BonesJustice

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by BonesJustice 6y ago
As a user, I am generally in favor of Apple requiring the option to purchase items and subscriptions through the App Store. I would never subscribe to, for example, HBO NOW if I thought I’d have to go through HBO (owned by AT&T) in ord
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by BonesJustice 6y ago
They actually must be sent electronically now in NY, or at least that’s how my doctor explained it to me. I’d assumed that was for all prescriptions, but it could just be controlled substances.
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by BonesJustice 6y ago
As someone who worked at investment bank for years, and would have had to go to the trouble of getting preapproval for any individual trades, it was far less troublesome just to rely on managed accounts. So, yeah, just make them use managed
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Why put in hard breaks when pretty much any email client should support soft/flexible line wrapping? Seems more like an issue with the linked site to me.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
If I were asked to impart one piece of advice to prospective CS students, it would be to take advantage of your school’s coop work program or, if there isn’t one, to try and find a recurring internship. Nothing beats real world experience,
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Just an annoyance in the Consolas font metrics. It would look correct in the bitmapped old console font.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Unless your software can walk itself down to the courthouse, probably not. Courts are, to be generous, a bit behind the times.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Can you even imagine what an Oracle-built IDE would be like? Perish the thought. (shudder)
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Good luck suing a call center in Bangalore when you live in the U.S.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
More accurately, an entire bird colony > a single cat.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Indeed. Raise the cap to $300,000/day per facility, and this might actually have an effect. For most hospitals, a fine of $300 a day isn’t a fine at all, and I assume that’s by design.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
If the scope of potential damage were limited to the assets owned by said corporation, perhaps. In reality, a corporation so isolated would have no reason to exist.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
I suppose it depends on whether expected future debt is considered ‘debt’. If you have no savings, then it’s very likely you’ll still go into crippling debt eventually; at best, you’re staving it off until retirement. At that point, chea
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
As with many things in life, habits play a huge role. People with low incomes have little choice but to budget responsibly or go into crippling debt. Once you get into the habit of spending responsibly, it’s easy to continue that habit eve
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
I consider this a serious accessibility problem. Rather than complain to customer service, maybe we should be going straight to their corporate counsel. Frame it as a potential ADA violation. It's actively hostile to anyone who suff
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Perhaps it’s the case they can most easily prove, and/or find enough class members with standing who are willing to get involved.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Usually there are different driving modes. IIRC, in the Tesla sedans, "Chill" mode ups the 0-60 acceleration time to around 8 seconds.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
> I don't understand the desire to stay with a company and accept paychecks while simultaneously publicly denouncing and leading protests against them. I do not understand why it should be preferable to say "oh well, nothing to
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
It depends on which protections you're talking about (note: IANAL either). From what I can gather, it's true that the organizers may not be covered under laws protecting employees who report concerns internally or file EEOC or OSH
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
The benefits are largely obscured by in-game currencies, which exist primarily to obfuscate the true cost of inane in-app purchases; maximize the odds of having a useless residual balance (thus encouraging more spending); and reduce barri
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
I tend to think of the classes in terms of standard of living according to one's access to certain tiers of goods and services, but the resulting class divisions end up being pretty similar to yours. --- Tier 1 (basic necessities) cons
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
I think the Touch Bar is an interesting tool with plenty of potential. My objection is that I'm forced to forego physical function keys to get it. When I'm stepping through code, I want physical keys with tactile feedback. I wou
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Where in the southeast? I grew up around Knoxville, which had reasonably well defined seasons. Then I moved to Atlanta, which basically has “summer” and “not summer”.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
I disagree that most people use ad blockers because they “don’t want to see [any] ads.” Meaning, if advertisers hadn’t built more and more intrusive ads and had stuck with static ads that don’t severely harm the UX, then I doubt most user
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
In most cases, I don’t think it’s ads as concept that’s the problem. If websites only had static ads in the sidebar, I question how many people would bother with ad blockers. But when ads block content; include flashing animations, audio,
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
I’m in NJ and had issues this morning as well. Figured it was a local outage and promptly forgot about it after I left for work. I never expected it was something so serious. Crazy.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
In your example, Facebook lacks the ability to peer into a complete and (by design) persistent history of your spending activity. That's the biggest difference, and that's why they're pushing for this. Just like every other
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
I have the same rule. If I’m expected to come in on the weekend, my manager had better be there. If it’s important enough to ask me to sacrifice my personal time, then it had better be important enough for him to be there too. Unless it’s
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
The headline makes it sound like they're dropping support for just the i386 architecture (as opposed to other x86 architectures, e.g., i686). The linked article makes it sound like they're dropping support for the 32-bit x86 plat
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
The value isn't for you; it's for Facebook and the participating financial institutions. They gain perfect visibility into your spending. I guarantee you that this will not have the perceived level of anonymity that Bitcoin and o

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