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by maratd 7y ago
> Even after 12 months of making 4-6 payments for the entire credit limit throughout the month (we max the card out every week at least), they still won’t give us the limit we need. Had the same experience with the same card, asked multi
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by maratd 7y ago
> If you want reliability you pay for it by buying the commercial/industrial version It is frequently very difficult to find the commercial/industrial version, even when you're in the know and actually want it. I'm ty
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by maratd 7y ago
Nobody cares about visiting. They can craft their policies to entirely exclude or screw over states that aren't worth their time. For example, favor specific industries over others that are heavy in one state vs another. They'll d
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by maratd 7y ago
> They all need technolgy and came about because of the powerful handheld mobile device. I'm not sure why Uber is a tech company because you can order a taxi using your phone, but WeWork is not ... because you can reserve a room or
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by maratd 7y ago
> Studies have shown that in liberal democracies, state run media tends to be the least editorially biased Rather than pretending to be unbiased, I'd rather my news sources disclosed their biases clearly so that I can take them into
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by maratd 7y ago
Ok, explain triplets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_birth
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by maratd 7y ago
I'm not sure I understand your distinction. From a gene-based perspective, the gene, whether in the child or in the parent, is the same. The selection pressure is on a gene level, not on a species or individual level.
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by maratd 7y ago
If it was advantageous for us to have lots of children, then women would have a dozen at a time, rather than one. There are plenty of mammals that do that. There’s clearly a tradeoff there and the selective pressures for humans tend to lean
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by maratd 7y ago
I reject your premise?
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by maratd 7y ago
Pretty sure there's a big difference between being detained for an act and being detained for just existing.
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by maratd 7y ago
The US has concentration camps? Do tell.
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by maratd 7y ago
Yes and no. Yes for the smaller manufacturers, which is why I never buy cloud-anything from them. For the larger ones, they never go bust, but they do cancel. They have enough of a user base that things get rooted and custom solutions are a
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by maratd 7y ago
> user-agent check ... don't assume any ill intent. A user-agent check is ill intent for exactly the reasons you state: > we've known for years that feature detection is preferable to user-agent detection Wasn't Googl
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by maratd 7y ago
Wait, what? I think you means the opposite. If it's got CORS enabled, then you can't do anything unless the request is originating from the relevant domain. Anyway, do not rely on firewalls (and CORS is a firewall) as the sole s
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by maratd 7y ago
> My question is: What is the risk of running one of these servers and then visiting some random web page? It depends on what you're exposing on those ports. If it's something sensitive, stop. Any web page can run javascript an
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by maratd 7y ago
> I am kind of surprised that neither Deutsche Post[0] nor ZTO[1] nor SF Express[2] shares are up on the news. Why would they be up on the news? They're just as likely to be engaging in the same behavior, only for a different set of
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by maratd 7y ago
What bet am I making when I buy an entire stock market index fund?
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by maratd 7y ago
> Demanding perfect time-boxing ahead of time is a recipe for disaster. Dear client, this task will take 2 to 6 hours. If I find out it will take longer than this, I will reach out. Dear client, I am 1.5 hours into this task. Based on my
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by maratd 7y ago
> So don’t say “yes” to things that are out of scope. To expand on this, at the end of every contract is an SOW (statement of work). This explicitly and very clearly outlines what work is to be performed, how it will be performed, when i
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by maratd 7y ago
Yes. That said, there are some situations where you need to bill by time, but they should be rare.
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by maratd 7y ago
> there can be nothing more profitable than fixed bids This. Because you're not charging for your time, but for the value you add to the client's business.
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by maratd 7y ago
> While you should not reduce your rate, it can be okay to write off your time. Strongly disagree. This is a failure of communication. If you're billing by the hour, your client should have a general idea of how long something will
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by maratd 7y ago
> our business would not be possible with prepayment Not exactly sure how this is possible. Any mature business will split up a project into milestones. Whether payment is due at the beginning of a milestone or at the end, makes little d
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by maratd 7y ago
Yes, because trial and error over thousands of years of trying local flora couldn't possibly yield a solution from an eco-system that has to actively fight off fungal infections. /sarcasm
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by maratd 8y ago
How are you so sure about this?
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by maratd 8y ago
Things will get even more interesting during an audit if you use that company owned car for personal use. Especially if you only own one car.
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by maratd 8y ago
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19527078
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by maratd 8y ago
> So basically - LLCs are unnecessary if you are the only employee. This is not true for many reasons, primary among them being taxes and healthcare. I'll explain taxes below. For healthcare, I use Trinet as an HR provider (since I
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by maratd 8y ago
Yes, that's exactly it. As an S-Corp the corporation doesn't pay any taxes. Well, in my case my state (New Jersey), has a minimum tax based on revenue. I pay that, but it's minimal. If it really bothered me, I could re-incorp
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by maratd 8y ago
> 1. You definitely don't need to form an LLC. I'm still a sole proprietor all this time and it's working out fine. I did this for a while, but it starts to hurt around tax season. There are advantages to being incorporate

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