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by cosmie 7y ago
For sure! You can see my replies to sibling comments, but those opportunities exist. I just was too naive at the time and without sufficient personal support to be able to understand that. And while some of the acceptance offers made refere
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> Personally, I would recommend anyone in that situation to opt for the Ivy as it really does open doors later in life. For anyone that comes across this post: I fully agree. I was fortunate in the particular intersection of my skills be
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I don't disagree. But the cost of attendance includes a line item for "personal expenses" (which includes books and all that stuff). For 2019-2020 academic year at Harvard, that line item is $4,193[1]. There's also a lin
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> Those schools are often actually cheaper than public schools for people without much money. While this is true on paper, it's not always the case in practice. I was able to get multiple acceptance offers to Ivy League schools, and
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> They didn't anticipate the meddling kids. Nor their dumb dog![1] [1] The parent reference is to the catch line in Scooby Doo, for those that aren't familiar. And quite well fitting to the situation. https://youtu.b
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> Who are these "administrators" that always come up in the context of education in the US? "Administrators" is generally a generic term used to refer to non-teaching individuals involved in the running of the educati
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Snowplow is another: https://snowplowanalytics.com/products/snowplow-open-source/
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by cosmie 7y ago
I can't speak to the OP's performance, but Snowplow[1] may be good for your use. It's a bit more general purpose than just pure web analytics, and doesn't come with the reporting interface. But as far as the data collect
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It's entirely possible that all of those someones are outsourced. If they're using a lockbox service[1], the entire cost of processing your mailed check can come out to less than $1 (substantially less with sufficient volume). And
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> I also have read many times that Walmart forces manufacturers to cut quality to meet certain price points for products sold in their stores, whereas I haven't heard anything like that about Target. This is less insidious than it s
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> For regular off the shelf SaaS like dropbox, gmail, slack, surveymonky and just about any other tools that SMBs use the pricing seems very clear: it's always clearly listed on the site. All of the providers you listed have clearly
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> and I check some website that shows the average price is $80, I doubt I would pay the $100. This is itself an indicator of your consumer profile. Many retailers that consider such consumers part of their target demographic handle it by
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Probably the first legitimate use case for those "buy a follower" services I've heard of. $20 worth of followers and you'll suddenly get priority support by their social media team. If only those services weren't se
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> And presumably they've run models that say that their bulk savings from interconnect make this far from just a loss leader. It's basically real world chaos monkeys that are stress testing their systems. Combined with signal i
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This. I've mentioned the first aspect of that in the past here[1][2]. The interconnect benefit never occurred to me, though. That's a neat aspect! Which just continues to reinforce what I said at the end of [2], about their busine
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Construction of parking preceding the worsening of traffic is not the same as parking construction causing traffic congestion. Adding more servers behind a load balancer will also precede congestion on your network. Because you've in
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Technically, anyone that's gone through the process to become a data furnisher can report anything they like to a credit bureau[1]. Although if they can't produce an agreement that denotes your confirmation of the debt or liabilit
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by cosmie 7y ago
> I never received a ding on my credit report. Non-medical and medical collections tend to get different treatment nowadays[1][2]. It may have ended up on your credit but after a super long delay, or it'd disappear entirely if they
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> In my experience, the hardest thing about quota sampling as opposed to the old RDD phone samples 20 years ago is that it's very difficult to get high education / high SES / high income respondents. High income respondent
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I could easily seeing that happen. Watching my kid grow up, it's actually pretty interesting to see how frequently stuff like this occurs. - To those who were around when the icon was created, the floppy disk is associated with storing
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AT&T has more to gain than lose by this being successful, since they pay out billions in retransmission fees. They're already playing hardball on retransmission agreements recently, with the current CBS blackout being only the late
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by cosmie 7y ago
I naturally fall into a loose form of intermittent fasting - I've never been a breakfast person, and I tend to forget to stop for lunch. Most days, I don't usually think about food at all until around 3 o'clock in the afterno
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Yes. Which is why they pay for medical coders (or equivalent software) to optimize it for them. It's the equivalent of using an accountant for your taxes - you can certainly do your own, but your accountant likely has a far better idea
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> I really wish I could find out the answer to how this works It's billing code optimization. Doctors aren't specialists in billing/diagnosis codes, and their time is really valuable, so many of them tend to use a handful
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It's unfortunately not available in the Mac client, but Excel also has an amazingly powerful and useful tool called PowerPivot/Get & Transform[1]. You can connect to external data sources such as CSV files, Excel files, any da
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And the only thing worse than that is throwing interop/coexistence mode[1][2] into the mix. It's basically a force multiplier on the hell of using Skype for Business with a Mac. It takes the already gimped Skype for Business on
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Not sure about the parent post, but my lease also has a similar restriction. In my case, it's just re-asserting a restriction passed through via an HOA covenant[1]. But I'd also restrict it as a landlord. An improperly installed w
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by cosmie 7y ago
Oh wow! I've used them off and on, and haven't really had many issues. Albeit I haven't run into any issues that warranted contacting support, so I have no idea what that's like. That said, you don't have to use Mai
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Have you checked out Mailjet[1]? They created MJML[2], an email templating language that I've used quite a bit. The WYSIWYG editor for Mailjet leverages it, and creates pretty slick looking and compatible email templates if you don&#x2

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