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by gergles 11y ago
Postmates charges exactly what the retailer charged you plus 9% (it's a transparent markup, not an opaque one like Instacart.)
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by gergles 11y ago
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by gergles 11y ago
In other words, you don't respect the other person enough to abide by the obligation that you created by agreeing to a 9 am meeting. If you don't want 9 am meetings, don't accept them. If you do, you're obligated to
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by gergles 11y ago
Just FYI there's been a huge devaluation of the yen/strengthening of the dollar. ¥500=$4.
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by gergles 11y ago
She only has it when she's flying on that airline, and as other commenters have mentioned, that program is being phased out, so she will soon need to subscribe to a TTP herself.
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by gergles 11y ago
What a bullshit C&D. The mark is for "SAFE-TO-SPEND", including the hyphens. The bank is using safe to spend without the hyphens. The version without the hyphens is descriptive and almost certainly not actually trademarkable.
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by gergles 11y ago
(That's an SNES in the picture, but yeah, the number is the same.)
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by gergles 11y ago
It's a warehouse. Place a Prime Now order for Manhattan delivery and they show you where it's originating, and it's the Herald Square building. (on 34th across from the ESB.)
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by gergles 11y ago
Could we get a binary rather than install a dependency manager to install a dependency manager to install god knows what to build the code for an app that we'll probably run once than delete? I mean, it's cool, but it's a lot
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by gergles 11y ago
Speak only for yourself, please. I paid close to 50% of my income in income and payroll taxes last year. I live in the US and am not in the top marginal federal tax bracket. I feel I am taxed more than adequately when compared to other econ
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by gergles 11y ago
Can you share more info on the "Open Trello" thing? I didn't hear about that and it sounds interesting to see how it was resolved.
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by gergles 11y ago
IQ tests, but those have legal problems, so instead: Work sample tests. Schmidt & Hunter, 1998: http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...
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by gergles 11y ago
The Newspeak title of this article ("Continuing to protect Chrome users from malicious extensions") gives literally zero information on the actual changes, so I tried to summarize. Hopefully it doesn't get changed.
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“Google-Hosted Only” Chrome Extension Policy for Win Dev Channel and Mac in July(blog.chromium.org)
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by gergles 11y ago
Every time this comes up, I have one simple question that I have yet to have answered to any degree of satisfaction. (Someone who endorses this structure) explain to me in one sentence with fewer than 20 words how a 'lead link' is
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by gergles 11y ago
I'm sure you heard that ISIS has suddenly appeared in the US coincidentally just a few days before the reauthorization of the worst parts of the "Patriot" act came due.
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by gergles 11y ago
MBA = MacBook Air. Can the histrionics.
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by gergles 11y ago
The only way to 'fix' Content ID is to kill it. It isn't necessary; it only helps a few gigantic media companies, and they already have effective ways of getting relief by sending automated takedowns.
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by gergles 11y ago
Obstructing traffic. It's like 2/3 of the way through the article.
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by gergles 12y ago
Gaming credit cards isn't a futile game in the US; there are signup bonuses for most of them ranging from $300-multiple thousands of dollars worth of value, depending on how you spend them and what you're interested in doing. Amer
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by gergles 12y ago
This is actually much worse than it could be, because of this: > • Treating all short-term rental hosts equally by striking the current difference in the law between “hosted” and “un-hosted” short-term rentals. Hosted rentals SHOULD h
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by gergles 12y ago
I don't think you can on Windows.
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by gergles 12y ago
Personal plat gives you an unlimited Boingo subscription - but it looks like although Gogo is a roaming partner, the subscription is not good on Gogo. Still a worthwhile benefit if you don't know about it: https://amex.boing
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by gergles 12y ago
Too bad they can't get rid of DASH, because DASH is the real problem behind buffering, jerky playback and other nonsense. I really strongly dislike how bad the video playback experience is and has been for quite some time on YouTube.
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by gergles 12y ago
> I even use Xylitol to sweeten the sushi rice! I'm amazed sushi restaurants let you in after they notice that. That's a level of disrespect for the chef I can hardly imagine.
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by gergles 12y ago
In most cases, the company agrees to pay the arbitrator, so it's even worse. You're in private court where the judge is paid by your opponent. The statistics on how often outcomes go against the company are about where you'd
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by gergles 12y ago
> San Francisco has now banned plastic water bottles at public events and spaces, Wait, is this a joke? SF doesn't permit me to carry a plastic water in public? Of course it's a joke (well, bad reporting from TechCrunch - I am
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by gergles 12y ago
Chipset Model: Intel HD Graphics 4000 VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 1024 MB
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by gergles 12y ago
It crashes on start for me on my MBP 13, so I'd say no.
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by gergles 12y ago
This is not an OMI/(a)(8) eviction. Please actually read and understand the letter.

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