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by crikli 9y ago
What does "IYI" mean?
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by crikli 9y ago
No, that is not how taxes work. You do not get to deduct a dollar from your tax obligation for every dollar you donate. You only deduct the percentage dictated by your tax bracket. So assuming he's in the 39.6% tax bracket his tax ob
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by crikli 9y ago
Jim Kjelgaard wrote a kid's fiction book, "Hi Jolly", about this that I remember reading 30+ years ago: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41700/41700-h/41700-h.htm
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by crikli 9y ago
It was something I wrote in 2003, before git was a thing. I'd grown up futzing with code in the 80's (AppleBASIC, a bit of assembler). Turbo Pascal, ANSI C, in the early 90's. I'd started crunching through Ivor Horton&
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by crikli 9y ago
I started my professional life as a stockbroker and I remember my mentor saying "Money Magazine does not exist to advise individuals to make great trading decisions, it exists to sell copies of Money Magazine." I've since app
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by crikli 9y ago
That last paragraph is brilliant and I'm going to borrow it to use in conversations with my friends and family who have been asking me about Alex's climb and about free soloing.
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by crikli 9y ago
"Does that somehow dampen the feeling of achievement when completed? If the answer is yes, then I fail to see how it's not about cheating death in some part." It's a good question...but I think only Alex could answer tha
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by crikli 9y ago
And the type of stone. There are places in Colorado where I don't bother with chalk because it's sandstone and is so gritty that chalk is ineffective.
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by crikli 9y ago
Dean Potter died in a squirrel suit, not soloing.
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by crikli 9y ago
Especially so soon after Ueli Steck's death. I first heard about Alex's feat from FB, when I opened it up and saw "Alex Honnold" in the trending stories thing. I said out loud "oh god, no"...and then saw the
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by crikli 10y ago
I didn't stop reading, I checked out on her argument. What the author was saying was compelling up to the point she admitted she couldn't code. Non-code contributions have value, however if you don't have the engineering unde
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by crikli 10y ago
I checked out at "I am not yet a programmer." If the author had spent the time required to write this blog post (and all the others) learning to code...Shazam, they'd be a programmer. Maybe a few less replays of The Little M
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by crikli 10y ago
I can't speak for the OP but his perspective is quite similar to my own and I can offer my thoughts on the SV attitude. I felt it to be a strong culture of comparison. Comparing job position, comparing employer, comparing income by im
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by crikli 10y ago
She's blaming the boogeyman of the "alt-right" for the poor reviews. Yeah, it's got to be that, not that she has no actual material beyond "I'm a girl saying gross things, now laugh at me." I'd rathe
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by crikli 10y ago
+1 for Freshdesk. Came over from Zendesk and at the time at least it was (much) lower cost and worked better for our small biz. Great API as well with good docs.
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by crikli 10y ago
The move from calling illegal aliens to illegal immigrants (or undocumented workers, or whatever) creates so much confusion. I don't know a single person, and I know a good number of Trump voters, who is opposed to legal immigration.
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by crikli 10y ago
It's important to not confuse liberals with leftists. My liberal friends have remained (for the most part) fairly objective and open to dialogue. My friends who identify as leftists...not so much.
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by crikli 10y ago
My experience has been sadly similar. We used to have probably 30 servers at the peak across several client accounts. But yup, around the first part of 2015 what used to be a one ring call to connect with an expert became 5 minutes, then 15
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by crikli 10y ago
"Governments Should hold journalists accountable for prejudice. As long as people don't pay for media, expect the quality to be low. Advertising looks like a desperate stand by the media." I was with you right up to here. Th
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by crikli 10y ago
Well said. This smells like a hatchet piece put together by the gray hairs at StratCom who've continued to be incredulous that a private enterprise can put things in orbit and have hoped for SpaceX to fail from the outset.
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by crikli 10y ago
Evidently no one at Apple uses vim?
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by crikli 10y ago
Agreed. You cannot outwork a shitty diet BUT refined sugar is the cornerstone of most shitty diets.
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by crikli 10y ago
Fair enough. Apologies for misinterpreting.
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by crikli 10y ago
Dude. Just because someone is adamantly against having children themselves doesn't mean that they "can't find joy in the happiness of others." My wife and I decided to not have kids. I don't know that I would equ
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by crikli 10y ago
Huh. I'm wrong then obviously. Wonder if it's never come up as I tend to forward slip on crosswind landings. Don't recall a DPE ever even mentioning slips.
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by crikli 10y ago
Pretty sure #1 isn't accurate. I wasn't required to forward slip (or side slip, for that matter) on my FAA checkride nor have I been required to do so during any biennial flight review. Edit: I'm dead wrong. :)
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by crikli 10y ago
If you hadn't mentioned it I would have. It's a great documentary and explains quite a few things I'd always wondered about, such as why Chinese Americans were so strong in the laundry and restaurant industries. It does a r
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by crikli 10y ago
If only society in general would adopt that perspective. Unfortunately there seems to be a growing sentiment that someone else's success was somehow at their expense and therefore they are owed something by the successful.
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by crikli 10y ago
The Science of Ultra podcast. Run by Shawn Bearden, a runner and professor of physiology, he has scientists on to talk about high altitude physiology, hydration, effective calorie absorption, and a host of other fascinating subjects. I am
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by crikli 10y ago
President Lincoln said it best: "I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming."

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