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by cascom 6y ago
The article should have read “hereditary peerages” rather than “hereditary titles”
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by cascom 6y ago
If I recall there are something like 24 different main courses
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by cascom 6y ago
Can vouch for the them slowing down your bowels - not sure about the rest (but definitely the height of processed food) - but recall being told by our instructors that that they were purposely designed that way as the last thing you wanted
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by cascom 6y ago
What’s missing in a lot of this conversation is the spoken vs written honorific. There are many professions/designations that people may wish to be identified (often times reflective of their profession, work, achievements) e.g. Maj. G
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by cascom 6y ago
I’ve never heard it, but the thirds often end with nicknames like Trip (as in triple) or Tres (south Texas / 3 in Spanish) or if your in south Louisiana the the prefix of petit (little, eg Jean and petit Jean) is appended to the junior
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by cascom 6y ago
A baronet is not a peer, but it is a hereditary title, Mark Thatcher(Husband) was made one, Margaret Thatcher was made a baron (different, and is a peer) but hers was a life peerage not a hereditary one.
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by cascom 6y ago
Thatcher, and I believe all ex-PM’s, are typically given a peerage, however they are not hereditary and thus are called life peers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_peer
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by cascom 6y ago
Your comparing apples and oranges - when you take a salary you take a lower hourly wage to eliminate volume risk, works in the spot market get compensated for taking the volume risk
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by cascom 6y ago
Pretty sure this how the beginning of a horror/zombie movie starts
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by cascom 6y ago
Unfortunately if anyone were to have their laptop and emails searched with an eye towards coming up with probable cause to make an arrest, no one is safe. Just as it’s realistically impossible to not break driving laws while behind the whee
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by cascom 6y ago
It does, but it’s also SOP with the police, if someone speaks out against them or if they come up empty handed charge them with something so as to not look stupid.
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by cascom 6y ago
The cynic in me sees her defending herself from criminal charges for the next several years, then being unsuccessful in a civil suit due to no smoking gun of malicious prosecution for a few years after that, and ultimately no one will remem
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by cascom 6y ago
Agreed, would add just don’t scrub off your seasoning with soap/scouring pad.
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by cascom 6y ago
Get a metal chain mail pot scrubber, it will change your life. Allows you to dislodge 95% of what’s stuck to your pan quickly and without a super abrasive cleaner, the rest can usually be taken care of with a paper towel.
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by cascom 6y ago
I was excited until I found out you need to install an app on your phone to connect to the physical test to get your results...
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by cascom 6y ago
Totally agree, especially as I signed up for exactly zero of them. Rant: As I side note I usually try and buy direct when shopping online rather than through Amazon (for all but the most trivial purchases) and this is the 2nd largest drawba
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by cascom 6y ago
I think you've nailed the deficiency with regards to MBAs, as they often lack the domain expertise in many situations to be as effective as they might want to be. However, often times the reason the MBA is dropped into that situation i
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by cascom 6y ago
I think you hit the big ones, I’d add: 1. meditation/self-reflection (could even be journaling) 2.talking with friends/family 3. Small pleasures (brewing that perfect cup and sitting somewhere quiet and enjoy it, taking the dog fo
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by cascom 6y ago
Don’t forget corn, vanilla, squash, green beans, avocados, blue berries, strawberries and many more.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_crops
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by cascom 6y ago
I think I’m the Vancouver case foreign buyer is highly correlated with money launderer (capital control kind rather than illicit gains)
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by cascom 6y ago
Which sounds like a huge renovation bill if you actually want to use the thing (plus most buildings of this type tend to be light in things like indoor plumbing)
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by cascom 6y ago
Without out defending the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic, it’s patently absurd to think policy should be purely driven by science, policy must incorporate ethics, national interest, individual liberty, economics, and a host
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by cascom 6y ago
The first question is 4-5% real or nominal. I.e. 4-5% or ~6-8% nominal?
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by cascom 6y ago
“We will never sell your data” except we may change our mind, have the right to amend our privacy policy anytime we like without notifying you (apparently it’s on us the consumer to periodically review their privacy policy for updates) and
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by cascom 6y ago
Seems to me the answer is simple, just like cigarettes, food, or credit cards, there needs to be a big disclaimer on the front of the box: Waring: This TV shows ads that can’t be turned off Warning: This TV records what you watch, when and
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by cascom 6y ago
Any thoughts on what researchers are actually hoping to learn (article is very vague), is it just measuring things like the magnitude of the benefit/$, the portion of households who improve their lot vs stay stagnant?
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by cascom 6y ago
True - but I’d also say that part of good etiquette is to make an effort to learn the basics of the culture in which you’re participating. If I’m traveling to China for business it’s incumbent upon me to learn the order in which people shou
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by cascom 6y ago
Social etiquette is about respect and care for others as well as yourself, lack of etiquette in my mind is a display of lack of self awareness at best, and self centered/narcissism at worst.
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Ask HN: Best Privacy/Tracking/Bubbling FAQ
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by cascom 6y ago
The fact is both people signed up for jobs where they are highly compensated but are always “on-call” - now one wants to change that, still be highly compensated, and the other has to pick up the slack...

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