How is this a problem? It seems more like desire for the status quo.
a) Plenty of people gab around me gab about Netflix's shows. The difference is that they can gab about the entire season rather than specific episodes. I heard way more talk about, say, Daredevil or Jessica Jones, than I do about Game of Thrones or American Gods.
b) With DVRs and other on-demand services for shows, even weekly shows no longer have the watercooler effect on Monday.
Some people binge watch them all at once, and that's fine, some people watch them when it fits their schedule, and that's fine (I'll watch 2-3 episodes per week). I'd much rather prefer to have the freedom to choose when I need to watch something, than to be told.
Bitcoin transactions need to be "confirmed" by miners to be put into the blockchain and made official. In order to incentivize miners to do this, the Bitcoin protocol supports a transaction fee in the transaction that goes to the miner who confirms it.
Currently, the floor fee most miners will use is 220 satoshis per byte, or 49,720 satoshis for the median transaction size (https://bitcoinfees.21.co/). That's about $0.66.
If the reward of mining bitcoins drops below the cost of the electricity to do so, it would be balanced by an increase in the transaction fee. Theoretically, the reward of mining bitcoins could drop to zero and transaction fees could still make it profitable by confirming transactions.
If you have the cash to pay off a credit card, then I can't see any good reason to have a credit card instead of a debit card. To pay more fees? How's that a bonus for you?
I have an American Express Blue Cash card; I get ~$400 in cash back every year, and there's no annual fee.
(In addition, the last I looked, the consumer protection on a credit card was better than a debit card, though that may have equalized in recent years.)
I suspect what the GP means (and this is how it is in Illinois) is that taking a breathalyzer when asked to by law enforcement is a requirement of having the license. If a cop asks you to take one, you are allowed to say no, but if you do, you immediately forfeit your license. In Illinois, at least, refusing to take the breathalyzer is a summary suspension of your license for a year. However, it doesn't result in a DUI charge (at least, on it's own; if the prosecutor has other evidence, there may still be charges).
When I served jury duty in the US courts, lawyers on both sides were given your name, address, and the answers you gave to a brief questionnaire.
When prospective jury members were being questioned in the voie dire, the lawyers addressed the prospective jury members by their last names ("Mrs. Jones, are you now or have you ever been a member...", etc).
As a Chicagoan (who drives, no less), I don't mind the new parking meters. Yes, the rates have gone up. Yes, the city government gave up a lot of revenue by leasing out the meters to a company who raised the rates, rather than having the balls to raise the rates themselves.
But, I can now use bills and credit cards to pay for the meter, which is infinitely more convenient than having to have quarters on hand. The meters themselves track the hours of operation and inform you *up front* about whether you have to pay or not -- if it's 7:30am and the meters don't go into effect until 9:00am, you'll be informed and if you pay anyway, the time you'll buy still starts at 9:00am instead of 7:30am.
However, the biggest thing I like is that I can actually find parking now. Back when parking was $0.25 an hour, you could park your car there all day for $2.50, which is what everyone did. Now that it's (shock) $1.00 an hour, most people just go for the lot. Even downtown, where it's $4.00 an hour, the upside is that I can find a place to park if I need to do some quick shopping.
And for people who complain that the left over time is wasted -- nothing stops you from taking your slip and putting it on/near the parking box for someone else to use if you've got a significant amount of time left on it.
I needed an external USB hard drive. I had a $20 Circuit City gift card that I knew was approaching worthlessness. I saw their "Going Out Of Business -- Everything Must Go" signs, so I wandered in.
They had stacks of USB hard drives. The cheapest 500 GB one was ~$160. *After* their going out of business discounts, it was $120 + tax. I don't claim to have the pulse of prices down, but that seemed a bit steep. Walked down the block to the Best Buy. Same USB drive there was $90. Bought it, gave the gift card away.
If you remember American Gods, who was getting conned in that case?
People dropping off the day's earnings at the ATM. Were they greedy? No, they were simply too trusting. But they got conned nonetheless.
