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The dirtbike around their property neighbors.
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I looked into cars from your comment and it seems working hard toward regulation is the right approach.
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As tptacek mentions Net-30,40,50,...90 are all common terms, you should expect and plan for longer payment windows and more term flexability as invoice amounts increase. An advance from an invoice factoring company is an available option,
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Possibly is, my experience with a few current London based clients in my day job is often recieving pushback and delays on any initial deposits or pre-payment. Holding firm that the clearly defined payment terms are a prerequisite for work
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>finding clients who are convinced you can do whatever you want to sell. Find clients who need what you want to sell and convince them is the solution. It's not easy and in my experience they won't all be convinced (some eve
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>The average live weight of US hogs at market is right around 280 lbs., not because the animals can't get larger than that, but because growing them beyond that size cuts For reader reference a full grown sow can weigh 500+ lbs, a f
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I agree South Park could probably move elsewhere after their contract is over (goes through 2022). They were disallowed from showing a cartoon depiction of the muslim prophet Muhammad by Comedy Central in the past and did not leave, they d
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But maybe the commentor does just call? I usually do for pizza because pizza websites suck even for people with typical vision. IME.
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I'm not blind but I'm laughing from reading your annecdote because: I'm a developer with typical accessability requirements who has a similar experience ordering pizza online and winds up calling ;-)
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To be fair, almost all in home medical alert systems use a fixed base station. So even if they wore both, the Life Alert bracelet would only save lives in a ditch very near the home.
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Fwiw, it was the PATRIOT Act, passed shortly after the events of 9/11/2001, that allows for these administrative subpoenas and gag orders and removed any effective judicial oversight. Many of those provisions in the act were set
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The 4K comment was likely in refrence to streaming providers like Netflix, etc. which don't offer 4K content playback on devives which are not deemed to be adequately locked down, which is a typically a stipulation of their content lic
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Point of caution before using adnauseam: I installed and used it on 3 devices for about 6 months a few years ago. I have seen an increase of about 50 fold in the amount of targeted spam phone calls and physical mailers I receive since that
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Tomatoes can particuralry well so for the out of season times I've come to preffer using canned and avoiding the unripe tomatoes, which are often ripened (turned red) by truckloads using nitrogen. America's Test Kitchen has lot
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I think having children probably helps people realize that parents also need their children more than their children need to be the 6000th person to climb everest.
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>Any experiences or thoughts? I used to have Ting for phone service, you can require mfa/lock number porting, disable or activate or change a device/sim, toggle voice sms and data and forward calls from their multi factor authe
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I'm usually the one on my phone, and when I'm not the user I'm almost always aware of who the user is and I've granted them permission to access the device. The level of security cannot be not objectivly measured acro
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There's an MVNO owned by the Canadian ISP tucows called Ting, I used them for my primary mobile service for some time (I would still but I wanted access to Verizon's 700 and 800 Mhz bands for better coverage at my residence so I s
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What keeps you up at night? Reading commentary on the HN links I read during the day
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It's also a bit arrogent for a top executive to think a request for meeting/conversing with a top executive from a potential new employee in a subordinate role is a demonstration of arrogence. I don't suggest making it an ab
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>The safety of vaping is entirely dependent on what's in the liquid you're vaporizing This is statement is incorrect. It discludes the very real and proven health threats that heavy metal consumption can enlist. A simple und
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Jokes are allowed here but they must be purchased with karma
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I diddn't assume causation was implied. Your interpreter reads "." with a value of " because" while mine read "." with a value of " however". If we assume a single meaning value of "."
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>Whereas a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08% (the legal limit in most states) might result in a concentration of 208 ppm of ethanol in the breath, a similarly impairing dose of cannabis results in 0.00001 ppm of the drug in breath. Hi
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I’ve always assumed those “by using this * you agree to *” statements are meant for someone else. Presumably they’ve read and agree with whatever is I’m skipping.
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01CGAT’s link sums it up as: TCP is not designed to be stacked and doing so results in the exponentially increasing retry timeout feature, used for reliability optimization of the protocol, conflicting to provoke excessive retransmission at
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Curious as I will sometimes find myself annoyed at a similar email... If it said "When are you going to do this?" would that be acceptable?
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To second this, it's my understanding that Google for instance is a proponent of transport security as it helps prevent middle men (ISP's, etc.) from stripping and replacing ads in transport.
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Yes removing the limit put on in the early 20th century would have broad ranging consequences, most of them would be to the detrement of the existing representatives.
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Unfortunately, in the US, we've allowed our representatives to enact a hard cap on the number of representatives. So the representative you elect decides these thing for an increasingly larger number of citizens as population increase
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