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dmoy
3y ago
> will not trigger Well I don't know what triggers you, so that's hard to say. If it's cold weather, then... nowhere in the Midwest > or just name one in general. Witchita, cedar rapids (Iowa), etc If you go to a much
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3y ago
> even a mess of a studio costs $800 a month which I can’t afford There are definitely cities in the Midwest where you can get studios for <$500/mo still.
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3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape-out (In short, the last step in chip design before actual fabrication)
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3y ago
> But most people will blindly reelect the existing judges Shit, or not even have a second option. Many (half? more?) run unopposed
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3y ago
Maybe? Probably not relevant? Family court and criminal court are pretty separated. There's not a lot of overlap in judges or lawyers, and afaik there aren't any state prosecutors going to family court to try cases.
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3y ago
It's a civil suit > Is the judge criminally liable for the forced home entry? This could also be true, but you'd need a prosecutor to take up the case
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3y ago
> And what of the moral of the employees who witness all this? What sorts of employees remain in an environment where they see shop lifting all day? Do you mean morale or moral? The sentence reads a little differently if you actually me
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3y ago
Uhhh, what? I use y'all 'cus that's how all the kids in my school talked growing up. I ditched a lot of the lexicon because after my family moved to the suburbs, I got made fun of by my new friends, literally calling me "
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3y ago
> /s Not entirely sarcastic though, looking at e.g. DescriptiveFooThingFactoryFactory
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3y ago
Maybe a little overly sarcastic, but there's a real point there: Not everyone can get into med school (~5% acceptance rate?), but even more disturbingly some people get out of med school with tons of debt, and then either fail their st
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3y ago
Depends on if it was his lawyer's strategy or if it was his own idea (and I'm guessing it was the latter, just based on the prior behavior of "can't shut the fuck up and stop digging own grave") If it was his idea,
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dmoy
3y ago
We see here a big example of why it's very strongly advised to not testify in your own criminal trial. (Especially not a federal one)
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3y ago
> but uniforms (and related) that are deductible Not after 2017, I think?
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3y ago
> Who takes deduction doesn’t matter as far as the IRS is concerned Strictly speaking, if we're talking federal taxes, then post TCJA the IRS does care who takes the deduction. W-2 employees can't deduct expenses like that a
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3y ago
Sweden has no minimum wage even. Unions are absolutely necessary there - in fact like 90% of workers are unionized. The whole system relies on unions.
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3y ago
> is how many are not over pay but primarily over working conditions. A lot of the OG strikes in the US were mostly about working conditions too - e.g. coal wars (which ended with literal armed conflict between thousands of strikers and
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3y ago
> I recommend reading a datasheet of a chip sometime. It will put into perspective how much complexity there is in just a few millions of transistors. I do miss working directly with small, simple (relatively), cheap chips. I don't
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3y ago
Ok sure, the metro area here served by the bus is like 2.5 million or something.
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3y ago
I first heard of it from the transit union here in Seattle when they axed the downtown free bus zone like 10 years ago. There was some vague mention of the bus drivers in ... somewhere in Texas... like 30 years before that. Beyond that I h
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dmoy
3y ago
Cool general idea, some of the specifics around $$ numbers are a bit... off > Big investments generate quite a lot of money — you can draw off about 4% of an investment every year without depleting the principal, because you get back tha
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3y ago
Yup this is true. They don't want to be doing just that, and they'll get pissy if you're doing only that. Though, it's also a freaking excellent broker, so you could just... use it for your normal brokerage purposes too
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3y ago
> When a company sits on so much cash, I guess it doesn't mean cash which is liquid, but rather a variety of assets, right? Cash is a very specific thing on a balance sheet. It has to be cash or very close to cash. "Equivalen
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3y ago
Depending on the amounts you're talking about, and the mechanism: Remitley, xoom, revolut, ofx, Atlantic (?). Lot of others. Just a straight wire transfer, but depending on your bank you might get wrecked in exchange rate. Interactive
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3y ago
For very slow motion stuff right now, yea. Not chasing people down though. At least not yet...
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3y ago
Drones? Already, today. Robotic dogs to apprehend people? I dunno.
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3y ago
In competitive shooting there's a similar phenomenon. See e.g. https://tremorjournal.org/articles/10.5334/tohm.779
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3y ago
> SCIF Though there's a big sliding scale there, between "not allowed to look at prod user data for privacy/etc reasons" and "the giant black hole of nothing-comes-out" in a SCIF.
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3y ago
$90k in NYC is >30% effective after federal, state, city, and FICA. But yea it's probably top 10%. If you include medical costs outside of FICA, which many other Western countries get for near free after taxes, then it looks... quit
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dmoy
3y ago
Right, to be specific, the worry isn't: Give feedback -> get sued due to something in the feedback The worry is: Give feedback -> ??? -> get sued for discrimination-> feedback is used as evidence that the hiring decision wa
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dmoy
3y ago
Yes tech companies get sued for discrimination in hiring on a routine basis. The issue with giving feedback is the you hand evidence to the opposing side in a future lawsuit. There's very little benefit for the company, and a lot of
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