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by aestra 13y ago
This is a well known way to get on to the New York Times Best Seller List. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_...
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by aestra 13y ago
This already exists. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/7266120/Please...
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It was mentioned. "As word spread from Reddit to YouTube, playgrounds to office parks, Flappy Bird rose to the Top 10 of the U.S. charts by early January."
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The average wage in Vietnam is $2,200 a year.[1] He made over 22 times the average yearly wage in a day. The average wage in the US is $50,233.[2] 22 times that is $1,105,126. If you did that for a month, that would be the Vietnam purchasin
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And people who put wealth and money before everything else are generally seen as assholes or even evil. Example: The asbestos industry officials knew of asbestos dangers of asbestos since the 1930s and had purposefully concealed them from t
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>It may still be seen as more dangerous and therefore less socially acceptable in the States. Binge drinking is completely socially acceptable in the States.
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by aestra 13y ago
I find that hiring practices can often discriminate against those who grew up poor/not middle class. I remember someone writing about how they hired saying things like "I look for evidence of interest in technology from a young ag
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by aestra 13y ago
Well maybe... I know he wasn't arrested by the FBI, however, for example, the FBI claims full jurisdiction to arrest as long as the person is on US soil. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/faqs >What authority do FBI
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I believe the Secret Service called jurisdiction because the crimes were committed against American citizens. He specifically only sold information about residents and citizens of the United States. The Secret Service in that case believe
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by aestra 13y ago
This is why I obsessively check the oven before I turn it on. Always. We had an incident when I was probably 5 years old when my sister put a stuffed toys in the oven then a while later my mom turned it on to use it. Then we smelled smoke
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by aestra 13y ago
Oodles? This depends very very heavily where you live. I know many many people who after getting their CS degrees had to move away. In fact I know way more people who moved than stayed or went back to their hometown.
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by aestra 13y ago
>in the UK it's a fairly common assumption... This story was about the US. >This is also useful in most pubs since they are a few centuries old. And? I've been to a pub in the US that was 3 centuries old and thought to be th
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by aestra 13y ago
Eyewitness accounts are known to be incredibly unreliable and full of bias. I saw a show once when they staged a bank robbery or something like that. Later they showed interviews with witnesses who got every single detail about the suspect
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by aestra 13y ago
I know someone who is a reporter. She reported on something involving a mutual friend. She interviewed the mutual friend's boss. When she reported she misquoted the boss and even got the boss's name(!) completely wrong.
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I don't believe the quote in the article, but I believe a cop might have known about bitcoin. The reason being is they might have been briefed about it because of the silk road and its reputation as a drug currency.
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Having a history degree doesn't exactly make you more qualified to be a bartender (going by the example in the article).
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by aestra 13y ago
> If it's shrinkwrapped (how meat should be) it's almost always 99.99% unprocessed, or minimally at the most. Complete and total nonsense. Hotdogs, peperoni, sausage, bacon, and lunch meat all come shrink wrapped. Even Slimjims
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by aestra 13y ago
Yes, citation needed, for you. When you make claims you need to back them up. How hard of a concept is that? You can't just go around spouting "facts" without any basis. EDIT: Congratulations, you have just been hellbanned fo
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by aestra 13y ago
What's wrong with drinking a small amount of alcohol? There is a small amount of evidence that it is good for you in small amounts* and it is [or can be] a social experience. You can meet a lot of interesting people in pubs. Beer and w
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by aestra 13y ago
I hate when people claim things as fact in comments which are entirely unsourced. EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity Study of the regions of the world known as blue zones,[11] where people commonly live activ
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by aestra 13y ago
No it isn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing Until the 20th century, publishing houses and printers in many countries used additional space between sentences. There were exceptions to this traditiona
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Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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>Things that aren't reversible are the exception For thousands of years the only way to pay for something was with non-revertible mediums, either cash or bartering for other goods. Reversible transactions are new in the grand sche
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by aestra 13y ago
I go to New York City all the time (but I don't live there) and I've never had an issue with finding a clean bathroom, ever. Boston is a different story though I've only been there a handful of times. Walk into Starbucks or M
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by aestra 13y ago
It is interesting that in some places there are mandatory break times, where I grew up you had to have a half hour break per 8 hour shift or something like that, even with these laws, those working conditions still persist. Some employers m
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by aestra 13y ago
REALLY!? Software engineering is one of the lowest stress jobs out there. I've worked some stressful jobs, and software engineering doesn't even compare. For example try getting yelled at and sworn at and personally attacked regul
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by aestra 13y ago
>I will go somewhere else (rent a room/desk if needed) and I'll work there. It is important when working from home to have a "work area" which is only for work and nothing else. When you work from your bed you get in
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by aestra 13y ago
Thank you for saying this. Seems a lot of people here can't get out of their own cultural viewpoint. This type of disobeying of family (especially from a women) is looked down upon like, say, raping someone is in the US or Europe.
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by aestra 13y ago
An Islamic marriage ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Islam ) is between a man and the wali of a woman, who gives her to the husband to be his wife, NOT a contract between the two members of the marriage. A wali
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>Regardless if you're life is in danger that's the equivalent of slavery and their not your family anymore their your masters. Yes, women were historic (in many places) and currently (in some places) property of men. Why don&

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