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by lostcolony 4y ago
-Some- realtors will. The best ones won't; they know they're offering you more than Zillow. When I bought, our realtor was constantly hounding the seller's realtor and our own financing company to move the process forward, as
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by lostcolony 4y ago
One of many explanations for their brain damage I suppose.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Even outside of VC companies. I worked briefly for a large, old tech giant you've heard of, and was told to hire two teams of contractors. I didn't have -work- for two teams of contractors; it was all green field development and I
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Fine, for the terminally pedantic - I refer to the fact that the prospective buyer can not easily say "nah" and walk away; healthcare for a loved one can't be viewed as a purely economic transaction. It's easy to say &qu
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Citation needed.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Uh...it still has the "you need this or you see a loved one suffer" thing going for it which leads to an ability to seek maximum profit. Large multinationals are monopolizing by buying out small vet practices, also allowing them t
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Same reason they're used in grading. How else do you ensure that "partially correct" is consistently weighted? Certainly, in college, I recall one calculus problem, we had to find the local maxima or minima of a function, som
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by lostcolony 4y ago
You can also access the website from your phone (though it might require 'desktop mode' at this point). That's what I did when I used Duolingo if I wanted it on the go, and the experience was a lot better (as well as allowing
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Yeah; that won't work for replacing lenses in existing frames, but for a new pair it's what I do. $50-60 and I've got my prescription in a frame I like with all the coatings.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Nah. Outside of the vision cartel you can get replacement lenses for any pair of frames < $100, with all the various coatings and special shit for low hundreds. Likewise, using insurance to just replace the lenses, if a plan includes tha
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Same. Though Lastpass' ability to request a trusted user's passwords (with a configurable amount of time to deny the request) obviates a lot for my wife if I were to pass.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Even if we had a competent, non-bitterly partisan Congress, no. Because then you're left with who is better convincing uninformed people; the experts, or paid lobbyists.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
More than that, it assumes the 19 headcount decision was a good management decision. It obviously wasn't; regardless of how brilliant the OP is (I have my reservations, just from the fact that the company opted to -rewrite- it rather t
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by lostcolony 4y ago
So as someone trying to get better at drawing, I will say that the -ease of use- matters tremendously. I'm doing gesture drawings daily now on a Supernote. The ability to use the entire 'page', then hit next page and start a
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by lostcolony 4y ago
>> Puranjay's claim here is almost literally "change will happen, and it will bring grief." The only place he mentions grief (rather than "demographic change requires economic change") is at the very end, with
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by lostcolony 4y ago
"People" might, but the post you're replying to didn't. All they said was "Declining populations simply cannot maintain the “grow at all costs” current economic order" which implies a change is necessary, not w
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Yeah; the ones who treat conservatively are gold. I'm still looking for one in my current location over ones who are aggressive in pushing additional treatments and things.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
>> Not everything is designed, or planned. Sometimes the result is just the sum of a bunch of not necessarily coordinated decisions. I'll go one further. Almost always. Organizations are basically distributed systems; you theoret
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by lostcolony 4y ago
"If working with dangerous machinery without union representation for 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, for company scrip was good enough for my great-grandfather when he was 8 years old, it's good enough for me!"
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by lostcolony 4y ago
>> I wouldn't be surprised if half of Kickstarter's engineers pumped out fewer than 3 PRs a week. Ah yes. That always super meaningful metric of high performance - number of PRs. Doesn't matter what it is, if you can&#x
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Their current minimum is 0%. I suspect "you get a 3% raise this year" will be treated the same way "you get a 0% raise this year" is.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
What...sort of environment do you think caused them to unionize?
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Oh, I know the incentives. I strongly suspect there's even an additional one you don't list - tax writeoffs. And you're going onto a tangent that I am very much in agreement with (that the whole system is massively broken and
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by lostcolony 4y ago
>> Any charges denied by the insurance were just dropped by the provider, not pushed to me. That's a provider choice, and not guaranteed.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
From both the context and the picture it's clear she's not actually, you know, retiring. The amount in someone's retirement account is meaningless unless you know their age and their income. Yeah, $10k isn't a lot if you
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by lostcolony 4y ago
I've had mixed experiences with their recruiters, and their interviewers. Some recruiters were on the ball and pushed things forward; others just disappeared. Some interviewers were great, clearly wanted it to be a collaborative thing,
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by lostcolony 4y ago
It's not a binary spectrum between action game and walking simulator. Tomb Raider had some sections that probably fit the walking simulator genre, but also areas of action and puzzle games. Walking simulator is defined by moving and ex
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Doesn't seem like it would be widespread usage given the checklist they provide. Title is a little misleading; it's not just "a doxy a day keeps the lyme disease away!" or similar.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Yeah. If only we'd had some other reason to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels by now!
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by lostcolony 4y ago
I never really understood why people wanted to work for them in the first place. I knew they had large RSU packages (probably rather depressing now for the people tempted by it), but their culture always sounded horrible. Everything I saw s

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