum rates that rent can be increased per year (usually on the order of inflation, ~2%).
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by patmcc 11y ago
Whoa, this blew up. If you emailed me after 2:19pm PST I'm out of keys (did FIFO for them). If I get more I'll keep sending.
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by patmcc 11y ago
I also have invites if anyone needs them, reply or find my email in profile.
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by patmcc 11y ago
You have to trust the organization, same as always. If your bank/credit union doesn't use https in their app, they probably don't have a secure infrastructure period. If the organization you're dealing with is incompeten
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by patmcc 11y ago
>>>Those damages go into the millions, far exceeding the maximum coverage. I have $2 million liability coverage (in BC Canada) and it's not that unusual or that expensive - is that very uncommon in the US?
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by patmcc 11y ago
You can give up your right to bring a civil suit, it doesn't impact your right to a jury in a criminal trial. That's a very important difference.
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by patmcc 11y ago
The catch is very simple; you receive $10k, but as your income is $100k+, your income tax will go up by $10k + $X. 1) You getting the $10k benefits society in that we don't add any administration on the front end - deposits go to every
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by patmcc 11y ago
>>Why do we think that a powerful AI will be stupid enough to stay interested in Earthly matters or humans when it has an entire universe to go to? Let's say a powerful AI emerges and is completely uninterested in Earth and human
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by patmcc 11y ago
People can do this currently with food stamps too (by selling them for 80% of face value or whatever), so it's not a new situation. So I'd say yes, we obviously can't give people unlimited funds.
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by patmcc 11y ago
The west coast isn't cold - Victora has a growing tech scene, and Vancouver always has jobs (not a lot of money, but lots of jobs).
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by patmcc 11y ago
It's possible, as long as you're ok with SNI (which is a pretty minor issue these days). You have to setup SSL on CloudFront to get it to work, check out: https://bryce.fisher-fleig.org/blog/setting-up-ssl-on-
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by patmcc 11y ago
Excellent piece - I think my favourite is the advice to criminals section: "Criminals, therefore, are advised to go to New Mexico (n = 99) or Oklahoma (n = 100)."
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by patmcc 11y ago
Given unlimited funds, anything possible is easy for the guy writing the cheque. If I was willing to foot the bill, you could probably do any of the example magics listed (assuming you had my details/logins to email/calendar) in a
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by patmcc 11y ago
Don't forget to use MailChimp.
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by patmcc 11y ago
Isn't part of the Drill Sergeant's role to encourage close team cohesion? If you have 50 diverse marines that need to get along, giving them a common enemy (the shouting Drill Sergeant) is beneficial. If he shouts at everyone all
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by patmcc 11y ago
>>Is that reason enough to award him so much more control over the future of society as opposed to the guy who invented Orkut, for example? Capitalism says yes, and it's the best mechanism we've come up with so far.
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by patmcc 11y ago
Canada has transitioned mostly to chip and pin (anecdotally, 95% of debit transactions I've done lately), and I've seen a really low failure rate on my cards. I can think of once in the last year I got chip errors on the reader.
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by patmcc 11y ago
Why can't the bank robber say "sure, robbing a bank is immoral, but I want money, so I don't care enough to not do it"? I think eating animals is immoral. I still eat animals. I like the taste more than I dislike the imm
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by patmcc 11y ago
I'd support including children in a basic income scheme at a reduced level (so $400/month for a child, $900/month for an adult, as a very rough example). Aside from extra kids, I don't see it as necessary to adjust the
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by patmcc 11y ago
>>I'm genuinely unable to fathom why when it comes to solving the diverse, expensive and very real problems a social safety net is designed to capture, that "give everyone a fixed large chunk of cash each year" is so wi
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by patmcc 11y ago
~8 years ago, I worked at one of the largest retailers in North America (top 5). Credit card numbers were absolutely stored in logs accessible to me (an on-the-floor employee who processes returns, etc.). It was useful as I could use them t
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by patmcc 11y ago
Google has the same problem; submit changes to a Play Store listing (or a new version) and it takes a couple hours to be universally visible. So it's not an Apple vs Google issue. Source: I've done far too many app deployments for
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by patmcc 11y ago
>>Without a license, there's nothing giving you the right to visit a website, because the copyright law says so. Is there any case law to back that up? That's a very odd reading of copyright law. Would you make the same clai
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by patmcc 11y ago
No, although I wouldn't care if a potential employer found it.
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by patmcc 11y ago
True, although both the company and the unit were named after Nikola, so not sure if that changes much.
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by patmcc 11y ago
I'm not crazy about it, but using just a last name feels different than first+last - to me the latter seems like an active endorsement. Also Telsa has been dead 50 years longer than Hopper, which helps. And some names become genericize
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by patmcc 11y ago
Is anyone else displeased by their use of Grace Hopper's name? Has this academy contacted her estate for permission or blessing? If not, using her name to advertise a for-profit company is unethical at the very least. Admiral Hopper is
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by patmcc 11y ago
Cutting snacks is a great signal to employees that they aren't worth the $2/day of Dr. Pepper they consume. Instead of cutting snacks just cut the job of whoever proposes that as a cost cutting measure. Probably save more money an
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by patmcc 11y ago
Not if they pay twice what the average is (which they do, by most accounts). You can have the best of the best, you just have to pay for it. Netflix does.
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by patmcc 11y ago
>>>This is clearly not a cost issue Nope, that's exactly it - it's cheaper and faster for the builder to frame a house small and simply. They've found that people spend money for houses based on location, size, and t

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