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by peter303 6y ago
The tax prep industry lobbied Congress to prevent the IRS from auto-tax filing. The compromise was "free filing" for those with median incomes and below. For a majority, W2s, 1099s and the previous years return can provide an auto
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Amazing, since the first ADA compiler wasnt released until 1983. You'll make those HR people happy who want candidates with 10 years of experience in 2 year old languages.
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Biologists are using the genome expression in each kind of tissue to refine the number of tissues. These were counted observationally in the past. Some suspect the count could as much as triple this way.
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C and C++ were free. Free crap often wins over purchased quality.
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I dislike the games LinkedIn plays with hiding your phone number and email address. Then you need some level of linking and/or paid subscription to communicate with someone.
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by peter303 6y ago
What replaces Fry's? We still have a MicroCenter that overlaps many functions. And it is very crowded on weekends with covid restricted capacities. Last time Radio Shack reopened it was mainly a cellphone dealer. Best Buy, Targets and
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by peter303 6y ago
The article doesn't mention the demographic bomb in the US. 2019 births were 3.7 million. boomers were 4 million a year; would need to be 7 million to be proportional to the population then. 2020 and 2021m births are projected to be as
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by peter303 6y ago
The main environmental issue at the first Earth Day was pollution. Climate change was then theoretical and not at the forefront. Air and water pollution were terrible in most major cities of US and Europe. They made good progress by the end
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LIGO puts this shame with 10^11 better sensitivity.
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Perhaps when Russian or Chinese probes successfully land. They are both notorious for "borrowing" US software.
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by peter303 6y ago
VxWorks has been battletested in NASA space probes for over 30 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_embedded_compute... I recall an early bug in the 2004 MERS duo. They were the first to use flash memory
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by peter303 6y ago
The plaintiff should be smart enough to know most blog posts are pumps.
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Just outsource your cybersecurity to Solar Wind.
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A growing issue with cars too. Manufacturer liability is probably voided if you do your own software or hardware repairs.
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The term A.I. was coined four years later in 1956. But an earlier term cybernetics encompassed some aspects of A.I.
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by peter303 6y ago
Computers are klunky objects that get in your way when you try to use them. When they disappear inside ofbobjects, then we know they have arrived. They are starting to disappear inside of phones, tvs, appliances, voice assistants, cars, etc
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by peter303 6y ago
The FBI has been hiring advisors from China
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These locations never had a widespread creditcard infrastructure. The US cc companies pretty much have a monopoly on transactions. And 3rd parties build top of that.
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Parler says they will return by by February. There is too much financial opportunity for large niche ideologies. They will miss the inauguration drama as the deplatformers intended. I wonder what alternative stack Parler will use.
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Chemotrophs probably existed before photosynthesis. The latter is a rather complex sequence of enzymes and took a while to evolve. Chemotrophs hijack natural rock chemistry reactions. Most likely it was the weathering of fresh, hot basalt a
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by peter303 6y ago
Congress gave rail companies immense wealth of half the land in an adjacent ten mile swath as an incentive to build in remote hinterlands. Some companies leveraged this better than others. The modern analogy was to lightly regulate what was
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Its amazing that China was able to significantly develop both road and rail infrastructures this centuries. It looks like many other countries prefer one or the other.
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"Progress" is a fairly recent philosophical concept. Up to a few hundred years ago there was no significant observable technological change between your life, your grandfathers and grandchildren. Some societies have ideas of utopi
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Several years back NASA issued a warning on the slow progress of this mission. Their main objective was to traverse the sedimentary layers up Mt. Sharp. They havent really begun the climb yet. A long, dangerous sand dune caused a couple yea
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by peter303 6y ago
In the US a good chuck of federal & state taxes go to government employee health care, active soldier & veteran health care. This added to medicare tax and health care premiums and medical expenditures gets me fairly close to the 18
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Envelope budgeting sounds like something grandma did. I just get enough total money in a bank account to pay bills.
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Notre Dame post-fire reconstruction has a similar issue. Some of the stonework, i.e. the naves, needs work. According to PBS Nova geologists & architects located the old quarries for different stone around metro Paris.
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Less than a day's new TikToks :-)
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SpaceX should locate next to Blue Origin in Texas.
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I am pleased at his positive attitude. There are many events that could have embittered him, but he writes them off as life lessons.

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