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by qdog 10y ago
Yes,all the immigrants I know are hard-working people, more so on average than people born and raised here. "Are you willing to go through the current immigration process?" Seems to do a pretty good job of selecting productive in
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by qdog 10y ago
I think the initial r&d to get to this point is more along the lines of a nation-state investment. Google paid much more than $110k to get this working. It's not clear exactly how much it would cost to "weaponize", ei
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by qdog 10y ago
A jtag debugger isn't the same as just debugging a local program on your system. Normally it is required to do initial hardware bringup, where you need physical access to the cpu. Probably not wise to ship one enabled on production g
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by qdog 10y ago
My current car has "regenerative breaking" that charges the battery(not a hybrid, just a normal BMW). I haven't tried any testing without cruise control on, but with cruise on it will definitely do a little breaking on highw
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by qdog 10y ago
It's about expectations, you might want to not live next to a rental. Beyond drunken idiots, unknown people coming and going, dragging luggage through shared halls etc. Sure, a worst case long term neighbor can be worse, but the avera
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by qdog 10y ago
I'm sure the hotels will charge as much as possible, but since they pay taxes that assumably (since it was illegal) AirBnB hosts didn't, sounds like a win for the City Government of NY. Just an observation, I don't really hav
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by qdog 10y ago
I had a family member lose upwards of $300k before one of her financial agents contacted us. It was a "security system installation and monitoring" guy. Had done it to many people, apparently being the security alarm guy gets a
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by qdog 10y ago
Probably not illegal, you are required to act "in the best interests" of the person. From experience with another family member who gave an outsider POA, even malicious POA actions are very difficult to attempt to prosecute.
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by qdog 10y ago
Some people love teal and pink. Having to look at or try to sell a house next to a monstrosity can be pretty horrible (or the neighbors with junker cars all over the lawn). Having been in a couple of regulated areas, I'm not much of
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by qdog 10y ago
Alcoholic drinks sold in a package come with warning labels. I've seen reports 1-2 drinks a day may improve longevity, but I doubt it would be acceptable to label every beer as "youth potion", you have to limit intake for po
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by qdog 10y ago
Anti-bacterial is marketed as "better", but is actually worse. If cocaine was legal, you still wouldn't be able to advertise its properties falsely. Homeopathy stuff is actually clearly labeled not evaluated by fda etc. You
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by qdog 10y ago
I have had some 0% years during the early 2000's. A couple times I've seen companies slash 5% across everyone to not do layoffs. Just nit happening right now in the US, enjoy the good times while they last!
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by qdog 10y ago
Maybe wasn't clear, GW isn't an idiot, but closer than most leaders, I'd say. Did GW choose all those people, or were they all pretty much from the conservative cabal that got GW elected? I think things like Iraq lack of ev
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by qdog 10y ago
That's the exact opposite of liberal, "open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values." There are plenty of intelligent people in all parties, disagreeing with them doesn't make them idiots.
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by qdog 11y ago
Sure, but you have to live in Houston. Austin house prices in good school districts are expensive. I just sold a house for 10k in a small town in a part of Texas with almost no jobs, so you can find houses, but houses close to the biggest
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by qdog 11y ago
Maybe we are all fatties that can't fit a big phone in our pocket. Or, don't use the phone that much but like access to a decent browser and apps when we do need them. I have a 4, but actually miss my ancient G2 with an actual key
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by qdog 11y ago
On my phone in the airport, so only skimmed article. Is Amazon an apple app? Not an Apple guy, but thought older apple tv didn't have Amazon. Regardless, the new TV just bought has netflix etc. and controls stereo cia CEC. Stereo su
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by qdog 11y ago
In fairness, C: A Reference Manual(Harbison and Steele) is now 560 pages. I agree C++ is pretty messy, but if we got a 3rd edition K&R it would be much larger than the original. Also no sure most people could understand C, but "mos
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by qdog 11y ago
I'm rubbed wrong by the people who present at "Brown Bag Retirement Advice Lunch Talks" and want me to buy into their managed funds. The index funds have overhead in the range of .02-.5% for the most part. The managed funds
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by qdog 11y ago
Without owning the foundry, it's not clear if this is an IBM tech demo that goes nowhere, or if it effects GF's roadmap. GF uses a Samsung process for 14nm (really 14/20 hybrid), so it really looks like IBM is out of the fou
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by qdog 11y ago
Not clear what IBM doing 7nm means, really. They no longer own a foundry, and don't have any chips in normal products that compete with Intel. IBM also demonstrated some really high clock speeds previously, but the Power8 is still a
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by qdog 11y ago
This was more about the pains of learning driving habits for a Tesla, and also building confidence in the distance one can go in a Tesla. Gas-powered cars require little such planning, as there are many gas stations, so a lead-foot isn&#x2
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by qdog 11y ago
No one I generally know writes good or relevant code in 15 minute increments. In my own experience, I generally get warmed up by the 3rd or 4th interview, and it's an acting class as I regurgitate stuff. "What was your approach t
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by qdog 11y ago
I've seen it lots of places, but Ripley is the iconic one I remember. (From Aliens, for you youngsters).
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by qdog 12y ago
I've played a massive amount of Crawl. I already knew vim, but you get a lot of repetition with those keys for sure.
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by qdog 12y ago
I'm a Software Development Engineer. Doesn't really matter what you are called, it's what salary you negotiate for the most part. Some titles are only bestowed on certain levels of people, but there are very few of those at
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by qdog 12y ago
Snake Oil salesmen never go away. I'm curious how he knows he is upgraded? Did he set a baseline of tasks before he started supplements? Or is he just "feeling" smarter?
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by qdog 12y ago
I've had this happen to me a couple times, seems like when I'm doing something on my phone and answer a call, the sound from the app on my phone plays over that call, annoying. Then when I end the call, I no longer get voice on c
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by qdog 12y ago
Are you double taxed? Many countries have reciprocal taxing agreements with the U.S. whereby you get credits for foreign taxes. That's how it worked when I was a U.S. citizen in Canada.
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by qdog 12y ago
Did you not pay US taxes for five years? Even if you renounce US citizenship, I think you still owe US taxes for 10 years afterwards.

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