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by superuser2 10y ago
The newspaper was the primary way to get ads into the home. Each city paper had a Google-like position in that city's ad market. Quality could be higher because ad reach was based in part on subscriber count, not just the attention-gra
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The entire strip between the trees and the base of the building.
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Failure to pay child support is a crime. Depends on the kind of debt.
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Thirty minutes of time on a BART car, sure. Suppose you live in the premium housing really close to the BART, so your walk is only five minutes to the station. Then another five getting through the fare gate and waiting for your train. Th
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>For example every homeless is entitled to a shelter This is an empty mandate unless there is actually money to fund >= 1 shelter bed per homeless person.
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> When cities make it difficult to meet and work with others, as they do when they sprawl This doesn't follow. It's incredibly efficient, in time and effort terms, to get around sprawl. You just drive at 65mph on the wide-ope
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This isn't quite the article's subject, but... For a very rough wedge, suppose there were some other activity which didn't have all the positive perceptions around running, which created painful and debilitating injuries requ
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I dedicate my professional life to chipping away at the "drive" required to lead a decent life, and I suspect most software engineers on this forum do too. Our greatest accomplishments as engineers, scientists, etc. are lowering t
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>Is it possible to set up protected branches, where I can say, only users X and Y are allowed to push to the master branch? Yes. I recommend (and my employer uses) a Herald rule that admits pushes to master only if the changes are in an
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No I'm not. >If things go south really really bad, we can just get the private key and sign certificates by hand. Very clearly states that someone has access to the CA cert's private key outside the context of the automated s
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Wow, look at that altimeter. 5000 feet in a couple of seconds.
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The amateur radio community can't use encryption and, for the most part, is happy about this restriction. A zero-privacy internet might be better than nothing, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
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I don't see why this is a problem. You want to free load on other people's connections but not share your own? (In the US anyway, the free wifi you get for running that secondary SSID just comes from other people's personal c
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>service dependency A CA is just some bytes, not a service. And it has been established that there's a backup login path: use (a copy of) the CA outside of the automated certificate signing service to manually sign the needed cert
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Standard procedure here is to ignore the device's onboard wifi and plug in your own access point. Don't tell them, or they may whine about it being unsupported. You don't have to use the integrated access point just because i
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>2002 VW Jetta Early 2000s were the worst years of VW in recent history. Things have vastly improved in Mk5, 6, and 7.
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> Superfluous income is disposable income Only if you don't rent a nicer/closer apartment. (OTOH, lower commute times are associated with happiness).
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Far as I can tell, the intelligence community is a fork in the road on the career path to diplomat. You study languages, public policy, international relations, etc. You get State Department / vague US gov (National Security Language I
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Each individual inquiry has a tiny effect. The point is that lots of inquiries indicate you are desperate for credit, and people who try to get a lot of credit at once are much more likely to default on it.
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>Credit card management has no indication how I'll manage a loan (whether a house or car) due to the nature of spending and utilization I think the actuary-types who design the scoring models would disagree vehemently with this one.
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>web-of-trust like identity system The most important thing about a government-level identity system is extreme difficulty of obtaining any identity other than the one you were born with. It seems inevitable in a web of trust that fraud
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What do you propose?
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No, pretty recent. After the regulation change.
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The factors are, in decreasing order of weight: - Credit card utilization (balance as a percentage of available credit at last statement close) - On-time payments (you just have to pay the minimum required by the date specified for it to co
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Being an authorized user on a parent's credit card does build credit history for the child. I did not have that, or any cosigned loan.
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Shared-secret numbers and physical cards are not enough. We need a cryptographic API that lets citizens sign requests to authenticate themselves, such that the signature they emit is only useful for one relying party at one time (not useful
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> some entities are incompetent at verifying people's identity Some entities are incompetent at verifying identity because some people are very loud about making sure a a modern ID verification system doesn't get built, because
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>you are trusted by definition I felt pretty "trusted by definition." Citi gave me a credit card with a $3,000 limit as a college freshmen. A few years later I had an $8,000 limit card and a $10,000 limit card. I bought my car
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Driver license numbers change when you move, so are not useful for things meant to be long term like credit.
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Because there were fire stairs. The WTC (like all modern high-rises in the developed world) had a pretty impressive set of firefighting and evacuation infrastructure, procedures, and personnel. This training video goes through it pretty wel

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