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info781
4y ago
Just call people and talk to them, then you can get a read on their inflections etc, ask if it is ok to chat for five minutes. Don't just blast out IM's.
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4y ago
Stay away from headphones if you can or be very careful with them.
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4y ago
Construction industry seems to still be short everything, doors ,windows all those parts needed to build a house.
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4y ago
DST gives you more light in the afternoon, people don't want dark at 4pm. It is a good system.
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4y ago
Learn to play tennis. Take some lessons, don't worry if you are not very good. I guarantee you will meet someone, guy or girl. It is a great social activity that you can't do alone.
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4y ago
Edge has IE mode, you can run java applets there and all the old stuff.
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4y ago
Never heard IT to mean only desktop support, it is the whole thing.
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5y ago
Been waiting 25 years for that to happen
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5y ago
It is the weathly countries where people move out younger.
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5y ago
Great advice, learning another language gets your brain going and into social situations. He sounds lonely.
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5y ago
DC is a fantastic place to walk, especially in the spring and fall. I lived in a crystal city apartment for a year , it has a fun restaurant area on 23rd. Amazon is setting up there, it has subway and train access. They are building a pede
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5y ago
The USA is not short of labor it is short of trained labor especially in the trades and hospitality industries. Illegal immigration in the last decade decimated participation in those industries and many people turned to drugs and made the
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5y ago
This is not what I hear. It is a golden age for women, they can have lots of kids or none, up to them, that is a great thing. Everywhere you go is far more crowded than 30 years ago, Europeans and people from South East Asia are very aware
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5y ago
Not to be mean, but he has worked in the US for 30 years and does not have a 401(k)? He says he can not live on social security alone, so he has not saved a dime? I could understand it from a manual laborer, but from someone in a profession
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5y ago
We have lots of people on earth, they just need to be able to move to where they want to go. Low birthrate issue is nonsense. Let a couple million people from the Philippines in to Korea problem solved.
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5y ago
If you offer an American a choice between more money or more vacation, they will take the money, for the most part.
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5y ago
So they feel they can not just put it all into VOO and VTI? Buffet has been saying for a long time it is tough to beat these two due to low fees.
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6y ago
In Canada there is no 30 year fixed product. Most people float month to month. Since interest rates have been dropping since 2002 prices will go up. Australia is very similar.
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6y ago
Resource extraction industries in Canada will always take a bulk of the engineering talent, that is where the money is. Venture capital for mining is well established in Canada. As for real estate, everyone uses floating mortgages, so price
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6y ago
Argentina is pretty messed up, low trust culture, outside of the family.
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6y ago
We had to live with sites than only ran in IE for years.
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6y ago
Nothing against your company, but when smaller companies get good long term contracts, they get bought up by larger companies and the good people leave and start new smaller companies.
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6y ago
Good people want to work at places with stock options and bonuses for good performance, the government can not offer that. Government is more suited for people interested in management, not pure technical people
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6y ago
These big companies always have a lot of overhead. The middle layers of management are useless. Often the government will try to work with smaller companies that are under 50 people. However, if these small companies land good contracts th
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6y ago
Don't like Trump, but this is long overdue, China needs to move to Taiwan system of government, not the other way around and end this "Chinese Taipei" name nonsense.
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6y ago
Not really they lost a day of data, toy database.
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6y ago
Why did they not have archive log mode on in production? Losing a db is one thing, but should have only been one hour of data lost.
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6y ago
I blame the parents for this, they should have kicked the kids out of the house when they were 22. Then they could live with roommates, men and women and learn how to live. There was a show about that in the '90s bunch of good-looking
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6y ago
It seems like concert pianist or nothing? There is lots of work for studio players or joining a band. Creativity is king , there is only so much room to play cover tunes many pianists publish on youtube.
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6y ago
A salesman will call anything that is not his product "legacy" so the word can get confusing. Also there is an issue when commercial vendors start to overcharge, and their software needs to be replaced with some thing cheaper. Thi
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