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by patmcc 11y ago
Very cool idea! Had no idea I wanted this until a month ago. Keep expanding, if you were in Canada/on Android I'd drop $5 on it in a second.
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by patmcc 11y ago
>I'm not sure I even believe that the boss who ordered a kill is even guilty of a crime. If his subordinate didn't actually pull a trigger then no crime would be committed. How can one person's crime be a function of anoth
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by patmcc 11y ago
Sure - if I can specify the exchange rate.
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by patmcc 11y ago
Every store in my country accepts fiat currency. I can pay taxes and fines in it, or pay for government services. It's legal tender for all my debts. If I could do all that with bitcoin, it might be real enough.
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by patmcc 11y ago
Thanks! Yep that was it, I owe you one.
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by patmcc 11y ago
I'm getting "a sealed resource is missing or invalid", with a copy of Xcode I know was installed from the App Store. Any ideas?
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by patmcc 11y ago
If someone invests in you because of a revenue claim when no one else in the room would agree with your definition of revenue, you might end up getting sued. That's pretty reasonable. If it's in a casual conversation, they should
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by patmcc 11y ago
Canada - I've had only good interactions with the police, although we do have some issues (RCMP has/had some sexual harassment issues, there was a man killed by tasers a couple years back that was covered up/lied about, etc.)
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by patmcc 11y ago
It sucks, but it's probably because Java is used so much by large enterprises - and big organizations often won't tolerate using other people's code or sharing their code with other people. Node and Perl are used more by indi
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by patmcc 11y ago
Look at your local credit union - many (not all, sadly) offer a free chequing account.
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by patmcc 11y ago
And why should mla48 get any equity in exchange for government grants, exactly? That phrasing strikes me as misleading.
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by patmcc 11y ago
Follow your local laws. If wherever you live/operate requires you collect sales tax, collect it. Some places have weird rules about this; maybe you have to collect sales tax from everyone, maybe only from residents of your country, may
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by patmcc 11y ago
Stability is generally rewarded - sudden drastic changes to a primary parent's living situation, religion, employment, etc. is not seen as great for children. Also, sudden shifts in behaviour can happen because of serious mental illnes
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by patmcc 11y ago
If the company didn't have operational reserves for that kind of rough patch I'd be pretty worried anyway - but I'd probably consider it, yeah. A lot of that would depend on my situation at the time though - if it meant defau
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by patmcc 11y ago
Loyalty is such a ridiculous thing for most companies to expect. It needs to be earned, and it's not even that complicated. Here's how you get loyal employees: 1. After some probation period, fire only as a last resort or for real
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by patmcc 11y ago
I don't think it's a lie, it's just a statement with a big IF before it. IF (this company is as great as you say) && (I'll be doing interesting work) && (the culture is good) && (the pay/bene
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by patmcc 11y ago
It's hard to come up with a system of assessing property values that doesn't have flaws. If you used the last sale price and didn't adjust, people who bought 30 years ago would benefit unfairly. If you used the sale price and
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by patmcc 11y ago
>>I don't understand, though, why there is this idea that direct sales would result in a better deal. If direct sales were possible, dealerships would have to offer better prices or go out of business. If I could order a Honda Ci
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by patmcc 11y ago
>>I really can't understand why offices use keurig. It eliminates the interpersonal drama that can waste crazy amounts of time in an office. If there's a large central carafe of coffee, it can lead to: people fighting over w
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by patmcc 11y ago
Tarsnap isn't intended to be used as one-time backup like that, and it's super expensive if used that way. It's very cheap when used to backup (almost) the same 4GB for 1000 days in a row, which is what a lot of people/b
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by patmcc 11y ago
An investor should be willing to make a "10% chance for a 100X return" type investment, but no, I wouldn't usually suggest that to my friends and family unless the amount of money was not significant to them. I don't thi
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by patmcc 12y ago
>>We started with a once-a-month paycheck, which my co-founder and I were used to and saved some payroll fees. Just a reminder to any other founders - some jurisdictions may dictate how often you must pay your employees, make sure to
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by patmcc 12y ago
Log rotation to a centralized log server solves that problem, although maybe at the loss of easy real-time access.
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by patmcc 12y ago
Disclaimer: this may be specific to forests in British Columbia. It's actually quite complicated; the way harvesting work doesn't nicely mimic how trees naturally die and are replaced in the forest. So if you harvest with clearcut
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by patmcc 12y ago
Incredibly true; for something as simple and necessary as messaging, the company I work for has: 1. A company-wide and approved solution (proprietary) that's very buggy. 2. A jabber server someone threw together so everyone could use t
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by patmcc 12y ago
So simple, but such an improvement over the current system. Excellent idea. I just looked up how many people are taking prescription drugs and was shocked; almost 50% during the last 30 days ( http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fas
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by patmcc 12y ago
I suspect they'd do both; use a process like this to drastically improve their low-end products, but make a labelling distinction between 'natural' and 'artificially-aged' scotch/rum/etc.
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by patmcc 12y ago
That's completely untrue. Advertisers come to Google and say "we want to sell this, people in these demographics would like it" and Google shows it to me or you based on what it knows about us. Google knows lots about me; peo
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by patmcc 12y ago
I think everyone agrees that you need both options, but there's still the question of which is better: 1. Open plan for day-to-day with some private rooms. 2. Private rooms for day-to-day with lots of breakout rooms (or similar). I thi
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by patmcc 12y ago
I'd buy one of these this summer no question - my wife's family lives on a small, mostly uninhabited island, and has some space set aside for a cabin for us. But building much of anything there is crazy expensive, so this would be

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