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by aestra 13y ago
>A lot of suicides result from academic pressure and failure I was wondering if this was actually true or not, turns out that there is some evidence suggesting it. http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/8/6/418.sho
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by aestra 13y ago
For what its worth, the page works fine without all the parameters. Why they are in the submitted link, I don't know.
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by aestra 13y ago
>Meanwhile, credit unions — another form of cooperative — face stringent regulations on business lending. This was thrown as an aside, but I'm wondering what they exactly mean by that. What are these regulations? Are they government
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by aestra 13y ago
I was just going to post about Bob's Red Mill. Bob Moore built a multimillion dollar company and then he transferred ownership of the company (in the form of employee stock) to his employees. http://abcnews.go.com/WN&#x
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by aestra 13y ago
Spend some time around people where swearing is in their culture. One example: sailors.
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by aestra 13y ago
> some examples of what could go wrong would be really handy here. One small example that I've seen go wrong, elements don't center with CSS if you skip the doctype. Seems to ignore margin-left and margin-right. Omitting the do
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by aestra 13y ago
Any evidence newspapers write at a second grade level? I seriously doubt this. That being said, there is an effort in politics to "dumb down" speeches in the last few years to reach a bigger audience. They still speak at high scho
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by aestra 13y ago
Maybe... "BitCoin" could refer to the Bitcoin protocol itself. The technical reasons/blockchain could conceivably explain some things, for example.
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by aestra 13y ago
We are really friggin close to eradicating polio! The Americas (North and South) have been polio free since 1994. The last 1% is what has proven to be difficult. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_eradication
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by aestra 13y ago
IIRC, In New York City and the northeast there is EZPASS (an RFID device that automatically deducts a toll to your prepaid account). Someone altered theirs EZPASS to track when their EZPASS was read. Basically it was read all over the city
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by aestra 13y ago
Right. Not so relevant in California, but when it snows you have an obligation to clean the snow off your license plate!!
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by aestra 13y ago
Absolutely not!!! This should be pretty obvious, but here's the law: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d03/vc5201.htm 5201. (a) License plates shall at all times be securely fastened to the vehicle for
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by aestra 13y ago
But it is good at preventing theft. :( That is the reason it is used.
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by aestra 13y ago
I just really hate the concept of them somewhat "making" you have a G+ account. Good for a business perspective I guess, but limits consumers. I have no desire to create a G+ account and I'm somewhat annoyed that it seems to
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by aestra 13y ago
I love Handset SMS! I never use anything else once I found it! You can customize the alerts you get, icon/vibrate pattern/sound and other features as well.
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by aestra 13y ago
It takes a very small amount of electricity to power a smart phone. Yes, you're using more energy by streaming music, but it can't be that much more. http://lifehacker.com/5948075/how-much-energy-a-smartphon
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by aestra 13y ago
Hulu has it too, IIRC. Also - if you are a real human but fell asleep or walked out of the house/room.
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by aestra 13y ago
What's the point of silent tracks? The same effect can be accomplished by just turning the volume down all the way. They could encourage people to play their real tracks without volume or with speakers unplugged without making it so ob
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by aestra 13y ago
Not all national currencies have a symbol, so to speak. A lot of times you just abbreviate the currency a certain standard way, so 5 btc, as written a lot, is just fine and widely accepted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by aestra 13y ago
Some companies have explicit "no fraternization" policies which forbid sexual relations between employees. Also some allow it, but it has be publicly disclosed and the two can't be, for example, in the same department or one
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by aestra 13y ago
>Are you at all familiar with the taxi medallion racket Yes, I am, at least in NYC. They are there to provide some consumer protection. I will be speaking of New York. First of all, a medallion isn't strictly required to operate a t
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by aestra 13y ago
>30 years ago, if I wrote a paper letter to a company, I was not implying that I want them to build up a profile of me based on my stated info compared to the stated info of other people, where my letter came from, type of stationary, qu
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by aestra 13y ago
Tons. I am going to say the majority. It is optional though. You usually get a discount just for signing up, then you get an additional discount for your driving Progressive, Travels, Allstate, The Hartford... They not only track your locat
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by aestra 13y ago
But then those coins are sold on an exchange for bitcoins, then the exchange sells them back to believers. They end up in believer's hands anyways.
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by aestra 13y ago
You're way off. The minimum recommended/default transaction fee is .0001 btc. This can change in the future, it is all about what the miners choose to accept, transaction fees are not fixed. For fun I sent a transaction of about .
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by aestra 13y ago
Why would fixing that issue cause the price to go up? There was still the same amount of coins created. Also - they apparently fixed it by making the block reward fixed. http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/03/13&#x
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by aestra 13y ago
Mining is designed to be a waste of resources. It is kept artificially hard to prevent someone from creating a billion sock puppets and overtaking the network for malicious reasons. To entice people to use their valuable computing power and
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by aestra 13y ago
The timeframe is how long an ACH transaction to your bank takes. Almost all exchanges have daily and weekly limits, ranging from $4,000 - $10,000 a day but they will often up those limits if you give them more personally identifying infor
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by aestra 13y ago
How I do it: Go to CoinedUp and convert dogecoin -> bitcoin. Send bitcoin to coinbase. Sell bitcoin on coinbase. Kraken isn't open to USD transactions in my area yet. Also - selling doge to private parties for USD, possibly in perso
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by aestra 13y ago
You should never release highly confidential documents to unapproved entities, even if they pinky swear they won't read them. Almost certainly violates your NDA if you signed one.

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