NiHaDuncan

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[–] NiHaDuncan 1 points 3 weeks ago

That is one reason, yes.

[–] NiHaDuncan 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Many modern buildings are designed to withstand earthquakes of some magnitude; this is what reasonable prevention means.

You can’t prevent any natural force unless your uncle knows god (and is on good terms with them). What was stated was the ‘reasonable prevention of damage’. insurance companies that sell earthquake insurance won’t insure buildings that are not up to code, which in turn is based on locally expected disasters, their expected commonality, their expected severity, and what is considered to be reasonable measures for the prevention of damage (or an excess of e.g. mitigation).

For example, where I live you can’t get hail insurance unless you have impact resistant shingles. I had and have exactly that so I got hail insurance; after a particularly bad hail storm (and 8 previous years of wear) I filed a claim and had my entire roof redone at my insurer’s expense. I was kind of surprised how straight forward the process was and the stark absence of bullshittery, but I may have just gotten lucky. The area I’m in gets a lot of hail so it may also be in the insurer’s best interesting not to get a name for denying for hail damage.

[–] NiHaDuncan 19 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

I’m an atheist that understands that an act of god refers to any destructive natural event where the damage to property couldn’t have been reasonably prevented. And insurance companies detail exactly what is and isn’t covered per policy; it’s just that they can get away with denying coverage due to lack of oversight/policing of them.

[–] NiHaDuncan 6 points 1 month ago

Not a lawyer but, premeditation isn’t what you think it is; one can premeditate an action in seconds, the concept really just conveys that the individual had time to think of the consequences.

But yeah, a sticker like this would certainly hurt the case of any defendant. It wouldn’t likely get them any modifiers (though it would help), but it could definitely affect a judge’s decision on how much time they should serve.

[–] NiHaDuncan 13 points 1 month ago

If one rejects the offer then you now have two people you have to kill. Loose ends are one’s end.

[–] NiHaDuncan 7 points 1 month ago

GraphQL saved my ass on a term project that required extensive polling of the GitHub API. Turned a calculated 47 days of calls just under the rate limit into just 12 hours.

[–] NiHaDuncan 14 points 1 month ago

Homographs are wild. I wish I could be around in a thousand years when scholars are arguing over interpretations of every day English sentences; especially idioms.

[–] NiHaDuncan 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reply 1 is correct though; if you don’t post relevant logs, any solution given is just a guess. A helpful poster could make an educated guess, and you might get lucky and it’ll help but it also might not and then you’ll have to go to the logs anyways.

That’s the problem with ms answers forum, they rarely care about logs and so many hey simple give 1-3 generic solutions that will solve ~50% of peoples problems. If you’ve taken even a single step off the path of most users their forums will be more often than not be useless.

[–] NiHaDuncan 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, this is an oddly common sentiment amongst those that make neurodivergence their personality; which is funny because it’s more common to be neurodivergent than neurotypical. While it’s usually said that 20% of people are neurodivergent, it’s actually more than 50% when you include everything that constitutes neurodivergence and even account for significant overlap.

[–] NiHaDuncan 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Antibacterial soap are murder. Vaccines are okay though, except for that one weird virus that actually experiences internal changes sans host.

[–] NiHaDuncan 2 points 2 months ago

Not to mention the fact that you can force single-factor authentication using Skype for business despite requiring MFA across the board. Just had to patch that hole recently.

[–] NiHaDuncan 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So your comments aren’t actually sarcastic? Got it.

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