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Submission + - Let me get that for you donnie/elon (axios.com)

See Attached writes: Here is the SQL statement template that will tell us how much money you are saving us. Not the number of bad records for the population :

SELECT
        p.id,
        p.name,
        SUM(pay.amount) AS total_payments
FROM people p
JOIN payments pay ON p.id = pay.person_id
WHERE TIMESTAMPDIFF(YEAR, p.birthdate, CURDATE()) BETWEEN 140 AND 150
GROUP BY p.id, p.name;

You could fix those records by finding their death date or confuse us into thinking old means collecting. Red and blue alike don't want to pay benefits to dead people. Cut the deception. Prosecute the miscreants and yes publish these facts. Not just "red meat" implying Democrats approve of paying benefits to the dead.

Comment just 1 year so far (Score 1) 79

iPhone's 80% Charge Cap Barely Boosts Battery Life in the first year

It's entirely possible that there will be a bigger benefit at the end of the second or third year. Maybe the year-over-year dropoff will be along the lines of 6%, 12%, 18% instead of 6%, 18%, 36%. If your battery is good enough that an 80% charge gets you through the day, it seems there's no reason not to.

Comment For once, RTFA! (Score 2) 71

The article has just 2 pics but it also has a link to the actual listing. Click it! https://www.redfin.com/NV/Las-...
Pic 6 shows a disco ball and a stripper pole. Other rooms are worth looking at too.

Looks like it'd be awesome for parties, more so than survival. Not sure how necessary the Flintstones-inspired grill (pic 8) is.

Comment Holy shit (Score 1) 138

"I highly recommend Sunday afternoon golf for this purpose."

Has the voting closed for "Biggest Elitist Douchebag" awards for 2019?

"Pick better shows to watch, people!"

Don't tell me how to spend my time, author!

"41 percent of Americans are busy messaging 'friends/family about content they are watching.' And can it be good for us?"

Um... wasn't it just a few years ago that everyone was worried about people sitting alone watching TV and not communicating with other humans?

Seriously, this is the shittiest article I've read all year.

Comment Re:Plus (Score 2) 254

I had a cheap Windows phone that I bought because I wanted to check it out and it was hot garbage. How cheap? SUPER cheap! I think it was $49 from the local MS store. A whole phone! $49! No contact! How crazy is that?!? Can't lose, right?

Every corner of the UI was unpolished, like this screenshot that shows white icons on a white background when putting the phone into light mode instead of dark mode. Or this one, where the designer didn't realize that you shouldn't have a hot white picture of the sun behind what will surely be white text.

Because it was so cheap, my thought was "I'll check it out and see what it's like, and I'll give it to my kid (about 8 at the time) to use as a camera and media player when I'm done" but every aspect of it was so horrible I returned it instead.

Note that this was a Lumia phone in 2014 -- SEVEN YEARS after the iPhone came out.

Comment Interesting headline (Score 1) 104

Out of the hundred angles you could take on this story, "A new iPhone feature poses a threat to opinion pollsters" would be way down on my list of possible headlines. I'd start with "A new iPhone feature will make life measurably better for millions of users" and work my way down from there. All you need to do is remember to turn it off if you're expecting an unusual call, eg. if a plumber is coming or you're waiting for a tow or something.

Remember, kids: legit calls will leave a voicemail. So if it's your doctor or something, you'll still get the news if it's important.

If you want to be nice, take a few minutes and update your outgoing message to say, "Hi, I have my phone set up to send all unknown callers straight to voicemail, so if this is important, leave a message."

And as a bonus, iOS's voicemail transcription is pretty decent. I already manually ignore unknown calls, and 3 seconds of reading the transcript means I don't have to actually listen to a recording of any bullshit sales calls. ("Please call us immediately regarding your car's warranty!" -- seriously, fuck you.)

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