Bringing in an element of the illicit helps a con because it makes the mark less likely to go to the police, and likely to publicize what happened, and greed certainly is a motivating factor...but it's a far cry from "you can't con an honest man". Honest men get conned all the time.
It doesn't matter how many people die of something. What matters is the percentage of people who do it that die.
Saying "jumping off the top of a building with piano wire wrapped around your neck" is much, much safer than being a passenger in a care because, hey, your chances of dying that way are only 1 in 492,593,129. That number just tells you how often death happened while doing that; without the vital piece of information about how many times it was attempted without dying, you don't really know anything of interest.
Allegedly, Harlan Ellison wanted the computer game version of "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" to not have any way to win it -- only various variations of losing. He was overruled, but you have to wonder how it would've been received if he wasn't.
The AOL search ratings were different because the searches could include things like cities, proper names, phone numbers, and other such pieces of identifiable information. The movie ratings have none of that. You might be able to dig through the list and find the person who rated "Goat donkey pr0n" highly and laugh at them, but there's no information there that'll tell you who it was.
I've run into this same sort of problem, and I've discovered that spoofing the from address is a really, really bad idea; there's a sizable chunk of mailservers that will reverse DNS the IP address they're receiving the email from, and if it doesn't match the domain in the from address, they'll reject it.
For a long time, googling for "log4net documentation" would return "Log4Net is Crap4Crap" as the first hit; right now, that's hit #2, underneath the real log4net site. And, I have to say, since the documentation I found really sucked, I had to agree with it.
(Yes, log4net and log4j are practically identical, and I can always use its documentation, but this was a problem with the EventLogAppender, which log4j doesn't have...)
I'd agree with you on Indigo Prophecy, except for the last quarter of the game. I'm not really sure who should be held responsible for that, since the game was incredibly awesome up until that point, but after that, it sucked big ol' juicy chunks.
Lost's first season was awesome. I watch, on average, one hour long drama per week -- Sunday, with some pizza, to relax. I don't have the time or inclination for more than that.
I happened to be around when my wife was watching the series premiere of Lost, and got sucked in immediately. Far better than Deadwood, which is what I had been watching, and it's the first show in a long time that I would watch while it played, rather than saving it on my Tivo for a few days.
The second season...well, to be polite, it's not nearly as good. I don't like the flashbacks for the original group, since they were all very well defined in the first season -- I don't need to see repetitious flashbacks for Locke, or Jack, or Hurley, or Sawyer, that tell me what I already knew. The other use of the flashbacks, giving the "surprise twists" that would suddenly fit everything into perspective aren't there, so there's really no reason to have the flashbacks at all.
Main storyline has been ok, but it drags, and it shows. Many episodes have gone by with only 5 minutes or so of *anything* happening. The rest of the show just sort of drags and lurches. The only exception to this would be the episode that concentrates on the other group of survivor's first 48 days, but even that was kind of wasted since you go into the episode already knowing how it's going to turn out, and the "surprise twist" for that episode wasn't.
Little details like the logo on the shark's fin and what not are great, but the second season really feels like they're just sort of making it up as they go along, and it lacks the urgency and drama of the first season. I'll probably finish watching it at some point, but right now they're just queueing up on the Tivo, while I'm actually watching the first season of Battlestar Galactica. It's very uneven; when it's good, it's good, but when it sucks, it sucks...
Depends. The important thing I would look for would be to make sure that they're still paying attention while taking the notes. Ie, are they taking intermittent notes, or writing while maintaining eye contact, or is their head looking down at the paper the entire time?
Writing down useful pieces of information (proposed pay, dress code, benefit details, hours, time off, etc.) is fine. Writing down so much that I feel I have to slow the interview down to let them catch up is not.
In other words, I feel if you're going to take notes during the interview, it should be like a psychiatrist -- unobtrusive, and not disturbing your communication with the other person.
