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by ahlatimer 13y ago
It happened to me recently, but it was my paycheck. Googling around, it seems to be something that happens with ACH transactions somewhat rarely, but it does seem to happen.
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
OT, but if you upvote an article, it gets saved into your "saved stories". You can find the link on your profile if you click your username in the URH corner. Your "saved stories" URL would be https://news.yco
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
Depends on where in Texas you're talking about. In Austin, we have the City of Austin Utilities (though the suburbs do seem to have options). El Paso only had one option when I lived there, too.
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
GP is likely talking about the "Constitution Free Zone", or the area within 100 miles of a border [1]. [1]: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-constitution-free-zone...
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
The banks don't eat the costs -- the merchants do.
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
They're somehow available to Snapchat since they'll send you a notification if someone takes a screenshot of a snap. Edit: I have personally confirmed this on iOS. According to a commenter below, this is also true on Android.
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
> It is very easy for underage people to get hold of alcohol. It is ridiculous to suggest that drugs would be any different. It would make it much easier to buy. While I was underage (I'm 24 now, so not long ago), it was easier to f
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
I enjoy driving. I don't enjoy sitting in traffic or mindlessly plodding along a freeway alone in a steel box. I bought a car that I enjoy driving, but I'm also actively looking for a house in a location that means I don't ha
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
You did not. The OP was asking if you had a phone in the equivalent of "airplane mode" or just no service where you are, would Lockitron work? You have a mobile phone, which meets your criteria, but Lockitron would not work with S
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
> Yes, but a completely separated system. The odds of both software systems failing simultaneously is getting in the hash collisions domain... It isn't, really, in a lot of newer cars. You have a brake override system [1] that can r
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
Heat indexes in Houston regularly get above 130F in the summer. Sometimes up into the 160s. Check out http://www.srh.weather.gov/jetstream/downloads/heatindex_rh_... and keep in mind that Houston will be 90-100F i
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
I wouldn't. Not in F1, at least. Not if you wanted to regularly come in the points. You could stick Vettel in a Marussia, and he'd still finish near the back of the pack.
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
> If you made Formula 1 totally unlimited you'd have gaps so big that there'd never be a question of who would win barring a crash. Which is largely true today during the Vettel era and was largely true during the Schumacher er
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
Are you talking about the property tax rates in Texas or Detroit? Detroit's property tax, at least according to the article, is 6.7%. That's what the GP was referencing.
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
It's going up quite a bit (asking prices are up 6.2% y/y [1]), but it's still well within reach for most people in the tech industry. The average house price is currently $213,600 [1]. It's considerably cheaper if you&#x
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
You're making the assumption that Ballmer even knew about this, which isn't immediately clear. Someone at Microsoft certainly did, but so did people working within the government. You know, people working for US citizens, ultima
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
Except that you can't make noise in the press because doing so could get you arrested for leaking classified information. You can't ignore it, either, because that could also get you arrested. So what do you do? You follow it, pro
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
They don't seem to mind taking risks when it comes to questionable tax deductions. I don't think that's taking a risk. From all accounts, the tax deductions they're taking are perfectly legal. Leaking government secret
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
Do you think the government would jail someone of Steve Ballmer's stature if he talked openly about what the government has asked of Microsoft. Absolutely, but even if they didn't, if you were Steve Ballmer, would you take that
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
For reference, here's the Steve Yegge talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8 I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
This is kind of off-topic, but if all you're doing is replacing pads and rotors, you can do that yourself pretty easily. If you're doing anything that requires you to remove brake lines (and subsequently bleed them), take it to someone who
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
After reading some of your sources, it doesn't appear to me that anyone was held in contempt for exercising their Fifth Amendment rights. Rather, they seem to have refused to cooperate with the Grand Jury at all [1]. You can be compelled
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
Do you have a source for that? My understanding is that otherwise inadmissible evidence can be used in a grand jury hearing, but you are still free to "plead the Fifth" in front of a grand jury without being held in contempt. Meaning, if yo
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
I stand corrected. My cursory google search didn't turn up anything concrete, so I fell back on some things I've heard but can't quite place the origin. My understanding was that wealthier families had, on average, ~2 children, but lower in
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
The "top 1%" contains significantly more than 1% of the people. Or it contains less than 1% of people if the average household size for the top 1% is smaller than the average household size for the lower 99% (which it most likely is; weal
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
If schools judged CS applicants by their ability to program, I'd agree, but they don't. They judge them based upon their likelihood to succeed in the program (amongst other things, like building a diverse student body or whatever). That is,
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by ahlatimer 13y ago
Speaking as the only person in my office who was a degree in CS (one has a geology degree, the other dropped out half-way through his graphic design degree, both make more than I do), no, you don't need a degree to get a job as a software e
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by ahlatimer 14y ago
Dallas isn't really in the Austin area. It's a 3 hour drive.
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by ahlatimer 14y ago
It's not that your point was off-topic or that humor doesn't necessarily belong on HN, but the brand of humor Archer employs is not appropriate for HN, nor is the use of gifs to illustrate your point.
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by ahlatimer 14y ago
"What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too" - Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0

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