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by hga 10y ago
I mean that the judge fucked Christmas up for a bunch of poor folk by blocking a well deserved change in regulation that no longer served its original intent in protecting laborers. All I can say is that I'm now quite certain I wasn&
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by hga 10y ago
I myself have a genetic disabling combination of anxiety and "depression of a bi-polar nature", our best guess, it's not the normal unipolar and my engineer uncle with this is frankly bi-polar, but e.g. self-administered cogn
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by hga 10y ago
Someone came up with a very simplified version, BTW, http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/11/alt-right-what-it-is.html short enough to quote in full: 1. Alt Right is right-wing. No lefties! 2. Alt Right so edge, not l
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by hga 10y ago
Well, I perceive that SubiculumCode is among other things arguing that this legal procedural issue, and the possibility that the administrative rule making did not follow the law, something we ought to accept as legit given that Obama nomin
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by hga 10y ago
And to top it off, we have no drugs that are both effective and effective for the long term to treat anxiety per se (maybe an anti-depressant will help you think more clearly and not think yourself into anxiety, and there are some semi-wi
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by hga 10y ago
And having been exempt salaried but working in D.C. for a dozen years where so much is done by government accounting rules, it's a total pain in the posterior to make sure your Official worked hours add up to exactly 40. One of th
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by hga 10y ago
You're effectively saying " [The rule of law] is shit ", which as the article notes, might also result in the new Trump administration refusing to defend this administrative action (which would be legitimate unlike the cases
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by hga 10y ago
The GitLab team handbook is the central repository for how we run the company. As part of our dedication to being as open and transparent as possible, the handbook is open to the world....
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by hga 10y ago
There's the scenario where such a capitalistic gain oriented investor is contacted by a PRC intelligence agency and made an offer he can't refuse. Remember this is a country where such a refusal can land you in a forced labor cam
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by hga 10y ago
According to the article, before that, one professor's report lead to a near extinction level AI winter in the U.K. for a decade, which also effected Continental research funding. So more than one major winter. As someone who rode par
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by hga 10y ago
Rather similar here in Tornado Alley, and put to the test in the smallish city I was born and raised in, and retired to in time for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado Yeah, if you grow up with the th
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by hga 10y ago
The world of IC & SoC design will be new to us, no doubt about it. Which means the most likely bet, unfortunately, but historically the case with technology mergers like this, is that they're going to screw it up.
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by hga 10y ago
Wars against arithmetic don’t end well. - Walter Russell Meade
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by hga 10y ago
Subtitle: "His site tracks black-market exchange of the bolivar, swaying the price of everything" And I've heard of him before, the government there is very upset at him.
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by hga 10y ago
Hmmm, Churchill's "greatest" histories, The World Crisis (WWI) and The Second World War , which I've recently started re-reading (or at least The Gathering Storm , the first volume of the interim period ending with h
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by hga 10y ago
In my experience they're pretty shy, but there are so many of them, enough of them cross roads, and we have 13.5 times your population, with plenty of it in e.g. the fairly crowded North East where the old farms have returned to forest
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by hga 10y ago
One of the goals is to find someone who'll fall for such a scheme. If it was more plausible, they'd waste time on someone who'd end up not pulling the trigger when they realized it was too likely to be a scam.
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by hga 10y ago
Yeah, it depends on the region, but here in my pretty wet part of SW Missouri we have "Red Flag" days ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_warning ) when we have to be extra careful, but we're simply n
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by hga 10y ago
Errr, I mean their new low cost raw storage B2 Cloud Storage (now 0.001 cent/month more than Glacier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13010949 ), not their total solutions for those not wanting to go to that sort of
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by hga 10y ago
I had such a setup when the Joplin 2011 tornado hit: http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/ and I got off lightly. But the separate room my BackupPC hard drives were in was breached (see 302-2
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by hga 10y ago
You don't have any deer like we in the US do, right? That's our deadest animal, through crashing with cars.
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by hga 10y ago
tl;dr: The usual silly speculations and misstatements about Trump's position on H-1B visas, but if they're right about Sessions (and why should I believe that?), the position of both is "Intel yes, Infosys no". Which wil
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by hga 10y ago
Some of us like a real winter season, and I'll also note that a hard freeze kills or suppresses a bunch of bugs. Are big scorpions a thing in LA? (I wouldn't expect them to be so in SF, probably too wet.)
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by hga 10y ago
One of my favorite books as a kid was Snow Treasure , which involves kids sledding the country's gold bullion past unsuspecting Nazis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Treasure It's almost impossible to a
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by hga 10y ago
Retired, so no need for work/personal separation, but I never did it before, but made sure that my company knew any work I did at home was going onto my general tape backups and was not going to be deleted any time soon after I left th
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by hga 10y ago
Wait a second, it just occurred to me that all of you who are dismissing NRA membership numbers due to it being required for an activity are making an error that's entirely relevant to the actual discussion: Oh, yeah, let's say
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by hga 10y ago
Has a rather cartoonish view of large scale farming. E.g. one of my father's best friends, until he was somewhat disabled by a stroke a few years ago, assembled large farm machinery, at fairs and the like for display, those delivered
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by hga 10y ago
One note, Remington has never, or at least not for a very long time, been a particularly high quality gun manufacturer, aside perhaps from their shotguns (and I don't know about their current quality, only that of the 870 in the '
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by hga 10y ago
Along that vein, The King's English . First edition 110 year ago (and therefore beyond copyright), last in 1931, so it's officially out of date, but well written and opinionated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by hga 10y ago
~75% of it's income comes from membership dues and individual contributions, see e.g. https://www.quora.com/Where-does-funding-for-the-National-Ri... which has links to the 990 forms with the hard numbers. Here's

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