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by grimjack00 7y ago
At a high level, at least, anything in categories like "Groceries", "Health Care", "Personal Hygiene".
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by grimjack00 7y ago
>Part to fix my cloths washing machine? Appliances are apparently "non-essential", according to several governmental orders. Local news here in Denver made a big deal about the city putting a padlock on the doors of an applianc
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> While Google and Microsoft both offer a product that "just works" with only a browser. But those products don't always "just work", at least not in my recent experience. I have had repeated problems with Google
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by grimjack00 7y ago
Note that at the news release link, they have bolded payment . So, you still have to file by April 15, but if you owe, the payment is not due until July 15. Edit: and now I see that the tweet re: filing was just this morning, so website ch
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> The upper half will just eat into their savings some but won’t suffer like those living paycheck to paycheck. What makes you think the upper half does not also contain people living paycheck to paycheck?
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> who knows if few days from now they won't discover there was a carrier on the campus. And by that time, most of the student body (with who knows how many asymptomatic carriers) will have been widely dispersed.
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by grimjack00 7y ago
That probably happened, too, but nobody will admit to it. https://www.csoonline.com/article/3500437/auscert-2017-you-a...
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by grimjack00 7y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/candi-cdebaca-tweet-corona...
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by grimjack00 7y ago
Perhaps the United Kingdom will sue University of Kentucky for using "UK"; let the university know what it feels like to be the little guy.
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by grimjack00 7y ago
About two years after my company was bought by a larger one, I was the first person at the office one morning, only to find someone waiting outside the doors. Before I could ask, he introduced himself as an employee from an out-of-town offi
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by grimjack00 7y ago
...most of them.
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> content lenses I'm guessing that's a typo, but it works just as well as "contact lenses".
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> but they don't actually have a reason why. I once heard an interview with a recruiter (don't recall what industry) who said something along the lines of companies don't want to hire currently-unemployed people "bec
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> 64% of Americans support stricter gun laws The problem with that statistic is that most of that 64% probably have no idea what the laws _actually_ are. As stated in another reply, full auto has been strictly regulated for _decades_. A
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by grimjack00 7y ago
Breaking ranks on those issues means you get no support from the party.
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by grimjack00 7y ago
This isn't unique to right-leaning sites. Expressing support in the wrong (right?) place will get posts deleted and accounts locked.
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by grimjack00 7y ago
Was it difficult to hire engineers proficient in Elixir, or was it difficult to hire engineers who could _learn_ Elixir? When my employer decided to use Elixir for a new product, we had maybe 2-3 people experienced in Erlang/Elixir; fo
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> and value a lot of the same things Rubyists do: good documentation In my opinion, the Elixir community (at least for the core language and major libraries) does documentation better than any other environment I've used. Almost eve
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by grimjack00 7y ago
This is one of the reasons I'm not in favor of much of the deplatforming that has been going on. It's not just that the mainstream sources are supposed to be compromised, but they are actively trying to silence the speaker. When Y
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by grimjack00 7y ago
In my experience, the double standard usually goes the other way. Many of the liberal arts electives I could choose from (as a physics major) were foundational requirements in that major. For example, in a literature class I took, the instr
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by grimjack00 7y ago
Although it wouldn't be surprising to have two (or more) laws contradict each other.
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> As soon as the announcement goes out that the boarding process will begin shortly, a dozen people from Groups 4 and 5 will rush to their lines. If you're boarding in a late group, overhead space will likely be at a premium, so you
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> ordinary people can be heard You mean _unions_ can be heard; the ordinary people who make up the unions may not agree with the stance of the union.
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by grimjack00 7y ago
On the other hand, I know of a couple bootcamps that recommend his website and books as prep and supplementary material.
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> Since only the rich are employed by employers who offer the benefits of these accounts So, being an employee of a company that offers a 401k is the new definition of "rich"?
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by grimjack00 7y ago
And apparently no punishment for those who lied.
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> the US, with the most guns per head in the world, has the highest rate of deaths from firearms, while Japan, which has the lowest rate of gun ownership, has the least. Well, duh. I bet more people die from falling down stairs in multi-
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by grimjack00 7y ago
Similar for me with an Oculus Quest. Maybe if I left the adjustment at one or the other extreme for an extended session, I'd notice something, but for my usual 30 minutes or so, I haven't seen any difference between settings.
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by grimjack00 7y ago
And now that women can serve in the military, it's time to update the Select Service law so it requires both men _and_ women to register on their 18th birthday.
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by grimjack00 7y ago
> As someone coming from the hiring side, I don't understand how these companies are finding enough candidates that they can afford to put up all these arbitrary requirements. Well, they're not; that's one reason why there

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