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by pooper 5y ago
Not really. I mean logically would you also play Russian roulette repeatedly with no payout just because you haven't died yet?
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by pooper 5y ago
> The no fly list was setup for a reason and using it to exclude others reduces the seriousness of the original list to the point where the public will demand it's removal. I hope so but I wouldn't hold my breath. I remember in
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by pooper 5y ago
> Times Table Rock Star When I was a child, the schools tried to get me to memorize the multiplication tables. At least through ten, teachers would say. I thought it was pretty silly. You shouldn't force memorization. It should come
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by pooper 5y ago
Before I begin I know nothing about pos or crypto so, to quote margin call, please, speak as you might to a young child, or a golden retriever When I need to send my sister who has a bank account with the same bank that I have an account wi
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by pooper 5y ago
Maybe this was a case of user error but I know I was not the only person who had difficulty joining Mozilla's riot with their existing riot username when Mozilla first opened their server.
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by pooper 5y ago
Does it matter though? I imagine nobody knows the name of the CXO or the board members. They could simply rename thedacare to Meta or something, right? I don't see how there is any justice here unless the CEO and the board go to prison
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by pooper 5y ago
Visual Studio Professional is more expensive than Jetbrains Rider which was surprising for me to learn.
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by pooper 5y ago
I've played with visual studio code ssh remote development with angular and it is relatively painless to set up for debugging with Firefox. Give it a shot if you'd like.
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by pooper 5y ago
I don't have first hand knowledge but my understanding is large companies have procurement departments and they get over half off sticker price for Azure. My guess is this is why the sticker price needs to be overinflated because peopl
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by pooper 5y ago
I still haven't gotten my check from the iPhone 6 battery scandal. I still have the phone. It is forever stuck on the wall now. They have no incentive to hurry up I guess.
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by pooper 5y ago
Sorry, all you can eat was a bad choice of words. I meant in terms if the fees that Uber Eats collects. I'd say prime is similar because you get free shipping but clearly Amazon.com makes money on each sale so the more they sell the mo
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by pooper 5y ago
This is the subject line of an email in my inbox right now. Sure you could say the sender allows me to opt out but I shouldn't have to opt out. This isn't legally spam but I want to know what you would call this unsolicited, non-t
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by pooper 5y ago
> it is frequently diverted to the general fund and/or maintaining Chicago's transit system (much to the chagrin of the rest of the citizens of the state) I don't know for sure but if it is anything like New York and upsta
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by pooper 5y ago
Quick question: who collects the taxes? Is it the local government or the central government? I suspect we need to take property taxes away from the local government to the federal government in the US so businesses cannot pressure local go
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by pooper 5y ago
I read </shrug> as a self closing tag <shrug /> as human language is not necessarily valid XML. It is amazing how we "autocorrect" things as we read that we have to consciously stop and think what we did.
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by pooper 5y ago
It isn't obvious at all why a membership would work for postmates or Uber eats but not for let's say movie pass or hypothetically Airbnb. Could someone share their thoughts on this? When does an all you can eat type membership (or
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by pooper 5y ago
> Google Duo is what replaced it for video chat We were also supposed to get chat with Google Allo but they practically killed it before launch. > Before launch, Google touted strong privacy in the app, with particular emphasis on mes
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by pooper 5y ago
On a related note, what if I want to run a mail server but only for incoming emails? As in I want to buy a domain and create basically a sinkhole email address and create email addresses like hn@example.com I never need to reply from that e
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by pooper 5y ago
Counterexample: Korean auto manufacturers Hyundai and Kia offer longer warranties than Japanese manufacturers Honda and Toyota because that’s the only way people will buy Korean cars.
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by pooper 5y ago
> But at what point do we qualify something/someone as “smart”? That's a good point. We can only give our guess based on what we know. For example, people regarded Alan Greenspan as "smart" before 2008. I now think he
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by pooper 5y ago
When I first learned of Dropbox, I thought that was stupid. A full 2 GB of storage for free online? How would they afford this? Turns out storage is cheap and more importantly it keeps getting cheaper over time. I am very willing to admit I
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by pooper 5y ago
> Hearing some places just have one giant database where all teams can add and remove columns is... Kind of scary to me. Are you talking about Bank of America? My impression from the interview was that it is not a free for all but rather
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by pooper 5y ago
I tried to look into that. I think problem is two fold: 1. options 2. audience 1. options: I need to be able to serve two or three meal options tops depending on what is available / inexpensive. People really like having options but th
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by pooper 5y ago
> This defeatist attitude toward legislating is self-perpetuating. We can at least hold our representatives accountable. What can we do? I have no confidence that Congress will act in my best interest. Congress has some "partisan de
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by pooper 5y ago
From what I remember there was a lot of pushback from infrastructure as we thought using https for the whole website would increase CPU load. Never verified if this was true... but I'm sure someone here should know.
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by pooper 6y ago
> valedictorians with 4.0 GPAs Not trying to say you are wrong and not trying to claim any kind of authority as I have zero insider knowledge of college admissions process but just thinking out loud as a student, there can be a world of
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by pooper 6y ago
I have exactly zero sympathy for the children not being able to go to school in person. Schools aren't in my opinion places where we park children through the day. We have completely overloaded schools to be anything and everything chi
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by pooper 6y ago
Personally, I don't want to think about all this complexity. I just build simple web applications. I want a box in my basement that has everything production has - the whole thing, all the web services running all the time. It ought to
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by pooper 6y ago
Does this count people with uBlock origin? I'm just one data point but here is my user agent: What is my user agent? Your User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:88.0) Gecko/88.0 Firefox/88.0 According to user
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by pooper 6y ago
> There can be N failures that all contributed to a given disaster, and it's important to consider all points of failure which can be mitigated in the future, not just the most controversial point of failure. For the Uber thing, wha

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