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by emaginniss 8y ago
I'm a reasonably experienced woodworker and I couldn't agree more. The Grr-Ripper is a fantastic way to keep constant forward movement on your work piece and avoid getting your fingers too close to the blade. I use mine for the
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by emaginniss 8y ago
"seven continents" I think you malign the penguins, sir.
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by emaginniss 8y ago
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted when it is definitely true. Real biomed companies were approached, but universally turned Theranos down because they knew the limitations what what Theranos was attempting. In the face of that
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by emaginniss 8y ago
Historically, yes, but her immediate family was not particularly wealthy, lived a middle-class lifestyle, and was even in difficult financial straits at times. I think they had the remnants of money on them, but not the actual capital.
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by emaginniss 8y ago
Really? https://www.texastribune.org/2017/12/20/texas-population-gre...
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by emaginniss 8y ago
I bet you're fun at parties.
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by emaginniss 8y ago
That may be how you feel about it, but the employers feel differently. They wouldn't hire and pay someone unless they felt that the person was providing some value. Also, if you believe that one should have rent and food without work
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by emaginniss 8y ago
If you read the book, you'll find that her parents were never especially wealthy. Her extended family was wealthy at one point, but she grew up in a solidly middle-class lifestyle. Her father worked for NGOs and non-profits. They ha
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by emaginniss 8y ago
"I don't shoot heroin directly into my eyeballs" casual...
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by emaginniss 8y ago
I'd love to hear your perspective on life as someone living in 1918.
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by emaginniss 8y ago
It's a pejorative because it is a short-hand for a longer statement: "Yes, of course, we need ${X}, but not in my back yard."
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by emaginniss 8y ago
And everybody has cancer because oncologists love treating patients and drug manufacturers love selling chemo drugs. If you start thinking that way, almost every profession can be seen under a negative light.
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by emaginniss 8y ago
What would that world look like? When you wanted to borrow money, how would the lender expect that they have a good idea of your risk profile? You could tell them all of the companies with which you've had a good relationship, but ig
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by emaginniss 8y ago
There's probably more than one person on HN
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by emaginniss 8y ago
"Under color of law" means that you're a law enforcement official. Collecting extra tax and then remitting to the state will almost certainly not cause you any issues.
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by emaginniss 8y ago
That's called "consideration" and it's to prevent a contract where only one side is being obligated to do something.
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by emaginniss 8y ago
Texas public universities started a program to admit all high school students that ended up in the top 10% of their class. This covers white kids from the wealthy suburbs of Dallas as well as latino kids from the valley and black kids from
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by emaginniss 8y ago
I think it's about the service that the contracting company does. The idea being that the company should only contract for things that are different than what it normally does. IOW, if you have a 100 SW developers in SV that are empl
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by emaginniss 9y ago
Speculation is never fact
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by emaginniss 9y ago
Wouldn't that mean that nobody ever invented it?
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by emaginniss 9y ago
A debt collector would apply since they have been contracted by a HIPAA-covered entity and the data they have likely came from that source. Grindr is completely unrelated to another HIPAA-covered entity and any health data you give them is
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by emaginniss 9y ago
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by emaginniss 9y ago
The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not strangers to our land.