jacalata

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by jacalata 11y ago
Or - many programmers and white collar jobs? I can work flexible hours, but I'm still an employee
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by jacalata 11y ago
In the US most bank checking accounts have a monthly fee which is waived if you meet certain conditions, like maintain a minimum balance (I think mine was $1000) or get an automatic direct deposit at least 2 times per month of $250 or more
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by jacalata 11y ago
I quit earlier this year and the unreality is huge. I cringed every time minimum wage came up for the last year or more because of the libertarian "they should just get better jobs!" crap that followed, or explanations of how peop
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by jacalata 11y ago
Thats not true in the slightest. I know a pro strongman who doesn't make enough in prize money to cover his training, let alone flying to contests, and I used to work in pro tennis where the bottom tier (still pro players) are borrowin
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by jacalata 11y ago
Its supposed to show the full article if the referrer URL is google. Try limiting the search domain to WSJ? I'm not sure why that wodnt be showing up for you in the normal results.
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by jacalata 11y ago
And you never thought about just transferring out of Mogadishu?
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by jacalata 11y ago
How do you know?
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by jacalata 11y ago
A friend of mine used to work on InternMatch, it might be useful for you ( https://www.internmatch.com )
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by jacalata 11y ago
I don't think you understood me. Let's say 80% of people won't work if they don't have to (I think thats not true, but to pick a number). Until today, that meant that allowing people not to work meant that society would
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by jacalata 11y ago
Most people argue that technological advances made since Jamestown mean that we literally absolutely don't need everyone to work, because we are no longer an impoverished subsistence society.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Its last frontier will be wheelchair accessibility, surely.
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by jacalata 11y ago
> Remember: copyright is a legal fiction created by congress Copyright predates Congress, they can hardly take credit for having invented it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
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by jacalata 11y ago
Probably, yes. Taxis in NYC crash about half as much as other cars per mile: http://www.schallerconsult.com/taxi/crash06.htm
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by jacalata 11y ago
> Now I understand why there are so many mentally ill homeless folks. The state of being homeless is very depressing and can bring about mental illness in the previously undiagnosed. I'm not sure this is actually the explanation he
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by jacalata 11y ago
oops, sorry about the assumption
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by jacalata 11y ago
It is illegal to prevent your employees from talking about their salaries. http://www.npr.org/2014/04/13/301989789/pay-secrecy-policies...
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by jacalata 11y ago
Did you tell him you charge 3x as much? If so, how did the conversation go after that?
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by jacalata 12y ago
Seattle has aPodments - http://apodment.com/
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by jacalata 12y ago
So what did you do today to solve those problems? Why do people in Pittsburgh count as "Silicon Valley" to you anyway?
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by jacalata 12y ago
But he is saying that he experiences the same ramp-up in the mornings without caffeine, so what he thought was the experience of going from uncaffeinated to normal appears to have been unrelated to the caffeine and was actually the experien
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by jacalata 12y ago
How did they handle stuff like foreign language courses where there was a speech component? (I remember doing one-one conversations for assessment, don't see how you could escape that).
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by jacalata 12y ago
> One family comes to mind, where I have to question both their ability and motivation behind homeschooling, but that's out 100+ homeschool families we know. So how do you meet homeschooling families? I'd expect that they are g
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by jacalata 12y ago
Check out O'Reilly early release books.
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by jacalata 12y ago
I'd love to see your spreadsheet, I'm heading off myself in a couple weeks. My email is my username at gmail.
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by jacalata 12y ago
I'm 30 and I'll be doing this in a couple weeks, set up through a language school to stay with an old couple in Santiago.
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by jacalata 12y ago
"This"? This story does not at all involve someone who applied for a job and tried to change it from within. It is about a guy who was external to the group, hassled them with FoI requests enough to make news and be noticed up hig
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by jacalata 12y ago
Yea, definitely: I haven't read either of them in a while, but my memory is that The Moon is a Harsh Mistress felt like it had a plot with some philosophizing added on, but Stranger In A Strange Land was political exposition/descr
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by jacalata 12y ago
It's not offensive, it's just yet another example of "every anecdote I have from this specific culture supports X!! Why don't we just admit that X is clearly biological and not a property of culture at all!??!"
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by jacalata 12y ago
Most Russian children probably don't get 'daily multi-hour physical activity' - here is a study showing self-reported hours of activity: http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/eurpub/9/3/
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by jacalata 12y ago
Same thing as Ayn Rand - gibberish philosophy that appeals very strongly to the teenager who thinks that they are the special one.

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