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by cimmanom 7y ago
Carbonated water is very mildly acidic. Sodas (the sweetened ones), which I’m guessing are what GP is mostly referring to (what with the mention of sugar earlier in the paragraph) have sugar, which may encourage the growth of bacteria that
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Why?
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Providing relocation assistance to incentivize people to go elsewhere piecemeal, rather than trying to move them all to one place together?
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Which is probably a big part of why you have a net worth of $1M instead of $1K!
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by cimmanom 7y ago
OK, good point. I was kind of thinking of "the 1%". Debating whether to edit and fix, but leaning towards leaving it.
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by cimmanom 7y ago
All these "you need to make a gazillion bucks to live a middle class life in SV" articles fall prey to the same fallacy. Comfortable !== Luxury Yes, SV is one of the most expensive places in the country (maybe the world) to live.
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by cimmanom 7y ago
It looks like they're concerned that releasing some of the details would compromise other investigations that haven't yet concluded.
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Use only elements and CSS properties that were available in 1998. Don’t use tables, which tend to force minimum widths. Don’t use large images. Everything else should reflow automatically.
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Also a very good point!
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by cimmanom 7y ago
This. On the flip side, if you're working on a side project you want to monetize but don't want to bother incorporating until you get a bit of traction, then yes, in the interim it can be worthwhile to keep the finances separate i
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Perhaps there are other historical buildings we should scan just in case something similar happens, be it war, earthquake, fire, or whatever?
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Probably Rust too. And Scala.
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by cimmanom 7y ago
I love how often the answer to “what was the first time someone did X?” turns out to be several times longer ago than one might have imagined (that Ancient Greek battery seems to have surfaced a couple Times this week too).
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by cimmanom 7y ago
On the other hand, rent control can make it possible for people to afford to live in areas of high opportunity when they otherwise might not. I for one have stayed in one of the highest paying and costliest metro areas in the world in part
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Twice (starting new enterprises) if it weren’t for a couple lucky breaks I’d have needed at minimum 18 months. As it was, I burned down about 6 months worth the first time before starting to break even. The second time it both took off and
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Not a ton without compromising anonymity. What specifically do you want to know more about?
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Yes, 3 or 4 times. Each time I escaped by making sure I had 12 months of (frugal) expenses saved up, and then taking the boldest calculated risk that presented itself. Each time, it’s catapulted my career to a level I’d previously thought u
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Ah, it wasn’t clear from your post that these were contract positions. Those are generally expected to be short. Have you looked for/are you interested in full time work? It’s not clear to me what problem you’re trying to solve.
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by cimmanom 7y ago
It sounds like you’re being let go from a lot of jobs. What feedback are you getting about why?
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Whatever your full time people either can’t do or would be so miserable doing that they’d quit if you put them on it for more than a few days at a time.
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by cimmanom 7y ago
That’s not actually how it works. It’s perfectly possible for a woman to pee into those little cups without making a mess (I’m a woman and I’ve done it plenty of times at the doctors office). Speaking of which, peeing into a cup for true me
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by cimmanom 7y ago
so they do want junior developers. They’re just giving them the “senior” title ridiculously early in their careers. What no one REALLY wants are ENTRY LEVEL developers, who tend to be a net negative to productivity for roughly the first yea
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by cimmanom 7y ago
That the percentage of developers over age 40 is lower than those under 30 could just be the result of demographic shifts: many more people per year were entering the profession in 2015 than in 1995. Which is not to say that ageism doesn’t
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Apple's operating systems and hardware used to be rock solid, and absolutely worth the premium. I still like their operating systems better than the alternatives; but not sure the bar is all that high. They're increasingly buggy;
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Ugh, no, never. At home I like silence around me and not having to speak. While commuting it’s a privacy issue even if I liked it or could be heard clearly. At the office it’d be rude and most things are faster with a keyboard anyway. That
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by cimmanom 7y ago
By banks I mean Wall St. firms in NY, not consumer banking operations. And of course not for junior roles. I've received recruiter emails a handful of times offering $300k or $400k salaries at said banks.
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by cimmanom 7y ago
Ancient India, ancient China, ancient Egypt, and ancient Mesopotamia are all civilizations with far older histories (with meaningful archaeological remains and in many cases written records) than ancient Greece. Greece is just where many E
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by cimmanom 8y ago
This. Recruiting the candidates we want is much more difficult in a tight job market than screening for the technical skills to do the job is. What’s actually difficult to screen for is attitude. The person who can find a way to consistentl
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Perhaps in situations when dealing with an entity that’s equally (or more) cold-blooded or cut-throat and doesn’t have any personal skin in the game. Such as in a negotiation with a corporation that’s never going to care nearly as much abou
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Because the vast majority of users have no idea that that's something they can or should be using. Power users like you and I can disable this if we like, using about:config.

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