smnrchrds

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by smnrchrds 1y ago
My alma mater moved from self-hosting email to Microsoft after a major data breach. Keeping high-value internet-connected things secure is indeed hard.
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by smnrchrds 1y ago
Semi-related: "Passports please! British paratroopers met by French customs after D-Day airdrop British paratroopers recreating an airdrop behind German defences to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day were met by French customs officia
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by smnrchrds 1y ago
Wish we had done that with Pizza Hut locations.
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by smnrchrds 1y ago
The post is a true web-log. Someone logged something they learned and put it on the web.
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by smnrchrds 1y ago
It was never called carbon tax, but carbon pricing. It being knows as carbon tax was the result of of opposition efforts. The same efforts and results would have happened had it been called dividend or anything else.
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by smnrchrds 1y ago
Pure Python was a huge selling point back when using a compiled library involved downloading and running random .exe files from someone's personal page on a university website. It is much less of a selling point now that we have binary
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
Thank you for your work on this topic and for answering questions here. I have a question: is there a way to avoid the security issues with string formatting described here? It seems like all (most?) string formatting options suffer from th
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
It seems more descriptive than prescriptive. I am sure it is true, but it seems hardly useful. It's like saying "we finally found the success sequence for breaking into upper middle class in three easy steps: 1) get a high paying
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
In addition to being a job board, Indeed is a job aggregator. It scoops up listings from job boards and company websites and allows searching through them, with links to the original listing. It is not perfect—it misses many postings across
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
The article disagrees: > One study found that most high-achieving, low-income students chose not to apply to highly selective colleges with steep sticker prices. They opted instead for schools with lower sticker prices that ended up off
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
- There is a horrifying 512-ounce version that they call Child size. How is this a Child-sized soda? - Well, it's roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied.
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
I have never seen any article saying tariffs will "only" hurt American consumers. They hurt both sides and every article I have seen acknowledges this. However, American news sites tend to focus on the effects in the US, while Can
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
I don't think the total assets under management is the correct indicator. Vanguard, Big 5 Canadian banks, and even Power Corp cater not only to consumers but also to institutional investors and ultra high net worth individuals. Wealths
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
Wealthsimple is a subsidiary of Power Corporation, a gigantic financial services company that has existed for 100 years. Its success is more an example of insider innovation rather than outsider disruption.
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
> If there's only 10 cents worth of sugar in a 2L bottle of coke, switching to sugar is unlikely to change the consumers buying habits. It matters enough that it determines where things get manufactured though. > There are two
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
"Disposable income" means income after taxes. The word you are looking for is "discretionary income", which means income after taxes and necessities.
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
I don't know how your comment is related to the article under discussion. If innovation could solve homelessness, San Francisco wouldn't have had the crisis it currently does. I don't know how changing Toronto to be more like
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
Wealthier European countries seem to be moving towards clamping down on this kind of consulting. See IR35 in the UK as an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IR35 This is still possible in many European countries, e
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
It's never used that way in practice. No one calls Mexican seasonal agriculture workers in the US and Canada expats. No one calls Filipino maids and nannies in Singapore expats. No one calls Indian construction workers in Saudi Arabia
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
Meanwhile the governing party in my home province in Canada is doing this: https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/11/06/UCP-Members-More-CO2-H...
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
What I could never understand is why government funding is needed for residency spots in the first place. From the outside, it seems like residents are cheap labour for hospitals. Even without getting any money from the government, the valu
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
You might be thinking of UPS. USPS doesn't operate outside of the US.
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
Do the people whose cars get towed have to pay for it? Towing and storage can get really really expensive really fast. After a short while, it would make sense to walk away from the car, as the fees would exceed the value of the car. Is thi
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
Nice. Reminds me of PyFlow: https://github.com/Bycelium/PyFlow
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
> It's probably because more applications are written in C++ than anything else I imagine Java is as popular as C++ if not more. And C# is (or at least was) huge in Europe too.
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
I am more worried about the potential for draconian anti-fraud measures, like the childcare benefits scandal in Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
What is the name of the story?
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
Like Google and customer support?
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
These sorts of actions are usually of the "pour encourager les autres" variety.
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by smnrchrds 2y ago
> Just make car theft / break-ins a bad play game-theory wise: a few cars on the street are left with the police ready to pounce. You break in to a bait car, you get 2 years in jail. I think car theft situation is not bad enough f

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