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by abawany 7y ago
I tried it once in 2007 and it was quite pointless. The person in charge at that location was I think a real MD but she appeared to be encumbered by hard policies that restrained her from pretty much doing anything. I regretted wasting time
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by abawany 7y ago
My take on the article was that the combination of their tax data, the financial data from their prior acquisition of Mint , and with the tax+credit data that will come with this acquisition Intuit would have one of the highest quality fina
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Intuit plans to buy Credit Karma for $7B(nytimes.com)
39 points by abawany 7y ago|29 comments
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by abawany 7y ago
Zinus foam mattresses in the US are quite affordable (~$200) especially when they have their sales going.
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by abawany 7y ago
I admit he got me good with his "Scottish Army MRE" video though in my defense, who expects an April Fools video in January? I really enjoy his teardowns and the accompanying circuit diagrams - amazing stuff.
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Startups Behaving Badly(ritholtz.com)
6 points by abawany 7y ago|0 comments
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by abawany 7y ago
Yes, I had to whitelist '*.getpocket.com' to avoid auto deletion of Pocket cookies.
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by abawany 7y ago
I am a member of the meetup and like the fact that most of the discussions are held online to enable remote attendance.
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by abawany 7y ago
Saw it happen once in Austin: one moment person was sailing along a bike lane and next moment it was pivot over the handlebars due to a pothole. They had to call an ambulance and I believe he experienced considerable damage on the face and
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by abawany 7y ago
I was reading "Bloomberg by Bloomberg" over the weekend and I thought his opinion on the topic was relevant since I believe Bloomberg was one of the first major workplaces that placed everyone in tight open-office type environment
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by abawany 7y ago
Google's treatment of Android users vs. its treatment of iOS users for the same app is insightful: in the former case, the treatment imo borders on the abusive with mandatory and permanent changes required to data collection to be able
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Scientists Create Living Concrete(nytimes.com)
6 points by abawany 7y ago|0 comments
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by abawany 7y ago
I like Frontier but I was stunned to learn that even after paying for all of their upgrades to get seated in the front row, I would still have to pay extra for water.
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by abawany 7y ago
The first answer last year said that the Smarts are sold locally and that the Mercedes are sent back to the parent company. My recent question, asked when they were leaving Austin, was specifically about the Mercedes and they stated that th
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by abawany 7y ago
I have to wonder if this depends on one's familiarity with the respective products. I started with GCP and then used AWS and found the latter to be way more confusing and convoluted than GCP. The forced daily logouts on AWS added anoth
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by abawany 7y ago
I am very disappointed about their departure, especially after all of the nonsense promises related to their merger with BMW's ReachNow. I asked their Twitter account re. used cars and they gave me conflicting information: one said tha
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by abawany 7y ago
It is important to read even though they harry you to sign: I caught my dealer sneaking in a clause on the checkout papers that one had to initial to deny during a maintenance trip - it gave them rights to contact me for sales calls; I had
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by abawany 7y ago
It's true in my experience as well. I am not a fan of Fedex as they have subjected me to a myriad of unintended adventures. However, once I had to mail a time-sensitive RFP to Canada and Fedex got it there well ahead of their specified
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by abawany 7y ago
There are still plenty of slightly-used phones with removable batteries that work quite well. Galaxy Note 3 and 4 (possibly 5?) for a start. I recently got a Moto E5 brand new and it too has a removable battery.
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by abawany 7y ago
Same for a Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 for me. Works very well though I believe LineageOS has abandoned updates for the device. Battery replacements take minutes to do as well.
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by abawany 7y ago
I would add Microsoft (OneDrive/Office 365), Amazon, and Mega.nz - latter is said to be end-to-end encrypted.
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by abawany 7y ago
I will add a vote for bookscan.us, which I have been using since 2013 or so. Very reasonable prices and great service.
623.
by abawany 7y ago
I use bookscan.us for this purpose: I mail the physical book to them and they send me a file a few days later for a very reasonable price.
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by abawany 7y ago
With the recent US tax law changes, I created a charitable giving account via my brokerage to bunch up donation contributions to the account and then parcel out this account balance during the intervening months. Edit: this also allows anon
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by abawany 7y ago
Doctors Without Borders just because of their ability to get care to almost any part of the world. I consider my contributions to it a form of compensation for my tax dollars that go without my consent to fund our hungry war machine.
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by abawany 7y ago
So much so that there appears to be persistent belief that the word "salary" is derived from "sel" (salt): http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2017/01/salt-and-salary.ht... .
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Fire Blight Spreads Northward Threatening Apple Orchards(nytimes.com)
1 points by abawany 7y ago|0 comments
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by abawany 7y ago
I was very pleasantly surprised to run into a Supercharger station in Leavenworth while walking about.
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by abawany 7y ago
This is why I pay for a USPS box every year without batting an eyelid. They also provide a physical address for vendors that demand that, presumably because they exclusively use UPS or Fedex - works fine.
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by abawany 7y ago
I've seen at least 3 reports in my area where a head-on collision with an impaired driver (in the truck) usually ended up killing or seriously injuring the passengers in this 'modern, safe automobile'. Some examples: * https

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