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by mgkimsal 4y ago
You're getting 3-5% cash back because they charge the merchants 3-5% extra on your purchases. That's it. EDIT: point was, it's really nothing to do with whether other people are carrying balances or not.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I contracted at a place where this was expected, but any 'meetings' you were just supposed to bill to the client/project as well. Some folks were on longterm/large projects - like... 15 people on one client project. 1h
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
It's a small town. The local business owners know each other fairly well.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Picturesque small town America. The sort of place with a general store still selling picture postcards of the downtown area. 15th-safest city in the state of around 10 million.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
North Carolina, USA. I've heard some similar stories from friends back in Michigan as well, though not quite as severe. Re 'candy shop' - it was about 400 feet from the restaurant.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Friend of mine runs a local eatery. She told her 9-year old son to walk across the street - literally to the candy shop where she knows the owner, and told the kid to do some homework for an hour. Police brought her son back and threatene
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> I personally know a family who's kid was kidnapped (briefly) by a non-family member. Sorry to read that, but it's still a statistically small percent that happens to. One can say "but even one is too much", and I a
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Will you feel underpaid 6 months from now?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
meh... they'll pay you X then bring you in to decision making meetings where decisions are already made, but you get to decide which hours of unpaid overtime you'll work to implement their decisions in the order they demand (&quot
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> The cost savings of work from home must have been enormous for these companies, yet none of that savings or record profits trickled down to the people writing code Lots of companies had long term leases or obligations anyway. Eventual
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220510131526/https://eiko-frie... Main link was down for me - exhausted resources.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
And... in a few years, you won't be mid-thirties any longer, through no fault of your own...
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
They may pay half, or most, or all, or none. OP didn't say explicitly? But... you may not be able to get your own with any tax benefits if your company offers something and you choose not to take it. That's my understanding an
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Was just telling some friends about this story the other day. He want to the the same high school as I did, although he was a few years after me; I think he may have had a class with one of my siblings.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> In June, all existing subscriptions will be cancelled. Specific dates coming soon. On one hand, good for being this transparent about it. I'm sure none of these decisions are easy. On the other hand... June is... 6 weeks away?
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
20 users from the same IP - should they count as one user or 20?
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I tend to agree. There's some value in having a real person to talk to, but it really depends on the person. PC people are generally just going to walking you through whatever the algorithm is implementing anyway, and... I just didn&
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Similarly, I remember McCartney saying he started to realize there was some musical control you could have in a song, not just having to play "root of the chord" bass notes. "Yeah, as time went on, definitely bass, I started
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> some active management stuff, or do they have a robo-investing option (I can't remember.) IIRC it's robo-investing. I got a pitch from them, and it was mostly "high expense ratio funds are bad, we put you in low cost fu
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
If you give people specifics, they can argue about those specifics. Handwavy "crt" claims are all most people need to support this decision. Digging in to actual facts and specifics gets too messy, and might cause people to have
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
My gym is a bit ... different - part of a larger hospital chain/brand. Pandemic hit them hard, and I (along with many others) 'froze' our accounts. Still a member, just non-paying for X months. I froze for months during lo
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> “you should have told me someone else asked you this question” At what point do we end up saying "my current employer 'asked' me this question, because it's part of my day to day job..."? At some point you hav
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0... may be that story? that says LA though, not New York.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Is it the bullying kind, talking down to you to try to get you to donate by shaming you? Or telling you Don Jr is going to be showing his dad this week's top donor list, and he's embarrassed that he can't share your name wit
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Experience, perhaps? That maps partially to my own experience. The majority of folks I know who identify as 'conservative' are older, less tech savvy, and tend to use whatever they had set up a long time ago. @AOL? @Yahoo? @MS
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I wrote the outline of what became an RFP for a university on site tech training program. Someone else won. At the time, we were about the only people doing this. Certainly the outline referenced things that we'd developed training
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I'd spend more time in reddit if they had better search.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
9c seems a bit cheap? For me in NC it's... 12-13c (IIRC). I think US average is closer to 13c. At 40% more, that 2.6c/mi is... ~3.6c/mi? I get close to 40mpg, and pay a bit under $4/gal right now. Call my cost around
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Might be something to do with LA (and possibly other large urban/metro areas) but possibly something more to do with 'school'. Even at a university level, people are still kids or young adults, don't have many connectio
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> The target audience just wants to get some kind of website up and running and if there's some plumbing to be done with no-code tools that's just part of building a website. "up and running" is different from "I

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