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by frossie 17y ago
Absolutely yes - if you are a permanent resident and have held your green card for at least 5 years (the qualifying period) you should apply for citizenship. The reason is that a green card is not permanent; you lose it when you leave the c
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by frossie 17y ago
Am I the only person disturbed that this is an actual F AQ that crops up "every hurricane season"
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by frossie 17y ago
Auction fees are ludicrously high, and the process is increasingly hostile (and expensive) to small time sellers. Indeed. Isn't it ironic that eBay used to be a community of people (many of which were buying and selling at the same time)
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by frossie 17y ago
It was Kate Fox. I would have plugged the book (which is funny and thought-provoking reading) but I don't know how many people here are interested in the English tribe :-)
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by frossie 17y ago
Well of course it is defensible to study what happens when you get people mad. For example I read a great account of a social anthropologist who queue-jumped on purpose to study how (English) people dealt with it. But the scientist queue ju
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by frossie 17y ago
He believes it proved that, even in a 21st century digital fantasyland, an ugly side of real-world human nature pervades, a side that oppresses strangers whose behavior strays from that of the mainstream Wait wait - so he knowingly violat
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by frossie 17y ago
Eh? Submitters routinely submit a different title than the original article (eg. to give more context) - if that makes you do a double take, you must be doing it a lot. I don't even notice. The N in "N ways to" is usually noise, so I can se
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by frossie 17y ago
I monitor the World News RSS feed from guardian.co.uk - just to remind myself there is a world out there. They also have a very nice iPhone interface to their website, and the real website is very light on ads. Otherwise it's HN and Ars Tec
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by frossie 17y ago
Me too. But there was a suggestion floating around the Internet that eBay management is "tired" of eBay (which many would argue they have ruined with their changes in the last few years) and looking to PayPal to be their main cash cow. In w
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by frossie 17y ago
Good grief. Read the Harry Potter books aloud over the summer? How long are the summer holidays where he lives? But while on the subject, the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan is a great choice with both genders and is great fun for adul
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by frossie 17y ago
There are many many examples of this. For example, if you give girls math tests and tell them your purpose in giving them the test is to check for gender differences in math performance, the girls do significantly worse than if you tell the
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by frossie 17y ago
Uhm you may be confusing this with another story. The blogger (Ben Goldacre) certainly does not have income from several international bestsellers (though his one UK-published book, Bad Science is fabulous reading and can be obtained from a
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by frossie 17y ago
Makes sense. This is why Michael Jackson's death practically brought down the Internet, right? Irrespective of how many people actually cared about the man or his music, he was somebody that everybody knew of. Similar with Princess Diana's
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by frossie 17y ago
First, even without payment, some folk will always record music, write software, make their feature films, do their own investigative journalism, occasionally even test their own drugs. You couldn't stop them if you tried. While I agree w
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by frossie 17y ago
From their FAQ: "If you live in Alaska, Hawaii, or another country, we hope to be able to serve you in the future." If that is true, they will make a killing in these states, since they would have no online competitor - just as Netflix ch
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by frossie 17y ago
This isn't going to cost TC 4 million bucks in cash. It is (allegedly) worth 4 million to the startup. For example they are offering to plug the startup on TC - which is free to TC and probably very valuable to a startup.
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by frossie 17y ago
They are not called shareholders in an LLC, they are members, and there is no maximum number. [Disclaimer: IANAL] I gave them $50 because I liked the way they asked. I certainly don't expect to see it again :-)
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by frossie 17y ago
There is enormous satisfaction in doing something you enjoy. I agree that if you have no commitments to others (like kids) there is nothing wrong with pursuing your ambitions by ditching your lifestyle. However I should add that there are s
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by frossie 17y ago
I feel like I'm becoming disconnected with the average user Do you mean the average user or the average person :-) ? I read some human-interest blogs to decompress, my favourite is by a UK paramedic and is at http://randomreality.blogwar
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by frossie 17y ago
I am sorry to say Caitlin Flanagan is one of the the reasons I dropped my subscription to the Atlantic. I find her views are so coloured through her own experiences and opinions (with which I invariably disagree) that they completely distor
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by frossie 17y ago
That's all very well if you are being headhunted into a company with no formal HR rules. We, for example, are a reasonably cool place to work at but our paymaster is an Equal Opportunities employer. That means we have to be very very strict
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by frossie 17y ago
Passwords to resources regarding one spouse's employment shouldn't be shared with the other I totally agree with this: however passwords/passphrases related to my employment are not something I worry about in case of my untimely death - t
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by frossie 17y ago
I am pretty sure most law systems would not consider the wife a third party in this context (eg. see the US spousal privilege). [By wife I mean legal spouse in general of course]
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by frossie 17y ago
Personally, I enjoyed most this comment from the bottom of that article: So let's get this straight; you don't trust your wife, you think your daughter will grow up to be a nut job, and you're worried that your close friends will turn agai
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by frossie 17y ago
Confused. Looking at those charts makes me think that there is so much category-to-category variation that it defies logic to make such sweeping general statements.
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by frossie 17y ago
I got suspicious of the article when it blamed obesity on excess sleep. I don't know that there is any clear scientific consensus in this area that proves more sleep is bad for you. The French sleep close to 9 hours: See eg. http://www.web
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by frossie 17y ago
I want to know how I can get back to reading a book a day... oh wait, there's a whole bunch of reasons I don't want to be 11 again...
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by frossie 17y ago
Amazon Prime does not apply to the upper 2 states (Hawaii and Alaska) but you can still get super saver shipping on a huge range of goods. Thus Amazon is really the first port of call in any online shopping expedition around here. The reaso
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by frossie 17y ago
You are are right about that. Of course you could look at the question laterally - solar energy comes from fusion, so if we could master fusion, we would cut out the middle man. ITER is trying hard, but I can't help feeling that if we had a
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by frossie 17y ago
Well as a user, I would prefer a try-before-you-buy, as was common with Palm apps, which routinely offered 7 day trials and so on. While I agree the article's style comes across as whiny (not to mention dishonest), I am really quite cross t

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