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by stult 9y ago
Also, as a non-front end developer, I don't have HTML fresh in my mind and don't care to. Sometimes you just want to do something quick and not have to worry about it.
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>"you shouldn't remove/replace/change something until you've understood why it was done that way in the first place". That only works until you encounter something for which there was no rational reason in t
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I would be interested to see the evidence for that inverse correlation. I remember seeing a study not so long ago which implied that higher intelligence individuals made poor managers. As did lower intelligence people. There's a sweet
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by stult 9y ago
The argument can be used for both or either purpose. However, the modern popularizer of the term, ecologist Garret Hardin, lamented that the idea is widely misinterpreted. He claimed that he should have called it "the tragedy of the u
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I have several objections to your argument, many of which others have covered, including the actual lack of user fees. But even at the most basic level your argument doesn't make any sense. Technology enables more efficient service del
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Trademark only protects against trademark confusion. Meaning it only protects the owner's right to use the trademark as a unique identifier with respect to certain services and goods. I believe Disney uses Mickey for a trademark so tha
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by stult 9y ago
At age 55 after raising three kids and being out of the job market for two decades, my mom randomly decided to get into acting. At the time, tons of movies were filming in Boston where she lives. She was quickly able to land lots of extra w
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by stult 9y ago
Guns aren't dangerous! It's the bullets that will get you!
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>I don't think the FCC did, nor can they, create a new "federal law" though, right? That's a tricky question. At a high school civics class level, no they cannot create new law because only Congress can. But the reali
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I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion but your analysis is an oversimplification. It's possible reading broadly across domains results in deeper individual domain expertise by enabling cross-fertilization between the d
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by stult 9y ago
Ok, that's a fair hair to split, but I would also disagree with your more explicit characterization. I think the recent disclosures via the Panama and Paradise Papers demonstrates that the extent and nature of money laundering remains
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by stult 9y ago
> Is it when you buy a boat with bitcoin? That would be taxed as a barter exchange. It's basically the same as selling the crypto and then paying with USD. You are taxed on the fair market value of the boat that exceeds the amount t
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>Moving money is one of the oldest human endeavors and unlike a lot of topics in software development, it's an old profession with a huge body of accumulated domain knowledge. We shouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. I would say
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by stult 9y ago
>Do you get taxed when dollars deflate ? do you claim a loss when dollars inflate? No, because there was no taxable event. For income to be taxed, it has to be realized. Realization can be a tricky concept, but it basically means when th
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by stult 9y ago
1) It's only 14k people, for activity between 2013-15. There are likely to be further disclosures for later years, depending on what the IRS finds for the years they are already looking at. They may also request information for more c
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by stult 9y ago
It's not that customers don't care, but rather the transaction costs of switching (breaking contracts, dealing with CSRs, taking the time to shop around) slow the market response to competition.
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by stult 9y ago
It's a lot easier to optimize the APIs underlying those scripts because there are far fewer of them in even the most complicated video games than there are comparable abstractions in modern OSs. And there's more motivation. People
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by stult 9y ago
Well, that wasn't the point I was responding to. I was replying to this claim, "When is the last time America built any impressive infrastructure? I'd say in the 70s." But to your point, I would argue that US achievement
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by stult 9y ago
There's a post on the AskHistorians subreddit right now which discusses that very phenomenon. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7egibb/comme...
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by stult 9y ago
Well, you're ignoring massive swathes of infrastructure types. Containerization has led to a complete revamping of US ports during that period. The electrical infrastructure has been massively upgraded, including a huge decrease in coa
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by stult 9y ago
Just to clarify, between a third and a half use GitLab in some capacity. But to answer your question, I see a lot of TFS these days. Easily 90% of the MS stack firms, and even some with more diverse stacks. And increasingly with the VS gi
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by stult 9y ago
Will the App Center support WPF once the HockeyApp transition is complete? Or if it won't, what will the timing be for the HockeyApp WPF support ending? I've got a desktop beta out right now, with some users on Windows 10 and many
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by stult 9y ago
I dunno. I do R&D tax credit studies for hundreds of enterprise software firms and I always ask what version control system(s) they use and where/how it is hosted. I would guesstimate between a third and a half use GitLab in some c
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by stult 9y ago
This seems like an easy problem to solve. Require companies to open source at least the API for any device they discontinue providing service for.
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Other people are doing it too is NOT legally a valid excuse for anything. Source: tax lawyer.
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At the lower end, they are. If their default rate gets too high, the school loses access to federal funding altogether. Of course, places like NYU have excellent programs with valuable degrees to balance out the defaults among the less valu
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The prof is in the pudding.
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States can violate it. It's called the dormant commerce clause.
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> I suppose they would have you arrested for impersonating a lawyer to even ask for this. No, in theory anyone can negotiate the terms of their own contracts. > It seems strange to me that legally only one side of a contract gets to p
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>Jackson believed that his vision was possible, but he imagined it would take 50 to 100 years of plant breeding—ambitious when you consider how many millennia it took to create the grains we have now. Less ambitious when you consider tha

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