LurkerAtTheGate

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by LurkerAtTheGate 1y ago
I was thinking this opens them up to a shareholder suit for mismanagement, breach of duty, or possibly even fraud?
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by LurkerAtTheGate 1y ago
> Obviously the property market would be looking very differently if population was decreasing. The whole economy would. Isn't this exactly what's happening in Japan? Govt practically giving away mostly rural homes, as owners
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by LurkerAtTheGate 1y ago
> The country went insane when inflation crossed 5% This is actually one of the few reasons I'm hopeful for the next election (assuming we still get one) - last time, regardless of the root cause, the country blamed those in power r
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by LurkerAtTheGate 1y ago
> How does one even go about accusing someone of insider trading? The illegality sounds pretty unenforceable. Much of it is data analysis. My favorite examples of this are actual hacks - once foothold is established instead of encryptin
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by LurkerAtTheGate 2y ago
Not combat-armor, but a lot of motorcycle protective gear is exactly this. D3O is soft/flexible normally, but goes rigid on impact. I have plates of it in my own riding gear. I believe there's also some progressive versions tha
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by LurkerAtTheGate 3y ago
So, following Google's example, a la Google Fi?
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by LurkerAtTheGate 3y ago
Also, the additional task of tracking down all the monthly charges when my personal credit card number was compromised yet again and I need to update my payment details
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by LurkerAtTheGate 3y ago
> LAION “only maintains a database containing links to image files that are publicly available on the Internet,” arguing that it does not keep the image data so there it can’t delete the file. So, the Pirate Bay defense?
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by LurkerAtTheGate 3y ago
As I see it, this is another step in a field whose history is a story of force-multipliers. 60 years ago, they used punch-cards. Every decade or so sees a sizable jump in how much an individual programmer can accomplish in a given time fr
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by LurkerAtTheGate 4y ago
Bingo. I, and others I've known, don't fit in California, so we bootstrapped somewhere with a low cost-of-living and fiber-to-the-home with a proper privacy agreement. Many don't have the goal of growth, but subsistence for
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by LurkerAtTheGate 4y ago
Or union labor. I needed some electrical work on a new house, but there's no electricians available for months. Hanging out with a contractor friend, I mentioned that the state law says "the homeowner OR a licensed electrician&q
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by LurkerAtTheGate 4y ago
I used to joke that we couldn't call ourselves Software Engineers without professional liability/E&O insurance, until I got a contract that required I hold exactly that and I learned it just costs $100/mo or so.
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by LurkerAtTheGate 4y ago
Lived & owned homes for 20 years in an area where ASHP are standard installs as the climate range meant 100% of normal (outside of freak polar vortex) heating and cooling was covered by the heat pump. Inexpensive part failure is common
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by LurkerAtTheGate 4y ago
This is the same niche I fell into - building applications to standardize the work happening parallel to SAP because it didn't cover the edge cases, and people created their own workflows using mostly spreadsheets passed around. Which
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by LurkerAtTheGate 4y ago
You can also buy dechlorinator for use with aquariums - super important to not accidentally kill the bacteria maintaining your nitrogen cycle. A bottle goes a very long way (ratio is drops per gallon of tap water).
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by LurkerAtTheGate 4y ago
Founders can offer to buy the rights back later. I did this exactly - sold exclusive rights to software and team was hired onto acquiring company, years later acquiring company decides to shut down software arm and terminate existing servi
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by LurkerAtTheGate 4y ago
Consider caring for some other solitary bees. Personally, I like leafcutter and mason bees, which mostly just means providing homes (hollow tubes), construction materials (leaves & mud respectively), and flowering plants. In late wint
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by LurkerAtTheGate 4y ago
MSG
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by LurkerAtTheGate 5y ago
Regarding Forensics - if you were going to work in computer forensics, I did that for a bit after grad school. I didn't last 6 months: aside from a couple corporate espionage cases, everything else was child porn/abuse. Importan
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by LurkerAtTheGate 5y ago
Many companies don't just undervalue their current staff, they underestimate the market value and demand for that staff. My wife was in this situation, pushed for market analysis of her staff (mostly PMs) to take to management in an a
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by LurkerAtTheGate 5y ago
This is commonly called the 'Paradoxical Reaction' and is pretty well documented, not just for stimulants. Antihistamines, for example, may cause drowsiness in neurotypicals but increased agitation & activity in ADHD. Per my
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by LurkerAtTheGate 5y ago
This was exactly my fear when designing my new house - I wanted to build a hybrid (heat pump and gas furnace) air-conditioning and water-heating system for a home in a climate with very cold winter and increasingly hot summer. Despite prov
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by LurkerAtTheGate 5y ago
As someone navigating this right now - it's a mess. Business is in a no-income-tax state, I moved to 4% state, and it was deemed easiest to be personally responsible for paying quarterly estimates so the business isn't on the hoo
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by LurkerAtTheGate 5y ago
Carnivorous plants are only edible in the most technical sense. They grow in low nutrient environments and slowly digest prey - meaning you'd be eating something that is mostly small leaves coated in rotting insect goo.
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by LurkerAtTheGate 6y ago
Precisely what I was thinking - a tool to analyze medical studies, compare, and provide easily digestible results is a tool for pharma, not providers.
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by LurkerAtTheGate 6y ago
Fat & delicious roosters are called 'capons' - they're neutered & raised for meat, though a bit of a luxury food.
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by LurkerAtTheGate 6y ago
I would maintain some hope for municipal fiber. Our local power company deployed one carefully, and was very successful despite repeated suits by the cable-internet provider. Eventually the ISP fought back at the state government level wh
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by LurkerAtTheGate 6y ago
Clearly not considered: new acquaintances may be filtering out the author. I was in SF less than a week and found locals were friendlier if they didn't know I worked in tech, doubly so with the Bay area natives. If you don't want
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by LurkerAtTheGate 6y ago
Obviously hard to say anything long-term about a novel virus, but studies have been made of its cousins. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7228737/
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by LurkerAtTheGate 6y ago
>But for some reason the moment the police are involved, that presumption is reversed. Why? Because the testimony by police is treated as a proof more reliable than nearly any contrary evidence, short of very clear video.

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