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by astura 3y ago
It's "Lyme disease," named after Lyme, Connecticut (which, in turn, gets its name from Lyme Regis in England). Not "limes," that's a fruit.
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by astura 3y ago
>We went from a default of "Opt-out" to "Opt-in" So? Hardly worth crying about and most of us prefer it this way.
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by astura 3y ago
This has a VERY simple fix - get a new insurance company. Most companies slowly raise rates on customers who don't shop around. I'd actually recommend most people get at least one insurance quote at least every other year. Every t
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by astura 3y ago
You can get your room cleaned as much as you want, you just need to ask for it sometimes.
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by astura 3y ago
It's very wrong, when I was in college full time was 4-8 hours of class every day M-Th. Beyond that assignments outside of classroom instruction were usually around 2 hours of work per hour of instruction, and MUCH more for non-entry l
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by astura 3y ago
WTF is "deep reading?"
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by astura 3y ago
Typical "though leader" behavior. My advice after ~17 years[1] - don't take unsolicited advice from blog posts written by "though leaders" who spend all day enjoying the smell of their own farts and are trying reall
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by astura 3y ago
>It’s not a random article. It’s been upvoted to the HN front page. Lol, So? HN front page has plenty of garbage.
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by astura 3y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-i... Unless you actually have a reason to have good idea of who you're interacting with you should probably assume they are trolls, sh
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by astura 3y ago
That was the joke.
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by astura 3y ago
For the youngins here, I can confirm this, getting caught with a beeper in my school was just as serious as getting caught with weapons or drugs. They were the ultimate contraband.
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by astura 3y ago
I feel like this is trying to tell me something really important but the data visualization crashed my browser multiple times.
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by astura 3y ago
This is where English terms we use is very imprecise and can be confusing. English calls twins that were once the same zygote "identical" no matter what they look like or what happened after the zygote split.
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by astura 3y ago
Have you ever heard of the The Christian Science Monitor? It's a mostly-respectable newspaper (now website) published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, the publishing arm of the church. Christian Science is very much a dying
645.
by astura 3y ago
I mean... that's literally the definition of "spectrum" From a few random dictionaries: >2. used to classify something, or suggest that it can be classified, in terms of its position on a scale between two extreme or oppos
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by astura 3y ago
Most do, but basements and garages are a common location for dryers, both are usually out of the way enough that it's very difficult to hear the sound in the living quarters.
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by astura 3y ago
Dude, there must be something incredibly specific about this case for this to be a thing. Like the wife just said she was a tourist and never left instead of applying for a green card. If you just do the paperwork - enter the US under a K1
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by astura 3y ago
Wow, strong Tommy Tallarico vibes there.
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by astura 3y ago
Come on, dude. Get real. Just tell your kids you aren't going to pay for Vanderbilt and they'd have to go somewhere cheaper if you are footing the bill. Plenty of options. My parents told me if I wanted to go to college I was comp
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by astura 3y ago
People here will absolutely hate this because "Google is evil" but I use a Chromecast and I love it and think it's the best option for your use case. You select whatever video you want to play on your phone or computer and &q
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by astura 3y ago
... Okay? I didn't say it wasn't?
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by astura 3y ago
>This sort of statement is a bit out of touch if you ask me. Just a bit? It's wildly out of touch, $300,000/year is literally the 95th percentile of income for families[1]. Dude called income that's more than 95 PERCENT of
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by astura 3y ago
It's just your typical "gold standard conspiracy" boogyman. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE98G07F/
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by astura 3y ago
>debit-network-processed card that is backed by a line of credit. Because then it wouldn't be a debit card? I assume that the debit-network is reserved for debit cards?
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by astura 3y ago
This isn't really true for Connecticut, because the law allows for a "cash discount" which is functionality identical. https://portal.ct.gov/DCP/Legal/Credit-Card-Surcharge >Connecticut law prohi
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by astura 3y ago
What I've personally seen is a checkbox, you put in your donation amount and then you can check/uncheck "cover processing fees." Found an example - https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/donors-to-cover
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by astura 3y ago
As much as I like taking advantage of rewards programs as a consumer (and boy I do), if given the choice I would actually prefer merchants paid very low fees and I got no rewards. That's just my personal preference. It seems like a muc
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by astura 3y ago
>It's just that the interchange fees show up as one big chunk whereas the cash processing is lots of little bites, or even accounting for things that didn't happen (like skimming). Not just skimming, but lost business for cash-
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by astura 3y ago
In a concert and sports venue concessions environment you're also prioritizing throughput much more than most businesses. Being cashless helps with throughput a lot - the employees don't have to wait for people to count their mone
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by astura 3y ago
>Almost everybody writing about credit cards on the Internet receives some sort of spiff if you sign up after clicking through tagged links in their material. This is something that really can't be said loud enough. The vast majorit

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