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by xenadu02 5y ago
The way to avoid this if you want to really pay in cash is to order the cash from your bank and have an armored car service transport it for you. There is just little point since that's more expensive than a check or ACH transfer. And
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I think the original comment is referencing cities that built early sewer systems where they do not have separate sanitary and stormwater lines. That is by far the more pressing problem: street drains (and often house gutters) dump directly
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Yes, this happens in SF. Some people inherited or built their house, owe nothing on it, and want to sell it onward to another family (not an investor, REIT, etc). One of our friends bought a house this way - off market. Some people also don
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by xenadu02 5y ago
AFAIK they left a huge loophole: an NZ company can buy all the property it wants and foreigners can start or buy stakes in these companies.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
> I don't think it's mysterious. The owner likely ran out of full, rare cans of soda and could not / did not want to source them anymore. For folks who aren't aware your local distributor cans / bottles a much wi
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by xenadu02 5y ago
> If I were running it as a 100% legal/safe operation I'd invest the balance in short term treasuries. If you multiply tether's liabilities ($61.9B) by the current 1 year treasury rate (0.09%), you get $55.7M, which seems
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by xenadu02 5y ago
From a societal perspective if the threat of investigation and fines is enough to scare most people into following the law most of the time then it's a fairly cheap return on investment. It sucks that some people "get away with it
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Game theory predicts that market participants who discover Tether is a scam would publicly praise it while simultaneously moving away from it slowly and quietly to avoid spooking the market - leave some other sucker holding the bag. We also
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by xenadu02 5y ago
This is a problem technology can help with. Emergency dispatchers could at least verify that any cellular call came from a tower near the supposed address or a landline call is nearby. I'm not saying police shouldn't respond if th
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by xenadu02 5y ago
To some degree at that young age they may still experience all actors with agency as being themselves (the whole universe is me). Even after that discovery they often don't separate empathic simulation of other's emotions from the
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by xenadu02 5y ago
> I can see the importance of this from the company end - with tech company shares skyrocketing, a fixed share amount gives them potentially unlimited stock compensation liabilities which could drag on earnings. AFAIK that is not how sto
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by xenadu02 5y ago
TCC does not bypass Unix file permissions. I don't know where that idea is coming from but it is incorrect. An admin has always been able to sudo to bypass normal Unix permission checks. That's true on all Unix systems.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
flyingfences covered this but yes I am sure. The decision is narrowly tailored: the board and the judges' appointments to it are fine, so is the process to make the appointments. That makes the literal headline on the story nonsense.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
The Mac remains the Mac. That is not changing. That has been repeated by Apple executives publicly many times. Part of the Mac's heritage is that you can turn off the guard rails and take control of your system, including installing th
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Based on the actual opinion the title seems completely wrong. The ruling simply makes the decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) reviewable by the agency director. The law was originally written to make the decisions by the P
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Note that MS did implement this in DOS 2 as AVAILDEV. With AVAILDEV=FALSE special device files only existed in \DEV. They still existed on all drives but at least they were constrained to a special device directory. With that setting the co
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Many ransomware attacks are not sophisticated. They may be targeted but the procedure is fairly simple: blast targets with phishing emails/texts, get them to click, done. It seems that zero-days are often not required because targets l
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by xenadu02 5y ago
While somewhat rare there are holding companies like Jonas Software that buy lots of smaller software companies in various markets then effectively let each subsidiary run without too much interference. Their philosophy seems to be own most
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I wonder how much computers and spell-checkers are reducing the evolution of writing systems? In the past people could naturally stop using diacritics or make letter substitutions. Over time the language might eliminate their use. That seem
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Apple's campus cafeteria is not a free perk for anyone, including engineers.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I only realized a bit later in my career: If you ask for more and they refuse then bail out. You can nearly always get a raise just by moving companies so find one that rewards your efforts. My current employer is the first place I have fel
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by xenadu02 5y ago
What are examples of the opposite? English words that convey concepts that require lots of words in other languages?
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by xenadu02 5y ago
This is what the Bay Area highway on-ramp traffic lights do. They rate limit traffic merging onto the highway thereby avoiding stop and go jams. That results in an overall increase in throughput on the highway at the cost of forcing vehicle
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by xenadu02 5y ago
My purely personal opinion is that it should be obvious why manufacturers/vendors don't document everything in great detail: that is tantamount to making those implementation details API and promising support for some indefinite p
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by xenadu02 5y ago
You can easily verify this in your specific code base but I believe the compiler prefers not-taken jumps for paths it predicts to be less frequently taken. You can provide hints that the path is a cold one to ensure the compiler uses the mo
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Clearly you haven't dealt with many schools. Only when the stakes are so low can people afford to be so petty. Some school faculty and administration are incredibly petty and vindictive. Certainly not all but a lot. Grown adults absolu
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by xenadu02 6y ago
There is obviously a balance to be struck here and I don't think we yet have a great framework for thinking about such problems. A lot of what makes a nice society is social norms and conventions. The group must have a way of punishing
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by xenadu02 6y ago
This is a feature, not a bug. The USB-IF is just a bunch of manufacturers getting together to agree on a standard. The vast majority of them are interested in one thing: lowering the BOM. Cheap, cheap, cheap! That's what matters. Makin
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by xenadu02 6y ago
We have no idea if US Beef is infected. The USDA prohibits anyone from testing their cows and ended their spot-testing program (which was a joke). So unlike Europe we never reckoned with the problem and don't know if it is currently sp
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by xenadu02 6y ago
I'm not sure why Rust doesn't emit the debug info in the Mach-O. The executable can still be moved to another system and debugged but it doesn't require a second pass to generate a separate dSYM.

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