I like it when the interviewee asks me questions, because it shows me what they're interested in. This may be good or bad for the interviewee, but it's useful as a tool. Eg, given two similar candidates, I'd be much more likely to hire the one who asked, "What problems have you had with your architecture?" than one who asked, "What hours are expected?", because of what they intimate about the mindset of the interviewee.
Of course, I'd probably be more likely to hire the one who asked what hours are expected vs the one who asked no questions at all, since at least the one asking questions is expressing interest in making sure that the position is compatible.
Good questions, IMHO, to ask are ones that indicate an interest in the company or the position.
Is impossible to get independently. But there are laws (at least in the US) that say that you cannot be turned down for a group plan (ie, your employer's) because of your illness. It's pretty much the only way a diabetic can have insurance.
If you're using signed ints for booleans, true isn't -1 because of where the significant bit is; true is -1 because that's the two's complement of 0. So -1 is 1111 in binary, and !-1 is 0000, or 0, or false. If true was 1, which is 0001, then !true would be 1110, or -2.
It's easy to shoot yourself in these languages, since you can have things like:
int x = 4; if (x && !x) {
printf("This code will get executed."); }
Yes, you do sound bitter, but it doesn't change the fact that 50% of cases of Type I diabetes are in people above the age of 18.
Not sure about your case, but you do not have Type I diabetes, untreated, for 10 years. Onset of Type I diabetes happens, at most, over a period of months. After that, if untreated, you go into diabetic ketacidosis, and you die. You simply can't have untreated Type I diabetes for years.
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How is this a problem? It seems more like desire for the status quo.
a) Plenty of people gab around me gab about Netflix's shows. The difference is that they can gab about the entire season rather than specific episodes. I heard way more talk about, say, Daredevil or Jessica Jones, than I do about Game of Thrones or American Gods.
b) With DVRs and other on-demand services for shows, even weekly shows no longer have the watercooler effect on Monday.
Some people binge watch them all at once, and that's fine, some people watch them when it fits their schedule, and that's fine (I'll watch 2-3 episodes per week). I'd much rather prefer to have the freedom to choose when I need to watch something, than to be told.
Bitcoin transactions need to be "confirmed" by miners to be put into the blockchain and made official. In order to incentivize miners to do this, the Bitcoin protocol supports a transaction fee in the transaction that goes to the miner who confirms it.
Currently, the floor fee most miners will use is 220 satoshis per byte, or 49,720 satoshis for the median transaction size (https://bitcoinfees.21.co/). That's about $0.66.
If the reward of mining bitcoins drops below the cost of the electricity to do so, it would be balanced by an increase in the transaction fee. Theoretically, the reward of mining bitcoins could drop to zero and transaction fees could still make it profitable by confirming transactions.
More info: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees
That is literally what is said.
Read more than the first line.
You have never been to a 'red zones' area. People in the majority of the country, red or blue, could care less about your bedroom habits.
They certainly cared enough to outlaw it. Lawrence v. Texas wasn't so long ago.
If you have the cash to pay off a credit card, then I can't see any good reason to have a credit card instead of a debit card. To pay more fees? How's that a bonus for you?
I have an American Express Blue Cash card; I get ~$400 in cash back every year, and there's no annual fee.
(In addition, the last I looked, the consumer protection on a credit card was better than a debit card, though that may have equalized in recent years.)
I suspect what the GP means (and this is how it is in Illinois) is that taking a breathalyzer when asked to by law enforcement is a requirement of having the license. If a cop asks you to take one, you are allowed to say no, but if you do, you immediately forfeit your license. In Illinois, at least, refusing to take the breathalyzer is a summary suspension of your license for a year. However, it doesn't result in a DUI charge (at least, on it's own; if the prosecutor has other evidence, there may still be charges).
When I served jury duty in the US courts, lawyers on both sides were given your name, address, and the answers you gave to a brief questionnaire.
When prospective jury members were being questioned in the voie dire, the lawyers addressed the prospective jury members by their last names ("Mrs. Jones, are you now or have you ever been a member...", etc).
