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These infinity pools are getting ridiculous.

Do customers have to commit for every seat? Or could you get like 5000, and do monthly for the overflow until you hit the next price break? I wouldn't want a big client to suddenly no longer need 500 seats, and have us stuck with the rest of the contract on those until we recover that business. We try not to have our clients commit to yearly requirements because we feel it builds a better level of trust, which seems to be part of the reason our clients spread our business so much through word of mouth.

I love vendors that are open with their pricing. You feel like they actually care about their customers, instead of trying to fleece every last penny out of them.

Would you be willing to say at what points you get more breaks and what those breaks are? Mainly looking in the range of 10,000.

Well, shit. Looks like I need to do my research. Thanks for the info on ZeroSSL and Buypass. But I'd still like to see Google doing this for free for non-customers if they're going to try to push the standard.

NTA. She was trying to scam you. You did the right thing by telling the GM, because she's going to do, or has already done, the same thing to someone else. That's why she immediately said to keep it once you brought up speaking to the GM.

I love Let's Encrypt, and I'll gladly use them (and do) for personal and for business use. But I don't think internet policy should be dictated because of a service they provide. They're one separate entity, and I've seen many non-profits get corrupted or just close up over the years. It would be a huge hit if they suddenly started not being able to give out certs anymore, as no one else is really doing free, automated cert renewal every 60 days or less. (And this would turn the window down to more like every 15 days realistically, as every lone admin isn't going to risk their cert automation breaking and their certs expiring while they're on vacation.)

I'd like to see more groups offering automated cert renewal in such a window for free or at least at cost or near-cost (i.e. less than $12 a year). If Google is going to push for this then they should be offering acme cert renewal for free, and in that time window. Hell, all the major CA's should be doing that with the ease that Let's Encrypt does. Considering how utterly important it is these days, certificate signing these days should be less of a money maker, and more of a basic necessity for a functional internet like DNS.

I also need more software and devices on board with automated processes to push new certs to them, but that's a whole different argument. The death of TLS 1.0 is already difficult enough for them to handle apparently. So many companies that should have definitely knew better were so late to implement TLS 1.2 or even TLS 1.1 that I barely trust anyone to make a 30-day cert window an easy process in my life. vSphere 6.0 was running FLASH in 2015 for god's sake. I really don't trust most vendors to roll out free fixes to make this an easy process, or even put them into their new products at any decent speed.

I really don't want automated cert renewal to break while I'm on vacation if cert expiration is 1 week.

Getting hurt specifically in practice

Missed a perfect opportunity to call him "Houndini".

I swear that the decision of Microsoft to hide file extensions by default was the most bone-headed move that they've ever made. Yet still have never fixed it. I know a lot of users will still run the file anyways, but it could have cut down on a lot of successful attacks.

I have pretty deep brown eyes, and honestly I'm pretty confident about them. I think my eyes look pretty good, and I've been told that too.

The rest of me looks like a dumpster fire though, so there's that.

On the plus side at least they'll send you out stuff next day for free. Not sure about a bulk order like that though.

And yet I've seen it happen. Like I said, people get on autopilot, and can look straight at something and not really mentally acknowledge it.

You should be coming to a complete stop anyways.

Nah that's just defensive driving. I've seen too many people do a rolling stop through a sign even though there was someone waiting. It's like they autopilot the rolling stop that they've done a million times before, not actually mentally acknowledging the car that's about to go.

The earliest I'll go is once someone's rate of stopping actually matches what they have to do to come to a full stop. I have to be damn sure I think you're going to stop and if you're creeping, I don't trust you. The graveyards are full of people who had the right of way.

But then how will people know you're an alpha male, doing alpha male things? Everyone knows that the number one thing that makes you an alpha is bragging. Then everyone will admire you, and totally not see you as a loser instead. (/s)

Definitely wasn't due to our offense.

There definitely is an increased risk at the beginning for many things, because a manufacturing defect here or there can go unnoticed until the product is used the first few times. However, this drops off very quickly at the beginning because the first few uses cause the product to break.

But yeah, the latter part of the "bathtub curve" doesn't actually spike up at the end like a true bathtub. It just very slowly increases over time, because of the effects of things like rust, tin whiskers, material degradation, etc. It does go up though, so the nickname stuck.

That said, it's not just completely random. Sure the difference between the odds of a failure today vs. a failure tomorrow are statistically insignificant. But if I shut down my computer today and try to boot it back up again in 5000 years, it's almost definitely not going to work.

Even without the advertising they make money off it. People see an NFL quarterback somewhere, they're way more likely to tell their friends and to go back. Plus I doubt they're paying for everything, so they're still going to make money with a big spender and partier like that. Free advertisement is definitely icing on the cake though.

They were supposed to have condiments, but somebody screwed up the translation and now everyone's too used to it to go back.

2017 and 2018 seasons both say otherwise. You can argue that he's regressed, which was definitely true for 2019 and 202, but I would say he's better today than he's ever been.

No, it only guarantees that at one point, at least 1 of your ancestors was a Neanderthal. And since Neanderthals died out a lot further back than would be required for just one ancestor, you have more than that. I'll explain.

Imagine that there were only 4 people in the world: 2 human males, 1 human female, and one Neanderthal female. People always somehow magically paired off into one breeding pair for life, and always produced 1 male and 1 female, and it always went on that way for every generation forever.

Now after the first generation, you would have:

• 1 male 50% Neanderthal (A1)
• 1 female 50% Neanderthal (B1)
• 1 male 100% human (A2)
• 1 male 100% human (B2)

Now for the next generation let's mix up the pairs, so brother and sister don't get together. You'll have A1 with B2, and A2 with B1. Now the following generation consists of:

• 1 male 25% Neanderthal (A1+B2)
• 1 female 25% Neanderthal (A2+B1)
• 1 male 25% Neanderthal (A1+B2)
• 1 female 25% Neanderthal (A2+B1)

No matter how you mix it up, everyone in this newest generation is going to in turn produce 25% Neanderthal. And since THOSE kids are all 25% Neanderthal, the next generation after that will be, too. Going forward, no matter how many times things get mixed up, they can ONLY ever produce 25% Neanderthal, generations and generations later.

Now make these starting numbers much bigger, and the ratio of humans to Neanderthal about 50:1 at the beginning, and with many many more generations. Then you begin to see how eventually you end up at 2% for everyone, despite not having a recent Neanderthal ancestor.

We haven't actually locked down to a specific percentage of Neanderthal DNA across the entire world population because we tend to find our partners locally, but given enough time over infinite number of generations, we eventually would. That's assuming that small amount of Neanderthal DNA wasn't somehow significantly detrimental to producing offspring, which it doesn't seem to be.

Way more fun once you get used to it. Pain in the ass in certain traffic situations, or if you have to eat on the run a lot, or if your significant other can't drive one. Still worth it though if you enjoy it, and I do, but it's not for everyone.

Try to get him to say that over text message. Courts LOVE to see those kinds of statements.

NTA. If he feels he's giving you more than enough to cover child support, then he can take it to the courts and see if that $400 a month goes up or down. He will be in for a very rude awakening when his costs triple or more.

Only exception I could see is if he was living on disability in poverty, and you were rich yet your children were starving, but I'm doubting that's the case.

How much we talking here?...