quintushoratius

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by quintushoratius 7y ago
> They aren't as powerful as you think It's pretty common for C-level executives, and CEO's in particular, to be pretty chummy with the board of directors. They're all in the same social circles. Often the CEO of com
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by quintushoratius 7y ago
> I am wondering if female metabolism is fundamentally different. My wife tried the same diet and it just hasn’t worked for her. She gets too hangry whereas I find myself in a flow-state by mid morning. Maybe she should try eating breakf
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by quintushoratius 7y ago
> It's not really trumps fault though, people just generally can't reason with the fact that you can make things good and bad at the same time, so arguments and debates are all pretty much irrational. Why not vote in Trump, nob
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by quintushoratius 7y ago
US-based individual checking in: I've never rented a furnished apartment. My father is a landlord and, to my knowledge, has never rented out a furnished apartment. In my experience GP's comment stands: if you start fixing shit th
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by quintushoratius 7y ago
Or everything happens, it just happens all at once. Imagine a 3D object squashed between two glass plates until it's a single plane. You can see everything without changing focus.
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by quintushoratius 7y ago
JP Morgan, when it was owned by JP Morgan, was in the position of ordering public officials to attend meetings on and do it's (his) bidding. JP Morgan, the man, is responsible for creating the Federal Reserve. Interesting story from NP
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by quintushoratius 7y ago
> Value of dollar now in comparison to 70s and 80s decreased. In comparison to what, exactly? Compared to another currency? Compared to itself? If another currency, then great! We can sell them more stuff because our stuff is cheaper
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by quintushoratius 7y ago
> Likely $300 dollars before taxes The net bonus was probably $150 before tax; it's a rare employer that pays the tax for you.
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by quintushoratius 7y ago
Loading microcode on a CPU (without patching the firmware) takes effect immediately. The update is lost immediately upon reboot and must be reapplied each time.
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by quintushoratius 9y ago
More importantly, how do you deal with a seeder that is (unwittingly) seeding such items?
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by quintushoratius 9y ago
> There's no physical connection with the piston in the pipe, just a big magnetic field. Without air pressure differential to make an air-bearing the friction between the magnet and the pipe wall might make it impossible to drag the
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by quintushoratius 9y ago
> It would probably require electrically driven thrust carriages rather than pneumatic - you would need one for every car using the system. Not necessarily one per car. You'd probably have a chain of thrust carriages, with maybe so
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by quintushoratius 9y ago
Even Microsoft skips ME nowadays.
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by quintushoratius 10y ago
> "A lot of people say this, but most of them have never tried psychedelics at all, much less had high-dose, strong trips. In those cases, I'm not sure they know what they're talking about." What you say is true, but