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by jacalata 10y ago
> less expensive to purchase by any measure Where I see people argue this, the measure usually includes time and convenience of getting to the store, ability to store the food, etc. Have you heard the term 'food desert'?
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by jacalata 10y ago
If I'm ordering from an office that closes at 5pm, then no 6pm is not 'next day'.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Ending aging won't stop accidents, homicide, suicide or (probably) even most modern physical failures like diabetes and heart attacks.
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by jacalata 10y ago
I used to work in the phone industry and there actually is a niche of people willing to pay a bunch of money to get a device without a camera, usually because they work in some high security area.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Do I understand correctly that you would like to take back your earlier claim: >Whether you agree or not, if you ask any suspect if they're guilty, the answer is "No!"
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by jacalata 10y ago
Sorry, but there actually are people who admit to writing fake news: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503...
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by jacalata 10y ago
Australian who lives in the US and is looking at buying a house. What's different? Almost everything, starting from the basics like there aren't auctions, you have to submit a secret bid that the seller will read and then tell you
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by jacalata 10y ago
Interesting - I never drive myself and I feel far more nervous about being in a car than my driver friends. I think there'd be confounding factors about who drives though. Perhaps you want to measure whether people who sometimes drive
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by jacalata 10y ago
It's a big company. How you experience varies based on what stage your product is at (greenfield? possibly being cancelled next month? Launching? Stable?), whether your direct manager is a nice person, what career stage your manager is
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by jacalata 10y ago
"serve in government" does not necessarily imply "run for office"
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by jacalata 10y ago
No, £3000 startup cost, not monthly cost.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Khan Academy history ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy ): The organization started in 2004 when Sal Khan tutored one of his cousins on the Internet using a service called Yahoo Doodle Images. After a while, Kh
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by jacalata 10y ago
That's the kind of crap that leads to people inventing causal explanations when teenagers from perfectly healthy backgrounds are depressed, instead of treating the actual problem. Source: my experience with exactly such a shitty counse
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by jacalata 10y ago
They already had the data showing where he dropped you off, what do you think they're going to do with the extra data?
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by jacalata 10y ago
An option. Not a requirement for all apps.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Yes, I agree that Walmart employees are the working poor. I don't understand how you can recognise that and also argue for the validity of this statement >There is a big difference between poor and working poor. The poor get handout
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by jacalata 10y ago
> the poor get handouts, the working poor get fines > many Walmart employees are on food stamps. Are you implying that Walmart employees are not 'working poor', or is the first sentence a dramatic over-generalization that do
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by jacalata 10y ago
People always try and tell me that it was a promotional rate, but I had this rate for five years.
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by jacalata 10y ago
> At the same time, you, like many others, do have it hooked up to your TV, and you watch it at least occasionally. Despite the bundle being cheaper, you still are by all metrics a legit cable TV subscriber. I used to have the basic inte
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by jacalata 10y ago
Summary: have a to-do list that you won't ignore
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by jacalata 10y ago
I was responding to the statement that some banks were planning to leave and some had already left - I have heard of banks planning to leave, but have definitely not heard of anyone doing so. Was curious if the poster might come back with a
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by jacalata 10y ago
Hmm, I haven't heard of any banks leaving yet.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Do you mean something besides rent control?
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by jacalata 10y ago
It could come from income taxes though.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Sure. I'm curious if he would extrapolate from his experience with mental illness to physical illness. I have a friend with cancer now and it is very very hard work for his partner.
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by jacalata 10y ago
> Life is hard enough without your partner making things that should be easy difficult. Would you make the same argument about a partner with cancer, or Alzheimer's, or multiple sclerosis?
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by jacalata 10y ago
That wasn't blaming him - it was saying it will be interesting to see how he reacts to this. He's got time to whine about a theater, surely this will also get an angry tweet.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Mine have always been free after insurance.
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by jacalata 10y ago
You can begin assessing the size of the effect with data like this list of % out of state students at public universities: http://www.collegexpress.com/lists/list/percentage-of-out-of...
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by jacalata 10y ago
I assume the quick easy solution to educating foreigners and then seeing them move home would be to award an unencumbered work visa on graduation?

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