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by rdouble 13y ago
Well, signing the clients is actually the most important part.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Plus, that guy wasn't even in Russia.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Did you pre-plan the ideas for the websites? When doing art, I used to set goals like "do 30 drawings in a month." However, I've found that I just draw the same stuff over and over again if I leave it at that. I have to actua
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by rdouble 13y ago
The Swiss aren't homogeneous, though. They have four official languages and 20% of the country are resident foreigners. The various cantons don't often agree with each other and only 30-40% of the country votes.
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by rdouble 13y ago
If you're from another commonwealth country it's a lot easier to migrate to Canada than it is the USA. Regarding what could be more attractive than the UK: there's more open space, cheaper housing, better schools, mountains,
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by rdouble 13y ago
Vancouver was ranked least affordable housing market in the world by the Economist two years back.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I think because in most "cold" places the summer still gets pretty hot.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I think it's more due to Seattle's geography and anti-growth patterns. Places like Houston have a lot of lucrative jobs and a lot of cheap housing.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Perhaps it's not "poor" but I was questioning whether it is really considered "solidly middle class." If it is, I guess I am out of touch.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I didn't notice your reply otherwise I wouldn't have deleted my post. In my home town in northwestern MN there is an agricultural experiment station which paid $35,000 for a programming job a couple years ago. I made a spreadsheet
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by rdouble 13y ago
Oil fracking.
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by rdouble 13y ago
It's important to watch what trader/pundits like Jim Rogers actually do, not just listen to what he says. He's made a big deal about the current and future commodities boom, but he's also running a group of commodities f
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by rdouble 13y ago
Strangely enough, when I lived in Japan the guy who owned the takoyaki cart near my office surprised me with perfect English and a Californian accent that he had picked up as a game programmer in the USA in the 90s.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The info is from the census so they use the same definitions as in their other reports. http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-14.pdf
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by rdouble 13y ago
Five of you would not beat Michael Jordan, even now that he's 50. You're underestimating how much better the best people are than the average. You're really underestimating how much better they are than people who suck.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Oh, my bad. Americans hold the rights of the individual paramount but tend to be conformist socially. You have the right to be different but nobody is going to make it easy for you.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I would never have suspected that in the land that ostensibly worships individuality, not being "ground into sameness" is worth mentioning. The UK has always seemed to have some respect for eccentricity but I wouldn't say t
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by rdouble 13y ago
A half white, half asian kid is not going to get stares in LA.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I've actually seen Census figures that suggest that Minnesota has a very high percentage of "interracial" marriages Minnesota's percentage of interracial marriage is 4.4% (In contrast, California is 12.8%. The highest
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by rdouble 13y ago
The guy I was responding to lives in Minnesota (so do I). Minnesotans aren't critical of interracial marriage but they do tend to point out when people are "different." Especially once you get outside of the Twin Cities. Rega
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by rdouble 13y ago
I don't think sports like basketball and baseball are even offered to 4 and 5 year olds. (Soccer might be) At the younger ages, team sports do not help much with bullying or friendships or even sports proficiency later on in life. The
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by rdouble 13y ago
as soon as I knew that my beloved and I would marry into an "interracial" marriage ... I figured that my children would have no hope to "not be seen as any different." Minnesota and asian countries are particularly bad
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by rdouble 13y ago
Right, but they make all their money over a few months, so the per-hour take home is more than Wal Mart. I'm not suggesting that it's a good job, only offering an explanation as to why someone would choose to do it vs. a minimum w
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by rdouble 13y ago
Farm laborers get paid by how productive they are rather than by the hour. It's shit work but pays 2-3x more "per hour" than Wal Mart. Plus it's easy to pack in a lot of work, whereas Wal-Mart generally only lets employ
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by rdouble 13y ago
I didn't mean this kid's paintings don't have a market outside of art fairs, I meant that is where this sort of impressionist painting is usually found when produced by someone else.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I'm not really wrong on that score, just look at some of the paintings in the article, and check out his website. Many of the examples given aren't even very good, especially the "winter landscape" image 7/8 in the
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by rdouble 13y ago
That's true. I certainly don't understand who it is that is buying these paintings.
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by rdouble 13y ago
It isn't, really. It's typical Bob Ross stuff that doesn't have any market outside of art fairs and repos for hotel chains.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I've found this story a bit odd because if a child even just a few years older made paintings like these, they would maybe win a prize, but certainly not sell for $70,000 a piece.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I'm not sure about the UK but in the USA it is easy to write off trucks over 6000lbs as a business expense.

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