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by cdcarter 12y ago
Prop money is almost always at least 1/3 larger than a real bill, and quite often on plain matte paper that's been a bit distressed. At least for stage use.
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Hanford Site beating out the Space Needle for tourism is very interesting.
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Indeed, in this case, the non-profit that holds IKEA is a private foundation and not at all a public charity.
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by cdcarter 12y ago
I definitely use fewer distinct apps on my desktop than on my mobile. My browser, spotify, MS Office, and Messages, pretty much.
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Books by women. Books by people of color, and as many different continents and nations as you can get your hands on. Come to terms with dictatorship through Bolano, discover what it means to be an outsider with Kelly Link and Karen Russell,
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by cdcarter 12y ago
My landlord wouldn't love me very much if I started taking apart my dryer to hook a mysterious wired object to the buzzer...
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Yes, if a thread is gaining posts too quickly, HN will suppress reply buttons to try and prevent people from making hasty/not well thought out posts.
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by cdcarter 12y ago
People buried stacked is not entirely uncommon in the US though.
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Wouldn't that put you out of work, then? ;) But in all seriousness, using a spreadsheet for prototyping makes perfect sense. Why waste a ton of time setting up a database when you're still figuring out what you are doing, and a sp
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Another option is of course Salesforce/Force.com. Point and click, incredible customization potential, easy to build UI and reports, point-and-click business processes, and very extensible by code if your admins can't accomplish s
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by cdcarter 12y ago
A union that many of my friends are members of recently had a massive debate, and was near split, on whether or not it was okay for workers to take contracts that are BELOW minimum wage [0]. That's how systematic the oppression by empl
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Still anecdata but I've worked in three locals and have NEVER felt like my job steward or the union leadership aren't working to protect me. If they were, they wouldn't get re-elected. Of course, I work in an industry where t
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by cdcarter 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_farm_bill The US Farm Bill establishes agricultural subsidies.
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Probably better to use a USB microphone instead of integrated sound card A/D anyway...
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by cdcarter 12y ago
This article is written by a major dissenter in the US Govt, and published in one of the most read newspapers in the country, trying to demystify and make public the actions of the government and trade partners. Perhaps it's just the e
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Disease and plan. Almost every rapid HIV test out there is spoken about in "negative" or "maybe positive" terminology. If you get the two dots instead of one dot, you're referred to a physician who will administer a
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by cdcarter 12y ago
This is the exact reason that free STD testing clinics DO NOT discuss symptoms with you, and with a positive test immediately refer you to an MD. A testing environment is not treatment or management.
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by cdcarter 12y ago
That said, their constant changing of shipping policies, add-on only items, etc... IS terrible customer experience and there's no support about it.
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Ancient Greek had four words for love, only one of which meant the love a man has for his wife. There was also the love of family, the love of friendship, and the love of spirit. CS Lewis gives a great lecture on the Greek ideals of love, h
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by cdcarter 12y ago
"X is a ghetto" is a running phrase in the tech community dating back to at least 2007 [0]. [0]: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Well, no. In 2008 the endowment payout would be much lower. The foundation would have to choose to grant a significant amount of the principle to the operating fund.
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by cdcarter 12y ago
So, to use the examples you're replying to here, do you also believed that organized labor doesn't have the right to strike if it might make you late to work, and that the NYT isn't allowed to run an article outing you as a m
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Though it's not mentioned in the article, Seinfeld uses the weaving technique pretty straightly from "the Harold", a live performance form. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_%28improvisation%29
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Many people refuse to call back numbers that are unknown to them. Others (myself) tend not to call back on a missed call without a voicemail or a text. I assume if you just call and leave no message, you'll reach out to me another way
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by cdcarter 12y ago
But a customer has no interest or reason to negotiate or bargain with a salesperson for information. They negotiate with a company for a product.
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The point is that if there's never a box office release, there will be no revenue (net or gross) to take a share of.
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Then, if anything, we should be promoting higher quality sources, not pushing people to post ways to circumvent paid content.
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by cdcarter 12y ago
Monthly donations are a great feature, but one of the things we see often (I'm a non-profit development (that's our neologism for fundraising) manager) is the desire to have payment installations. That is, not necessarily a standa
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One of my favorite subcultures online is the high school and collegiate quizbowl (or academic competition) circuit. They now operate three regular IRC channels where the majority of online discussion occurs, where internet matches are playe
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You should probably prepare for disappointment and frustration, then. I made my gift, but primarily to help them break free of their underwriters, and because the show is incredibly strong journalism and a great look at the way criminal jus

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