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781.
by shaftway 11y ago
On top of that, the debt owner is obligated to make sure you receive appropriate tax documents, but in reality they don't particularly care and your documents will get "lost" in the mail. Since most people don't expect
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by shaftway 11y ago
People who say that there's no difference with a condom are either lying, have never had sex without a condom, or have a serious defect in their nerve endings. Doesn't matter what brand, quality, or style. The only people I'
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by shaftway 11y ago
This. I've been at top 20 banks in the world that run 14 hour jobs in Excel that import data from web services, run analysis, and FTP result sets elsewhere. They were used to analyze risk on tens of billions of dollars worth of securi
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by shaftway 11y ago
Iteration on spreadsheets is great, and there's opportunity for tons of innovation in this space. But this suffers from the same problems that most spreadsheets have. Errors like not averaging over the right set of data (which you po
785.
by shaftway 11y ago
I've just got to say, this is probably the best article I've ever read, all thanks to Cloud-to-Butt.
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by shaftway 11y ago
The museum already has a high-resolution scan. They sell 3d reproductions.
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by shaftway 11y ago
I've never understood this argument. Is it "we should keep inefficiencies in the system, because some people make money off of those inefficiencies"?
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by shaftway 11y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui
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by shaftway 11y ago
[citation needed]
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by shaftway 11y ago
I have an enemy. I define that as someone I would go (and have gone) out of my way to harm, but not significantly out of my way, nor harm to the point that legal action could be taken against me. In my case it's an ex-coworker. He&#x2
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by shaftway 11y ago
Except for the prices. :-)
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by shaftway 11y ago
> Compare that to the whole of Europe, where you have maybe one per decade. Really? There are a couple Wikipedia entries you should read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#Europe https://en.w
793.
by shaftway 11y ago
This just made me giggle out loud. Please accept this voucher, good for one internets.
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by shaftway 11y ago
Really tempted to make an account just to request some inane stuff.
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by shaftway 11y ago
It takes a disappointingly close reading though.
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by shaftway 11y ago
I was involved early with SVG. I was the Javascript test engineer at Adobe for their plugin, and I sat in on some of the working group meetings. When I left I found the marketing department had been raiding my tests for marketing content,
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by shaftway 11y ago
They do. I think the originator of the idea gets a 5% profit share. Edit: 1% - https://ideas.lego.com/guidelines#anchor-29
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by shaftway 11y ago
Does it matter? I can hear it now: "B-b-but they could have, and if they had we wouldn't have been able to intercept it."
799.
by shaftway 11y ago
Notice that this is a drop among registered users that have declared themselves as gamers. I'd like to see this against the general population for the same period. Maybe there was a rise during the same time among non-gamers, as other
800.
by shaftway 11y ago
bingo
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by shaftway 11y ago
Employee Worst moment: '00 tech bubble implosion. I had dropped out of college, was working for a major company (ask.com) and survived three rounds of layoffs. Watching FuckedCompany.com and seeing the rumors come true made me phyicall
802.
by shaftway 11y ago
https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail
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by shaftway 11y ago
Google pays well, but it's not infinite money. Especially for a new grad with no savings, college debt, and before any equity kicks in.
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by shaftway 11y ago
Isn't it painfully obvious? They're discussing joint events, like dinner. Whoever owes money in the relationship pays.
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by shaftway 11y ago
I hit my burnout point about 10 years into work. I had flunked out of college, so I was about 30. I was in banking, doing risk analysis. I had a manager who would give us arbitrary, ridiculously short deadlines, then expect us to work al
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by shaftway 11y ago
I remember having this exact same problem when I was 17 (in the USA). Phrased slightly differently, but the main difference was that we weren't given the formula. We were given the land speed and the water speed. Find the fastest ro
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by shaftway 11y ago
> I'm interested in why you consider it shady for a retailer not to sell a product. I don't see Google or Apple selling products from anyone but themselves (mostly. Apple does sell a few accessories and Google has some pure edi
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by shaftway 11y ago
I feel like there's a massive disconnect between these pieces. 1.) New law/proposition/whatever gets proposed. 2.) Article is published detailing how (1) can be abused. 3.) Article is published detailing why we need (1). I fe
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by shaftway 11y ago
I had an interesting similar experience, related to pronunciation of the phrase "en route". I pronounce it the way you'd say it in French ("on route" without the "n" sound). He misheard me as saying &quo
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by shaftway 11y ago
/sophomoric humor coming... It's "poop" because when you say that word, your lips make the same motions that your nether region makes while doing it. The same is true of the phrase "explosive diarrhea".

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