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by kirkbackus 2y ago
In this case, the necessity of this law is proof that American companies are incapable of producing an app that can compete with Tiktok.
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by kirkbackus 3y ago
The "your parents" are only harmed if the public benefit from taxes don't offset the benefit that is received directly in the funding of the 401k or other relevant investment accounts. In America anyway, the wealthiest 1% own
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by kirkbackus 3y ago
In the attached article > After hovering around record lows for much of the pandemic, consumer delinquencies are rising across the industry. > It lost slightly more than $1 billion in 2021 and $783 million in 2020, after accounting fo
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by kirkbackus 3y ago
Before I got hit with long covid, I was in the best shape of my life, and was doing all of those things on that list. I was running 1.5 miles and exercising several days a week. It absolutely didn't prevent me from experiencing long c
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by kirkbackus 3y ago
Not for everybody, also it would be great to consume textual content in a variety of voices, or even my own.
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by kirkbackus 4y ago
Flight information provided to the FAA is considered public information. This is funded with taxpayer money, and is not privy to privacy.
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The number of people dying is not the same as in any other year(fullfact.org)
74 points by kirkbackus 6y ago|104 comments
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by kirkbackus 7y ago
I've got a few smart switches that adjust the lights at a specific time in the evening. It really helps my children transition into the evening routine. It also helps me not lose track of time so I can keep that evening routine.
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Whitespace killed an enterprise app(uxdesign.cc)
708 points by kirkbackus 8y ago|435 comments
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by kirkbackus 8y ago
Referenced article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08497-3
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A RocksDB storage engine with MySQL(myrocks.io)
1 points by kirkbackus 10y ago|0 comments
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by kirkbackus 10y ago
I made a project in college like this that utilized the Windows API to enumerate the rectangles of the windows and you could create shapes and other things that you can throw around your desktop https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by kirkbackus 11y ago
In the last example, wouldn't a Singleton to represent a null student be more effective since you could do a check for the null student by reference?
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by kirkbackus 11y ago
Why are you saying this? There is literally no mention of social media in this article. The data (at least from the original project) is mined from publicly available data, which could be social media data, but that data has to be made pub
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by kirkbackus 11y ago
They only provide one type of license: http://themes.getbootstrap.com/pages/our-license It is comparable to the "Multiple Applications License" provided by WrapBootstrap. Still relatively expensive since mos
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by kirkbackus 11y ago
It's quite ironic that Apple is setting a precedent for the intolerance of any symbol of slavery while they are knowingly supporting manufacturing which utilizes child labor, which is often forced labor. The epitome of hypocrisy which
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Calendar Heat Map D3.js(kamisama.github.io)
2 points by kirkbackus 11y ago|0 comments
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C “Hello World” Written in Paint(i.imgur.com)
10 points by kirkbackus 12y ago|4 comments
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by kirkbackus 12y ago
Google also made a library for handling mailing addresses: https://github.com/googlei18n/libaddressinput
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by kirkbackus 12y ago
You are correct. It does that for the multi-line graphs as well. Multi-Line Graph https://github.com/mozilla/metrics-graphics/blob/master/js/m... Point Graph (Scatterplot) https://github
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Haskell Is Exceptionally Unsafe (2012)(existentialtype.wordpress.com)
107 points by kirkbackus 12y ago|122 comments
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by kirkbackus 12y ago
According to their faqs: http://blog.incoin.io/incoin-faqs/ Those are all problems that they have yet to solve. They only support salaried employees (no hourly employees). Taxes should be done in 1.5 - 2 months, and b
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by kirkbackus 12y ago
Careful. Don't miss the precedent to the "every planet could have a drink". It all hinges on "if the solar system’s formation was typical", which is a question that has not been answered. Also, why don't they
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'Holy Grail' Battery Scientist Explains Incredible Breakthrough(forbes.com)
3 points by kirkbackus 12y ago|0 comments
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by kirkbackus 12y ago
Something really cool about this approach is the marching squares algorithm is highly parallelizable which would make this a good candidate for GPU acceleration provided that there is enough memory.
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Compose: Hosted Elasticsearch beta(compose.io)
1 points by kirkbackus 12y ago|0 comments
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by kirkbackus 12y ago
Can I store a BIN and associate it to a customer without breaking PCI compliance?
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by kirkbackus 12y ago
We've got the same problem here, if our system goes down, we won't be able to deploy.
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Fed Cyber Sleuths Stop 'Gameover Zeus' and 'Cryptolocker' Crime Sprees(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by kirkbackus 12y ago|0 comments
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Ballmer agrees to buy Clippers for record $2 billion(cnn.com)
12 points by kirkbackus 12y ago|1 comments

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