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by snark42 8y ago
> PayPal, and most other "payment facilitators" do a much better job handling disputes. In PayPal's case they provide a much fairer arbitration process (funds are held by PayPal, and a website with message thread is create
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by snark42 9y ago
> That is because it is illegal. 17 U.S.C. § 109(b). It seems one could start a private non-profit library whose purpose is teaching about music history that rents CDs and promotes musical performances. I could call it "Musicbuster
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by snark42 9y ago
> When I make a loss for a year, I still have to pay income tax. Where are you? When I write off business losses that are paid through my personal income taxes I can end up owing no income tax in the U.S.
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by snark42 9y ago
> I'm 6'"4 and have never had a problem seeing the speedometer in any car I have driven I have this problem all the time. Often the top is cut off by the steering wheel. I adjust the seat and the steering wheel to fix it
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by snark42 9y ago
> Serious question, do any phones exist that can fully owned by the user? Many (HTC, Google, ASUS, etc. - NOT Samsung) unlocked android phone can be loaded with a variety of bootloaders and then flashed with the ROM of your choice where
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by snark42 9y ago
> That's what I've done. Hardware RAID + XFS + NFS + backups, done. Even if this was HA, it doesn't scale to HPC type needs. You end up with a single node bottleneck for all data you need. You also would have some sort of
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by snark42 9y ago
> There is literally no evidence for the extraordinary and outlandish claim that this happens "all the time". I've worked at multiple medium sized companies that bonused executives who went to optional political fundraiser
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by snark42 9y ago
> I disagree. Many exchanges have public order books, so you can see exactly how much the price would slip if you sold, e.g., $1m worth of a coin. Yeah, but if you wanted to sell $1M worth of coins you'd probably use an auction at G
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by snark42 9y ago
> People who work at those companies might decide to donate their own money to politicians, yes. That doesn't mean they're buying special influence with them on behalf of their employers. And the company might decide they deser
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by snark42 9y ago
> Huh? So how does Amazon actually make money? They sell at/near their cost (including warehousing, delivery, technology, etc.) which is lower than the cost of Walmart's brick and mortar presence. Costco also sells at cost, alm
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by snark42 9y ago
> All I see is that PureVPN keeps the user's email on file. Also login time, connecting IP and logout time. So no traffic is stored, just that you logged in and were connected for X amount of time.
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by snark42 9y ago
> run your own VPN endpoint on a security hardened BSD or Linux box with your own hardware In another country where you paid with bitcoin or prepaid credit cards, otherwise the IP's assigned to that hosted server will be associated
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by snark42 9y ago
> With churches, there are a few problems that are intellectually repellent, meaning they won't solve for certain personality types. Unitarian Universalist churches are good for community and avoid most of these negatives in my expe
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by snark42 9y ago
> Can you name an open source project that does not offer extended features for commercial versions and that sells? pfSense, Ceph (prior to RH purchase) and OpenNebula off the top of my head.
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by snark42 9y ago
> Aren't taxes only applicable to the profits? If you hold for less than a year it's income, if you hold for more than a year it's capital gains. So buy and hold would possibly be advantageous in the US at least (35% vs 1
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by snark42 9y ago
>I don't think I ever saw three separate rear-ends in a single drive. I can't say for certain that I ever saw two. I didn't drive it every day, but I probably did 100 such commutes. I drive 30 miles through Chicago traffic
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by snark42 9y ago
>fewer travels, less expensive hotels, and luxurious meals. Doesn't the customer typically pay all these costs for a consultant anyway?
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by snark42 9y ago
> I see a place that won’t take Amex, but no visa or mc? Lots of places won't take AmEx or Discover (some of the highest fees in the business.) CostCo currently only takes Visa (no MC.) Sam's used to only take Discover. It&#x
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by snark42 9y ago
> Virtu is making about $2M/day. The value traded on a typical day in US stock markets is north of $100 billion / day. You can't estimate it that way as they don't win or profit on all their trades. At it's heig
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by snark42 9y ago
> earns about 100 million a year. They made 147M in the first quarter of this year. 197M in the first quarter of last year. They might only make 100M/year after costs, but that doesn't represent the 600-900M they take from th
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by snark42 9y ago
>> 1. It is reportedly a better pain killer in some cases than opioids so it keeps people off of the prescription opioids > No it isn't and no it won't. If you have serious pain issues, then cannabis will not help at all.
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by snark42 10y ago
>Not just for the tip, but for the entire fare. They openly commit fraud against their company by trying to steal the fare for themselves without reporting it to their company. You think the company doesn't have access to the meter
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by snark42 10y ago
There's a DEC2 mutation, possibly others, that let some people only sleep 4 hours and function fine. Maybe not all of these people, but I bet some of them have some sort of mutation on DEC2.
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by snark42 10y ago
Or more, and means you have to learn the dreaded Q language.
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by snark42 10y ago
> It is ridiculous and if it becomes any more difficult for the next upgrade then we'll just jump to another platform. I can't imagine IOS is any better. Is there another platform worth using?
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by snark42 10y ago
Technically you have to report and pay capital gains if the change in value is more than $200. In your case 15% gain is probably not more than $200 so you wouldn't have to report it. However if you're talking about $100,000 init
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by snark42 10y ago
> I don't think anybody uses LI except in the strict context of finding new jobs, and making sure you can find new jobs in the future. I also use it as an up to date electronic rolodex of sorts. Is this person still working at Cisc
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by snark42 10y ago
> inability to plan ahead, lower intelligence, delinquency, violence, financial irresponsibility These are not traits of (all) sociopaths. A highly functional sociopath could be defined as: "People with sociopath traits that also
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by snark42 10y ago
What if you view riches in the form of power instead of just money?
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by snark42 10y ago
Doesn't transferring all the data to/from the GPU kill any potential speedup the GPU may offer?

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