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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
I don't think the point was death prevention, just as most other things taught at university were not primarily about death prevention.
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
My university had the same policy. Despite having swim lessons as a child, I did not learn how to swim until university. I was finally able to swim the length of the pool using the side stroke, which along with the backstroke is the only
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
This explains very little. State income tax is based on your state of residence, not where you have a vacation home, in which by definition you do not live most of the year. Further, it makes no sense to refer to "the state with no inc
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
That makes sense only if they also have legal responsibilities to go along with their rights. Take for example PG&E, the large gas/electric utility for the northern 2/3rds of California. PG&E is a convicted felon and was
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
What is a §1039 exchange? That code section was repealed over 30 years ago. Maybe you mean §1031 exchange?
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
>These include two “individualizing” foundations— care and equality —that focus on protecting individuals from harm and promoting fairness. The other four— proportionality, loyalty, authority , and purity —are called “binding” foundat
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
There is nothing in the article you linked that explains why "low temperatures and the complex, ever-changing dynamics of sea ice" used to make the region "virtually inaccessible to satellites" but now no longer does.
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
For a long time, the S-curve on Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago was designed with two 90-degree turns close to each other. This is a major route with 4 or 5 lanes in each direction as I recall. I used to drive it fairly regularly; yo
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Maps is deprecated and will be removed from the Microsoft Store by July 2025(learn.microsoft.com)
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>At this time, there will also be a final update to the app from the Store that makes it nonfunctional. I'm sorry to see this go. The MS Streets & Trips software was very feature-full but was retired many years ago, and now thi
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
Unless you are allowing 6-digit fraudulent payments, as documented in this other thread currently on page 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44377104
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
Certainly that would be the case with film ribbons, but I don't see how typed character history could be obtained from a cloth/cotton ribbon, especially since they were as I recall reversible (would spool one dirction, then the ot
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
This is not the title of the article, it is "Netflix Killed DVDs. Now It's Killing Streaming." Yet the article only describes events in 2011, and contains zero info about how Netflix is killing streaming.
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
> the server would not let new users sign in That's the "con" (contra).
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
>Has SF always been wacky overpriced? It's not just SF, it's California. Even going back 40 years, almost any place between Bay Area and San Diego that's within 50 miles of the ocean and is not rural[0] has been significan
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
>AMT is a pretty complicated calculation Actually, it is not. It only seems complicated because it is backed into after calculating the regular tax when you use the IRS tax forms. In other words, first you calculate ordinary tax, then
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
>Be honest, who here has actually lived through a major dip and not been tempted to smash that "sell" button? Honestly, I've lived through four (1987[0], dot-com, 2008 recession, 2020 coronavirus) and was not tempted. For
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
Very few taxpayers need to tread into the obscure corners of the tax code, regulations, court cases, and so on. In fact, the tax forms and accompanying instructions are written at a level that anyone with a high school education should be a
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
Anyone can download files for all the forms and schedules, then fill print and mail for the cost of postage.
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> If the IRS knows about the transaction and is able to complain about me not paying enough, that suggests that they already have the information that I'm sending them. You mistakenly assume that simply knowing what is on the 1099-B
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
>People need to live where jobs are! That's the main determinant of where you live! Retired people need to live where shopping, health resources, and their offspring (if any) are.
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
Has that changed over time? Nearly fifty years ago, when self-serve gasoline pumping at gas stations was first coming into widespread use, I (native English speaker) was in Germany and remember a slogan I saw at gas stations to promote it:
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
An arcade game from the same era with many of the same features attribted to Asteroids (flying a ship in all directions, gravity/interia, vector display, shooting at things while other things shoot at you, no joystick) was Gravitar. S
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What makes animal crackers taste distinctive? (2020)(ask.metafilter.com)
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Twain also poked some fun at French, when he found a translation of his first successfully published story and mapped it back to English. " The Jumping Frog: in English, then in French, and then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language On
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
The version I installed was under an up-to-date version of Windows 10. It works OK for http web sites, but for https, it pops up an alert: Netscape 7.0 and s.yimg.com cannot communicate securely because they have no common encryption algor
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
I was inspired by this comment to install Netscape 7.02 from my installer archive.[0] It too has a logo with meteors, but it is circle-shaped instead of square, and the meteors follow a more winding path from top to bottom. Interestingly,
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The Cut Direct: The Fiercest Etiquette Punishment (2014)(uncommon-courtesy.com)
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>how many paintings of Mary and ugly baby Jesus do you need? I had a laugh at that comment. I visited London six months ago and spent an evening at the National Gallery, including the self-guided audio tour. As I wrote in an email at th
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by PopAlongKid 1y ago
Goverment debt is reduced by increased taxes and/or reduction in services just as much as it is by "inflation". Further, inflation doesn't affect the person who got a $7,500 individual tax reduction as much as someone w

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