happenstance

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by happenstance 17y ago
Would love to bicycle to work. Here in the USA, very few people do so because (A) there's almost no room on the road and (B) motorists are almost always in a big hurry and not paying attention to anything except lights, police, and other
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by happenstance 17y ago
Ah. In the states, you only get severance if you're laid off. If you're fired, I don't think there's any severance pay involved. Also, in the states, if you're laid off, you can apply for "unemployment benefits" from the state. If you're fi
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by happenstance 17y ago
When you compress air, it heats up and expands -- thus making the pressure go up faster than one might expect. So, when storing it you lose a lot of energy as heat. When you let it uncompress, it cools -- losing a lot of energy again. Point
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by happenstance 17y ago
I don't really know what you mean by "settlement". There's no settlement that I know of when you get fired in the USA. Here, a "settlement" is something you might get if you were to sue someone for something and the court awarded you money.
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by happenstance 17y ago
Those things would be easy if it's just you. However, imposing those policies on the wife is another matter. It just devolves into fighting over money all the time.
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by happenstance 17y ago
One data point you are missing: if you fire the incompetent wife, in the USA by default she gets the kids too. Guess what kind of life they will have with just her raising them.
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by happenstance 17y ago
> It is actually quite hard to fire someone in Germany, who wants to stay. Wow. In the USA, companies can basically fire anyone for any reason at any time (in my experience). And getting fired usually happens very quickly -- as in, that
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by happenstance 17y ago
No, not anybody can. What if you have a family and are barely making ends meet as it is? It's very difficult to convince a wife that you'd like for the family to spend a little less so you can have a few months off next year between jobs.
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by happenstance 17y ago
How does a founder get fired? So, the CEO says "you're fired". Well, I'm guessing that if you're a founder then that means you're a co-owner. So, don't you just tell the CEO, "um... no"?
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by happenstance 17y ago
Thanks for sharing. How do you like e-junkie? What other alternatives did you consider?
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by happenstance 17y ago
The article is not coming up. Can anyone advise how I might go about finding a mirror?
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by happenstance 17y ago
What you allude to in your first statement is incorrect for most cases, IMO. Staying together doesn't necessarily mean letting it decrease your happiness. It might just mean you have to get your happiness from a different place. Often in li
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by happenstance 17y ago
> Are you saying we should just leave it? I don't know what you mean. I'm saying that you'll understand what Mark is talking about after you've gotten married and had children and want to keep your family intact.
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by happenstance 17y ago
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Thanks for the reply. What about if it's not a public company? That is, 2 or 3 people and an LLC?
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by happenstance 17y ago
Heh. Wait until you're married and have kids.
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by happenstance 17y ago
How does one technically get a "share of the business"? What does this mean? What paperwork is involved?
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by happenstance 17y ago
Thanks for the link. Though, I still tend to gravitate toward the simplest solutions, and in this case, a series-wound brushed motor is about as simple as it gets. Regular DC motors have heavy and strong magnets (more expensive), but the se
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by happenstance 17y ago
DC motors are very efficient, so, I'd have to see some numbers to buy that. Also, a big plus for DC motors is that the controllers are simpler. AC motors require a high-power adjustable-frequency inverter. The only downside of common standa
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by happenstance 17y ago
Lots of people do their own EV conversions from ICE (internal combustion engine) cars. Trouble is, up until now they've all used lead acid batteries (and as such, were heavy and didn't have great range). The next step -- and what I'm really
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by happenstance 17y ago
Looks redundant, but easy. Thanks.
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by happenstance 17y ago
Given my html as described above, what would you recommend to use for the DOCTYPE line?
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by happenstance 17y ago
My plan has always been: * keep making tags lowercase * keep quoting attribute values * keep closing tags after I open them (and properly nesting tags) * keep using the closing slash for standalone tags * keep calling it text/html (mime typ
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by happenstance 17y ago
I'm not sure exactly how optimized Dvorak is. There are far more sophisticated (computerized) ways to optimize keyboard layout now than there was back when the Dvorak layout was created. Also, although those punctuation characters are indee
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by happenstance 17y ago
Right. I think the current max is [5 blades]( http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930 ).
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by happenstance 17y ago
> You should just always be explicit. I generally agree. Note: I think if you leave out any specific encoding configuration from your my.cnf, mysql implicitly goes with latin1. For users who are assuming a modern unicode/utf8 default se
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by happenstance 17y ago
Why does MySQL still default to latin1? (Or am I mistaken?)