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by sbov 7y ago
They're a multi billion dollar international conglomerate not a 10 person startup. Their primary business model involves tracking everything you do and everywhere you go. They're already dirty as shit.
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by sbov 7y ago
Our local school in California busses in out of district students. By their claim, they can offer higher quality education with more students because the state funding scales faster than the burden.
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by sbov 7y ago
It's not a technology problem, it's a political one.
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by sbov 7y ago
While that may be why some companies incorporate there, credit card companies specifically are headquartered in certain states (not just Delware IIRC) because, roughly speaking, the supreme court ruled that usury laws where they are headqua
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by sbov 7y ago
In Java I like to use JOOQ for this. It generates classes and constants from your database. Then you can use the library to build your queries using those generated constants and classes. This gives you type safety and the ability to use
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by sbov 7y ago
Last time I was dealing with a hospital bill, they told me not to worry because it usually doesn't get resolved until the hospital and insurance company start threatening to sue eachother about it. 8 months after the procedure, my bil
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by sbov 7y ago
It sounds like you're basically saying its difficult and slow to work on large projects, and the solution is to not work on large projects. And that new languages implicitly mean smaller and thus easier projects because they haven&#x2
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by sbov 7y ago
Start with the early 70s. The housing problem started around then. Some years they went up by 20-30% in value. My parents were on track to lose their relatively modest 1800 square foot house in San Jose just 6 years after moving there de
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by sbov 7y ago
Organized crime is illegal and content farms are not, so this is a terrible example. A better example might be highly religious community not wanting their bank to do business with companies focused on the gay and lesbian community. This is
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by sbov 7y ago
Not really. Abolitionists wanted an amendment because its harder to reverse than a simple law.
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by sbov 7y ago
I'm reminded of the "is it OK to punch a 'Nazi'" debate.
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by sbov 7y ago
This is true for the general population though. The only reason why the term exists is because other engineers expect it not to apply to engineers. Really the concept says more about us and our expectations of educated engineers rather th
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by sbov 7y ago
Miami sits on porous bedrock. It has much less of a chance of survival than New Orleans.
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by sbov 7y ago
I work for a small company that is always trying out new projects. Most of them are ideas that already exist out there, but we feel the current solutions are lacking in some major way.
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by sbov 7y ago
In gmail, you can create a filter to skip the spam folder. I regularly receive emails where, at the top it says "this would have gone to spam, but you told us not to send it there". I doubt this affects things when messages are
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by sbov 7y ago
Flagging as spam is different. The OP is talking about rejecting it before it even gets to your inbox. If gmail is improperly flagging a message I get as spam, I can create a filter to never send it to spam. If they're rejecting it l
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by sbov 7y ago
Yeah, every kid is different, and every parent is different. Our first actually taught us this lesson. We have friends with really, really easy kids. Our oldest - 4 years old now - is... tough. She has always been very hard headed. She
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by sbov 7y ago
Can you honestly not afford it? Or do you just think it shouldn't cost $20/month? I'm the sole income earner in a family of 5 and switched us to fastmail. A lot depends upon how frugal you already are, but I found it trivia
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by sbov 7y ago
Google also contributes to Linux. Am I allowed to criticize Google if I use Linux? At what point am I not allowed to criticize a company based upon their contributions to open source projects I make use of?
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by sbov 7y ago
You cannot use that page alone to make this determination. You need to click through the links, where they show how they derived those numbers. In general, they aren't breaking down sources of emissions, they're breaking down po
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by sbov 7y ago
If something is "zero extra cost" I would expect the base model to have it. Beyond that, what you looked at used to cost $37,500 with autopilot as an optional $3k addon. Now it always includes autopilot but costs $2k more. Again
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by sbov 7y ago
You have to call in to get the actual base model - they removed the option to order it from the website.
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by sbov 7y ago
This sounds wrong. You're probably thinking of undefined behavior that happened to behave the same across all available C++ compilers, so people began to rely on it. But since it was technically undefined behavior, optimizers were fr
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by sbov 7y ago
And all of those things you like were available, or could have existed, on phones 10 years ago. Except perhaps multiplayer games, depending upon how pretty you require your games to be.
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by sbov 7y ago
I'm not sure if many people have experienced losing the "practical obscurity" this article talks about firsthand. Property records are public. So are WHOIS records. But it's unrealistic to manually search all the prop
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by sbov 7y ago
There's many that believe that educated people are above having baseless beliefs. There's plenty of evidence showing that that belief itself is baseless too. Funny that. You can see this mistaken belief whenever people decry tha
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by sbov 7y ago
Back when I worked on a similar problem 10 years ago, we solved it by having a quickly expiring memcached key for hitting the database. So if the value wasn't cached, and if that key wasn't there, it would attempt to add that key
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by sbov 7y ago
All of those missteps in the article seem extremely unlikely to have been avoided regardless of governance.
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by sbov 8y ago
I haven't had that problem. Once the appliance guy even price matched a more expensive dryer to a cheaper version because they didn't have that cheaper version we wanted in stock at the time.
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by sbov 8y ago
I turned off almost all tracking in Android a while ago, but never scanned the data it collected. I recently looked at what data was associated with my Google account, and there I saw: every voice command I ever issued my phone, and when I

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