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by kscaldef 16y ago
Crossing off a chunk on your grid does not reduce the number of nasty letters and phone calls you get from creditors.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's also pretending that we don't pay a 16% flat tax on all wages and salary up to $106,000.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
That was such a familiar sounding story, I had to go check that we didn't actually go to grad school together :-)
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Are there any official sources for that number? All I've ever been able to find are articles like this one: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Nearly-half-of-US-households-a... where everything is "according to projections by the Tax Policy C
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Getting external feedback is not the same thing as having a co-founder. I would hope that any solo founder is still talking with people about his or her project.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I understand your comment, and I disagree with it. Most specifically, I disagree with the "long before" part of it. In my experience, code performance has been roughly as important as architectural and database issues. You will have to dea
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> In most businesses, programming language speed is NOT the bottleneck of the operation You know, people love to say this, but in every company I've worked at (sample size 3), past the first year or so of operations, programming languag
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Presumably, having a pending investigation hanging over his head is bad for business.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
hold your finger on the "normal" version of the character until a popup appears for the accented versions.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I wish the full article were freely available, but there are some studies such as this one that suggest that the situation is not quite so cut-and-dry: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi... The basic result is th
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Heat management also matters for at least two reasons. Directly, people don't want to be burned by their laptops. Indirectly, overheating tends to lead to component failures, and people care about reliability.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Many government jobs allow you to accrue vacation and sick time without limit. If you're retiring and cash out 30 years of unused sick leave, that's a big lump payment.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
There's only one person I've dated who knew my salary, and vice versa.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Because it gives you insight into what your company believes matters and contributes value to the company.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Muscle mass seems fairly clearly distinct from endurance, given that most distance athletes aren't particularly bulky. And I'm highly skeptical that "The males in all mammal species are better at physical tasks". Among humans, I think it's
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by kscaldef 16y ago
The $250 is a sunk cost, but the further $100 penalty if you don't pay is not. That's the critical point that you're ignoring.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> I'm not sure what the article is suggesting as the reason for the increase in revenue. The typical economic argument is a variation on the general principle that when other people are making irrational decisions (e.g. not hiring the b
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> Men win the marathons Among those who run marathons, the top men put in better times than the top women. However, I know _far_ more female marathon runners than men. (OTOH, I know far more male distance cyclists, so I wouldn't jump
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'm a little uncertain exactly what part of the quoted text you are objecting to, but there are generally two arguments given for why gays shouldn't be parents, teachers, scoutmasters, etc. a) They will try to convert or otherwise influenc
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's odd that it's not mentioned explicitly in either article, but I have certainly had it stressed before that when smelling wine, or whisk(e)y, or coffee that you should have your mouth open. Also, the "sniff" is not as if you had the sn
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by kscaldef 16y ago
That seems like just another enabler for people. "Hey, I'm late, but you can track me in real time!"
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Uh, no, the article is saying precisely that it doesn't all even out in the end: "A approximately 1-km/h (0.6-mph) increase in speed for the average driver yielded a approximately 26-second approximate increase (not decrease) in total expec
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'm not saying not to talk to people. I'm saying that I can't imagine anyone literally using that phrase from the article as suggested.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I understand that they are proposing it more as a general exercise, but I'm pretty sure that failing to have a conversation with every person who asks me for money on the street isn't actually making my life boring. Also, I can't imagine a
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by kscaldef 16y ago
You can certainly be tried for the same crime twice. You can't be tried twice for the same criminal act. Arguably, if they ask him again after doing his 16 weeks, it's a new action if he refuses to comply.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Actually, mildly so since Facebook gives you the ability to "Hide" people.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'll be the contrary voice. At this point, I don't really care what the cause of the downtime is and I'd prefer that their engineers are working full time on fixing it, rather than writing extended blog posts about it. If they have a soli
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by kscaldef 16y ago
You should re-read what I wrote more carefully. Telecommute was grouped together with local jobs in the acceptable 5%.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
No, he's legitimately complaining about people spamming out recruitment emails without doing any research on the people they are contacting. For example, my resume on my personal website says "I am not interested in moving from Portland. R
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Not to argue the point that Google won in the PPC arena, but it's a little disingenuous to compare Google's current market cap with Overture's sale price in 2003.

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