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by shliachtx 7y ago
The bigger concern from the merchant's side is that they are almost always swallowing the refund. The refund is not being provided by the card issuer or payment network, they just remove it from the merchant's (in this case AirBnB
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by shliachtx 7y ago
You are right, I've updated my comment with sources.
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by shliachtx 7y ago
Agreed. This is the same publication that insisted that a shadowy Jewish cabal is controlling Trump at Putin's behest. Edit: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go... (The orig
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by shliachtx 7y ago
Houston is as humid as it gets though.
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by shliachtx 7y ago
Houston does just that. Streets in Houston are lined with live oak, providing shade to much of the street.
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by shliachtx 8y ago
Of course. It is definitely exciting to have a computerized system. I just found it somewhat amusing considering Epic's reputation.
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by shliachtx 8y ago
> Luckily we are moving to Epic This may be the first time those words were used together in a sentence.
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by shliachtx 8y ago
It also seems ripe for abuse. I can already see people going around declaring people "unfit" and getting a cut of their UBI from the committing institution.
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by shliachtx 8y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, I am not addressing whether or not the law is appropriate. Any law is better served by being more specific, thus reducing the chance that it is inappropriately applied. Of course, there is always the recou
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by shliachtx 8y ago
Of course. I am not addressing whether or not the law is appropriate. But if the law is there, it should be codified properly, so that you shouldn't need a lawyer to deal with something the law was never intended to address.
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by shliachtx 8y ago
Judges are not lawmakers. They serve to interpret the laws accurately. Of course, often the laws are not codified very specifically, so it is left to judges to interpret it as straightforwardly as possible.
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by shliachtx 8y ago
> We don't need categories to be so rigid. For the purposes of law we do. > I don't particularly like the idea of laws getting in the way of my relationship with animals, even if they are wild. And yet there is a case to be
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by shliachtx 8y ago
“One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad mig
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by shliachtx 8y ago
I found it interesting that the last time I was in the mall with a friend, we were both more fascinated with the Microsoft store than the Apple store. The Apple store was just bigger, faster, better phones and computers. The Microsoft store
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by shliachtx 8y ago
> An upload button alone is no user story, a story might be "As a user, I want to be able to import the Excel reports that I get from company $XY, so that I don't have to manually enter the data, and save a lot of time that way
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by shliachtx 8y ago
GP is not commenting on the ability of an Asian-American to write or think on par with W.E.B. DuBois, but that the presented body of work is not necessarily a parallel to The Souls of Black Folk. As other commenters have mentioned, this boo
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by shliachtx 8y ago
Definitely not, hence the enthusiasm with IPFS, and Cloudflare's recent decision to launch a IPFS gateway.
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by shliachtx 8y ago
What IPFS does do, however, is make it possible to host your website on a server with minimal capabilities - even your personal computer (provided it stays on) - because an increase in views will equally distribute the load.
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by shliachtx 8y ago
So an S Corp is too much bother? A friend of mine suggested looking at that.
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Ask HN: Tax advice for independent contractor
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by shliachtx 8y ago
I'm not sure if this would work, but what about hosting a node that you can manually add to your bootstrap list? Would that make getting the content quicker? Edit: Oh, amd why couldn't I just pin the top node of the dag recursivel
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by shliachtx 9y ago
John McCain also had American parents, so he was a natural-born citizen anyhow.
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by shliachtx 9y ago
Consider it as an investment portfolio. It's not necessarily about leveraging experience across brands (although that's definitely helpful) as much as it is about investing in one kind of investment (product) which behaves in a ce
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by shliachtx 9y ago
Apparently they were built to mimic IRC but don't actually use it under the hood. But like you mentioned, they DO have some integration with IRC.
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by shliachtx 9y ago
> For WhatsApp and Messenger, I know search is only available on their desktop client... and IRRC only text search (can’t do date/time search alone) is supported and is on per contact basis. No global search... WhatsApp has search a
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by shliachtx 9y ago
Yup, Citi still has it
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by shliachtx 9y ago
To add to the alphabet soup you have DPS (Department of Public Safety) in Texas.
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by shliachtx 9y ago
Not to get into the politics of it, but isn't the"deep state" supposed to be the entrenched government employees that work against Trump?
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by shliachtx 9y ago
> Israel has enormous influence over the whole of congress. No, Israel has enormous support by Americans so it gets a lot of support by Congress. No surprises there, that is how a democracy should function. > The US give Israel bill
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by shliachtx 9y ago
This is kind of meta, but I think we'd be better served if you wouldn't remove the comment even if proven wrong. It serves everyone better to see both sides of the argument. It would be more appropriate to reply conceding that y

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