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by patmcc 13y ago
Hopefully the local police were called, and told whoever called them to buzz off and let them deal with more important things.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Naming the first price tends to give up too much information. The other party now knows what you value it at (at either the highest or lowest price, depending on the side) and can negotiate you up or down from there. It also puts an immedia
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by patmcc 13y ago
If a company isn't even willing to pay you minimum wage (which is really not much in most places), it is one or more of: 1) They can't afford to, so probably aren't a very successful business. 2) They want to keep out the peo
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by patmcc 13y ago
Look over the last 10 years... http://visual.ly/popularity-programming-languages That's search popularity, but that likely correlates well with actual use. 10 years is nothing to large enterprises, where the huge major
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by patmcc 13y ago
Related to A - there's an old quote from John Wanamaker, father of advertising: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." It may not be clear to anyone (even Coke themselv
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by patmcc 13y ago
Even if they pay a 5.3% dividend every year, if it ends up going down even 3% in a year, suddenly you're getting effectively a 2% dividend since you've lost capital (rough numbers, no inflation, you get my point).
817.
by patmcc 13y ago
Here's what I would do if my country needed this (Canada has very strong Credit Unions already, that accomplish nearly all of what you want. I actually work for them, on online banking software): 1. Form a credit union, or partner with
818.
by patmcc 13y ago
Few things jump out at me.. 1. It cost $3000, not $8000 - what the lawyer originally demands doesn't have much to do with how much it costs. Still a lot of cash? Sure, but less than half the title. 2. If publishing material is your bus
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by patmcc 13y ago
I don't feel like a jerk, actually, for asking a reasonable question (especially since you indicate in other replies that the room is backed by a company credit card). Do you feel like a jerk for either your snarky responses or your co
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by patmcc 13y ago
At what hotel, in the modern first world, do you not leave a credit card on file to be charged for exactly these kind of things?
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by patmcc 13y ago
Small tip: don't store bread in the fridge, it goes stale fast (and then it's cold, who wants that?).
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by patmcc 13y ago
You can buy one today. It went from concept/prototype to full production with the help of kickstarter. Whether it's any good or not is a separate problem.
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>> Previous history has no effect on future outcomes . A fair coin could come up heads a billion times in a row as well. The next flip will still be 0.5. You hit the nail on the head here - a fair coin would. But if there are un
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by patmcc 13y ago
If you leave your blinds open, can I look through them?
825.
by patmcc 13y ago
From a political standpoint, absolutely it's extraordinary; from a legal standpoint it's relatively simple, just needing a majority vote. I'd be very surprised if they did invoke it, but prostitution is something a lot of C
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by patmcc 13y ago
Actually they can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_Thirty-three_of_the_Can... Parliament can specifically say "we know this law is unconstitutional, but we like it anyway, so it's staying for 5 years. An
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by patmcc 13y ago
I like it, I've signed up with one of my hey-this-could-work-but-oh-i-got-lazy ideas.
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>Apple would literally need to build a skyscraper to achieve that in San Francisco proper. I'm not seriously suggesting it, but Apple could easily afford to do that. The Burj Khalifa skyscraper, tallest in the world, cost ~$1.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Does the secret email address change every day? Or is it the same one from now until the close of the contest?
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by patmcc 13y ago
Oh, absolutely this should give people pause at spending $35k at coinbase (or on bitcoins period). Or, rather, maybe people should stop massive speculation on bitcoins on a platform that takes at least a few days (best case) to clear.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Was the delivery date of the BTC ever set? They guaranteed a price and delivered on it (yes, they took a while, yes the value went down in the meantime). If the price went up, everyone would certainly expect them to deliver at the guarantee
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by patmcc 13y ago
A prison sentence isn't meant to be only punishment for the offender - it's also (theoretically) a deterrent to other potential criminals, a chance to rehabilitate the prisoner, and a method of preventing immediate re-offense. We
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by patmcc 13y ago
By the time you start hiring full-time non-founders, it would be a red flag to not have an office. A lot of potential employees would be put off by it.
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by patmcc 13y ago
This would be huge . I feel like google should be moving towards this, since it would fit in nicely with maps.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Currently it doesn't seem to be that low ( "we invest a small amount of money ($14-20k + an $80k note") from http://ycombinator.com/ , but yeah, it's not a huge amount of cash. It is very early stage sta
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by patmcc 13y ago
Why would they bother? Doesn't look like either party has different feelings/actions towards them. They seem to be doing fine with whoever is in charge.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Commute to/from work: 50 minutes. Walking in lunch hour: 50 minutes. Walking in the evening to relax: 20 minutes. Not to mention the trips to the washroom/photocopier/kitchen/whatever. It's not hard to do, especiall
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by patmcc 13y ago
Bingo. Companies should have (at least) two mechanisms for raising pay: a 1 to 3% (tied to some measure of inflation) increase everyone gets, and a variable rate tied to their performance/company success/etc.
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by patmcc 13y ago
So much work could be saved if most people learned a tiny bit of scripting, or really even what code is capable of doing. My girlfriend was telling me how one of the people in her office spent a few days renaming a huge number of files, so
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by patmcc 13y ago
Apple isn't deciding the legality, they're refusing to allow something of "disputed legality" into the store they run. Would you be mad at Walmart for not selling a new supplement that was of "disputed legality&quot

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