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Picture this : My side hustle requires me to be available to perform it at 6PM on wednesdays. So outside of my normal work hours. This was always OK before the pandemic. Everyone stopped working at 5, and I got to get ready for my hobby at
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This stuff is probably waaaay over my head, but isn't that why SIGTERM was made for ? To notify a running process that the host needs to be shutdown/restarted and to let the running process finish it's current task (current f
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The reason why THC is an issue is...because it's bad for you. At least for 90% of the population. If THC has benefits in a narrow range of situation, doctors should absolutely be able to experiment with it. And the DEA classification s
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I agree that opiods are definitely on the riskier side of the spectrum, while THC definitely seem on the safer side - at least for adults. But we know that: that's why opioids are mainly sold after a prescription by a doctor and in a p
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The US right now: "Some doctors told us the negative effects of opioids are not that dangerous compared to the short term benefits on physical pain. We sell that in pharmacies. This is a billion dollar industry. This was definitely a b
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6y ago
It crashed my browser /s
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I fail to see how this is relevant to OP's question about the demographic of people buying home gym equipment since you are obviously not one of them.
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Proving it might be hard. But a first step would be to get rid of its internal committee of the Chinese Communist Party. And to stop making joint venture with government agencies. To put it in other words, if there was a dedicated spot for
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This is not a "sell or close" it's a "cut ties with a foreign government or stop operating here". TikTok can continue operating, just not in the US.
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The whole point of UBI is that you get income (the "I" in UBI) wether you have other sources of income (aka a job) of not (the "U" for Universal in UBI). The social welfare in nordic countries is mostly not income (housi
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If we consider p(him dying) = 1 if convicted to a death sentence. The point of the lawyer if that p(him getting covid in prison) * p(him dying of covid as a healthy 40 year old) ≈ 1. If it's not a huge exaggeration, please run me throu
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> “It is, unfortunately, no exaggeration to say that a prison sentence today can amount to the imposition of a serious health crisis, even a death sentence, given the BOP’s (Federal Bureau of Prisons) current inability to control the spr
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Is there a list of countries by median household final consumption expenditure per capita after debt and medical expenses ?
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The problem is that the article tries to mix two very different concepts: working remote and working outside of the Bay Area. And makes it look that you can either work onsite in the bay or remote outside the bay. And most of the point the
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And the very first reason they state is to speed up loading by using hidden portals, and then activating them on demand. When you first stated use case is a hack around what the spec really is supposed to provide, you have an issue. If yo
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> Now that could mean EY Germany is an isolated case of incompetence and (criminal?) neglect E&Y Germany was bought from Andersen. That should be answer enough.
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> What happened with Wirecard? Who knows?! Wirecard poured enough money in E&Y that the verification step was no longer deemed necessary.
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Roundup plaintiffs' attorneys plead guilty in $200M extortion scheme
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> But what should we call it ? Well, if you're a student of MacOS, you know this question can only be answered by Apple crack marketing team. Their drug fueled minibus driven quests have yielded some great names. [...] We can’t resp
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After the Enron scandal, the auditor (Andersen) was dismanteled. The german branch of Andersen was bought by no other than Ernst & Young, the auditor of Wirecard.
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> As someone who went through an acqui-hire only to see our founders walk away with millions while the employees' salaries remained unchanged I have always understood acqui-hire as "Big company sees a team of talented devs with
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I can't answer for OP as I don't know his/her situation, but every time I have asked this question to other companies, the answer boils down to "We really wanted to use a blockchain and it is the main reason why we build
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Nevertheless, my answer explains why some people find a bit sad that today, people in most countries all seem to resonate with the exact same artistic expression. And that this expression which resonates with so many people involve lyrics l
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It's sad because we would expect/hope that the diversity of human cultures would be lead to very different songs being popular in different parts of the world. It's also sad because the three most common word of the song in q
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You cant really blame him. Zoom is currently valued at around 60 times its annual recurring revenues. Their share price has tripled since January. The whole crisis was a fantastic opportunity for them, but it also means that it is going to
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They are - at best - heat mapping stores, not employees. And heat map have a sense of density over a region, it is by definition continuous values where the area has a major impact on the final value. Here they just rate each store. If this
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Yeah, but it's business insider we are talking about. A title like "Retailer give points to each of their store" (which is exactly what the article explains) does not sound nearly as scary as anything containing the words &qu
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As an investor, if YC contacts me with a "great investment opportunity" and does not invest themselves even tho I know they could have, the investment better be successful. Because otherwise, I will feel cheated on. "Do as
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> Given that you want to give it to potentially almost everyone on the planet, you want to be really sure. This is why I have a hard time with the current crisis. We are in what is now universally called a "global health crisis"
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> How employees can stay loyal after company does this at the time their employees need them most? People there have joined a company that was founded just 3 years ago. The fastest company ever to reach unicorn status. This company is ex
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