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by greyboy 14y ago
I'm sure that a certain subset of people do buy knives as weapons, but I'd be surprised if it was even on the radar of total knife ownership reasons. Most buy knives for display or utility (dive, general utility, bolo/machete, etc.). Every
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by greyboy 14y ago
I can't speak specifically for the group here, but the vast majority of US taxpayers by a large margin _are_ compensated via W-2 or 1099. Isn't that who it should be optimized for, rather than outliers or exceptions?
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by greyboy 14y ago
Yes, I stand corrected. Thanks.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Thanks, I missed the important word 'rate' in vacri's post in my haste.
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by greyboy 14y ago
The UK also has 1/5 the US' population - what does all this mean?
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by greyboy 14y ago
I haven't looked closely at it, but if Timatic are held liable for the accuracy and ultimately responsible (assuming litigation), it might be justified.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Additionally, doesn't it rely on the truthfulness of the SMTP server? That's not a good assumption - it's common to accept anything and null-routes bad addresses.
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by greyboy 14y ago
> it's hard for the human brain to validate that the 20 things in my cart are the same as the 20 items in the list In this age of smart-everything, there's no help for that? Seems strange. Further, to make things even less difficulty, I
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by greyboy 14y ago
This brings to mind on of my common responses: if it's not important enough to back up - it's not important! It may be expensive, either in complexity, costs of storage/services, etc, but it's a necessity. I'm curious about many of the comm
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by greyboy 14y ago
You're 100% correct if that is the meaning. But, that isn't "working" full time (unless it was a pre-agreed arrangement). That shouldn't be allowed, but poor management will not catch/act on it. However, I was specifically replying to the c
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by greyboy 14y ago
You are absolutely right. It's more work on management to have productive remote employees (and to do it right). But, there are reliable ways of understanding remote employee productivity - though, they aren't always obvious.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Kids can be a distraction, for sure. Just like coworkers or officemates who frequently disrupt others (even if not directly, such as the cube next to someone trying to concentrate). When at home, if I feel the a distraction looming, it's
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by greyboy 14y ago
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country. Sorry about that." Bummer.
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by greyboy 14y ago
It's not exactly the same, but here is an example: http://www.harristeeter.com/shopping/express_lane/policies.a... You order online and then pull up to a curbside box and they bring out your order. I'm sure other area's have similar optio
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by greyboy 14y ago
In the bank I worked at they would get almost nothing useful - unless the exploding dye packs failed.
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by greyboy 14y ago
It's not too confusing, is it? I'd say it's rather common. On the same front page is 'Scala 2.10' here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175870
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by greyboy 14y ago
I'm about as US Eastern as you can get and it's 9-10:30pm here.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Just a heads up, in your 'Gittip is Hiring' post, the 'README' link goes to the old repo and the 'new issue' link 404s.
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by greyboy 14y ago
That's weird and, well, not my experience. I've never owned a smartphone and usually use basic candybar or flip phones, such as this cheap $20 Nokia sitting next to me. I can't say that reason sounds likely. (And I have a whole drawer full
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by greyboy 14y ago
I don't know, maybe this isn't someone's hobby website. If I had to make a change like that where we work, it'd have to go through a few layers of QA testing/approval before going live. It might actually take a little effort and time. We
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by greyboy 14y ago
Not necessarily. It's not uncommon (for myself) to disable styles to make the page load faster, or respond faster on my device.
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by greyboy 14y ago
I would assume something along the lines of https://www.picplum.com/ with their API. I know Walgreens has an API for the US. There might be others, too.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Also, confusingly (after browsing HN), clicking the link title on the home page brings you to the 'Comments' page (just as clicking '# comments' will). Then, on that page, click the title takes you to the actual article/page. Not quite what
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by greyboy 14y ago
Can you call up your (father's?) provider and report the phone stolen? Aren't those IMEI's blacklisted? If so, that might make it difficult for the buyer to unload. I guess you could also threaten to do that to said buyer, first, to see if
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by greyboy 14y ago
wiwillia (of Teespring) appears to be hell-banned, but not sure why.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Gotchya. But that doesn't invalidate my reply, which was about the numbers being compared and the context of those numbers. Are there many people living in the desert where the military trains? Or over open water? Many military bases don't
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by greyboy 14y ago
Understood. But in context, this is a very small amount of the total set of government contractors, most of which are designers, analysts, aircraft/ship building and maintenance, software developers, among a host of other areas. Only a few
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by greyboy 14y ago
It's a bit unfair, I'd say, to compare a single military fighter jet incident rate to (all?, matured?) civilian aircraft incident rates, as such: "It's like comparing over-powered motorbikes in the hands of reckless teenagers with school bu
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by greyboy 14y ago
It's common to give contractors a bad wrap, and certainly some deserve it. But, many DOD contractors are ex-military persons, either retired, discharged, physically unable to remain in service, or simply choose to work "on the other side of
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by greyboy 14y ago
addlepate appears to be hellbanned. --- "Hate" is a weird concept to bring up. RIM went from practically defining this market to having a substandard product. That's why most of their users are unhappy, not because their brand is simply unf

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