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by jacalata 11y ago
I wonder if Uber has poisoned the well for transit startups - there is so much more awareness among both the public and the local governments of the law, that it might never work for a brand new company to follow their "do it and just
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by jacalata 11y ago
It's for sale directly from Apple - http://www.apple.com/au/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-s...
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by jacalata 11y ago
Actually, plausible threats that are carried through are usually quite effective. What kind of similar experience are you suggesting everyone else has to compare to this?
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by jacalata 11y ago
But your first comment was about a habit of even one cup a day leading you to be unable to travel for fear of withdrawal. I don't think that's a massive amount, and I'm curious how long you think is "long enough" to
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by jacalata 11y ago
Not everyone experiences that kind of dependance, if you do then yea, it might be a problem.
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by jacalata 11y ago
That's a weird couple of sentences, given that the Netflix prize was entirely trying to improve their core business?
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by jacalata 11y ago
Ola?
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by jacalata 11y ago
If two people say "yea I spent two hours on this" and one of them shows something that they actually spent 40 hours on, you're probably going to get the impression that they are the better developer because their code should
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by jacalata 11y ago
I think it's kind of nonsensical to conflate injuries of people not on a train with the likelihood of injury while riding on a train, sorry.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Many people tip on what they paid instead of the normal cost, so if they bought their Groupon at a heavy discount, they'll tip correspondingly less.
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by jacalata 11y ago
I think there were a bunch of stories implying that it was because of pressure and misleading reassurances from the Groupon sales people signing them up combined with poor business sense from the small-time owners, in most cases.
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by jacalata 11y ago
My local library offers digital checkouts that have terrible availability, limited time only and a limited number of titles in the first place. Your dad is lucky, and/or his reading taste skews more available than mine.
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by jacalata 11y ago
What's a Fraud Cap trader?
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by jacalata 11y ago
Facebook? Come on, people!
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by jacalata 11y ago
I hate this story, because its clearly actually about people failing at designing studies, and everyone glosses over that.
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by jacalata 11y ago
You could add to your knowledge by reading the linked article under discussion
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by jacalata 11y ago
I'd be surprised if Nauru is giving out visas at the moment, perhaps they were for only a short while?
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by jacalata 11y ago
> what in life do you have to be proud of about yourself at this point?" I like to think that at least by not killing myself I've made a huge contribution to the happiness of my friends and family, even if the world as a whole
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by jacalata 11y ago
Sure, that's a thing - but I'm pretty sure that STEM PhDs has not reached that point and so that phenomenon is probably irrelevant here.
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by jacalata 11y ago
I thought they weren't public? Where would you look at them?
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by jacalata 11y ago
"Those shopping cards" probably means coupon cards. It doesn't matter how you pay if you also put in your personal QFC number at every transaction.
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by jacalata 11y ago
He doesn't say or even suggest that they are naturally better. Anyone who has an interest in the topic knows that boys and girls are treated differently by parents and society. Perhaps if boys were given a chance to express any emotion
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by jacalata 11y ago
What good would it do to change the law around the cop issuing the citation when you've already demonstrated that you don't care if the cop follows the law in the first place by allowing illegal stops?
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by jacalata 11y ago
You should set up analytics in the app which tell you at least whivh pages they open in the app before uninstalling. Do you even know if they ever open it? Perhaps they are installing six Todo apps, they like the second one so they uninstal
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by jacalata 11y ago
That's interesting - it sounds much bigger than this mention in an anthropology textbook from 2014, I wonder if it has grown so much or one of the counts was far off? https://books.google.fr/books?id=mcaiAgAAQBAJ&pg
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by jacalata 11y ago
Same reason they continue to buy clothes made in actual sweatshops, because most people don't care as much about the workers making their products as they do about the cost (and sometimes quality) of those products.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Huh? Are you saying that 24k is the average after-tax salary? If not, I don't see how taxes are relevant.
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by jacalata 11y ago
That sounds like the number for the average salary in Belgium.
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by jacalata 11y ago
I'm pretty sure its illegal (everyone I know who has done it had a work visa) but frequently ignored.
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by jacalata 11y ago
They mean they are matching your entire contribution at 50%, not part of your contribution at 50%

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