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by thunky 2y ago
Yup and before that they tried to remove their opponent from the ballot and imprison him.
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by thunky 2y ago
> Losing billions of dollars in stock market cap Still up 20% ytd from an already high valuation, so they have a long way to fall. If they don't fall all the way to zero (spoiler alert: they won't) they got off easy.
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by thunky 2y ago
> When my office is just another room in the house, it's far easier to be stuck in that work mindset. I can see how this can happen, but at the same time it seems like there's such an easy fix: just stop doing it. But it may ac
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by thunky 2y ago
> If I WFH I’ll spend the evening ducking back into my home office to send that email or check that document etc and my mind will be 50% thinking about work all evening If you can resist checking emails after your commute I'm sure t
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by thunky 2y ago
> If the rich are taxed more, will the government equitably distribute that money to the middle class? Good point. We don't even know that the money will stay in the country.
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by thunky 2y ago
> my traditional 401K funds will just disappear because they are not vested Are you not contributing your own money (from your salary) to your 401k? In every 401k I've seen it's only the employer matching portion that is vested
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by thunky 2y ago
> I considered it a win-win situation > the sale person got their kick backs I don't understand why this is your concern, to the point where you were willing to take on debt to satisfy this stranger's arbitrary incentive. Pl
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by thunky 2y ago
> When the highest court in the land makes you dictator Obama was unchecked, never charged with a crime. Which I think makes him a dictator by your definition. The court never had the opportunity to rule on the matter.
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by thunky 2y ago
> Testing the legality of “president issues order to kill terrorist” wouldn’t test much. It does though. It's not widely accepted that the US president can skip due process and murder US citizens.
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by thunky 2y ago
Found a mathematician.
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by thunky 2y ago
> they have no desire to learn beyond what's taught You know, sometimes 100% is enough. Have a beer and relax.
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by thunky 2y ago
> Open software should use open file formats and store data in the file system where other programs can access it That's what SQLite is.
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by thunky 2y ago
> I make that much at a tech company and absolutely can not afford a Ferrari. At least, not if I want a roof over my head. Don't worry, I'm sure your luck will turn around.
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by thunky 2y ago
> humans aren't great at it Yeah that's fine, although my point is that being unable to figure out the return type is a symptom of a bigger problem imo. It means we're outsmarting ourselves.
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by thunky 2y ago
If you aren't able to figure out the return type then something has gone wrong: maybe the language or code is too complex, or maybe you don't understand the code very well.
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by thunky 2y ago
> If they keep them, and train them, that would reinforce the idea that the company is taking care of its employees. That’s nice I don't think so. A company is under no obligation to handhold their employees. It should be a 2 way st
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by thunky 2y ago
> it's a significant chore and you shouldn't dismiss it But you're comparing it to getting fast food for every meal, which is also a chore. One way or another, feeding yourself and your family is always going to be a chor
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by thunky 2y ago
That's not what it says here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop_short_squeeze This says that there was a massive short interest in GME because the company was circling the drain. No mention of private equit
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by thunky 2y ago
> People blame Keith Gill and /r/wallstreetbets for causing the stock price to diverge from its rational value, but as I see it, it was the shorts that did that So you think GME was rationally valued and the shorts were wrong?
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by thunky 2y ago
> you have until day of delivery to cancel your Tesla order. And after that I suppose he made the mistake of not rearranging his life to suit his Cybertruck.
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by thunky 2y ago
Wrong. From https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-york-election-law-center-trump... Prosecutors allege that Trump falsified the records to hide a violation of New York Election Law Section 17-152 – a rarely used law that proh
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by thunky 2y ago
Yeah, and like I said, the jury was probably correct given the way the charges were structured. That doesn't make these novel charges legitimate, and it doesn't mean they'll survive appeal. From https://time.com&
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by thunky 2y ago
> The crime was very cut and dry. What might confusing is that the felony level escalation could be triggered by any one of several crimes and those don’t have to be committed by the same person Yeah, so not cut and dry. And the "co
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by thunky 2y ago
Right. But the only way the jury could find him guilty of the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records was to conclude that Trump had done such falsification with the goal of committing another (second) crime. And my point is, he w
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by thunky 2y ago
The jury had multiple options for the "second crime" and they didn't have to agree.
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by thunky 2y ago
> Fair trials of political leaders is a hallmark of functioning democracy. Yet this is the first time a US president has ever been brought to trial. And one could argue that the case against him was based on a legal technicality, where t
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by thunky 2y ago
Honest question: If Hamas used a precision strike to destroy an Israeli school full of children do you think the coverage would be similar? Or would it be conveyed as an act of terrorism rather than an act of war?
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by thunky 2y ago
> Just don’t use it. Why is it so important to disable it? They explained this in their post. Seems reasonable to me.
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by thunky 2y ago
> requirements of "6 TiB of data" How could anyone answer this without knowing how the data is to be used (query patterns, concurrent readers, writes/updates, latency, etc)? Awk may be right for some scenarios, but without
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by thunky 2y ago
For the "dumb phone" target audience this probably won't work.

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