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by JJMcJ 5y ago
If you do the math, it's amazing what even a little bit of writing EVERY DAY can do. 200 words, about two sides of lined paper hand written, every single day for a year, is 70,000 words. The first draft of a short novel. Even if you s
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> mean cancel the cancel glorping or cancel the cancel. Typing error, it should be > mean cancel the glorping or cancel the cancel.
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There was an adult man, I think in France, who was living a perfectly normal life. It was discovered that he basically did not have a brain cortex, which is what is supposed to contain all our higher functions. So there's a lot going
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> just replacing the "Yes" button Or the lazy web dialog popup with "Cancel" and "OK". So you click on "Cancel Glorping The Frobnitz" and up pops a dialog with "Cancel" and "OK"
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The committee chairs were very powerful people, especially in the House. Of these Ways and Means, where tax legislation originated, is probably the most important. Wilbur Mills, who was chair for 20 years, was a very important person indee
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
This s 7-11? I may have seen a few with a wider selection, now that I think about it. Independent stores sometimes are better, sometimes worse. Of course NYC-style bodegas are a completely different thing, but you don't see that outsi
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
If you're lucky they may sell not quite ripe bananas at the front counter. Otherwise the healthiest is going to be cheese from the cooler, orange juice, and tortilla chips.
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Often it's more for tax evasion. Beth pays for cars as a business expense. Bob just happens to have the Cayman Islands as the business location. Money flows from U.S. business as a deductible expense, to the location out of the IRS&#x
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Bob has a business with lots of cash coming in and can fold Beth's cash in without it being too obvious. Or Bob knows people who know what to do with suitcases full of $500 Euro notes without alerting legal issues. Presumably Beth pays
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Similar to conferences - $2500 plus travel means only a few successful consultants will go on their own money.
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I remember when that happened with the ebooks. One day you could buy ebooks in multiple formats, including PDF, or ebook + paper book for about 25% more, usually. Then we woke up one morning and the only digital format was Kindle and you
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
The Chicago Public Schools is an immense agency. Good luck getting anyone to pay attention, even at a school board meeting. And referring for prosecution is really going to go nowhere. Best bet, contact the public service operation for one
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He would have known, for sure.
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On sci.math there were a couple of divide-by-zero freaks who seemed between them to post about 1000 posts a day. > GR is so weird Someone said about Quantum Mechanics that if you understand it, you obviously don't. Because it is so
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
One more reason to not say anything. It will likely have no real effect.
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> they could stop the journalists writing bullshit How do they do that? Start suing news outlets?
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You can have happy endings. Once in a while an annoying manager will actually realize that they've been out of line, and reform. But the downside is so big it's not worth the chance.
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The risk of honesty is that something negative you say will get back to the target, who will then bad mouth you. It does happen. In the worst cases, the bad guy will actively sabotage the frankly speaking exiter's job search. You say,
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> 'well it's not professional to do that!' The more you need to vent at the exit interview, the more likely there will be unprofessional behavior at your expense.
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An informal reference is another deal. Somebody at new company is a buddy with someone at old company, and calls up to ask "What's the deal on <potential hire>". No paper trail, nothing for the lawyers to track down. D
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> a cathartic experience If you need catharsis after leaving a job, call up your old college roommate or your parents to bellyache. Nothing you say is confidential. There's a good chance the notes will go directly to your old manag
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Similar issues for blackened food not such a big fashion now. Ordinary domestic kitchens did not have the ventilation to do it properly.
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> newsworthy In medicine, the Journal of the AMA and the New England Journal of Medicine seem to be the main sources of articles that reach the public's eye. The editor of the New England Journal once complained that it was troublin
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
The fear at the time was that all supplements would be by prescription only. Then a 250 mg capsule of Vitamin C would be $14.00.
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I've met people from elite private day schools. Their education in a different world than 99.99% of public high schools, except maybe a few like Stuyvesant in NYC and Lowell in SF, or the fortunate few where 3/4 of the kids have
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The SAT, ACT, and even IQ tests, were originally created in part to help identity promising students who weren't from upscale backgrounds. I'm not 100% sure that the tests can't be coached, but certainly not like the "le
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Ninth Circuit is western part of the country, including California and Washington, for computer related things.
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This is a standard complaint about McMansions out in the suburbs. Appallingly poor workmanship, and everything looks like it was bought on sale at a second tier do it yourself store. And who would glue carpet to a wall and call it luxury?
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An XKCD that's right on target: https://xkcd.com/2347/
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+1 on calling out "The 101" as an LA-ism.

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