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by bacan 4y ago
Corporate Mortgage Backed Securities
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by bacan 4y ago
What is "processed foods"? Isn't bread a heavily processed food? Is somehow making it at home magically healthier than it being made in a factory? What about whole wheat bread from a factory vs white bread at home? Which one
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by bacan 4y ago
Many Dell PCs have a “SERVICE MODE” jumper that also disables IME
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by bacan 4y ago
The age verification maybe a good idea if it is used to create a segregated place for kids. But instead of having filters & being able to scan messages, I think it'd be better to not have private messaging on those platforms. This
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by bacan 4y ago
It is a very common practice for these companies to rotate competent people between multiple projects. Friend used to work as a senior exec for CG in India
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by bacan 4y ago
There is nothing wrong with baremetal 2003 style PHP. It is NOT a compiled language. Every line of code in PHP translates to one or more lines of Machine code. As such a framework in PHP is counter intuitive and will only slow things down m
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by bacan 4y ago
All we need is WFH. That alone will cut down a major portion of the traffic.
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by bacan 4y ago
USB-C is a mess. Sometimes everything works as intended, but most of the time it doesn’t. Sometimes power wont work, sometimes its the display, other times the USB. Only after replugging a few times will it work. Not to mention the security
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by bacan 4y ago
I will cancel my sub and shift to KeePass before installing an Electron Version of 1Password Not only is Electron heavy, but also inherits all the security vulnerabilities of Chromium. This is compounded further by the fact that Electron us
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by bacan 4y ago
In-App browsers have always been a security nightmare. Similar issues exist with Electron apps as well. But developers continue to use them as HTML + CSS + JS is the easiest way to develop a graphical dynamic UI, for a newbie. Many schools
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by bacan 4y ago
PHP has its uses. Want a simple web app. Great. But speed is inversely proportional to the linecount. At some point it is better to use a compiled language like Go.
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by bacan 4y ago
Ask them, in person. Many small businesses have unarticulated needs, that they have trouble finding people for. But due to resource constraints those things just get pushed. Specially IT things like backups
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by bacan 4y ago
The issue with Google is SEO optimized spam sites beat out real content. Until we get rid of web advertising, it'll continue to be this way. Spam site operators have a huge incentive to get users to click on their links & provide t
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by bacan 4y ago
Has anyone else been noticing an increasing trend of people dooming & glooming over low population? Just seems like fear mongering to me. Specially with all the automation today
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by bacan 4y ago
Citadel’s loss is our gain, so…… yes?
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by bacan 4y ago
Coz like 99% of all USB devices have a USB-A port
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by bacan 4y ago
So Coinbase is gonna be bankrupt pretty soon i guess
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by bacan 4y ago
For me it was pack of sleep. Sleep debt accumulates just like financial debt. Slept like crazy for 2-3 months. 12-14hrs daily. Much better now.
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by bacan 4y ago
This happens all over the world. Poor people are treated worse than the rich treat their animals
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by bacan 4y ago
Curated sure. Tailored to individual tastes - absolutely not Kinda like a newspaper
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by bacan 4y ago
I would suggest watching Death of Stalin (2018) to understand why Russia bad
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by bacan 4y ago
This is exactly what happens when algorithms tailor what people see on their newsfeed. They will push narratives. One of the main reasons I prefer Reddit is the existence of r/All. Provides a very balanced view
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by bacan 5y ago
Have you heard of this guy called Snowden? Or maybe Aaron Swartz. Govts have been harassing them too. One guy even took his life
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by bacan 5y ago
Another thing to turn off in FireFox. Already have WebRTC, WebGL, WASM, ServiceWorkers etc disabled. Most sites are so much faster without all this junk
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by bacan 5y ago
Gotta justify the Bilions of $$$ spent on the new campus, while trying to prevent a CMBS collapse
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by bacan 5y ago
WASM is not going to happen. Stop pushing it. Also Google Docs, Microsoft and several others have been doing this via JS, since ages.
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by bacan 5y ago
I have it disabled along with WebGL, WebRTC, etc and refuse to use a browser that has WASM.
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by bacan 5y ago
Fine. Lets abolish the govt secrets act & all the secret courts and what not too. No secrets for us, none for the govt too
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by bacan 5y ago
Telegram is just spyware. Whatsapp is better. Signal is the best
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by bacan 5y ago
This is why I don't work for large companies

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