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by aggieben 11y ago
Interesting and creative, but this guy is reading waaaaay too much into what cards people pick. My guess is that in reality, most people don't give a crap because they're going to put the contact info into their phones and then
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by aggieben 11y ago
TL;DR - saved it in Readability. ducks
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Daydreaming about the Empire's organizational failures(slate.com)
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by aggieben 11y ago
As someone who has been onboarded with docker like in the example, I can testify that this article is absurd. Docker increases complexity, not decreases. So much so that I question its value in most circumstances, and I will never on-
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by aggieben 11y ago
I don't keep asking for advice from those kinds of doctors.
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by aggieben 11y ago
I really wish people would quit treating doctors as unquestionable authorities on health. Rather, they should be treated as consultants - expertise for hire - who should be able to give good answers to most questions, but should expect to
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by aggieben 11y ago
>I’ve often wondered why the so-called Masters of the Universe, those C.E.O.s with multimillion-dollar monthly paychecks, keep working. Why, once they have earned enough money to live comfortably forever, do they still drag themselves to
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by aggieben 11y ago
> The attorney patiently explained to me that returning to Santo Domingo was far too risky. Because I’d overstayed my tourist visa as a child, I’d be subject to a ban on reentry; it was also extremely likely that I’d be denied a student
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by aggieben 11y ago
From my very surface-level experience with HIPAA, I'd say to just call the whole thing off. All it does is make me irritated that medical providers send me those stupid "secure email" messages - or worse, only accept fax.
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by aggieben 11y ago
Medical advertisements aren't the problem. The problem is that consumers aren't spending their own money and don't know how much things cost because medical providers can't/won't tell them. Let's fix tha
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by aggieben 11y ago
So....what is that `choose` thing? Curious how that's implemented...
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by aggieben 11y ago
+1 for that. I didn't know railguns were limited thusly.
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by aggieben 11y ago
Giant railguns. That is all.
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by aggieben 11y ago
This is most definitely _not_ illegal if US citizenship is required to perform the job, which is the case in any job dealing with classified information.
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by aggieben 11y ago
REMOTE or ONSITE?
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by aggieben 11y ago
If the chief/captain/whatever didn't know about it, it wasn't reviewed. Simple as that.
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by aggieben 11y ago
As a programmer, this seems like this is almost entirely Clemans fault. Good grief: you can't just walk into a mission-critical, production environment and start deploying crap, even if the dispatchers like it. Yelling at your boss
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by aggieben 11y ago
Ah. In context, it sounds quite a lot less ominous than title of the OP. Of course they have to address it. How is the question.
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by aggieben 11y ago
Agreed. "Man on the street" works every bit as well in London or Paris or Munich as it does in LA.
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by aggieben 11y ago
Accurate. Well, not Russians.
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by aggieben 11y ago
Texan here: this makes me kinda proud. As a side note: I briefly lived in the UK. Once while on vacation on the continent a tour guide asked everyone in the group where we came from. The other Americans in the group all said "America
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by aggieben 11y ago
I can't second this enough: if you haven't worked remotely before, you should definitely start out with a company that has a remote working culture.
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by aggieben 11y ago
Where in this document does that statement (or one like it) appear? I gave it a quick read but didn't spot it.
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by aggieben 11y ago
There's a category difference. I don't have a citation, but I would guess that credit card companies make a substantial proportion of their revenues from merchant fees. Also, they do turn down people. Not everyone can get a cre
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by aggieben 11y ago
> Payday lenders do not charge refinancing/rollover fees, as with mortgages, and the interest doesn’t compound (unless of course she takes out a new loan to pay interest on the first loan) Yes, they absolutely do charge refinancing
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by aggieben 11y ago
> I'm guessing you didn't have to spend a lot of time dealing with procurement of individual policies prior to the ACA. I did, and its a godsend. A lot ? I guess not, but I did shop for individual (+family) insurance plans be
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by aggieben 11y ago
Fair enough, but then you should explain that what you're against is mindless regurgitation, not good CS education (which again, has algorithms at its core, but goes far beyond that).
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by aggieben 11y ago
> a belief that memorizing a bunch of that stuff and being an automaton who spits back the correct algorithm name and a pseudocode implementation is all there is to programming. Because what companies really want is to hire a Fisher-Pric
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by aggieben 11y ago
> How long were you on hold while your kid was clutching his arm? None at all. Possibly less time than I would have spent with a 911 operator asking me my address and whatnot. > Many people are not good at judging what is an emergenc
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by aggieben 11y ago
Right, and we'd just be headed over a cliff like the rest of them. Nationalized healthcare is a disaster economically and in patient outcomes, not to mention patient and physician autonomy.

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