mattw2121

This is not me blaming the victim. He totally shouldn't have to worry about what I am about to say. If he was ordering for himself, my advice wouldn't apply.

If you are ordering something for your work, use a work credit card and have it delivered to your work address. I never put myself (or my finances) out there for my work. I've had people ask me to pick up snacks for meetings and say I can just expense it later. Sorry...not happening. Someone decides they don't want to approve the expense and I'm holding the bill. Either give me a work credit card or figure out another way to order your stuff.

I understand and appreciate your point, but I would like to point out there is a large segment of society that, if shown an article from The Onion, wouldn't realize it is satire.

"someone who might get irrationally upset when you did not give them what you wanted"

Like the police in India?

Honestly what I really want is the return of DMOZ. A curated, categorized list of the best sites.

Big opportunity for one of the big car rental agencies to come out looking great by advertising their "privacy focus". They could advertise to customers that they promise/certify that any personal data is wiped between rentals. Sort of like all the cleanliness guarantees that came about right after Covid hit.

My point was not about whether the price of the cars is the right price. It was more about whether someone making $75K a year should be purchasing a $60K vehicle.

This is just based on what I personally observe while I drive around. But, I can't help thinking we are in a similar situation to the 2007-2008 housing bubble burst. I see a ton of people driving around in cars that have me asking, "How can they afford that?" The number of people driving exotic and luxury cars is higher than I've ever observed before.

Except, didn't the intro to the Jetsons have George headed to the office every day?

Here's a point that I struggle with. Let's imagine a point in the future where technology has progressed to the point that a machine can become "assisted memory" for a human. This could be useful for degraded memory conditions or even just to buff up human capabilities. In this scenario how do we deal with licensing and copyright? The "memory" is trained on books, artwork, etc and then human intelligence accesses that computer aided memory and constructs something new.

Seems like this lawsuit could set precedence that the future I describe would not be allowed.

My understanding of scammers in India has been formed by Youtube videos, where the host "scams the scammer", and from the Reply All podcast (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk).

Saying that scammers do not buy office space doesn't seem correct. Are you saying they wouldn't buy (or lease/rent) office space? If so, the Youtube videos and Reply All directly contradict that.

Hopefully we aren't documenting company/government secrets with letter blocks that you purchase at Hobby Lobby.

2,600,000 US Servicemen served in country during Vietnam. 58,156 casualties (hostile + non-hostile). 2.2% casualty rate.

This "project" allowed 354,000 to serve. 5,478 casualties of those. 1.5% casualty rate.

I guess they would have us believe that adding disk space, when necessary, is also done "just-in-time" and wasn't done "just-in-time" enough.

The term "pirate" definitely predates the 90's and RIAA, etc. We used it quite liberally in the 80's BBS era.

Exists in Florida: https://www.flhsmv.gov/fees/

In other news, hackers can get your IP address by sending you an email.

The 2020 poverty line for 2 people was 17,240.

The 2020 salary for E-1 was 1,732.94/month or 20,795.28.

This doesn't take into account any housing or other additional allowances.

Sorry, I don't see how a veteran spent their career in the military below the poverty line.

Also, consider there hasn't been a draft for 50 years. No one has forced anyone to take military pay.

Can you provide specific details on this? My understanding is that even if you were continually at the rank of E-1 (which would never happen), your salary + housing + subsistence would put you well over the poverty line.

(responding to to sibling comment)

No, I'm not a doctor that has examined them. I have been told by these people that they want to maximize their disability payments and they can do that by claiming things are caused by agent orange. I've been told by them that they will shop around the diagnosis until they get something in writing they can use. I have been told by these people that they don't care if it is related to agent orange or not, as long as they can get a doctor to write it down.

When you lie about medical conditions, that is not acting with integrity. If you believe that lying to achieve maximum personal outcomes is, in fact, acting with integrity, then our definition of integrity is vastly different.

Yes, I have anecdotal evidence that people are gaming the system to get more than they deserve. I have directly observed multiple Vietnam Vets gaming the Agent Orange system to get 90-100% disability. The would visit multiple doctors to get the wording they needed to supply evidence that some health issue was related to Agent Orange. Their goal was to get a doctor to write down that a particular health issue "might" be related to Agent Orange. Once they achieved that, they would add that health issue on the list of other health issues. Each one would get them 5-20% disability.

Yes, I think we should expect people to act with integrity. When they don't we should call them out. I'm all for social programs to help people in need, but I end up opposing most of the proposed social programs. Why is this? Because people game them. If people acted with integrity, and only people that truly needed assistance utilized social programs, then I think you'd find far less people oppose them.

These benefits (and the gaming of them) are not about receiving medical care. These veterans already get free medical care from the VA. It's about monetary payments. They game the VA disability system to get paid.

I am well aware of Agent Orange and am also aware that anyone that was anywhere close to Agent Orange figures out a way to correlate every single health issue they experience to Agent Orange.

I'm not saying that Agent Orange wasn't a problem and, of course, it caused health issues for many people. What I am saying is that a 80 year old man, that is 100 pounds overweight, who develops diabetes didn't necessarily get diabetes from Agent Orange exposure.

"The pilots who have had their records examined are military veterans who informed the Federal Aviation Administration that they were suitable to fly, but didn't disclose that they were also receiving veterans benefits for various disabilities that could prevent them from effectively sitting in a pilot's seat."

This is just my anecdotal observations, but I've seen that military veterans are extremely adept at gaming the system to their benefit. They are able to maximize disability benefits as well as GI Bill benefits. I've known and worked with multiple veterans and each one of them gamed these systems to maximum benefit. It also appeared that they coached each other on how to obtain maximum benefit.

With that said, I wouldn't be surprised if the health issues in this article were largely exaggerated specifically for the purpose of maximizing benefits.

I began my addiction to a particular game, Island of Kesmai, on Compuserve back in the 80's. It later became Legends of Kesmai (on Gamestorm and AOL) and has since been reborn with several remakes. The current, and best, is Stormhalter (http://www.stormhalter.com/wiki/Main_Page).

Is there a different link that shows they are prohibiting all use by the Department of Defense? The linked page is their acceptable use policy. From that policy it appears it is fine for the Department of Defense to utilize it, as long as it is not for one of the prohibited reasons.

This sounds like a great series and one I'd definitely be interested in. Rothfuss (even more than Martin) has me shying away from starting another, currently unfinished, series.

The only way that comments you submit have personal information is if you include it. If you do so and want specific comments edited or deleted, I have complete faith the staff at HN will assist with that.

The rules, which you seem to think don't apply to you, for HN include:

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You get to dictate what the rules of the entire society are? I am part of "society". I earnestly believe that once you publish something on the internet, it should be there forever (or for as long as that particular medium exists). That's the internet I grew up on. If you went to a newsgroup, or later a forum, whatever you posted there became "society's" and no longer belongs just to you.