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As someone who has always wanted my own underground bunker the advice here is clearly don't hire anyone, just do it yourself.
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> We can assume based on the article that the wife is the one doing the dishes. So, that means every time the husband leaves dishes out he is making more work for his wife than if he just put his dishes in the dishwasher. Not necessarily
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> it's not that the husband expects his wife to do all the chores, it's that he doesn't actually believe the chores need to be done. This doesn't get said enough. It also not just wife vs husband - we all have differe
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> actually, resolving the argument itself is not even the issue, but knowing that we still love each other is what matters. So much this. Having been taking classes and reading up on intentional/effective communication strategies fo
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It was 3G networks that enabled video calls from non smart phones back in 2005. The internet video chat didn't appear until later when HSDPA became a think
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5y ago
buses are generally significantly less than a million per bus. BYD electric buses have a unit cost of about $750k which is "approximately double the cost" of a standard diesel bus
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I'm not sure about the 101 project in SF but we have exactly this in southern california and believe it or not it's been great. They integrated the HOV lanes into a Bus Rapid Transit system and use demand pricing to ensure that th
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5y ago
So for stuff that's not trivial to remove just set up new accounts i.e. 123ExampleRd@gmail.com, tie everything to that e-mail and then just hand over the passwords when you move. Preferably do this when you move in, It also solves the
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> But I don't know, I only learned recently that my own team members had been working around a broken feature that I maintain for over a year without telling me. I keep getting this happen. Someone wants an improvement/fix to s
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All of my lights are tunable for color temperature and brightness and everything is tuned for warm and dim in the evening. It's helped my sleep no end. However i also have sleep apnea and am unable to tolerate the machine, so all of th
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there have been many studies that show that people who consistently work less hours are more productive per hour. generally going from 40 hours to 32 hours i'd be surprised if the difference in productivity was more than 5-10% (it may
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government institution/national treasure/religion/cult. it's kinda like Americans donate money to schools, despite the fact that they are supposed to be properly funded by the government. The NHS is basically on the brin
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It's written in Scots which is considered both a dialect and as a separate language (though there's not really a difference) https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/deid (also deed) https://www.dsl.ac
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It worked quite well for me for a number of years. And I had a social life. I would go to sleep around midnight sleep until 3 or 4am get up for an hour or two, maybe bathe then sleep from around 5-6 until 9. The other thing I've done m
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> Having platforms like F-Droid self-govern and establish rules to try and maximize freedoms in the world is a pretty interesting experiment and a great showcase of small government, and thus should be widely supported by conservatives :
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Basically - it became a go to for the Alt-Right, these guys ruin everything. Sad thing about free speech on the internet is that while i'm largely in favour of it mostly it does create breeding grounds for openly hostile and harmful op
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> As an outsider, this looks like the biggest problem in the US. The EU is no utopia, but standards of living, environment and way of life is pretty good for the "not-wealthy". In the US, it looks like you can also have a prett
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> There's no good reason anyone would intentionally want to keep the poor poor, it's just bad design. We need people to feel pressured into doing shitty jobs, if the poor get less poor maybe they won't flip burgers for min
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> This may seem like I'm being pedantic, but I've seen fake DV calls before (unfortunately, more than once, though none directed at me), and officers are generally sympathetic to whoever is the most charismatic. They're of
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> They officially accommodate "perpetrators of domestic violence" as Microsoft-owned Github. To take action against someone based on an unproven accusation of conduct outside of the workplace seems like the perfect way to get y
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That's probably outside the scope of this study. You were probably not in a regulated setting or under the care of a psychiatrist at the time. I'd imagine there's some guidance involved in the whole process that recreational
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There's nothing for olive garden corporate not to get. They made it clear that all you got was a token that limited in supply to one per olive garden and had a picture of said olive garden with a dynamically generated background. That
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from the UK - groundsource vs air-source heat pumps makes a huge difference. Last i checked: - ground source was roughly parity with gas (with something like an 8x higher install cost) - air source heat pumps were more expensive to operate
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it just works?
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this visualisation is a little disingenuous as it doesn't really set out that by the time we potentially see that kind of sea level rise most of those buildings either will have been replaced or will have collapsed. Also makes a good c
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> our society is based around subsidizing the fuel cost of those polluting cars I think you mean being subsidized by the fuel cost of the cars?
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making intercity public transit free or cheaper - as per here 100% will augment public transit as very few people walk or cycle more than 10 miles each way.
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> That's simply not correct. The literature abounds with all sorts of correlates with race, like propensity for sickle cell anemia, vitamin D deficiencies, susceptibility to alcohol, and morphological differences. These are just as
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I bought a Samsung smart TV recently got it all hooked up and noticed that the UI was unbelievably sluggish out of the box when i bought it... Hooked it up to my Nvidia Shield, configured HDMI-CEC and it's everything i want for a TV, a
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> Everything else on board for propulsion and housing the pilot would be on the scale of a small prop aircraft It's likely that any cargo airship would fly for days/weeks at a time and would require at least 4 crew-members and
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