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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Also the Hawaiians never got any kind of tribal status relative to the United States, so they have no autonomous institutions. Hawaiians in the ethnic sense. I believe in Hawaii itself it's customary to only call someone Hawaiian if t
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
For the customs charges she should ask for help from a legislator's office. Canadian equivalent of most senior Senator. A call from a major public official works wonders in getting companies to see sense.
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> it's the latency Journalists are often on deadline.
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Some universities, especially public ones, may offer library privileges for relatively low costs.
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> commute Not only time but expense and accident risk, especially for an automobile commute.
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He published an article in June titled "It is not cool to be unkind!". Interesting contradiction. I know someone like that, very energetic, full of ideas, but so stubborn I'm sure it holds him back.
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The famous story of young C. F. Gauss adding 1 + 2 + . . . + 100 by noting the familiar formula. Brought it up to his teacher. Lucky for him the teacher recognized this was no ordinary pupil and contacted the Duke of Brunswick, who paid for
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
That's a ten year old number. Not surprised it's way higher now.
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The very best schools can get kids into upper level or even college classes. One reason some families are willing to pay $35000/year to send their kids to the high end private schools, either boarding schools or elite day schools, e.g.
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> you as an adult get asked to “stop helping them get ahead of the class” Whether by parental training or self study, some teachers treat it almost as a crime to understand the material before the class starts. In college you can sometim
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At home this isn't so bad. In the office, maybe not.
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That these kinds of financial activity were not as massively rewarded as they are today.
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I believe the Netherlands one, which I don't fully understand, is still in place.
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Writer named Graef Crystal, who for many years had been a compensation advisor to executives who were negotiating their employment contracts, estimated that each extra dollar the CEO received ended up costing the corporation $32. Extra pay
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
When Ford went public around 1956, the man who ran that got $250,000, about $2.8 million today, with much higher taxes than today. But he also got a thank you letter from Henry Ford II, so he had that going for him. That was the largest IP
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What often happens is that corporation in high tax country has subsidiary in low tax country that they find a way to funnel profits too. Not sure on details myself. It has to be done just right. I believe Ireland and the Netherlands are of
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Certainly that called into question at least the AAA standing, though the possibility of total default or even long delays is unlikely. Looking at what Sen. Tubberville is doing with the senior military confirmations, the possibility that s
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Thought experiment: Your business is located at 420 West 69th Street. Along comes X and takes that address away from you? Would you like that?
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
At this point it's all but inconceivable that those would be removed from the app servers, iOS or Android. In the early days if something had gone wrong, it might have been a different story. Though I suspect that companies with good V
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
What I meant was that when an engineering group needs a fix from a FOSS developer, the natural thing to do is to bully and beg. One reason beside bad culture is another aspect of bad culture. If they want a fix to a piece of FOSS, probably
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I really fear that someday one of these debt ceiling standoffs is really going to hit the fan, the credit rating takes a big hit, and the expense and loss of world standing could be catastrophic.
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Many mega corps have a culture of bullying the vendors. That can easily spill over to a single interaction.
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More than one FLOSS developer has written of huge companies with thousands of programmers working for them practically crying and begging to have a feature added to software that serves only the company's interest. Or even replying tha
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Sometimes tiny schools in isolated areas will have something like that. Where there aren't enough kids to have separate grades.
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A major street like El Camino or Stevens Creek (to take Silicon Valley examples) will be 100 feet curb to curb. With right turn on red, and even worse, left turns active while the pedestrian walk light is on, crossing them is a harrowing e
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Saw an episode of the show "Finding Your Roots", exploring the ancestry of the guests. One of the guests was of Italian descent and one of his ancestors moved from Sicily to Louisiana in the late 19th Century. Many of those Itali
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I spend time on Twitter. It certainly seems less interesting and more annoying than it did before EM took over.
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Go Cardinal. The Daily can be considered a real newspaper.
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Once in a while you hit a really ancient site that is CSS free. Like the original CERN sites. They seem strange but navigation is usually absolutely clear and they are lightening fast.
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The old joke: I read some Shakespeare and it was just a bunch of quotations. That's the level of "intelligence" being displayed by the AI detectors.

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