mrgriscom

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by mrgriscom 12y ago
Those people could use the equity they've amassed in their property to pay the property tax, such as through a reverse mortgage. Although "house poor", don't forget they are still quite wealthy. It would make sense for g
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
Some states and local governments allow voting by non-citizen residents. They still can't vote in federal elections, though.
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
You agree to a Code of Conduct like you agree to an EULA
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
I don't see where in the article it says anyone involved was drinking.
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
It's easy to say in retrospect "those didn't teach me anything" but hard to imagine what you'd actually be like without those experiences. Ever seen this episode? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
Funnily enough, I believe the distinction between natural and artificial flavoring refers solely to the process by which the flavor compound was derived, even if it's the exact same molecule in the end.
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
It actually might soon be considered an eating disorder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
Seriously, it's fucking embarrassing. To send me money, someone writes numbers on a piece of paper. That piece of paper is physically transported hundreds/thousands of miles to me. Then I have to write on the piece of paper. Then
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
Reminded me of this essay: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/08/a-generation-lost-in-the-baz... I don't think it's fair to attribute the issues he brings up to "shipping culture". Rather, the c
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
would->wouldn't
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
Isn't this exploiting the same kind of Unicode ambiguity that allowed phishing sites to impersonate trusted domains by substituting certain latin characters with identical-looking cyrillic equivalents? I would expect this capability to
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
This is literally the least interesting response one can make to this issue. Both parties are offering/accepting what the market will bear? Obviously! That's what makes it the market. You're stating a tautology. The interesti
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
Google said that any fiber project in CA is basically a non-starter due to all the hoops they'd have to jump through to comply with CA's environmental impact assessment laws.
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
If they're so stingy with the equity upfront, won't that make you suspicious they'll just try to screw you out of it later?
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
I think this phenomenon is an artifact of the media that we as programmers consume. The easiest way to become an programmer celebrity is to build tools (languages/frameworks/etc.) for other programmers. Many programmers of equal s
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
If you're calling a specific person, you very likely know where they are. People don't move around that much. If he's not in his usual place, he's probably told you where he is if he's expecting a call from you. And
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
There are plenty of analogues to the consumer world so I don't think there is any naivete to be taken advantage of. Cell phone contracts have pretty strict cancellation terms and I wouldn't expect "I'm moving to where yo
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
So you moved out of the service area and complained that they could not continue to provide you service? And that you had signed a contract stating you would be provided service for 36 months?
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
Adding to my original comment: Getting rid of leap seconds and being done with it -- effectively setting civil time to atomic time -- may seem like an attractive alternative that achieves the same effect without the complications of transfo
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
My personal opinion is that leap seconds have no place in civil timekeeping. I love them as geeky trivia but in practical terms they are a disaster. They do solve a real problem of keeping solar time roughly in sync with atomic time due to
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
Do astronomers actually complain about leap seconds? I was under the impression they had their own timescales that were independent of civil timekeeping. The real objection to leap seconds comes from legacy systems like US Air Traffic Contr
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
The problem is that taxi drivers don't really get paid wages at all. Most of them are "independent contractors" that rent the taxi/medallion from someone for the duration of their shift. If they don't make enough to
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
In the ten years I've had gmail I've deleted probably... 10 emails total. Archiving was one of the core innovations back in 2004 that made gmail be gmail. I don't understand the people who obsess over the criteria by which th
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
My insurer (Amica) was very easy to work with on this matter.
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
I'm mistaken-- it was actually AccuWeather.
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
Let's not forget when The Weather Channel lobbied to make this NWS information unavailable to the general public, and only distributed to approved providers like itself!
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
If you wanted to be ageist, though, can't you deduce someone's approximate age from their resume just as easily, and thus eliminate them even quicker?
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
He likely did lie, but can you blame him? If you were faced with a question where answering truthfully meant you'd be trapped in a hellhole where what little healthcare infrastructure there was had already completely fallen apart, and
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
It's almost as if people don't understand the concept of exponential growth...
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
I doubt it; I only finished it last week. But the map tiles are hosted on S3 and free to use as a custom map layer in Leaflet/OpenLayers/GMaps API.

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