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by pitaa 10y ago
As someone who personally had business dealings with a company/person mentioned in one of those stories, I can say that the story perfectly matched the personas of those involved, which has me absolutely convinced that it actually happ
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by pitaa 10y ago
>(Tangentially, "Finish what you start" ranks highly on my list of really bad advice). I tend to agree. People have told me that they were only doing something because they started it and 'don't want to be a quitter&#
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by pitaa 10y ago
You might be interested in the story of the Citicorp Center, a building in NYC that was dangerously susceptible to being literally blown over. >...LeMessurier calculated that a storm powerful enough to take out the building hits New York
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by pitaa 10y ago
Clearly the maintenance fee allows them to maintain the income they would be receiving if you were renting a router from them!
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by pitaa 10y ago
This whole thing reminds me of my favorite Heinlein quote: “There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the govern
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by pitaa 10y ago
> What's the difference between an unpaid intern and a volunteer at a nonprofit? Broadly speaking, I see it like this: Your intern brings you coffee, whereas you bring your volunteers coffee. An intern may start out doing low-skill,
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by pitaa 11y ago
I just wanted to jump in here and add that trig never made sense to me until I read your "Intuitive Trigonometry" page. I was well in to calculus and (even after getting an A in my college trig class) suddenly realized that I didn
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by pitaa 11y ago
That would assume that HN has not already received an NSL.
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by pitaa 11y ago
I was having foot pain a few years ago and decided to give those a try before shelling out to see a podiatrist/get custom orthotics. My foot pain was gone within a week and only came back on one occasion; when I bought new shoes and fo
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by pitaa 11y ago
I used to work for a company that sold the majority of their product to sears. As the only one in the company that actually knew anything about technology, it was my job to make sure our products and company information were set up and up t
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by pitaa 11y ago
Am I the only one that found this headline confusing?
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by pitaa 11y ago
Its all fun and games until someone looses an eye?
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by pitaa 11y ago
It's rather ironic; as I student I don't think I ever had a bad experience when professors selected books OTHER than the latest edition Pearson/McGraw was hawking. It meant that they actually put some effort into the course,
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by pitaa 11y ago
I'm trying to figure out how this is any different from standard LCL. You're just working with another shipper rather than a freight company arraigning it? If that's the case, what's to stop the first guy that unloads fr
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by pitaa 11y ago
do you have any stats on how far people get? I reached level 35 on the 3rd or 4th try.
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by pitaa 11y ago
Honestly, it just looks like more spam to me.