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by biggc 8y ago
To clarify, I find it incredulous that a 3 year contract requiring full-time, on-site, business hour presence wouldn't legally require a company to treat that person as a full-time employee with benefits.
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by biggc 8y ago
3 year contract where you need to come in to the office alongside full time employees every day? How is that not considered full-time?
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by biggc 8y ago
According to: http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/hpms/hpmslibrary/prd/prd2010.p... California has 172,138 miles of maintained roads, 63,856 if we don't include "Local" roads. There are cer
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by biggc 8y ago
> Most programmers are plumbers and brickmakers building houses, not engineers designing skyscrapers. Conversely, most mechanical engineers don't end up designing a new production motor, they design a door handle.
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by biggc 8y ago
> I'm open to this, it sucks to have to throw so much crap away after ordering take-away, but I haven't seen a container yet that would be suitable for e.g. 80 degree centigrade soups, stews etc. What are the alternatives that
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by biggc 8y ago
Unless something's changed, you can still buy DRM-free high bitrate tracks from iTunes.
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by biggc 8y ago
I think it's hard because it can be extremely tedious work.
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by biggc 9y ago
> Canadian RRSP system My understanding is that Canadian residents don't have the same number of low-cost index funds available to them as US residents. There's no Vanguard for individual investors, and no Schwab and Fidelity t
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by biggc 9y ago
That bike lane is just a shoulder with bicycle symbols painted in it and it looks terrifying.
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by biggc 9y ago
Is this satire?
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by biggc 9y ago
They're comparing a single-ride fare to a monthly-pass fare. A single ride fare cost $2.00 in 2008[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_transit_fares#Fa...
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by biggc 9y ago
You mean Stitch Fix?
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by biggc 9y ago
> 3. Prosecutors, needing to do something got him on fraud charges where he misstated information on an investment but still tripled their money. I don't think the outcome should matter. Lying to investors should land you in jail. I
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by biggc 9y ago
> $10 / 50GB overage, which would work out to 3000 / 50 = $60 You forgot to multiply by $10, so you're actually looking at $600 for 3 TB of overage
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by biggc 9y ago
> If my retirement is invested in overpriced, underperforming funds it's 100% my own fault Its my understanding that there are a lot of 401(k) plans out there that charge a significant management fee on top of any fees charged by un
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by biggc 9y ago
I'm excited for a NUC-like device running a Ryzen processor for my home media server.
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by biggc 9y ago
This expanded quote got me to go look up videos of live lobsters being boiled. None of them showed the lobster reacting to being immersed in the water the way Wallace describes
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by biggc 9y ago
> 2. On the performance side, we don't know the complexity of the codec yet. And on the cost side, HEVC is going to be more expensive by definition, due to being an rent extraction scheme. The codec is still years away from being wi
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by biggc 9y ago
> Exactly right. If you're plane crashed in the Sierras and your trying to survive until rescue can arrive, I can see you risking it (after all a lack of water will definitely kill you, water with Giadarsis in it will just make you
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by biggc 9y ago
The ship was built in Buffalo. There's only one way out and Montreal had an unusually long cold snap for that time of year.
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by biggc 9y ago
This is just banana futures right?
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by biggc 9y ago
I lost a camera while whitewater kayaking. Flipped, hit something upside down, and the housing latch popped open letting the camera fall out. Amazingly, GoPro support sent me a free replacement.
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by biggc 9y ago
How big is a "cup" of coffee in this study?
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by biggc 9y ago
If you live in a high-cost city like SF or NYC, it's only marginally more expensive than groceries for a similar meal. I've started using Good Eggs for weekly dinner kits with my SO and have found the meals to be tasty, healthy, e
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by biggc 9y ago
Why would UBI reduce Medicare and Medicaid?
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by biggc 9y ago
Maybe by dollar amount spent?
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by biggc 9y ago
> In the case of direct collapse you have a big cloud of gas that just collapses into a SMBH as the galaxy is forming. In the case of accretion, the SMBH starts off as a collection of stellar mass black holes which then merge into an IMB
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by biggc 9y ago
He meant Vancouver, WA. It's across the Columbia river from Portland
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by biggc 9y ago
> "don't not uncheck the box if you wish to prevent us from causing the absence of non-delivery of our newsletter and also not abstaining from passing on your details to third parties" Most companies don't even have
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by biggc 9y ago
Is disengagement per X miles really a good metric. It doesn't reflect the difference between driving in different environments, i.e dense urban areas, suburban streets, and open highways.

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