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13y ago
How many sitting congressmen have ever lost their security clearance? It seems like the decision reached in Gravel v. United States totally contradicts what you say.
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13y ago
Why don't the tech companies just fund improvements to actual mass transit instead of the busses? It seems like in the long run, if they continue to grow, that would make far more sense.
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13y ago
So having slow compiles on NTFS is worse than having silent corruption on HFS?
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13y ago
Even if its a requirement of the VC's so that the cap table works out to what they want? i.e. the VC's want 60% of the company at a specific valuation but they can't do that without the founder selling 5% to them.
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13y ago
I've been under the impression that Paterno, while he didn't continue to pursue beyond the legal minimum, did push it up to the people who were supposed to handle such things (head of security/college president) and they were
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13y ago
Do any NFL players go directly from high school? I think I've heard of a few NBA players that have come close and MLB has its own minor league system so they recruit directly from high school.
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13y ago
As someone who owns some Yahoo stock (which makes me a Tumblr owner (admittedly 9.9009901e-7 percent)) I feel pretty good about it.
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13y ago
$100 (or 10% of your spend whichever is greater) gets you that at AWS ( https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/ )
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13y ago
Are you comparing living without a home to living in a small apartment in a major city? Given people seemed to raise kids and survive in 983 sq ft during the 1950s (average house size) I don't see why people think we need massive house
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13y ago
Somehow most people living in dense cities make do with a small amount of space. For example it's not uncommon to find 300sq ft apartments in Manhattan. Some people even manage to raise kids in such space. Look at places like Hong Kong
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13y ago
Since when does the NCAA act as anything other than the judge, jury, and executioner?
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13y ago
> Between 1973 and 2007, oil imports have risen from 36% of energy consumed in the U.S. to 66%. It's interesting they didn't cite figures from 2007 to 2013 yet they link to them. From their EIA link, it appears we import about
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13y ago
You know the "don't snitch" stuff applies to police too? The "blue wall" is pretty much the same thing.
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13y ago
Is that valid without assigning copyright or otherwise formally licensing it?
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13y ago
What laws of diplomatic immunity were violated? Are diplomats immune to every law in the country they are in?
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13y ago
How does that work if you are a consultant for example? Or, not sure how common they are in Sweden, a salesperson paid only on commission? I guess I'm curious how it deals with extremely variable salaries or is it just last year's
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13y ago
Aren't share save scheme's more like employee stock option programs? Most large companies offer them and they are usually pure profit for the employee since you buy the stock at a discount. If its like equity/option grants in
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13y ago
How do those track you then? Do they only use ip address? Seems like that would really fail for any offices that use NAT.
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13y ago
If its not enough money to spend a few hours on, then I'm not sure its enough money to complain about either. Where? Wherever you are, assuming in the US? I'm sure they could motion for dismissal under their TOS but at that point
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13y ago
Don't employees in SV still have to pay state taxes on their salaries?
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13y ago
Is that $45K total Canadian taxes on it or just what you pay to BC? $150K CAD ($140K USD) in NYC will result in you paying ~$58K CAD ($55K USD) in taxes between City, State and Federal.
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13y ago
$1500? Sounds like they got lucky. Streeteasy shows only 3 apartments for rent for less than $1500 and one is an SRO. ( http://streeteasy.com/nyc/for-rent/downtown/rental_type:frbo... ) I'm sure you can fi
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13y ago
Why can't you file a small claims lawsuit? It should cost you about $50 and a few hours of your time.
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13y ago
How did you conclude the actual loss was > $12K? He got the bitcoins at today's price + $50. That seems like there was no loss?
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13y ago
What financial companies are adopting Mongo for accounting/customer transaction storage? I've heard of somewhere like ADP using it but they are using it as an analytics database, not for actual payroll processing.
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13y ago
You think that Goldman Sachs, for example, had exactly 263,674,000,000.00 of cash and cash equivalents at the end of 2012? You don't think that's likely rounded to at least the million? In fact it seems that most Fortune 500 compa
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13y ago
How do most companies in California avoid getting caught Under federal law most salaried jobs are exempt from paying overtime, I didn't know that California had changed that. What sort of overtime pay do programmers at Google and Apple
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13y ago
How did Nixon taking the dollar off the gold standard change where France keeps it's gold reserves? Do you mean their standard policy was to convert all dollars received into gold? Doesn't pretty much every major country still kee
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13y ago
He only said "credit cards with rewards", as in there's no incentive for people to use credit cards that have a reward if they end up charged more for every purchase. Also if you are a millionaire and are having a hard time f
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13y ago
Why do you think that everyone spends extra hundreds per year to get a free flight? Most people I know that use rewards cards use them because they put most of their expenses on credit cards anyway so getting an extra 2% back is just a nice
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