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by nilram 7y ago
Which is not legal in many states, unless they have 'probable cause' or you pay a membership and agree to it beforehand (c.f. Costco).
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by nilram 7y ago
Whenever I get usability surveys for websites, unless there’s something really egregious, I tell them to not change a thing. Especially when it’s a bank or utility. I’m going there to check a balance or pay a bill. Do I really need a change
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by nilram 7y ago
If you don’t want to, and won’t be fairly compensated for it, then how about using the word “No”? I agree with others that talking with one or more lawyers should be a high priority.
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by nilram 7y ago
We have something very similar, written in Java. Our extensions specify whether the migration is run pre-release or post-release, in order to facilitate no-downtime releases. The pre-release migration is responsible to not break the running
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by nilram 7y ago
That happened at my house (though with a different species). I closed the shade, which disrupted the reflection, so that the bird would not harm itself or waste its energy unnecessarily.
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by nilram 7y ago
Classic story I heard was of a landlord who locked the thermostat in a plastic air-flow case. The college roommates who lived at the residence learned to strap an ice pack to it. Hilarity ensued when the landlord would come by to check on t
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by nilram 7y ago
I don’t see how it reduces competition since the technology requires even more bass stations then does 4G. More infrastructure equals more cost equals more investment required. Only the big players can afford this, and there’s only a few b
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by nilram 7y ago
10+ years ago I saw a medical news report that said that people who hadn't had a cold for N years (where N is perhaps between 5-7, but is otherwise forgotten) were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer. I wish I'd saved that art
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by nilram 7y ago
I really prefer an over-the-ear headphone for an office environment because they keep out external noise and, I presume, leak less sound to my co-workers. After years of habituation, my brain focuses more when I wear them. I really liked a
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by nilram 7y ago
Justice Learned Hand wrote “Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.&
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by nilram 7y ago
I’ll be making my suggestions to the hearing aid company who sells the devices and the app. If there is any response at all, I expect it will be congenial. However, I doubt it will be resolved quickly since even non-invasive medical device
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by nilram 7y ago
Absolutely. That’s why I’ll be contacting the hearing aid company, who is ultimately responsible for those requirements.
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by nilram 7y ago
My partner's mom, age 94, got new hearing aids and the app that can control them (adjust focus on front/side/back, high/low/midrange, etc), runs only on iOS. We got her an iPad mini and I set it up so she can (A) re
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by nilram 8y ago
Death-cap mushrooms are native to Europe and first identified on the east coast of North America in 1897, and on the west coast in 1938. They do not appear to be native to North America. The article is mostly concerned with their spread int
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by nilram 8y ago
I bought a test and had to use my own name for shipping and payment (because of the delivery and payment services involved). Someone else (cough, cough) registered the test for their own sample and the results. For 23andme, the discovery of
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by nilram 8y ago
I've had sleep studies (both at home and in a lab, 2 of each iirc). Only one of them determined that I might benefit from a CPAP machine and I was barely above the criteria that determined such. The others did not indicate any signific
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by nilram 8y ago
Agreed, misleading title. I know I've always functioned best at 9 hours. High school and early college, I remember my schedule: 9 hours. Mid-20s to mid-30s is vague to me, but after that, my partner says I always slept about 9 hours, a
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by nilram 9y ago
A friend uses a saws-all (or something of that ilk) and cuts them in half. I'm figuring on taking my old drives to him for that treatment. I don't want to resell them and have a casual snooper recover my data, and I'm not of
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by nilram 10y ago
Still, it sounds like the paybacks for him were "She kept touching me as she talked. I forgave her for that." and, the knowledge that "I didn’t reveal a single detail about myself, including my name." Amusing.
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by nilram 10y ago
How did you become a negotiator in an investment company? It sounds interesting.
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by nilram 10y ago
The cash aspect was incidental. "Front of the house" workers here net a significantly higher take-home because they are the ones receiving the tips and what they pass on to others is typically discretionary. Even many of the best
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by nilram 10y ago
A friend is a cook who says that even at decent restaurants, cooks don't get paid much and they get just a minimal share of tips. So when I get takeout, I tip 10-20% and say "Thank-you, here's something for the kitchen.&quot
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by nilram 10y ago
I read "The Inner Game of Music" ages ago and found it helpful to my choral singing at the time. It's probably been revised since I read it, but more than one of the reviews on Goodreads suggest that reading the original one
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by nilram 10y ago
Are you guys all agreeing to disband? I have heard that selling yourselves as a qualified, functional team can bring a higher value than each person solo. I guess acqui-hires are an example of that; maybe some of the recruiter types that ha
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by nilram 10y ago
(Note, I’m not the poster your responding to.) > considering that Eclipse is a direct descendant of IBM's VisualAge Smalltalk environment. I was an active Smalltalker and Java developer in that timeframe and I used both Java and Sma
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by nilram 10y ago
You can't steer that boat from the galley. I don't think there's any long-term harm in jumping ship after a brief engagement as long as that doesn't become a pattern on your CV. Depending on the length of time there, esp
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by nilram 10y ago
http://cool2watch.com/index.php/2016/07/16/inside-hacker-doj...