uqual

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by uqual 1mo ago
I had considered buying a Framework laptop. This systemic lack of support for the product for two problems of their own making, both the original design flaw of inadequate recovery from a broken BIOS and producing a bad BIOS for some models
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by uqual 3mo ago
Since they came in through an open door, a fake badge that passed quick casual visual examination would have seemed potentially helpful here. I'm surprised the pen testers didn't craft such badges. Perhaps it was difficult to get
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by uqual 4mo ago
One can certainly propose a Constitutional Convention and get two-thirds the state legislatures to agree or convince two-thirds of the US Senators and two-thirds of the US Representatives to advance an amendment to effectively eliminate the
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by uqual 4mo ago
Pretty much, yes. A shareholder (i.e. part owner of the corporation) has chosen to "peaceably assemble" with other like minded individuals by buying stock. They have elected representatives (directors on the board of directors) to
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by uqual 5mo ago
I can see some justification for not notifying developers of their actual pending suspension if they have not acted on prior notifications requiring verification steps. Suppose a developer account, say that associated with VeraCrypt, had be
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by uqual 7mo ago
The CBP seems to be asserting that they lack the technical resources to issue the refunds in a timely fashion. Thus, when they finally comply, they (well, the US taxpayer) will end up paying more interest - probably around $20M/day (as
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by uqual 7mo ago
You, especially as someone who has "been there", nailed it. And congrats on taking personal responsibility rather than blaming others and society for your bad decisions (and I'm betting that you, like most of us, have made so
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by uqual 7mo ago
In reality that would probably mean that something like 60% of the developer positions would be eliminated (and, frankly, those 60% are rarely very good developers in a large company). The remaining "surplus" 20% roles retained wi
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by uqual 8mo ago
Most people, by count, of course would not leave because of the wealth tax currently being proposed in California as it targets just a tiny segment of the population - current estimates are that less than 250 Californians, or less than 0.00
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by uqual 8mo ago
IMHO "this seems to be building up" in the US is a bit of an overstatement. Mandami, AOC, and Sanders are the laughing stock of much of the electorate in the US. They are fairly popular in progressive population centers but not el
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by uqual 8mo ago
This is something I've been in favor of for some time. Obviously the tax basis in the assets would also be stepped up by this action. The US should also get rid of the step up in basis at death. The recipient of an illiquid asset such
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by uqual 9mo ago
Although it would be amusing for them to do it at high velocity if the cars (and surrounding cars if any) were "dead heading" or had no humans in them for other reasons (perhaps because the humans had fled the vehicles upon seeing
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by uqual 9mo ago
Waymo may discover that heavy equipment (large fire trucks can easily push Waymo out of the way if it can find somewhere to push it to) WILL move the cars (at least if there is no one in them at the time) in such cases. I recall the scenes
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by uqual 9mo ago
Interestingly in one of the videos online there are several (five I think) Waymos blocking the right two lanes entering the intersection (along with a few others around the other parts of the intersection). While its hazards are still blink
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by uqual 11mo ago
And it's good to catch that error ASAP. But at that point it's back to engineering to figure out what to do (leave the pipe where it is and adjust around it _or_ move the pipe - possibly cutting concrete and perhaps untensioning&#
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by uqual 11mo ago
A lender never (intentionally) gives anyone anything for "free". This is why ARMs often have lower interest rates than fixed 30 year mortgages - the risk to the lender from rising interest rates is lower with ARMs so lenders gener
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by uqual 11mo ago
Yes - you have the right to observe public actions of federal agencies and agents and to report on them. However a private entity, including Apple, is free to censor whatever they want on their platforms. For example, I have the right to vo
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by uqual 1y ago
When I was a hiring manager (it's been a number of years) I always checked LI for applicants which looked interesting on "paper" but which had not come through a trusted source such as coworker from the past or present that I
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by uqual 1y ago
In the 1970s I made the mistake of satisfying one of my general ed requirements by taking a one quarter class which covered _only_ Ulysses. The professor had done his PhD thesis on Ulysses and knew the page numbers (both in the edition he w
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by uqual 1y ago
It's good to finally have something "between" Best Buy and Central Computer (et al) back in the SV after Fry's died its slow and painful death as the previous Micro Center in Santa Clara closed. Unfortunately this new on
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by uqual 1y ago
I believe the argument is that Congress is not constitutionally allowed to delegate determination of the amount of that tax because the first words in the US Constitution are "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a
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by uqual 2y ago
We have many real life human "experiments" that can be looked to in determining if the "alpha" concept is a "more successful" model in business. This is particularly true in areas where demand for highly qualif
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by uqual 2y ago
FWIW, a followup article indicates the island was auctioned off for $3.8M to the John Muir Land Trust and the former owner who attended the auction was then arrested on outstanding warrants. https://www.sfgate.com/local&#x2F
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by uqual 2y ago
A few years ago I was doing some tutoring at a school and a student mentioned "Computer Science" class. I was impressed that fifth graders at this school with generally low performing students had access to Computer Science classe
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by uqual 2y ago
Mine is so old that it doesn't have a picture on it and it's never an issue at two warehouses in the Silicon Valley that I frequent. No one has even mentioned the lack of a picture.
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by uqual 2y ago
Although, look at it like a retroactive inflation adjusted 2% raise for every year up to 26 that you worked at Dell. Dell doesn't _have_ to offer much of anything although in my experience the 1 week per year of tenure on top of a fixe