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by jogjayr 5y ago
"Penultimate" is American slang for "really awesome"?
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by jogjayr 5y ago
Until today I thought "Lingua Franca" just meant "French language" and the usage of the phrase signified how commonplace French was in international diplomacy. Glad to learn something new.
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Understood thanks.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
Does it get that cold in a garage? I assume you'd always want to park a $100k automobile in a closed garage.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
But I was asking about Canada.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
> I have yet to see any electric car that can handle -50*c. The car can use battery power to heat itself and its battery when it's that cold, right? It'll consume more energy but it'll still work.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
> The competitiveness to live a richer area to get better schools is not much of a thing, almost a foreign concept Are you sure about that? A lot of real-estate listings I see here boast about having good schools.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
Huh, "azar" also means "illness" in Marathi (आजार), although that's not on the Wiktionary page. Coincidence or is it a loanword in Marathi as well?
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by jogjayr 5y ago
Stewart Downing and Charlie Adam too.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
> When you resell a house, you are not denying the builders anything You're denying the builder a sale of a new house. Re-selling books is already legal. You bought a physical item, not the right to use the item. Ownership implies t
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by jogjayr 5y ago
Buying a house from a homeowner gives no money to the original builder, or the first human being to inhabit that piece of land. Do you feel guilty about getting shelter without paying the price of admission?
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by jogjayr 5y ago
It's only a deduction you can take if you itemize your deductions. This rules out nearly all renters.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
> The other thing is the marketing says diamonds are "forever," presumably like your love, but houses and cars require expensive maintenance and are easily damaged. Not good if you're buying something symbolic. Definitely
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by jogjayr 5y ago
> The burning of significant amount of wealth is a costly signal of commitment to the receiver. So why not buy something practical and expensive? Like a house or a car?
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by jogjayr 5y ago
Neat, thanks! So nearly a 1 in 2 chance of getting into a serious accident in a lifetime. Not great odds IMO.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
> A human being can drive a million miles without a serious accident A million miles sounds like a lot, but it isn't. The average American drives 12,000 miles annually. Assuming a driving career of 52 years (from age 18 to 70), the
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by jogjayr 5y ago
> Once you get it, it does a reunion tour, every now and then, for the rest of your life. Maybe only certain strains of malaria do that? I had malaria many years ago. It was a very unpleasant experience, but I recovered in a couple of we
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by jogjayr 5y ago
It would create a ton of jobs. We would learn a lot. The world is awash in cash. This doesn't seem like a terrible use of it.
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by jogjayr 6y ago
> By moving away and becoming a landlord I've put another rental into the supply side. The supply didn't increase. Demand reduced, because you moved away. By your logic, if I stop eating hamburgers I've increased the suppl
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by jogjayr 6y ago
I wrote AngularJS 1.x in TypeScript in an enterprise application. Being "stuck there" ("there" meaning pure JS for Angular 1.x) is a choice.
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by jogjayr 6y ago
> Soon noticed that chuck Norris was in our compiled JavaScript Is that a library? Or the string "Chuck Norris"?
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by jogjayr 6y ago
I hear this a lot, but is it really true? For shares of US companies (or foreign companies listed on US exchanges) held for > 60 days before the ex-dividend rate, dividends are taxed at the long-term capital gains rate.[1] 1. https:&#x2
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by jogjayr 6y ago
> It's almost like reading has been elevated to a kind of rare alchemy, whereby you can unlock secret cheat codes to life I owe my career and livelihood to my ability to study, learn and retain information, and manipulate words and
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by jogjayr 6y ago
> But it's still "racist" to say "Indians can't drive." Sorry, I think you're reading something into GP's post that just isn't there. What I got from GP's post was because of low standard
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by jogjayr 6y ago
From GP's post I surmised that they are Indian or have spent a substantial amount of time in India. Being Indian myself, I didn't sense any racist intent. You're right that they are pulling numbers out of their ass. But from
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by jogjayr 6y ago
I think they meant they would fail it without preparation. As a former Indian driver myself (still Indian :-P, but don't drive there) I'd happily wager that a vast majority of drivers who learned and have driven only in India woul
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by jogjayr 6y ago
Organize one meeting, tell everyone you don't care which one but they have to decide on one by the end of the meeting. Otherwise you're deciding one for them (phrase it as "I have a PR ready to go adding this one"). Assu
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by jogjayr 6y ago
I assume they were referring to countries where you can pay out of pocket for care at private clinics and hospitals, as a visitor. It's called medical tourism. India is a major destination.
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> Transferring to Mountain View requires to re-interview I've never heard of this and I know multiple people who have transferred. There is usually a team-fit interview with the new manager and maybe one of your new teammates (if
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by jogjayr 6y ago
India is hitting their targets.

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