JBlue42

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by JBlue42 9y ago
Thanks. I did get it resolved at the time via what was said about sending a vehement email but yes, as much as I have issues w/ how credit companies operate, there are some good consumer protections these days.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
We worry about the big, less likely risks than the common, more likely. In a major UK city you might become a victim of a terrorist attack - limited in scope but played out far more in the media - vs getting hit as a pedestrian by a car or
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by JBlue42 9y ago
That's what the linked post is about, no? How a public profile isn't really public.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Pretty much. When searching around for advice on how to market yourself on LinkedIn, that sort of title, though full of shit, is what is recommended. I wish I could have an alternate profile or A/B test. I think my current one is detri
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Same happened to me a while back when trying out Pro. I went to cancel it and they charged it a day prior to the day I was supposed to cancel on.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>We're going to make procedure and technical changes to make sure this doesn't happen again. Must be reading some DevOps blogs about blameless post-mortems.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
That's pretty much how people reacted w/ the SpaceX rocket here in LA. Lots of videos of "What is that?" Jokes about NK, etc. People are more skeptical than we give them credit for. It's probably why in school we we
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Nice. Nothing like concentrating on a handicraft to filter out the noise as well. Good luck and have a great weekend.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Take the weekend off from the news, or longer. Find a good, non-political book and dive in. I've found it pretty easy to get into a negative spiral when reading about all the shit going on. Our awareness of the myriad problems and the
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Only a small percentage would have jobs they could take with them / work remote. What would they actually do in Bulgaria or for it? And this is looking past language barriers. I say this as someone that had a wonderful trip there and
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I hand-counted on wikipedia back when Disney said that Expanded Universe wouldn't be canon so will trust your Google or other search. My count would not include anything Disney-related nor movie novelizations. Point being, they're
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by JBlue42 9y ago
They have something like 40+ books in the Expanded Universe to steal from. The dictum in Hollywood is to give something "similar but different".
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>Snopes A rebellion against fact-checking? The movie is now even more relevant ;-)
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Yeah, when I fly back to NC it feels like I'm landing in Endor vs California. I also sleep much better despite the insect noise than here in the city. Will take cicadas and crickets over helicopters, fire engines, etc. any day.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Can we ban them from doctor's offices and the airports too? Let's go back to reading magazines and books. I felt like more brain cells died having Fox News shouting at me for two hours at a time while waiting at various doctor&#x2
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I'm 34, in a similar situation. I think going w/ what whalesalad said is worth taking to heart. There's a lot in life outside of our control but we can control, to some degree, what we put in our bodies. I'm paying much
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by JBlue42 9y ago
The eXile has been defunct for a while now. Probably pays for Mark Ames' Central American retirement or whatever debts might still be owed in Russia.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Because it's not a problem for his large, wealthy homeowner constituents.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Thanks for the recs! Will check them out.
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Damn, that's well thought out. Are you working on a near-future sf book? ;-)
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>entertain themselves into extinction Do you think this is an actual possibility? For ours or any other sort of civilization?
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Let me see if I can find it. Edit: Found the discussion and link. Not exactly the way I remembered it but interesting nonetheless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10547575
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Also a decent real estate investment for the banks long-term. I think there was an article linked on HN not too long ago about that.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Unfortunately, most Americans don't understand that people may perceive them and our government this way. To be honest with you, at least in my memory of news coverage from the 90s until the war ended, there was very little if any noti
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by JBlue42 9y ago
This was the only self-interested part of the new tax bill that I could get on board with. I think at one point it was going to get rid of the mortgage interest deduction entirely (now it keeps it below $750k, I think). As a renter in LA, w
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>it's nice to be able to do what you want, have a garden (if you have any land which many houses do), paint it how you want, add an addition, upgrade the kitchen or bathroom. Let's toss in a YMMV on this since sometimes home ow
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Thanks for actually noticing that. I think we lack some measure of empathy and observation these days.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Can only use YouTubeTV on Chrome as well.
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Very cool that you are doing this. I had an AP English teacher that took us 'off book' after we finished our tests to teach us real-life stuff (how taxes work, credit cards, etc.) for a few days. More students should be getting su
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>You're putting a lot of responsibility on some regular people. Putting nuclear weapons at the finger tips of someone is a big responsibility. >Ordinary citizens do not vote on issues affecting an individual country. They vote on

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