REGIS: For $16,000, the question is, 'What right do they have to risk the life of a presumed innocent man with dangerous surgery?' Your choices are...
A. The Patriot Act
B. The Alien and Sedition Act
C. The Jack Bauer Act
D. The part where he agreed to the surgery.
CONTESTANT: Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Um. I'd like to use a lifeline.
REGIS: Alright! Which lifeline would you like to use?
CONTESTANT: I think I'm going to use my "Read The Fucking Article" lifeline, Regis.
REGIS: Alright! Computer, please print out a copy of the article for our contestant!
CONTESTANT: *reads* Regis, I'm going to have to go with 'D', "The part where he agreed to the surgery."
REGIS: Final answer?
CONTESTANT: Final answer.
As a Chicagoan (who drives, no less), I don't mind the new parking meters. Yes, the rates have gone up. Yes, the city government gave up a lot of revenue by leasing out the meters to a company who raised the rates, rather than having the balls to raise the rates themselves.
But, I can now use bills and credit cards to pay for the meter, which is infinitely more convenient than having to have quarters on hand. The meters themselves track the hours of operation and inform you *up front* about whether you have to pay or not -- if it's 7:30am and the meters don't go into effect until 9:00am, you'll be informed and if you pay anyway, the time you'll buy still starts at 9:00am instead of 7:30am.
However, the biggest thing I like is that I can actually find parking now. Back when parking was $0.25 an hour, you could park your car there all day for $2.50, which is what everyone did. Now that it's (shock) $1.00 an hour, most people just go for the lot. Even downtown, where it's $4.00 an hour, the upside is that I can find a place to park if I need to do some quick shopping.
And for people who complain that the left over time is wasted -- nothing stops you from taking your slip and putting it on/near the parking box for someone else to use if you've got a significant amount of time left on it.
I needed an external USB hard drive. I had a $20 Circuit City gift card that I knew was approaching worthlessness. I saw their "Going Out Of Business -- Everything Must Go" signs, so I wandered in.
They had stacks of USB hard drives. The cheapest 500 GB one was ~$160. *After* their going out of business discounts, it was $120 + tax. I don't claim to have the pulse of prices down, but that seemed a bit steep. Walked down the block to the Best Buy. Same USB drive there was $90. Bought it, gave the gift card away.
If you remember American Gods, who was getting conned in that case?
People dropping off the day's earnings at the ATM. Were they greedy? No, they were simply too trusting. But they got conned nonetheless.
Bringing in an element of the illicit helps a con because it makes the mark less likely to go to the police, and likely to publicize what happened, and greed certainly is a motivating factor...but it's a far cry from "you can't con an honest man". Honest men get conned all the time.
It doesn't matter how many people die of something. What matters is the percentage of people who do it that die.
Saying "jumping off the top of a building with piano wire wrapped around your neck" is much, much safer than being a passenger in a care because, hey, your chances of dying that way are only 1 in 492,593,129. That number just tells you how often death happened while doing that; without the vital piece of information about how many times it was attempted without dying, you don't really know anything of interest.
Go on. You know you want to do it.
Allegedly, Harlan Ellison wanted the computer game version of "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" to not have any way to win it -- only various variations of losing. He was overruled, but you have to wonder how it would've been received if he wasn't.
The AOL search ratings were different because the searches could include things like cities, proper names, phone numbers, and other such pieces of identifiable information. The movie ratings have none of that. You might be able to dig through the list and find the person who rated "Goat donkey pr0n" highly and laugh at them, but there's no information there that'll tell you who it was.
I've run into this same sort of problem, and I've discovered that spoofing the from address is a really, really bad idea; there's a sizable chunk of mailservers that will reverse DNS the IP address they're receiving the email from, and if it doesn't match the domain in the from address, they'll reject it.
For a long time, googling for "log4net documentation" would return "Log4Net is Crap4Crap" as the first hit; right now, that's hit #2, underneath the real log4net site. And, I have to say, since the documentation I found really sucked, I had to agree with it.
