Sort-of happened to me. Someone sent me a large amount of money unsolicited. (5 figures.) This wasn't a scam, just a very dumb woman who can't remember her teenage son's email address even though I've haf the address longer than he's been alive. I logged-in and canceled the erroneous transfer to return her funds to her, but unbeknownst to me a small automatic charge for a domain name had gone through since I received the money. Ordinarily I keep $0 in my Paypal account and Paypal automatically deducts the funds from my bank account. But apparently when reversing a transaction instead of covering any shortfall from my bank automatically, they charged me a $100 insufficient funds fee and THEN deducted the fee + shortfall from my account. Absolutely infuriating.
Unfortunately Fedora has been making a lot of similar decisions to Ubuntu lately, although it's still better IMO. I'd say coming from Ubuntu, Mint is probably a lower learning curve anyway.
I've used git since it was first released to the public and recently I feel like I know less about it than ever before. I switched to fossil for personal projects around a year ago and haven't regretted it one bit!
That's fine in cities, but in the US we have countless roads that stretch for hundreds of miles through remote locations far from developed areas. The cost to install, maintain, and power these hypothetical cameras along just one of these roads could easily stretch into the tens of millions with expensive upkeep as well. It's just not tenable.
Aside from licensing, usability studies show that serif fonts are more legible than sans serif fonts, so I have no idea where they came up with the idea that somehow they're harder to read for people with disabilities when all prior research I'm aware of has shown the opposite.
>According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May 14, 2019.
> Cracked users of commercial software ARE your target market that, for any reason, can't afford to pay you.
I've gotta disagree here. SOME pirates are your target market that can't afford to pay you. I can't tell you how many times a friend has bragged to me about pirating a movie over drinks at an overpriced bar. If you can afford four cocktails at $15 a pop then you certainly can afford the $20 or less it costs to license a movie. Some people just like to feel like they're getting away with something.
I have to do a lot of calculation on the fly. When I'm on a business call and someone gives me up-to-date metrics I frequently have to translate that into numbers that make sense for my business. (e.g. If I'm on the phone with a vendor and someone tells me their unit price is $1.44, I need to add that to my COGS, subtract the current unit price, and multiply by monthly or annual capacity to figure out how that's going to affect costs.) I can do this by touch while I'm talking in 2 - 3 seconds if I have a numpad. If I don't, I need both hands and roughly twice the time per calculation and I need to double-check I typed things right because the numbers aren't aligned quite the same way on each keyboard I use. It becomes a noticeable drag on productivity when I'm performing more complex ad hoc calculations for reports or presentations. I used a macbook for years and won't do it anymore. Linux on a computer with a numpad is the only way for me to go now.
When I installed Linux on my first PC that was an operation that involved literal days of downloads and a screwdriver. Now it takes 30 minutes and I do it 3-4 times a year at least.
The US RDI for vitamin C was produced not by studying hard what is necessary for the human body but by estimating the amount of vitamin C a small sample of people (N < 200) were getting from self-reported eating activities. They then took two standard deviations higher, rounded the result, and estimated people should be getting 60mg per day. Then in 1998, after lobbying from the orange juice industry and based on no new studies and zero additional information they decided to raise the recommendation 50% to 90mg. However, this is far in excess of the amount actually needed by the human body to ward off disease, which is around 10mg per day. [0]. In fact, eating fresh meat was a well-known cure for scurvy aboard sailing vessels until the early part of the 20th century since fresh meats do contain enough vitamin C to exceed this amount. The forms of vitamin C in meats are furthermore more bioavailable than vegetable sources of vitamin C and there's one more factor to consider: Although vitamin C plays a variety of roles in the human body, the majority of it is used for two purposes: the synthesis of collagen and the synthesis of l-carnitine. Which should strike an astute reader immediately as both being abundant in a carnivorous diet and therefore a person eating meat in abundance would have a much lower biological need for vitamin C to begin with. Furthermore, vitamin C is transported via the GLUT-4 transporter which implies it competes with glucose for absorption. A person on a ketogenic diet such as the lion diet will not have nearly as much glucose in their blood stream and may therefore absorb vitamin C more readily than someone on an omnivorous diet. All that said: no, carnivores do not experience scurvy.
Exactly. I'd argue that your best engineers should probably stick to engineering. And your best managers should manage. Don't take someone's skillset and dilute it by playing to something other than their greatest strengths.
Not the one you're replying to but this is my diet as well. (Having breakfast now - beef and butter with salt.). I thought I'd be bored with it quickly at first and decided to keep using spices on my meat but after two days I ditched the spices and haven't been bored yet. Eight weeks tomorrow.
I went from spending $1600 a month on food to just over $600 by switching the majority of my diet to beef. Turns out I can only eat about 1.5 lbs of food a day when I'm eating primarily beef. When I'm eating an omnivorous diet I eat around 4 - 5 lbs of food per day and eat out several times a week.
Sounds kind you went went Carnivore. I've been doing the Carnivore diet for the past eight weeks tomorrow and I'm down 14 pounds despite not exercising and increasing my daily caloric intake to about 3500 calories. The change is remarkable. It makes so much sense to me now that obesity rates were about 2% a hundred years ago when nobody knew what a calorie was and ate all the butter and meat they liked but as soon as people been limiting fat in the 80s the obesity rate exploded culminating in today's over 40%: eating fat was never what made people fat.
Merely tasting sweetness causes an anticipatory rise in insulin which shuts down fat metabolism. Best to go cold turkey, unfortunately. You can control cravings, however, by raising your fat intake to the point where you're too full to find eating more appetizing. You will still lose weight like this on a ketogenic diet.