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by rskar 6y ago
Per https://smartasset.com/taxes/all-about-irs-form-1040ez , Form 1040EZ is discontinued; there is only a single redesigned Form 1040 for all filers to use.
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by rskar 6y ago
TIOBE tracks the trends (or at least hopes to) of people looking to learn/re-learn/familiarize/re-familiarize themselves about whatever programming languages for whatever reasons. That's certainly the most one can really
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How Many Cops Does New York City Need? (2020)(motherjones.com)
2 points by rskar 6y ago|2 comments
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by rskar 6y ago
I'm personally convinced that a strong case is made that connects leaded gasoline with high crime rates. Certainly larger police forces and legalized abortion and various public policies, etc., are also in the picture. But can it be sa
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by rskar 6y ago
Per https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-exactly-how-much-i... , retirees have a lifestyle of roughly $60k or so per year. At a more modest $50k, and assuming a portfolio of working assets from which to draw this $
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by rskar 6y ago
>But only variants can be null or empty... That's true, only Variants can be Null (Null is a state of Variant); however, Empty is translated to whatever default value makes sense for some of the (non-Object, non-user-defined) data t
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by rskar 6y ago
Fun factoid, VBA/VB6 dichotomizes between the "NULL" of value (keyword Null) versus the "null" of reference (keyword Nothing). Dim x x = Null Debug.Print "x", x Debug.Print "x =
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by rskar 7y ago
Fruit juices should be seen as a form of processed sugar - even if the processing is not as substantial as making table sugar. Whole fruit - such as a whole orange or grape or apple - is a much better and nutritional choice. https:/&#
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by rskar 7y ago
Speculation robed as explanation, but maybe still good for sake of conversation. 1. It is nearly two decades since the mind-share decimation event of .NET occurred, circa 2002: Visual Basic got a major redesign (VB.NET) that was so dramatic
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by rskar 8y ago
https://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Consumer+... "The class of persons able to buy goods and services other than those that satisfy their basic needs. ..."
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by rskar 8y ago
>apart perhaps from VB but it is going away Even presuming it's gone zombie, it'll be 30+ years before it might scatter to the winds... (And that's presuming that VBA is finally no longer a thing.) In the meantime, some of
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by rskar 8y ago
At about 25 minutes into this, the claim was made that the world was financially stable, currencies were backed by gold, the "real economy" was in balance with amount of money available, until 1971, when the "Nixon Shock&quot
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by rskar 8y ago
Maybe this is my limitation, but it still looks like "love" means about the same at its core, thru the times - I don't see a "lost meaning" to it. But I do see "flavors" for love, if you will - motivations
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by rskar 8y ago
>The self-sacrificing love, agape, is what the GP is talking about. Perhaps, but the GP began with "the word love has lost its meaning throughout the ages". I don't think it has. Perhaps "love" can be parsed into
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by rskar 8y ago
Could you give a citation for that "love for the ancient and medievals was akin to the word passion"? My understanding of that love-to-passion link is by way of Christianity, i.e. love as the motivation for the suffering (of Jesus
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by rskar 9y ago
Examples of corporations expressing religious beliefs: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/03/24/he... Per above: "Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties' argument
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by rskar 9y ago
And now, in VBA: Sub Main() Dim i As Integer For i = 1 To 100 Dim f As Integer f = IIf(i Mod 3, 0, 1) Or IIf(i Mod 5, 0, 2) Dim buf As String If f = 0 Then
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by rskar 9y ago
I wonder if the world-wide trend on high blood pressure is aligned with that of vitamin D?: - https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/17956/PDF - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC
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by rskar 9y ago
See https://ifixit.org/blog/8448/apple-audio-adapter-teardown/
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by rskar 9y ago
Yeah, that was an odd start, given that Dr. Downey is a Professor of Computer Science. Even a charitable suggestion that he was looking to keep things as understandable as possible for a wide audience doesn't seem to give much defense.
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by rskar 10y ago
DOS isn't based on Xenix at all. It's a clone of CP/M, and CP/M was its own thing for 8-bit CPUs (and later 16-bit).
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by rskar 10y ago
>the company started out supplying a Fortran compiler for the Altair 8800 I would suppose maybe at some point they did (not sure on this) but it's long been my understanding that BASIC was their start. Per https://en.wiki
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by rskar 10y ago
>According to them the issue is that there are lots of people who are "neither employed nor actively looking for work". I wonder if we're talking past each other. Perhaps robots aren't the top reason for the apparent
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by rskar 10y ago
>Technological unemployment may happen some day. But it hasn't happened yet. That's the crux of the matter: Whether "some day" happens sooner rather than later. Also, what to do when "some day" comes. You kn
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by rskar 10y ago
Could it be that humanity at large is doomed to repeat its usual method of a "reset"? Planet Earth isn't getting any bigger, and if we're lucky worldwide population may plateau around 11 billion. Per Wikipedia, "Glo
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by rskar 10y ago
The "too-long-didn't-read": A Governor on the Federal Reserve Board (Kevin Warsh), is motivated to write this by this week's gathering at Jackson Hole, Wyo., where "the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City hosts the
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by rskar 10y ago
Interestingly, Viktor (Victor?) had doctors in his family, such as Georg Klemperer (see https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https:/... ): [He] was a German internist. ... [He was] a son of the R
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by rskar 10y ago
The words "reason" and "explanation" are nearly synonymous. (I went to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary to be certain of this.) If anything, an explanation is built from a set of reasons. So ref
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by rskar 10y ago
tldr; :"One widely cited paper by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne at Oxford University found that as many as 47% of Americans work in jobs that will be highly susceptible to automation over the next two decades. But a new working paper b
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by rskar 10y ago
"It's likely that when we are all working for a living and prospering then we all prosper a little more." Well, of course, we all prosper when we all are prospering. :) While life isn't exactly a zero-sum game, for cert

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