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by vacri 9y ago
negative a few grand. I supplement my mother's retirement income a bit, and give a regular-but-small amount to charity. It's pretty easy to set up - just contact your bank and get an automatic monthly transfer going. I did it onli
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by vacri 9y ago
Hawaii has no state borders, drawn now or in the past, so I'm not sure why that's relevant here, given we're talking about the article's byline. Alaska also has no state borders, though it does have national borders. In
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by vacri 9y ago
Nah - in the OP's link, there was an overlap between michigan and wisconsin that was resolved by the supreme court in 1936.
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by vacri 9y ago
> You base your State shapes on magnets and not cartographers? You can see the transfer of a few square miles on a continent-scale map like the ones in the article? The North/South Carolina border change represents about 700 sq mi
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by vacri 9y ago
Well, it's more that the shapes of the states were pretty much all set back in the 19th century. Trying to construe a miniscule alteration between states as "the state lines are still in flux" is pretty disingenuous. Doubly s
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by vacri 9y ago
The transfer of a few acres of land does not a state shape make - sellers of state-shaped fridge magnets don't have to go get their stock remade as a result. The last significant transfer of land in the mainland US was michigan and wis
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by vacri 9y ago
The January edit in your own link is listed as "too small to map".
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by vacri 9y ago
> The crimes of past European powers (think Belgian Congo for a single example) That's underselling it. It's not a 'single example', it's 'the most extreme example'. When you're mistreating your
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by vacri 9y ago
The 'right to track' here is because Mozilla is getting blacklisted for sending to now-nonexistent addresses, and when they're blacklisted, it's hard to get off the blacklist. As an example, one company I work for is on
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by vacri 9y ago
In a previous discussion of this kind (I'm not in this area myself), a scientist had said that the speed of the languages is less important than iterating the algorithms, and it was a lot easier for non-developer scientists to work wit
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by vacri 9y ago
> you don't actually understand it. Tell me, what is the meaning of 'survivorship bias' If I don't understand the term, then what's the point of getting me to explain it? Explain it yourself if you think I have
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by vacri 9y ago
The point is that this is an issue of "slipped through the cracks", not "Facebook facilitating anti-semitism for a dollar". I'm no fan of Facebook and they've done sleazy stuff in the past, but this bit of repo
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by vacri 9y ago
Well, you're succumbing to survivorship bias there, because there were plenty of poorly thought-out perspectives from yesteryear that haven't survived. Claiming that the ancients were more enlightened than us moderns because a fe
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by vacri 9y ago
> Ross Baird, president of the venture capital firm Village Capital, noted that when ProPublica[click-through link] tried last month to buy targeted ads for “Jew haters” on Facebook, the platform did not question whether this was a bad
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by vacri 9y ago
When did prima noctis ever occur? Not "as a right of kings in general" which even the myths don't suggest, but even once, as a specific right of one king?
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by vacri 9y ago
> I mean, how many Greek cities had nuclear landfill fires smoldering underneath them? Fewer than modern America. How many modern American cities have smouldering nuclear landfill fires under them?
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by vacri 9y ago
> When you truly accept that we today are not smarter nor necessarily more 'enlightened' than the people that came before us We're not necessarily smarter (native intellect) but we are a shitload more enlightened (educ
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by vacri 9y ago
Your conversation flow relies heavily on the other party doing a solid, succinct, clear 'no'. If only human interaction were that simple...
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by vacri 9y ago
That's a very romantic view of medieval times (link is broken, by the way). Half the year off for vacation? I hope you enjoy vacationing at home, because if you're a serf, you're going nowhere. If you're a noblewoman, yo
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by vacri 9y ago
Because the yes command will repeat whatever string you give it. If you need to parse the incoming load in a certain way, /dev/{zero,urandom} won't be suitable.
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by vacri 9y ago
The yes command will repeat whatever string you give it, so it's useful for load/traffic testing. Speed helps this particular use-case.
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by vacri 9y ago
This is a pop-science view of biological and psychological drivers. The reality is more complex than "everything is a thin veneer over 'let's fuck'" "Let's fuck" is vital for continuation of a species
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by vacri 9y ago
It seems weird that the good judges will reward you for poor behaviour and the poor judges won't.
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by vacri 9y ago
An above-ground pool or water tank is a bad place to go. In-ground can be a little better. If you're trapped and there's no way out, go for it, but don't depend on a water store to save you.
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by vacri 9y ago
The difference between "the rent for this space" and "the rent for this space plus a new grease trap" is going to be nowhere near recouping money on the trap. Like a car, expensive upgrades generally mean very little to
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by vacri 9y ago
> but what he REALLY didn't know was about the operations of a building and the cost of the corner he wanted to end up on. That fucked him from the jump. However, his family investor 'with nearly a decade in the biz' sho
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by vacri 9y ago
> They paid for an improvement to the rental property, how come the landlord didn't split that with them. It just seems unfair. In business, the landlord is renting a space, and the company renting fits it out. You could spend mor
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by vacri 9y ago
Perhaps look at an OS packaging system. Debian has a particularly robust one, and it simply couldn't be brute-forced like this (as it's key-based). Even just simply forcing 2FA would be a significant improvement.
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by vacri 9y ago
It would have to prove itself in smaller shops first. If you're running a multi-thousand-user shop, you'd be insane to be a first-adopter for something as critical as "can my employees even start working each day?". It
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by vacri 9y ago
Politicians will always find a way to promise changes to big ticket items. They're the ones that hold the purse strings. You can't plan for whomever is going to be in office next year ("a week is a long time in politics"

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