elmuchoprez

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by elmuchoprez 13y ago
I think a lot of people said "he isn't very smart" when what they meant was "he isn't very stately". And his public persona wasn't. His verbal gaffes are well known, even if they are overblown by the press. He sometimes spoke with a drawl.
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
The median US household income is something like $50k/year. Probably lower in Michigan, but we'll call it $50k. Michigan has a 4.25% income tax, so eliminating that would be a savings of $2,125. But you have to pay federal tax on that. Let'
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
One of the problems with healthcare in the US that for a long time, lots of people had insurance that would cover everything. So people would go to the emergency room over a stomach ache or schedule a doctors appointment because of a runny
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
That would work. It just requires some planning (which is my fault for not doing). The problem is that my deductible is like $1300 or something. Now I don't remember the last time I spent $1300 on medical services in a year. On average, it'
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
I run into this situation a lot: Doctors often have a cash price and an insurance price, with the former being significantly less. I have a high deductible insurance plan, which means I effectively pay for most stuff out of pocket. So when
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
I see BTC as a proof-of-concept experiment right now more than anything else. And I think it's still too early to tell what it's actually proving.
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
"Pretty much seems to have hit the speculation threshold." Based on what? Are you seeing something that suggests it's capped out for now? I'm asking because I'm at a complete loss to explain BTCs charts; all seems like gambling to me at the
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
Well, I could write a huge long response to this, but it really boils down to one question for me: When one person calls another a cunt on Twitter, what exactly do you think I should do about that? It's worth noting that every misogynistic,
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
I've often wondered how much the physicality of CCGs played into their success. Physically having a particularly rare card always felt more prestigious to me than acquiring rare digital assets like gear in WoW. When I played CCGs I really l
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
Well, this just seems late to the party. I think it's worth considering the hypocrisy of the situation, but I see no reason to do it anonymously and all the examples they provided have been discussed at length on half the tech forums and bl
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
There hasn't been an appropriate response by anyone throughout this whole non-situation.
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
1.) The only "useful" application of this that I can immediately think of is to drive up the cost per impression on your competitors. But this seems like a very short term strategy as anyone doing meaningful online marketing is watching the
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
"Well, that's what you get for being in the click based ads game really." Do you find something particularly sinister or unethical about click-based ads (more so than any advertising)?
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
"When I asked for a point of comparison, he said Detroit was 4%." The stats on Detroit emergency responders are utterly embarrassing. You pretty much can't count on police, fire or EMT even if you had a gunshot wound in a burning house and
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
"If possible, find people who have worked with the candidate that the candidate did not suggest you talk to." Would be nice if the article suggested how you go about finding these people in a fair and responsible way.
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
1.) Set up google apps account. 2.) Turn on a custom skin. 3.) Profit?
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
I would guess that the legal teams at major companies are traditionally gun shy about this kind of thing. Let's say Coke buys some IP resulting from this thing for $10k and then it goes on to revolutionize their business model and they make
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
There's a lot of research suggesting that people overestimate their productivity in remote working environments and that in general, max productivity comes from small, in-person working environments.
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
Perhaps silly, but let me explain a little more. Here's the scenario I envisioned after reading your original comment: Say you have 10 people who have committed a crime and under the current system 9 get convicted and go to jail for 10 year
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
What is the obvious benefit and how are you quantifying it?
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
The inverted pyramid method seeks max efficiency under the condition of not knowing how long your audience is going to stick around. That's why it's so prominent in journalism - you never know when the reader might just move on, so get the
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
"Most people, myself included, don't actually do the things they want to do most of the time." The problem, in my experience, is that figuring out what you actually "want" is a very difficult proposition. And it often changes rapidly. You c
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
I guess I just don't see a situation where the only tech barrier (the only thing you would need regular access to a tech for) for a site that's getting thousands of daily page views is finding appropriate hosting.
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
They're pushing features like "launch your site within minutes" and "customize your site without needing to touch the underlying PHP code," which makes it feel like they're playing to the wrong audience. By the time someone is ready to spen
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
On-stage sponsorship would create a whole new problem and set of rules (and probably costs). The value of on-stage sponsorship is not advertising to the 100 attendees, but rather that TED posts all conference videos to their main site, whic
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
Freelance stuff comes my way through a few different channels: - I do some agency consulting; basically helping them define scope and capability during the contract phase. They're strong on general dev know-how, but don't do enough Magento
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
Well, I would take some issue with the idea that a typical $200/hour consultant is billing $200/hour for 40 hours a week and taking that much home (taxes not withstanding). A lot of time gets eaten up in client relations, contract negotiat
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
I consistently meet people who earn > 200 $ / hour, without much programming experience (but know an open source project of interest very well). I see this quite a bit as well. People can "luck into" something that gets hot and ride t
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
"Call them hackers, ‘ninjas’, or ‘rock stars’ if you’d like." Anyone who uses any of those terms to mean "developer" is a huge red flag for me.
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
With over 20 years of experience researching gap years, Bull has seen students work everywhere from outdoor-education centers to Scottish castles to elephant sanctuaries. Let's be honest about what types of job opportunities there are for

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