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by presto8 10y ago
Maybe federally, but in Oregon, where I live, restaurant workers make at least state minimum wage ($9.75), and in Portland, the wage is going up to $15. I feel a good first start would be to get rid of the tipped-job-exception from the Fede
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by presto8 10y ago
According to C99 spec, the maximum number of bits for the smallest object that is not a bit-field is 8 bits. See "CHAR_BIT" in the C99 spec. [1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs&#
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by presto8 10y ago
Don't forget things like short-term disability insurance, which is mandatory in California and can be up to $800/year.
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by presto8 10y ago
The top federal rate on long term capital gains is 15%.
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by presto8 10y ago
You couldn't pay 0% in taxes, at least not solely from charitable deductions. Your charitable deductions allowed in a single tax year can't exceed 50% of adjusted gross income.
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by presto8 10y ago
I have found that my homemade water-soap mixtures will eventually cause the foam soap dispenser to jam up and stop working. Adding in a small amount of glycerin seems to help keep the dispenser lubricated.
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by presto8 10y ago
Interesting that the status page marks this as a 'service disruption' versus 'service outage'. The page doesn't have any definitions of these terms anyway, so it's hard to know what the difference is. I was com
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by presto8 11y ago
"Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing" (by Margolis & Fisher) is an excellent book on this topic. MIT Press page: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/unlocking-clubhouse Amazon page: http://w
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by presto8 11y ago
The Oregon system started out with good intentions but ended up being devilishly complicated to understand and unfair to many people. It's probably a great case study in the long-term unintended consequences of laws intended to control
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by presto8 11y ago
Instead of "worth", perhaps "purchasing power" would be more accurate. The purchasing power of cash is generally reduced over time due to inflation.
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by presto8 13y ago
Looks interesting! A long time ago, I had wondered if Lisp would be a better introduction to programming for beginners. Now we can see some practical experiences from this attempt to use Haskell. I looked at the code samples provided; from
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by presto8 14y ago
A confusing situation - do I have the facts right? Amazon is ok with publishing public domain works. However, this is not a public domain work so it doesn't matter. GNU Free Doc License, just like GPL, doesn't care if you charge money or no
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by presto8 14y ago
I found the linked article almost impossible to read on a ThinkPad T420 running Ubuntu due to incredibly light-colored text. Luckily I have the Plain Clothes Chrome extension which allowed me to force the text to black on white. I must be i
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by presto8 14y ago
Thanks for the thorough answer! I originally missed the part about using a real word as the base. For my passwords, I use 8 character random strings so hopefully I am a little safer. Although, as I'm learning from all of these password leak
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by presto8 14y ago
Do you know how they are calculating the approximate entropy score of the characters used in the passwords? I entered the password from the xkcd comic in this web site: http://rumkin.com/tools/password/passchk.php And got an entropy of 51
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by presto8 15y ago
Trying blocking Flash by default. I leave my Chrome windows open for long periods of time. After a while, the memory consumption would get out of control. I finally realized that it was Flash that was causing the problem. There are many Fla
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by presto8 15y ago
I was at the airport last week and got randomly selected for the backscatter x-ray machine. I was told to remove everything from my pockets, including things that I would normally keep for going through a metal detector (passport, papers, w
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by presto8 15y ago
I have an encrypted 5TB setup using LVM, dm-crypt, and XFS in two identical full-size ATX 8-bay chassis, with nightly rsyncs from the primary to the secondary (with a simple versioning script that I wrote). Every year, I buy the biggest har
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by presto8 15y ago
I've often wondered how well an adaptive learning system using cameras at each floor would work. The cameras would record how many people are waiting for the elevator and tweak the algorithms accordingly. Historical data could be collected
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by presto8 15y ago
The plane did have the air speed information, at least at the time it made the stall warnings. Starting at time 2h10m17s, the pitot tubes started working again, the air speed was available, and the Flight Director came back online [page 89
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by presto8 15y ago
Thanks for the great summary. I also read the full BEA report which was very informative. Is there ever a situation in a commercial plane where a stall would be a good thing? My non-pilot brain is trying to figure out why the plane would al
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by presto8 15y ago
Bonin had to have known that the plane was in alternate law. In the flight recorder log, at 2h10m05s, there was an audible "cavalry charge" alarm that indicated to everybody in the cockpit that the autopilot was disconnecting (plus message
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by presto8 15y ago
My apologies for being redundant, then! I have a hunch that the penalties for check fraud are disproportionately severe compared with crimes of a similar social impact. I wonder if the same would be true with ACH transfers. My point is that
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by presto8 15y ago
Just tried on mintty, doesn't work there either.
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by presto8 15y ago
How is it any different than writing a check? All of the same information is there, namely ABA routing number and account number.
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by presto8 15y ago
I picked up a copy of this book at OSCON a few weeks ago. It's well-written, humorous, and a great overview of Mercurial and Git and a good introduction to Veracity. If you have been using Mercurial or Git for a while, there won't be much n
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by presto8 15y ago
Four English words selected randomly from a large dictionary is certainly secure. But it's unwieldy to type 20+ character passwords. I prefer 10-digit random alpha-numeric passwords, although these are hard to remember and type. Best compro
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by presto8 15y ago
Philip Greenspun wrote a very interesting article about pilots and unions last year. Recommended reading. http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
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by presto8 15y ago
You could use a cron job that removes the "deleted" files after some period, such as 30 days.
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by presto8 15y ago
wait staff in the US make around $2-3/hour. they aren't paid a living wage. The rules for the U.S. vary from state to state. In Oregon, where I live, wait staff make minimum wage ($8.50 per hour) and tips are added on top of that.

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