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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
I have done this several times, moving cross-country via U-Haul. It's easy enough to drive the trucks, even with your car on a trailer behind it. I hire loaders/unloaders based on reviews. You can really save a lot of money doing
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
Here is my simple strategy. It doesn't work perfectly, but it increases the probability that I will answer an important call and let an unimportant call go to voice mail. I change the ringtone for everyone on my contact list to be diff
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
The price and availability of truffles in the US may improve in the future as the result of "the great race to grow black truffles in Wine Country [where] Sonoma County has beaten out Napa Valley despite getting a later start" &qu
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
You have to include Robert Greene's '48 Laws of Power'. Whether you choose to participate in power plays and scheming and maneuvers, it is exceedingly valuable to understand them and their perpetrators. This is the modern ver
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
I had the privilege of working with Bill Fouse and other brilliant people at Wells Fargo Investment Advisors in the 70s. At the time, it was a huge technical challenge to crunch the numbers for a multi-million dollar investment, and to exec
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
Look for olive oil from California. It's really only olive oil.
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
I believe he is referring to the area he traveled through after he left Lucca, not Lucca itself, which is on many tour itineraries.
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
Looking at your alias there, I can imagine that possibly you don't like talking about your work herding goats?
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
CA has frequent water shortages, and is in drought conditions right now. Where would the water for the sprinklers come from? What is going to raise it from the underground water source to the roof level? Electricity, which may not be availa
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
Here's my long-ago contribution. Scroll down for the visual. https://codepen.io/daphneokeefe/pen/Ayxlz
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
Well, you only get an opportunity to explain something when they ask.
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
In order to have an impact on election results, wouldn't you need a very large number of people without ID's standing in line all day long, for hours, to vote multiple times at different precincts? And they would have to give a va
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
I am a pollworker in San Francisco, and I can tell you from personal experience with thousands of voters that Ranked-Choice Voting is widely misunderstood. The common refrain is: I only want to vote for this one candidate, and not for anyon
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
Not sure where "here" is, but everybody working the polls in California is paid, and there are a lot of us, so it isn't "cheaper" because of that. See my comment below.
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
For comparison, that is below the local minimum wage of $15 per hour.
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
I am a pollworker in San Francisco. On voting day, there is an army of us temps working at polling places all over town from 6am until 10pm or later, for about $150. The city is having a very hard time recruiting people for those long hours
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
I simply refreshed the page (in Firefox), and it went away. Well, it was quickly followed by the now-universal popup asking me to subscribe to their newsletter, but that was easily dismissed.
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
I know of two cases in my own family where one elderly spouse died, and the other announced that they did not want to go on, and they died within about a week.
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
"The Laws of Human Nature" is scheduled for publication in October 2018. You can pre-order it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BJLX414/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
No doubt this book has been an inspiration to many (including myself), but what I find most fascinating about it is the author. Here's a quote from the link below: "Napoleon Hill is the most famous conman you’ve probably never hea
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
Obligatory "48 Laws of Power". You have to understand the rules, even if you don't want to actively participate. Greene's other books are good, too.
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
If your friends really want to include you in their event, they will find a way to invite you. I have a very active social life, and have never been on FB.
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
"Don't ask me how I know" often means that the speaker is an insider who must remain anonymous.
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
If you are a Prime buyer and your package is not delivered by the promised date, you can request and receive a free one-month extension of your Prime membership. I have done this several times. For obvious reasons, Amazon doesn't publi
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
When the slides contain a lot of text, it is not possible for me to simultaneously read and comprehend the slide and understand what the speaker is saying. The slide appears, I start reading. You start talking, so I have to decide where my
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
That preliminary phone interview will also help you to establish your credibility and expertise before they get a look at you. In case you aren't a young white or Asian man.
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
Wonderful advice from the community here. I always defer providing references as long as possible. There have been a number of occasions when I thought the outside recruiter wanted to make the reference calls because they wanted to make sur
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
Generally, it is free to "anchor" but you have to pay to tie up to a dock at a marina. When you anchor (drop a heavy weight on a rope to the sea bottom to keep your boat from drifting away) you have no connection to the land. You
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
In Chrome, you can also use uBlock Origin, which is potentially a little easier to use if you're not an advanced user. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
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by daphneokeefe 8y ago
As a software engineer in downtown SF, I invite the new teammate to lunch the first day. Help them relax after a stressful morning. Walk around the block for some fresh air and to see what food and retail is available. Have a nice lunch and

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