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- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 2 days ago:
Is there a reason to focus on 401k (beyond the employer match) before HSA? Isn’t HSA more tax savings advantageous, even if just limited to health care expenses?
- Comment on How do you voice chat without bothering roommates? 5 days ago:
Get a cruise ship horn (make sure it’s rated for 140-150 decibels) and play it for the entirety of the call. This will make it so your roommates can’t hear you speak on the call.
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 6 days ago:
Nothing will ever be worse than Mythological Hero Achilles
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 6 days ago:
I think that in the clip i shared, it was all Double Jeopardy, because the board starts at $400. It’s all certainly the same round.
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 6 days ago:
Not 100% on the rules, but I think it depends if the question is a Daily Double or not, and there’s more scrutiny if it is.
The closest example that comes to mind is when Arthur Chu pronounced Elbridge Gerry as Jerry. He ended up getting the $800 but got a lecture from Trebeck.
Earlier in the same clip he didn’t get the $5000 Daily Double because he pronounced Frances McDormand as McDarmand
- Comment on What is the typical sentence for Hunter Biden's Tax Evasion? 2 weeks ago:
Sincere question, is it a witch hunt when the punishment is unsubstantiated and unjust (like innocents being burned alive)? My understanding was that politically motivated prosecution was a type of witch hunt and that witch hunt described the act of searching of for the witch, not the burning of the witch.
- Comment on What is the typical sentence for Hunter Biden's Tax Evasion? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with you, the tax charges are serious, but it did start as a political witch hunt. He was investigated because of his last name, not by impartial checks in the system. In all fairness, it is similar to the investigations into Trump’s falsified business records in NY, and that may have likely gone unnoticed had it been anyone but Trump.
It’s an important distinction that the Weiss special counsel was clearly started by Trump to go after a political rival who he was running against in an election, and when they couldn’t get anything on Joe Biden, they pivoted to Hunter. It is a witch hunt on a higher level in my opinion. Maybe the ends don’t justify the means?
- Comment on Gnorts 2 weeks ago:
What are you talking about??
- Comment on If I go to Canada can I retire there and draw SS from the US? Also can I go to Canada buy a cabin or house with a plot of land and not work? Unless I just needed some walking around money? 3 weeks ago:
The world’s longest undefended border is between Canada and the US, so it is relatively easy to walk into Canada and live in like a cabin or something off the grid. Doing it legally is hard part.
- Comment on I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories? 3 weeks ago:
It’s Real Human Bean in this version.
- Comment on Norm MacDonald - Suicide 4 weeks ago:
Only 2 seconds in but this will be great to teach in my ESL class. Thanks!!
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 4 weeks ago:
Mulva?
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 5 weeks ago:
How screwed would one be if the domain they bought was a ccTLD and that country ceased to exist?
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure when Orange Box was released, it included HL2 and HL2 Episode 1 in addition to HL2 Episode 2. Hard to remember because there were so many good games that came from that one purchase.
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- Comment on Powering an E-Bike using Disposable Vape Batteries [14:21] 1 month ago:
This was a great video. The ban on disposable vape can’t come sooner.
- Comment on The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. 2 months ago:
Interesting, that’s not something I ever thought about. I just looked up the nameservers for
.bb:;; ANSWER SECTION: bb. 86400 IN NS ns5.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns3.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns2.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns1.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns4.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns6.nic.bb.
It seems like
ns1.nic.bbdoesn’t resolve, and for 2-6, they’re all in either64.68.192.0/20or64.119.192.0/20, so it does look like a small concentration in root nameservers which could be unavailable in a storm. - Comment on The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. 2 months ago:
the warning for future tech founders is clear: Be careful when picking your top-level domain. Physical history is never as separate from our digital future as we like to think.
Kinda ironic this is published to a website with a
.toccTLD for the Kingdom of Tonga. - Comment on Washington's Dream 2 - SNL 2 months ago:
The first one was pretty funny : www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk
- Comment on Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)? 2 months ago:
I use PWAs for Firefox and they work ok, although I don’t have the issue you mention. For me, in Ubuntu, if I open a link in a PWA for Google Chat, then the link opens in the PWA firefox window, not my main browser window. Maybe there’s a setting I missed?
Also, the PWA acts like a separate browser, so opening Google Chat requires you to log in again to Google on the same machine. And if you open up a paywalled link, and it opens in the PWA, then you have to log in, even if you’re logged in in Firefox.
Overall 5/7 rating on usability, but did allow me to get completely off of Chrome
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
public facing is fine
Not exactly, if it is something unintentionally public facing, that can get you charged with access a computer without authorization under the the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. This happened in this case: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse_Security#AT&T/iPad_e…
sending a HTTP request with a valid ICC-ID embedded inside it to the AT&T website, the website would reveal the email address associated with that ICC-ID.
On November 20, 2012, Auernheimer was found guilty of one count of identity fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization
More information: www.wired.com/…/hacking-choice-and-disclosure/
- Comment on I can't wait 3 months ago:
If I told my boss I have concepts of a plan during an important call with clients, I’d be fired. The fact he said this thinking it would absolve him of having to actually outline actual policy shows how empty the campaign is on anything of substance.
I have great hopes for this meme and hope it is as influential as “binders of women” in showing the absurd thinking behind the most important job in the world.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
This is kinda the plot of a Black Mirror episode, Striking Vipers.
- Comment on James Earl Jones Dies: Revered ‘Field Of Dreams’ Star, Darth Vader Voice & Broadway Regular Was 93 3 months ago:
How’d they forget about City Limits?
- Comment on Not casually stealing comments 3 months ago:
These are probably comments on this Veritasium video which actually pretty informative.
That being said, I also live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now.
- Comment on Anyone else get random cancellation emails from onlyfans? 3 months ago:
Sounds like someone accidentally created an account with your name. As someone who has firstname.lastname@gmail.com this happens a lot. About 10 years ago, amazon.ca allowed you to create an account and start using it without verifying control of the email address. I woke up one day and saw all orders someone made, their address, last 4 digits of their credit card number, etc. Customer service doesn’t care. Ended up having to reset their password to get them to stop.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 4 months ago:
A one time investment of $13.99 at 100% APR will be $207,620.61 in 10 years.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 4 months ago:
Biden resigning now just to make Trump’s hats invalid would be the best Dark Brandon move ever.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 4 months ago:
If we’re being pedantic (and the Republicans would be), Harris already served as acting president for 1h25m on November 19, 2021 while Biden underwent a colonoscopy. If hypothetically Biden had died or resigned exactly 2 years into his term (January 20, 2023 12pm ET), and Harris assumed the presidency for the remaining two years, her total time would be over 2 years and she would be ineligible for a second term.
- Comment on Why is it that when I write on Googles keyboard on my phone and misspell something it has no idea what I am trying to write but if I Google the same word it knows instantly what the word is? 4 months ago:
It’s a calculated scheme to get you to do a search for “aniprrsperient” so they can sell you deodorant