baakss

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Ask HN: What data points do POS systems send to Credit Card Companies / Banks?
9 points by baakss 7y ago|3 comments
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by baakss 9y ago
>The outrageous price increases directly led to people dying because they couldn't afford life-saving medication. Who died? I'm curious because if that happened, I figure we would have heard about it. Do you have a link to a st
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by baakss 9y ago
>although they obviously kept much of their supporting evidence classified. Was anything not classified? I have trust issues stemming from an unnecessary war based on false premises when I was a child. Most of my hesitation stems from a
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by baakss 9y ago
> but the last 6 months and this moment in particular is a level of shame, embarrassment, and disgust that I have never felt in my 45 years as an American citizen. I personally felt more disgust when we bombed a Doctors Without Borders h
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by baakss 9y ago
"They can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life and
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by baakss 10y ago
I put some of this blame on the hospitals themselves as well. The fact is that I have no idea what I'm going to pay when I get to a hospital or doctor's office. They won't tell you anything up front. By the time you know what
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by baakss 10y ago
Microsoft published a research paper on "Why Nigerian scammers say they're from Nigeria". Was that research paper a stereotype that painted Nigeria in a false and negative manner? https://www.microsoft.com/en-
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by baakss 10y ago
>Pop history in particular artistic works are reflective of society. Look at early Bond movies for example. The Human Centipede
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by baakss 10y ago
>Gawker fucked up a lot. But our media landscape is worse off without it. I disagree that we're clearly worse off. For a good explanation on why, this is a pretty good read: https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Conf
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by baakss 10y ago
>The potential solutions that come to mind range from, on the pessimistic end, apocalyptic, to technological if we are to be optimistic. We'll either think our way out of the crisis with cleaner sources of energy, or nature will hav
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by baakss 10y ago
>Witness the poster you're replying to, suggesting we accept human extinction rather than taxes and regulation. Straw man or False dilemma?
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by baakss 10y ago
You don't need to be a heroic icon to be more valuable than a 100x developer. The 100x teacher who molds the mind of the kid/teenager/adult who eventually cures cancer is worth more than just about any single 100x developer o
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by baakss 10y ago
The link I posted above is a common SQL land usage. Dimensional modeling in a star schema is very widely used in BI projects. There's actually two competing philosophies on data warehousing (Inmon and Kimball), but I've only ever
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by baakss 10y ago
Yes, especially in business intelligence / data warehousing. Here is an excellent resource if you're interested in this sort of thing: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimen...
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by baakss 10y ago
This is really to a point where it can only hurt Google. Just look at the word choice in the article: >The crashes are calling the safety of such automatic driving features into question, just as they're being incorporated into more
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by baakss 10y ago
Are you suggesting they're not? Where did he plagiarize them from if so? He can't exactly prove they're original, but you could prove they have at least been said before, if not plagiarized.
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by baakss 11y ago
Except that I didn't say anything at all about the Government's right to seize the money. I commented on the stupidity of transporting the money in such a fashion, and the skepticism of what the article was telling me about how he
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by baakss 11y ago
I agree.
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by baakss 11y ago
First off, upon googling this case beyond the two paragraphs, the money didn't just come from waiting tables and working retail. I've done both, and saving that much would have been nearly impossible for me. So while you question
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by baakss 11y ago
I had to look it up because it's so bizarre. The explanation is even more bizarre. >Charles was carrying his cash because his bank has few physical branches and he and his mother were in the process of moving and he didn’t want to l
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by baakss 11y ago
Someone checked a bag with $11,000 cash in it that he saved up by waiting tables over 5 years? So many questions...
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by baakss 11y ago
My issue with it is the arbitrary way you've decided what 'level of cognition' is worthy of your protection. Also, is there a definition of 'level of cognition' that you can give which encompasses fish, rats, birds,
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by baakss 11y ago
>I've never had a medical bill sent to collections, but I did have a (thankfully small) student loan sent while I was diligently paying the other loans because the mail was going to the wrong address. However, I can say from that e
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by baakss 11y ago
Pull your credit regularly. Credit score is a huge scam too. Coming out of college I was in the bottom 5th percentile in the nation from random medical debts and such, and within a year I was in the 95th percentile. I spent a lot of time re
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by baakss 11y ago
There's a chess term for that too. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang
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Half of U.S. energy industry will be bankrupt in six months with these prices(cnbc.com)
1 points by baakss 11y ago|0 comments
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by baakss 11y ago
They updated the article it looks like. It originally said six in several places. Edit: In fact, they left in one of the original references: "In six days they emerged..."
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How did NFL Blitz even get made?(sports.vice.com)
10 points by baakss 11y ago|0 comments
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by baakss 11y ago
That's a fallacy of relative privation though. "B happens more frequently, is more dangerous, or causes more harm than A. Therefore A can be ignored." AlexandrB was dismissing one argument because he found a bigger issue.
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Ask HN: Service to determine if company 1099 reportable?
1 points by baakss 11y ago|0 comments

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