(Yes, log4net and log4j are practically identical, and I can always use its documentation, but this was a problem with the EventLogAppender, which log4j doesn't have...)
I'd agree with you on Indigo Prophecy, except for the last quarter of the game. I'm not really sure who should be held responsible for that, since the game was incredibly awesome up until that point, but after that, it sucked big ol' juicy chunks.
Lost's first season was awesome. I watch, on average, one hour long drama per week -- Sunday, with some pizza, to relax. I don't have the time or inclination for more than that.
I happened to be around when my wife was watching the series premiere of Lost, and got sucked in immediately. Far better than Deadwood, which is what I had been watching, and it's the first show in a long time that I would watch while it played, rather than saving it on my Tivo for a few days.
The second season...well, to be polite, it's not nearly as good. I don't like the flashbacks for the original group, since they were all very well defined in the first season -- I don't need to see repetitious flashbacks for Locke, or Jack, or Hurley, or Sawyer, that tell me what I already knew. The other use of the flashbacks, giving the "surprise twists" that would suddenly fit everything into perspective aren't there, so there's really no reason to have the flashbacks at all.
Main storyline has been ok, but it drags, and it shows. Many episodes have gone by with only 5 minutes or so of *anything* happening. The rest of the show just sort of drags and lurches. The only exception to this would be the episode that concentrates on the other group of survivor's first 48 days, but even that was kind of wasted since you go into the episode already knowing how it's going to turn out, and the "surprise twist" for that episode wasn't.
Little details like the logo on the shark's fin and what not are great, but the second season really feels like they're just sort of making it up as they go along, and it lacks the urgency and drama of the first season. I'll probably finish watching it at some point, but right now they're just queueing up on the Tivo, while I'm actually watching the first season of Battlestar Galactica. It's very uneven; when it's good, it's good, but when it sucks, it sucks...
Depends. The important thing I would look for would be to make sure that they're still paying attention while taking the notes. Ie, are they taking intermittent notes, or writing while maintaining eye contact, or is their head looking down at the paper the entire time?
Writing down useful pieces of information (proposed pay, dress code, benefit details, hours, time off, etc.) is fine. Writing down so much that I feel I have to slow the interview down to let them catch up is not.
In other words, I feel if you're going to take notes during the interview, it should be like a psychiatrist -- unobtrusive, and not disturbing your communication with the other person.
I like it when the interviewee asks me questions, because it shows me what they're interested in. This may be good or bad for the interviewee, but it's useful as a tool. Eg, given two similar candidates, I'd be much more likely to hire the one who asked, "What problems have you had with your architecture?" than one who asked, "What hours are expected?", because of what they intimate about the mindset of the interviewee.
Of course, I'd probably be more likely to hire the one who asked what hours are expected vs the one who asked no questions at all, since at least the one asking questions is expressing interest in making sure that the position is compatible.
Good questions, IMHO, to ask are ones that indicate an interest in the company or the position.
Is impossible to get independently. But there are laws (at least in the US) that say that you cannot be turned down for a group plan (ie, your employer's) because of your illness. It's pretty much the only way a diabetic can have insurance.
If you're using signed ints for booleans, true isn't -1 because of where the significant bit is; true is -1 because that's the two's complement of 0. So -1 is 1111 in binary, and !-1 is 0000, or 0, or false. If true was 1, which is 0001, then !true would be 1110, or -2.
It's easy to shoot yourself in these languages, since you can have things like:
int x = 4;
if (x && !x) {
printf("This code will get executed.");
}
Yes, you do sound bitter, but it doesn't change the fact that 50% of cases of Type I diabetes are in people above the age of 18.
Not sure about your case, but you do not have Type I diabetes, untreated, for 10 years. Onset of Type I diabetes happens, at most, over a period of months. After that, if untreated, you go into diabetic ketacidosis, and you die. You simply can't have untreated Type I diabetes for years.
Unfortunately, it's a poor name. 50% of Type I diagnosises occur in people above the age of 18.