masonic

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by masonic 6y ago
Generally, the fiscal cliff with police/fire isn't base compensation but the lucrative pension and (easily gained) disability benefits... and the practice of pension "spiking".
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by masonic 6y ago
"There's an internally famous video inside Google in which a particular well-known machine was unracked, dragged out into a field, and ceremonially smashed to pieces by some hardware techs..." Are you perhaps thinking of the
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by masonic 6y ago
Another of this submitter's collection of Amazon affiliate links with no meaningful value-added content (tag=mostrecommendedbooks-20). Links are shrouded in redirection links now to hide this.
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by masonic 6y ago
Surprisingly entertaining!
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by masonic 6y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Facebook%20is%20not%20worth%20...
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by masonic 6y ago
Plus, I would expect that at least 70% of his podcast consumers would end up listening to pirated copies for which Stern would get nothing.
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by masonic 6y ago
Trials have shown that the plant plastic would decompose in one year using a composter, and *a few years longer* if left in normal outdoor conditions. "normal outdoor conditions" means above-ground, but that's very di
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by masonic 6y ago
TL;DR: "Our auditors at OpentheBooks.com found truck drivers in San Francisco making $159,000 per year; lifeguards in LA County costing taxpayers $365,000; nurses at UCSF making up to $501,000; the UCLA athletic director earning $1.8 m
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by masonic 6y ago
specifically first aim for the leg Even if that's really a thing there, U.S. case law makes it clear that if an officer has the luxury of just winging a perp, then her life was not in imminent danger and therefore use of dead
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by masonic 6y ago
No-knock warrants can only be justified in cases where the evidence sought can be quickly destroyed, such as a small amount of soluble or combustible material, or written material (especially on "flashpaper"). In the Branch Davi
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by masonic 6y ago
It's a former GM plant that later hosted the joint GM/Toyota venture NUMMI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI
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Game: Can you read Shang (ancient Chinese writing)?(story-china.lunchbox.pbs.org)
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by masonic 6y ago
This content is directly plagiarized from https://news.yale.edu/2020/05/13/new-imaging-tool-helps-rese... with the true author credit (Bill Hathaway) stripped out and replaced.
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by masonic 6y ago
Blogspam of https://www.safegraph.com/dashboard/reopening-the-economy-fo... This site is trapping back-arrow navigation; not recommended.
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by masonic 6y ago
Blogspam of https://theconversation.com/how-the-earths-last-supercontine... This site also traps back-arrow navigation.
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by masonic 6y ago
I can fly into a city not knowing anything about how they do taxi What airports are you flying into where you could avoid signage/references to local taxis/buses/transit if you wanted to ? Heck, most have taxi stand
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by masonic 6y ago
This mechanism reminds me of Moviepass.
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by masonic 6y ago
I will only give more when we make everyone give more If everyone took the same attitude towards energy consumption or pollution, we'd make no progress at all.
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by masonic 6y ago
Capital gains is 20% federal plus state (13% in California) But long term capital gains are not indexed to inflation, so the effective rate is higher for long-held appreciated assets... like real estate. This is part of why turnov
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by masonic 6y ago
in the U.K. the max marginal income tax rate is 45% That's a big change from years ago, when it was 95% (hence "it's one for you, nineteen for me" in the Beatles' "Taxman").
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by masonic 6y ago
5.5% of children under the age of 19 were uninsured Bear in mind that this paper is a survey , not a study that looks at actual coverage records, and the survey population is not consistent year to year.
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by masonic 6y ago
allowing people and companies to make their own choices about their own well-being ... Like Mary Mallon did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
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by masonic 6y ago
other restaurants refuse to stop using the platform But there is a useful feedback loop here. 1. Courageous Restaurant bans GrubHub, Doordash et al. Delivery-insistent demand shifts to Competitors 1-4, meaning they get substantially
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by masonic 6y ago
I'm not gonna get Applebees after googling a different particular restaurant More to the point, you and I both come away with a negative impression of Applebee's as well (if we didn't have one already).
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by masonic 6y ago
Please ask him the motivation for the floating Drift AI chat box. When I see one of those, I abandon the site. They only get in the way, add an extra layer of indirection to communication, and devalue the customer. I have never once got a h
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by masonic 6y ago
Would there be any legal issue for a restaurant to banish external delivery runners? i.e. refuse to serve those using Doordash garb or luggage, those who don't show the same credit card used for purchase, etc?
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by masonic 6y ago
Actual title is "How Google, Doordash, and GrubHub Conspire to Screw Local Restaurants".
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by masonic 6y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=VR%20in%20a%20Pandemic%3A%20Go...
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by masonic 6y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Will%20iOS%2014%20Lessen%20AR%...
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by masonic 6y ago
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