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by defen 8y ago
Ok but can't the hospital (or the collections agency) take you to court? Let's say you have 100k bill from the hospital that you just ignore. They sell it to a collections agency for 60k. You refuse to pay the collections agency.
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by defen 8y ago
> Just let it go to collections. You'll get harassed for a little over a year. Debt older than a year is almost never pursued by collections agencies. I don't understand. Is there no penalty to not paying other than a hit on y
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by defen 8y ago
Depends where you live. It's certainly possible to live on $1000/month in many areas of the US. It's not going to be a lavish existence, but it also won't be complete penury.
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by defen 8y ago
Read Steve Blank's "The Secret History of Silicon Valley". The US military created Silicon Valley.
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by defen 8y ago
> Or to put it another way, the ROI of investing additional time into raising your children remains high as you go from spending 5 minutes a day up to 1,000 minutes a day. Do you mean ROI for the parent (satisfaction of spending time wit
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by defen 8y ago
> no one wants to discuss exactly what bug supposedly spat out the IP address I haven't really followed this case too closely, so what exactly are you hinting at here? That the government possibly used NSA / national-security-l
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by defen 8y ago
> A guy makes a bad financial call VERY early on in a company’s lifetime because he has different priorities. It wasn't necessarily even a bad call at the time. Apple was originally founded as a partnership, and Mr. Wayne was worrie
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by defen 8y ago
Anti-vaxx is probably culturally transmitted, not genetic. Either way, most unvaccinated people don't die of contagious diseases, so it won't "naturally" burn itself out.
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by defen 8y ago
> No libraries would never be invented today. If libraries didn't already exist, I can't imagine the copyright lobby allowing them to be invented.
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by defen 8y ago
I was hoping the article would have answered how the Prince (or his buyer) even heard about the book? I wonder if it was recommended by the shopkeeper, or if the fact that it was written "By A Lady" was enough to pique his interes
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by defen 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yips
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by defen 8y ago
I had to stop when it got to the guy casually smoking a cigarette and manipulating logs while not looking as they came out of the 2-foot-diameter spinning blade of death.
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by defen 8y ago
How did Hezbollah AND fundamentalist Salafi groups end up with the money? In my limited understanding those two groups don't like each other. Or is that enough money for them to put aside their differences?
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by defen 8y ago
> Like if the FSB started hiring string theorists or telekinesthetics positions to waste the NSA's time figuring out why they're doing that. They already did that: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/niko
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by defen 8y ago
> Should the need arise for Craig and Mark to return the stock they borrowed (someone calls in their shorts), they will probably need to pay a lot to convince the people who own the actual stock to sell to them, especially if the owners
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by defen 8y ago
There's also this part: "This was a common complaint among care workers we interviewed: that their industry is being flooded with people who are new to care work, who see it as supplementary income rather than as a profession and
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by defen 8y ago
> But I do notice many buildings in the cities I visit have thick strong window bars even up above the 5th floor. Thieves will rappel down from the roof, so no floor is really safe without the bars.
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by defen 8y ago
What about The Golden Ass ?
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by defen 8y ago
> There are a half dozen manufacturers all over the world making exactly this same junk. Not in the densities required for modern uses.
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by defen 8y ago
Another problem with the quantum suicide thought experiment is that there are plenty of branches where you end up alive but horribly disabled.
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by defen 8y ago
What is the downside to just always giving a positive review, though? To rephrase the original question - this is recruiter/company A calling a person who works at company B to see if someone is suitable for company A. If you just alwa
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by defen 8y ago
Would launch insurance cover this? I know it exists but I’m not familiar with how it works so maybe someone can correct me.
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by defen 8y ago
> Article states that both the Land Rover and the drugs were purchased using the payout from a life insurance policy. It is unclear whether any of the drugs were ever sold at a premium over the original purchase price. Money is fungible,
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by defen 8y ago
I think I understand the logic of civil forfeiture, but what is the justification for seizing a $40,000 vehicle when the state has only proven (according to the article) that he sold about $225 worth of drugs? It says he plead guilty to one
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by defen 8y ago
How did your company solve it?
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by defen 8y ago
Right, I agree that it's a good high-level assessment of US geopolitical strategy. Was just offering an idea of when we possibly should have realized it wasn't going to work on China.
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by defen 8y ago
> The theory is that including these countries sets up the correct incentives for liberalization, and that liberal markets beget a middle clas s which eventually demands democratic voice. And democracies are western-friendly. That was su
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by defen 8y ago
> In order to decrease the number of samples needed from the environment, we expect that ideas related to model-based RL — where you spend a huge number of neural network flops to learn a model of the environment — will be the way to go.
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by defen 8y ago
I heard about the murder but not the cluster-fuck. Was it another Boston Bomber situation?
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by defen 8y ago
I loved this book. Everyone has a different opinion on what the best translation is, so it’s worth briefly scanning a few different ones to see which you like best. I had a really hard time getting into the Ginsburg translation, but really

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