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by cpwright 12y ago
People who have expenses like child care, mortgages, car payments, unexpected medical bills, don't contribute to a 401K through automatic payroll deductions, or who just don't budget as well as they might. The average savings rate
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The agreement is between the employee and the employer, and is a term of negotiation just like salary. The two non-compete agreements I've entered into both include provisions to be paid if the company chooses to enforce it. When I wo
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My first thought was that it would be nifty to pay with Amazon, but my second thought is that I would rather give a less trusted party my credit card number than have to sign in with Amazon to do it (and have to be wary of phishing). Getti
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The pay 0% sales tax is surprising to me. At least in New York whenever you register a vehicle, you pay the sales tax; no matter what state you bought it in. Even if you didn't have to pay the tax to register, my guess is that the NJ
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An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record(geosociety.org)
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> * Tooling that exists in standard units seems to be a bit of a red herring: I dislike having to own wrenches in both standard and metric units - a transition to one set would actually be nice. At a larger scale, i.e. manufacturing, it
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Because I don't want to look at 243.82cm on my tape measure, or if I am trying to lay something out to match the 16 in on center studs 40.64 cm, 81.82, 121.92, 162.56, 203.2, and then 243.82 cm. For new stuff you could probably cheat a
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If Uber drivers were constantly parking illegally in front of your building, it seems that there is not only a problem with Uber, but with your city's parking enforcement. If they are truly illegally parked, nailing them would seem li
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Cinderella's Castle in DisneyWorld was to have an apartment for Walt Disney, though he died before it was completed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_Castle
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> If I someone took away my monitor, I could replace it and it would be alright. If my keyboard disappeared, I would be more distraught, even though logically I could just as easily buy another one. The thing is that you can't alway
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I don't live quite upstate, but we already have a nuclear power plant; and our town supervisor is complaining about a plan to land a transmission line in the town not to far from it to export power from upstate to downstate ( http:&#x2
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I agree that the 1 mile is too rigid. There are only going to be about 3,000 people within a mile radius of me (~1K/sq mile) whereas in Manhattan you would expect around 210,000 (~70K people/sq mile). To get a similar expectatio
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The stores are franchises, so it makes sense that they won't ship it from store to store. I can even sort of see why they might not want to ship a single item to a store; given that they might want to batch these things up and skip th
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North York, not New York. York is a city near Toronto.
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I actually find that a bit surprising. I would expect with a larger form factor one could fit a bigger battery into the phone (like an iPad has much better battery life than an iPhone). A longer charge would be more motivation for me to u
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I don't know if this is meant to be pithy or serious, but I think I disagree. Agriculture is big business, farmers are smart people, and there is a history of lots of mechanization and interesting technology being applied. The produc
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My takeaway: our median income is still higher than pretty much everywhere except Canada, which has caught up with the US.
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The current software is also just bad. I used to use TurboTax, but now I'm using TaxCut. TaxCut has the following issues, which are really just stupid at this point: - Even though it could import last years return, it needs me to tel
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by cpwright 13y ago
I can't speak to the steel aspect of it, but for the top; it looks like it should be about 25 board feet, which should be about $250 for good quality wood. Add in some labor and consumables for surfacing and finishing, I would guess t
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If done correctly, the price appreciation of a home and tax increases should be unrelated. At least in NY, your share of the property tax levy is the value of your property divided by the value of all properties in the taxing district, mul
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by cpwright 13y ago
For the data entry jobs as a contract employee, I think it is actually the correct word. Outsourcing doesn't need to be on-shore, or even remote. IBM outsources its secretaries and maintenance who work in the same building as employe
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If they don't do things so perfectly or well at scale, and then have a "bad attitude" about it, they will likely turn off customers, lose their stellar reputation, and will have less of a problem at scale. The market will pr
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by cpwright 13y ago
Why is it uncalled for to publicize the lawsuit if it is frivolous? In general, it may be bad PR; but if you're willing to file a suit that is public. There is no reason to cede the initiative to the plaintiff if you think they are t
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It is also possible they told him that if he didn't resign, he would be terminated. From the article, "No employer shall coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees through or by means of threat of discharg
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I understand a fixed loan and a variable loan, and those are what I'm used to considering when deciding whether to borrow money. I think the issue that the post brings up is that the target market for the microcredit borrowers consists
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The regulator cares about more than just the mean price. The idea behind Reg NMS is that anyone who places an order at a protected venue should get the best price available, not just something close. It isn't enough for the differenc
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by cpwright 13y ago
One of the reasons I didn't want any smart phone was the size (I had a small flip phone from Virgin Mobile); but now I'm used to my iPhone in a Book Book. On the other hand, my wife often has no pockets, and never puts her phone i
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As Wikipedia describes it that is not a flat rate loan. If I borrow $100,000 for 15 years at 5% it would cost me $183,389; and I expect to see that in the disclosure. But that is still a regular APR. A flat rate 5%, would mean that each
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I've never even heard of a "flat rate" loan until now. For the average american it sounds very close to a fixed rate which we are more used to even though it is far different.
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I wonder how much an RPi compute + the dev board, will be compared to an RPi Gertboard to get at all the interesting bits of the processor.

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