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by pwg 2y ago
> Still cannot see how home equity can be compared to borrowing against securities Home equity: borrow money with the home used as collateral - if you default on the loan the bank takes your house to make themselves whole again. Borrow a
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by pwg 2y ago
> do not have pay taxes on the gains you made on your house (what you paid vs. what it is worth now) Absent a few exceptions, at least in the US you very much do have to pay capitol gains on the increase in value of your house when you
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by pwg 2y ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/hN0MH
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by pwg 2y ago
> Do you know if they continuously over order or it's rare? No idea, but such would not matter. So long as their estimate of future demand was much larger than the actual demand, they will build up a backlog of stored tests whether
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by pwg 2y ago
> Do you have a link that explains all this? No, and I very much doubt any link exists. I am instead guessing based on experience with other govt. agency budgeting and procurement processes. The procurement process is very likely to ha
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by pwg 2y ago
The agency running the program is not having tests made as you request one, nor are they having small batches made after some days worth of orders arrive. Instead, they are guessing how many they might need for the "next 12 months&quot
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by pwg 2y ago
> Can someone enlighten me as to whats really going on? Most likely there were too many that were manufactured 4-5 months prior to the printed expiration date such that many remained unused and in storage back then, and this program is s
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by pwg 2y ago
> Has air travel totally replaced such a travel option? Given that there appear to be no "sea route" travel options for passengers remaining, the answer would appear to be: yes. > Why? Most likely, speed. Second most likely
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by pwg 2y ago
About half way in to the article is a link to a youtube video.
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by pwg 2y ago
Hucksters (of which "advertisers" are a subset) will always jump on the latest fad, and attempt to push its value well beyond wherever it might really be. It's just the normal huckster cycle at work.
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by pwg 2y ago
Exactly. But to "prove" it in the USPTO process, they need that "written down" item. And if it is never "written down" because it is too trivial to write down, then the USPTO' examiner's hand are ve
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by pwg 2y ago
> Patents should have a triviality clause in them, so if you can prove that they're trivial to create and implement and be thus invalid if they are. That's already there ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
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by pwg 2y ago
> Are they going to an open source patent pool or something? All patents are "open for public access" [1]. And once they age past their "expiration date" (currently twenty years from earliest date of filing) they bec
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by pwg 2y ago
> 2-Clicks to Subscribe, 20-Clicks to Cancel, We Need an AI Subscription Reaper No. We need a law/regulation that simply states that it should be equally as easy to cancel as it was to subscribe, with a penalty of $150,000.00 per us
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by pwg 2y ago
> Is there a happy in-between? Since browsers allow users to configure a default font and background color then one possible "happy in-between" would be to set no background color, and set no font color, thereby allowing each u
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by pwg 2y ago
Which places you, the reader, fully in control of the width of lines you prefer to see. Adjust your browser window width, or apply a user style sheet to tell your browser to format the text the way you want to see it formatted.
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by pwg 2y ago
While true, that limitation has always existed, so everyone has already implemented whatever was necessary to represent dates earlier than that. Changing 32-bit time_t to unsigned suddenly makes all dates from 1902 to Jan 1 1970 which were
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by pwg 2y ago
While that avoids 2038 as a "drop dead" date for 32-bit time_t, it also removes the ability to represent any date/time prior to 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 using 32-bit time_t because you lose the ability to represent nega
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by pwg 2y ago
So it shows an electronic form of Gell-Mann Amnesia?: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
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by pwg 2y ago
No. Spellchecking should be in the UI's (browsers), not part of HN.
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by pwg 2y ago
From TFA: > My understanding is that JPEGs don’t have lossless rotation by default, and that is true for sips as well. This is incorrect. JPEG's can be losslessly rotated in 90 degree increments. See the -rotate option to 'jp
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by pwg 2y ago
They were forked to the "Fossify" tools from the version just before the adware takeover. All the "Fossify" versions are available on F-Droid: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=fossify&lang=en
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by pwg 2y ago
From TFA: > and I can't puzzle out how the arrangement improves matters. It allows the maker to compete on "style" rather than on practical features.
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by pwg 2y ago
While not a shell built-in, the 'sc' command provides a terminal spreadsheet: sc: the Venerable Spreadsheet Calculator https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10699
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by pwg 2y ago
> Curious as to why this contract agreement needs to be secret. Information asymmetry. Because if Dr. X could see what Dr. Y is being reimbursed for procedure Z, and they learn that Y receives more, then in the next contract negotiation
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by pwg 2y ago
> we can't figure out how to automate an insurance call You obviously have not encountered an AVR (Automated Voice Response) tree yet. When you do, you'll be glad they don't 'automate' the call, as it would be w
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by pwg 2y ago
Slackware is also systemd free. http://www.slackware.com/
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by pwg 2y ago
In order to do so, one has to have a local butcher who is still in operation. For many, any such local butchers were driven out of business years ago by the lower cost options in the supermarkets produced by the bulk producers, so the optio
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by pwg 2y ago
> The flip side: 199 of 200 of the most popular websites use HTML that’s faulty, Not a surprise at all. Browsers are very lenient in what they will consume, and most dev's will "build to the browser" being used rather tha
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by pwg 2y ago
Don't you mean Afghanistan above?

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