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DugFin
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DugFin
14y ago
"A device like the one seen above can be attached to the On-Board Diagnostic (ODB) port" On Doard Biagnostic? Someone needs a proofreader
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14y ago
The hard drive itself contains comparatively huge neodymium permanent magnets. Those tiny magnets on the headphones will not affect the hard drive.
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14y ago
Mmmmm..... as someone who works for a huge school district with hundreds of schools with students running the gamut from poorest of the poor to richest of the rich, I can tell you they didn't LEARN this behavior from their parents. Rather,
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14y ago
It's a little more complicated than that. The pig, in this case, is usually a piglet, which is roughly the same size and shape as a cat, and the trick is to show the customer/mark a real piglet being put in a bag, and then use sleight of ha
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14y ago
"my data" implies ownership in this context. The more accurate phrase for what you appear to be trying to say would be "data about me".
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14y ago
Citation of a CS PhD from MIT does not constitute proof that he could earn a 4.0 in Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science at CMU studying only an hour a week. no need to take it personally
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14y ago
>The correct conception is that it could be sold and the Market Economics Fairy has predicted that it will be sold as soon as a willing buyer and willing seller agree on a price. Mmmmm... unfortunately, I think YOU'RE the one with the s
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14y ago
> I should add that, yes, SES Americom may have committed insurance fraud if they didn't disclose to their insurance company that the satellite was recoverable for $50M(the cost of dropping the lawsuit against Boeing) I'm pretty sure t
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14y ago
The same way you know he's not at his desk when you type that useless "Hi": you don't get a reply. How long do you wait after typing a useless "Hi"? Wait that same amount of time after typing your relevant question.
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14y ago
>If IM is specifically a way to get you immediately, start blacklisting people who can't get to the point and waste your time and have they go through email. But of course they won't use email, they need the answer NOW. No, they'll come
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15y ago
Well, you never can tell. When someone says they've found a novel test for weeding out bad applicants, that sounds interesting. When the test is described with a handwave as an interesting puzzle that the best applicants leap at the chance
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15y ago
Yes, this is a bit annoying. First he relates a not entirely interesting story about his HR problem, then says he solved it by including an interesting puzzle. OK, cool story bro, NOW WHERE'S MY PUZZLE?!?!? I'm not looking for a job, or loo