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by aestra 13y ago
I don't need a bank account for utilities in the US. The easiest way to pay is by check my mail or credit card online but if you did not have a bank account you can pay in person or get a money order or maybe even a prepaid debit card?
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by aestra 13y ago
No. Nobody said transparent salaries mean set salaries. Transparent salaries mean MORE room for negotiation. For example: "You are our top performer." "Then why am I in the 10th percentile for people I work with? Can I have
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by aestra 13y ago
You just made an argument that salaries should be artificially low effectively screwing the employee out of a fair wage for their skill by hiding information from them. And anyway, money isn't everything. I'd be willing to work fo
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by aestra 13y ago
I understand your concerns, however there are so many people who already have their salary info public. For example government employees including military. There is already some idea if you know what someone does. If I work fast food, eve
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by aestra 13y ago
There are plenty of people already aware of their coworker's salaries; government employees, including military. It isn't like you don't know some salary info, you know your boss gets paid more for example. >You should, as
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by aestra 13y ago
Employees are generally forbidden from discussing their salary. Most places I've worked, it has been told to me at promotion and raise time not to disclose my salary to other employees. It probably isn't enforceable however, just
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by aestra 13y ago
Minor point. That's bluefin tuna. The stuff that comes in cans in the United States is albacore tuna. Albacore is less overfished than bluefin, the latter of which is more highly prized in Japan. I believe bluefin is the one that is wi
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by aestra 13y ago
Um, it isn't anti-depressants that are feminizing fish. That doesn't even make sense. It is synthetic estrogens, ie pee from women taking birth control pills. Also a few other things, bisphenol A, and certain types of natural and
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by aestra 13y ago
You know tuna can't just be taken out of the sea like that? Fish have an ecosystem. They have to be fished at the about same rate they are breeding. If they are not, they are considered overfished. If they are overfished enough they go
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by aestra 13y ago
Gas taxes don't come close to covering the expense of the roads. http://taxfoundation.org/article/gasoline-taxes-and-tolls-pa...
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by aestra 13y ago
Old school soaps the FDA stays out of anyways. They only regulates synthetic detergents. http://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/productandingredientsafety/Prod... >Ordinary soap is solely made up of fats and an alkali. I
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by aestra 13y ago
>It's not food or a drug - you don't put it into your body at all. facepalm Do you really think those products you are rubbing around your skin every day and sniffing up your nose don't get absorbed by your skin and lung
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by aestra 13y ago
Antibacterial soaps have been shown to be slightly more effective at removing bacteria than non-anti bacteria soaps. ( http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-11-122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.
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by aestra 13y ago
"We have reports that you beat your wife" is fair and to question someone on that is fair and is much much different from "when did you stop beating your wife?" which the GP said was a fair question. I never said or even
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by aestra 13y ago
No it doesn't. cgminer is the "default" that almost everyone uses and the current version doesn't even have CPU mining. The current version doesn't have script either, you gotta download a previous version but that&
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by aestra 13y ago
Well Stuxnet (which is believed to be written by government(s)) had an unprecedented four zero-day exploits.
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by aestra 13y ago
>Yes, if the interviewee was charged with beating his wife No. Convicted, yes. Charged, no. Here in the United States we have the presumption of innocence.
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by aestra 13y ago
Studies like this have been repeated over and over again. This bias is well ingrained in culture. Another good one was a study where people where given a story about a successful person then asked to give adjectives to describe these people
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by aestra 13y ago
>She ran a blog called Sex and the Ivy. I'm sorry, but if you write a blog whose title says, "I'm in the most privileged 2% of the population, I have lots of sex", you're putting a target on yourself. Maybe the w
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by aestra 13y ago
>I'm not sure if actually banning off-label prescriptions would be the right solution. It absolutely is not. There's no money in getting FDA approval for a lot of diseases and nobody's gonna bother even if the drug worked
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by aestra 13y ago
I remember reading something about "good web development" back in ~1997 and the author saying the Yahoo! page loaded in about 6 seconds and I was thinking "wow, that's pretty fast."
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by aestra 13y ago
The parent wasn't asking why they can't buy bitcoins without paypal/CC, they were asking why they would use bitcoins to buy something instead of paypal/CC.
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by aestra 13y ago
Why TV News is a Waste of Human Effort: One Example Worth a Trillion Dollars - by C.P.P. Grey http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/why-tv-news-is-a-waste-of-human-...
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by aestra 13y ago
Cool. Didn't know that was universal terminology.
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by aestra 13y ago
Define "forever." The first SWAT team was established in 1964. They have grown considerably in the past few years and with their growth they are being used more and more for very simple reasons, to execute simple warrants for exam
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by aestra 13y ago
Right, you can't say every State has a Senate. Every State has a legislative branch of government whose setup varies by State Constitution. For example, Nebraska has a unicameral legislature while New York and California have a Senate
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by aestra 13y ago
>"helping create weapons or surveillance technology should be strictly forbidden" Never contribute to open source software then.
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by aestra 13y ago
Right, this was a requirement so if you dialed 911 the emergency responders know where to find you even if you didn't know where you are. It is called e911 or enhanced 911.
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by aestra 13y ago
There was a false positive in there. There was a "probable criminal activity" that turned out to be a real estate agent.
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by aestra 13y ago
What exactly would a self driving car have to do with this? This is talking about tracking by cell phone data and license plate, not car data. A self driving car would be the same as a regular car, just with extra sensors, the ones they hav

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