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discrimation (horizontal) vs sensitivity (vertical) As we age, we lose some hearing power and visual acuity, for physical reasons on the organs. As our brains mature, they learn to not discrimate among certain "unimportant" so
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7y ago
That mitigates self-screaming, but not partner-screaming.
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7y ago
One thing to remember is that sometimes it's correct to realy trust your kids even in contradiction to your best assessment of the situation. The hand-licking story is about tactics for diagnosis, but another angle is that (sometimes)
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7y ago
The market is rather efficient in these vehicles, so depreciation isn't a way to save money. Dealers beg 3-yr-old car owners to sell their cars back so they can flip them. Like real estate, cars are cheap to buy. The expense comes whe
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7y ago
Yes, but that's covered by the 110%-80% sale spread and the onerous interest, fees, and repossession costs, not the car's market value.
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7y ago
This is true (John Oliver covered in depth at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U2eDJnwz_s ), but has nothing to do with the $35K 6+-year loans on new cars.
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A single-income family with children and a stay-at-home parent isn't an unfortunate fact of life, it's a stable economic and social arrangement that promotes health and welfare of children, giving them a strong prospect for future
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7y ago
> but what difference does this make in practice? they have to give RHEL customers the source to all their patches, and allow them to share it with the entire world . In practice, that means everyone gets better software, and RedHat get
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Fascinating. I've never heard that mentioned when associates have purchased a property and but took up to 1 year or more to renovate or rebuild it before moving in.
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Related: an analysis of Super Mario Brother's Level-1 design as an invisible tutorial: https://medium.com/@abhishekiyer_25378/the-perfect-game-tuto...
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How are you defining "discovering" vs "finding"? In plain language they are synonyms. Are you saying that seeing the answer is more satisfying than solving the puzzle? (as in a joke or a magic trick that you don't e
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The OP links to Wong's paper, but the URL is bad: correct URL: https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pdffiles/PUB1250.pdf bad URL in OP: http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB12..
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Switzerland does not allow this. http://www.webster.ch/humanresources/overtimepolicy.html > All extra hours and overtime [...] must be announced to HR department before the 10th of the following month > Any hour
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> 1. UTMB Galveston was indemnified from her mistakes by her employment contract; For a low-level manager? That's insane and I'd be shocked to see that hold up in court. > Requiring an hourly worker to falsify statements of
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7y ago
> leading to an expensive breach in the contract with the home seller." Did you waive your financing contingency?
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You don't even need to sign anything sensible at all. They almost certainly aren't going to check, and if you try to defraud the restaurant by refusing to pay, you might find yourself in trouble, regardless of signature.
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A contract signed under duress is not a valid contract. There's no reason that the provider's testimony is magically preferred over the patient's, and in fact the generaly pratice is to resolve ambiguities in favor of the per
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What kind of match? Romantic match? What was your reaction when a stranger called you for a date?
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> I had my title in-hand and signed it over to them, so I was really confused why that was necessary among several other things. They file the paperwork with the state. If possession of the title printout was sufficient to legally take
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> one thing said I had to move in within 30 days, another 60 days, and another 15 days. I doubt that it said you had to move in, unless it was a condo with bizarrely strict vacancy rules. do you mean that it said you have the right
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> So I said, if you're comfortable with the clause meaning the interpretation earlier in chat, that it just means to follow directions about alcohol interactions with meds, then I'll sign, and he agreed. Did you document that m
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AIUI, legally, a signature isn't itself inherently binding to anything, neither necessary nor sufficient. You don't even need a signature to form a binding contract. The signature is merely evidence that you were physically presen
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7y ago
SCOTUS <> White House <> Congress That's the 3 branches of government with its checks and balances.
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It is said, "Success has many parents. Failure is an orphan." Before you get into cage matches, engage with your colleagues respectfully and maturely, politely declining suggestions you disagree with, before rushing to cuss them o
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SCOTUS is a nearly-pure democracy. Every issue of substance is put to a vote, and everyone has freedom to act individually in anything not put to vote, along with ample funding for their desires (law clerks for work, and indivual pay for pe
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This is a common criticism of Valve's model, and it's fair to say that Valve's model isn't clearly obviously better, but those attack's on Valve don't make the case that the traditional hierarchical model, with
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Those "nice" tables are not very nice.
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Getting offended on behalf of others is controversial in general, but in this case it's plain silly. URL: subscription.economist.com/Magazine/Subscribe www.economist.com/about-the-economist > Frequently asked question
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That's not true. The cabbies would still need a way to pressure each other to not accept lower fares.
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Uber can predict that the drivers are at the airport -- they were logged in when they dropped off a fare, possibly when they were already in line at the cab stand, and also Uber can use a bit of common sense.
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