jtbigwoo

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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
It is reasonable for the government to regulate short-term rentals in regard to health and safety as well as to protect neighbors from the hassles of living next to short-term rentals. This is why zoning laws exist.
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>> Often the battery doesn't make good contact with the metal contacts inside the detector. This results in constant false positives that the battery is low. This is probably not bad design. The smoke detector is trying to tell
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You can buy a battery-only smoke-alarm. That's not ideal, but you wouldn't have to rewire anything.
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>> Homogeneity is also the natural state for human beings and not necessarily a sinister plot. It doesn't have to be an organized plot to be sinister. Thousands of people acting semi-independently can end up with a sinister outc
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>> Second, no one has 20 years of relevant experience. Depends on what level you're talking about, I suppose. I'll grant that nobody has 20 years of experience in JSON. However, a guy with twenty years of experience in serv
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I hope there's a cost/benefit analysis here where the Attorney General's office hits those landlords above a certain number of nights. It wouldn't necessarily make economic sense to go after a guy renting out a single a
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>> The issue at question is a tiny (% wise) hotel tax. In my view AirBnB is not resisting this tax for its own sake, but rather because it risks classifying hosts as hotel operators. A small quibble: The various taxes on hotel charges
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Usually they file charges in the jurisdiction where the crime took place. I suspect there's no logical jurisdiction when the transactions occurred remotely. The investigators were apparently in FBI agents in New York and Maryland. T
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Criminals often employ people to keep their "legitimate" earnings separate from their criminal earnings. Whitey Bulger had lawyers and accountants working for decades to shuttle money into real estate and mundane businesses so he
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>> Having used a handful of insurance (health and otherwise) industry sites over the years, all I can say is that while all this criticism is no doubt valid, the bar is a lot lower than people might expect. On most health insurance si
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Good point! Just because a business isn't growing doesn't mean it needs to shut down immediately. There are still companies that make buggy whips.
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I feel like there are four stages of company development that need distinct sets of people. 1. Pioneers who can survive and search for a successful direction. 2. Generalists who can take that direction and establish a foundation. 3. Special
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Right. Just requiring the use of tor prevented 95% of the population from using SR.
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If you're paying for someone to be murdered, it matters little that the person you're paying has no intention of actually following through.
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Two big companies I've worked have generally followed the same progression of deployment times: Stage One: Right after work on Friday (until some big client that files all their payments on Friday afternoon complains.) Stage Two: Late
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
Tuition for online colleges is still expensive. University of Phoenix charges tuition of $12k - 15k per year. Strayer and DeVry charge even more. If you want to go to an accredited online school, it can be more flexible, but I don't
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
Recontextualize this for a minute and let me see if it still makes sense. The company offers a salary of $50/hour when he thinks his market rate is $100/hour. He refuses, countering by asking for $100. The company comes up to $6
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>> Founders typically look for candidates who have a similar educational background to themselves and live within 25 miles of their office. I go back to the stories of google rejecting mid-level management applicants because their col
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>> Interesting that I don't see these kind of complaints at this level about book clubs. Don't be obtuse. There are TONS of complaints about The Book of the Month Club, Columbia House, et al. Ask ten people who signed up f
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Discover card has something similar also: https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/member-benefits/securi...
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>> Assuming they don't go bankrupt, they will eventually pay you and satisfy the judgment. Let's be honest, though. It's 80% certain that they're going to go bankrupt. They're clearly not building a company
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In 1999, I think there was a lot more effort going into the stories explaining "Why This Time Is Different." There were a few cautionary stories back then, but most of the tech press and most of the mainstream press was full of hy
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This is why the the Silicon Valley high-growth game is so strange. In a normal company, the metrics would center around, "Are we making money?" "What sort of things point to us making more money?" In the SV game, it&#x2
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Eating lunch together can foster connections and spark conversations like this. Also, it's funny the number of times just speaking a problem out loud changes your perspective on things. I've worked on short-deadline projects wher
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Same error in IE8. IE8 came out in 2009. 4.5 years is not that long in enterprise terms.
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It's been my experience that putting a really negative person on a team is like handing that team an anchor. Either the team starts to ignore and isolate them or their attitude wears everyone down and the rest of the team stops trying
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>> the tolerance for bullshit is low My problem with this is that we often take what's easy and make it into a virtue. It is easy for us (esp. developers) to take the easy way out and decide that one must act the same no matter
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Good point. If the first step is learning, the next step has to be asking, "Why is it this way?" and "What's inessential?"
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One of the toughest things for younger people and engineers to understand is how crazy complicated most businesses are these days. Growing up and going to school, everything is explained in a few sentences. Insurance is a bunch of people p
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>> How hard is it for them to say "In the past, we have seen crowd funding sites/services that never delivered anything. That resulted in a lot of unhappy end users going to their credit card companies and initiating a charg

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