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by sct202 8y ago
The current city = Blue and rural = Red division is a relatively recent one; so across the timescale of people born in the 80s to now you'd have a lot of political shifts that would be hard to account for. Just look at the 1996 electi
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by sct202 8y ago
It might be to accommodate business diners and really rich people who have those black cards. I've personally never had an Amex except for corporate cards.
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by sct202 8y ago
I remember having to use all those meta search engines that combined the results of several engines together to average out all the trash of each result set, and then Google appeared and was better than that.
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by sct202 8y ago
Non-standardized data from hundreds of different cities is probably more trouble than it's worth in aggregate.
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by sct202 8y ago
For what it's worth, I don't think there's anything wrong with having an H1B. The system of tech consultancy companies (some of which are American) staffed up by H1Bs are what is being abused, where there are already people d
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by sct202 8y ago
It doesn't bother you that they could splice out any footage that would make themselves look worse? Or cut in footage out of context that would make themselves look better?
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by sct202 8y ago
It's sad that these fish take 7+ years to mature and are harvested just for their eggs while their bodies are left to rot.
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by sct202 8y ago
A related trend, is that the length of the car loans is also increasing. 84 month loans are not uncommon now.
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by sct202 8y ago
Maybe it's one of those design by committee monstrosities that has been 'enhanced' several times.
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by sct202 8y ago
Where are you getting the US$46 billion? In the article you linked to they have $10 billion USD in debt, and other recent articles have similar numbers.
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by sct202 8y ago
In the year over year employment by occupation stats, the unemployment rate for Management, professional, and related occupations and Sales and office occupations is a small bit higher but the overall number is still lower because of increa
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by sct202 8y ago
But the airline isn't responsible if you decide to leave the airport in a country that requires a visa.
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by sct202 8y ago
You generally avoid checking bags if you try to do a hidden city trick, and also by paying extra for an early boarding group in case of gate checking.
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by sct202 8y ago
Points like that are frequently devalued thru worse conversion rates or increased barriers to using the points.
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by sct202 8y ago
You just have to be careful if the bad actors start to recruit other bad actors. There are discords and Facebook groups that are dedicated to sharing where you can exploit a generous policy or error.
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by sct202 8y ago
I don't know if it's inconsequential. But Goldman definitely has a well deserved tarnished reputation, especially in recent news of their actions that involved the 1MDB fund.
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by sct202 8y ago
Our security team makes their phishing emails look way too professional.
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by sct202 8y ago
FWIW I can't find a reference to him being the 4th richest anywhere else but the article, so they probably just misread something in their sources.
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by sct202 8y ago
For so many news/media companies to be cutting all at the same time, I wonder if they're all having issues with earning enough ad revenue all of a sudden? Maybe the high spenders like Squarespace, BlueApron, and MailChimp are pul
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by sct202 8y ago
So many times policy goes out the door if a Director or VP wants a specific person for whatever reason.
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by sct202 8y ago
These set-up stings always throw me off a little bit. It's like sure these people are breaking the law, that's clearly wrong. But shouldn't we be fixing the system that isn't good enough to catch fake transcripts and fa
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by sct202 8y ago
It's a gamble to come to America to get educated (cost, cultural adjustment, visa issues), and I think that we should show preference to those students who have made that extra effort to live and study in America over other people.
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by sct202 8y ago
So it would take 3 years worth of poor performances to get let go?
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by sct202 8y ago
At first glance it's hard for me to tell that this isn't regular run of the mill affiliate search result spam.
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by sct202 8y ago
I'm sure that the 40 years of European colonization 400 years ago most definitely taught my barbaric ancestors how to use silver and claim land.
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by sct202 8y ago
Yeah my parents are from one of those formerly poverty stricken places, and there was money, trade, and land ownership. So many people who are living today have experienced their lives improving rapidly within their memory, that it seems r
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by sct202 8y ago
I love how fun his former title of Director of Quizzes sounds, but it's so sad to read his reflection that a random user in Michigan has been producing free content that has driven so much traffic to Buzzfeed that he's redundant.
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by sct202 8y ago
They really don't need this level of customization, but manufacturing in China lets companies do things like this for components that probably could just use standard sizes.
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by sct202 8y ago
There really needs to be more national level laws around PTO. Like my current employer has a policy to pay it out, but recently they've decided to cut our maximum rollovers from 6+ weeks (150% of accrual) to 1 week maximum from year to
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by sct202 8y ago
I think it also helps that when Spanx would go viral there was already a product available, so it would be less lucrative for a knockoff to enter a competitive market. When this guy's boots would go viral there was nothing to buy, so

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