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by silencio 13y ago
Oh man. I live on Market too. OnTrac has done that same exact thing before, and sometimes I only discover it because someone passing on the street or a neighbor rings my doorbell to let me know I have a box outside. They also don't see
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by silencio 13y ago
Not that this happened with my fiancé's PS4, but OnTrac (a CA/NV? local carrier that Amazon often uses) has employees with an infuriating habit of throwing packages over gates. And I don't mean soft padded envelopes that real
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by silencio 13y ago
Why is making her drink breast milk incredibly stupid? Because TSA already have equipment to test liquids for explosives without having passengers sample their own liquids. Not to mention, breast milk has always been counted as medication,
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by silencio 13y ago
Tech is full of companies that basically do what Tim Cook and Apple wants everyone else to do. Yet we still have a problem. And no amount of publicity blasting discrimination in any form seems to make a difference - sometimes it even does w
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by silencio 13y ago
Abbott and Nestle and other companies only offer replacements meant for 90%+ diet use for people under medical supervision. I don't think we totally know how to create a reliable replacement without missing something - and everyone&#x2
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by silencio 13y ago
I eventually had to fish up an obit for a friend that passed away after Facebook and Linkedin both suggested to me that I should "reconnect" with him after a couple of years. Birthday notifications were sad, but the reconnect busi
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by silencio 13y ago
So NYC: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/living/cd-hepa-vaccine.shtm... Phoenix (county, because city had nothing): http://www.maricopa.gov/publichealth/services/immunizations&#
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by silencio 13y ago
Yeah, you know, I still don't see it anywhere. The citation you included doesn't say it anywhere - only for hepatitis B, which is much more prevalent. SF and Alameda County public health departments don't ask for vaccination
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by silencio 13y ago
[citation needed] Hepatitis A transmission through food is rare. The biggest states in the US do not require hepatitis A vaccination for food handlers. Food handlers are also not on the CDC recommended list of people that receive said vacci
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by silencio 13y ago
When it comes to entering non-english text, touchscreens are fantastic for millions upon millions if not possibly billions of people for reasons other than "operating a shell". I didn't have to sell my parents on buying new i
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by silencio 13y ago
It's because lactose-free milk (or at least the Lactaid brand that I see my roommate drink) is treated at higher temperatures. You can find regular milk that has gone through the same treatment labeled as UHT or ultra-pasteurized, like
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by silencio 13y ago
> Look at what sells at the grocery store.... Correlation isn't necessarily causation and a group observation isn't necessarily applicable to individuals. It frankly pisses me off when people tell me to stop drinking soda and e
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by silencio 13y ago
> It doesn't raise any alarms when a nightclub goes from $300k/year to $1M/year in cash under new ownership. Actually, these things can happen. It's a bit anecdotal (then again, most of the "wisdom" I have t
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by silencio 13y ago
Some anecdotal evidence: I took over a restaurant a few months ago. Half the surveillance cameras don't work. I don't have video for every incident I know occurs there. But just having the cameras look like they're kind of wo
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by silencio 13y ago
I own a restaurant in California. CA is one of the states in the US where it is illegal for employers to use tips towards paying at least minimum wage. (Had to double check, so here's a source: http://www.dir.ca.gov/dls
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by silencio 13y ago
The problem everyone had with expertsexchange was most definitely not ads and popups.
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by silencio 13y ago
I can't upvote this enough. I started standing a lot for reasons outside of work a few months ago. After two weeks of standing more than sitting I developed something called meralgia paresthetica, which at best is neverending thigh num
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by silencio 13y ago
> Soylent's different target market What exactly is Soylent's target market? 20-30 something men? As much as I love the idea of a meal replacement, the idea of a one-formula-for-all Soylent marketed as a near-entire meal replac
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by silencio 13y ago
It worried me to read that most of the customers are men (young at that too, along with all the founders), since the other half of the population of Earth have differing nutritional needs. I'm kind of afraid that not enough testers are
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by silencio 13y ago
> Is that 40k a month per restaurant ? Yes. While I haven't actually looked at financial statements for those businesses since they were way out of my budget, I'd get the occasional listing with numbers like that. Businesses li
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by silencio 13y ago
Yeah, I took a shortcut when I said FEMA loans, it's not directly from FEMA but they'll help you with the SBA to get a disaster loan. Pretty nice to have a safety net, but the government can be picky too. Many people I know got re
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by silencio 13y ago
> If "Selling Hotdogs" sounds like it might make you even 1/10 as much, you're simply not charging enough. Actually, my side biz is selling food. Unless you propose that I make way over a million dollars a year while
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by silencio 13y ago
> And selling something so basic as food is exactly that. I dare you to take a food safety course. I sweat bullets just thinking about what might happen in the tiny chance that a customer gets sick from eating my food even after all the
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by silencio 13y ago
> The reason being that the work is creative and technically skilled. Given how fast I've been going through potential (literal) burger flipper cooks at my restaurant, I'm not sure that's totally the case. Some people are
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by silencio 13y ago
I co-own a restaurant as a side job. Saving 3-6 months or more worth of emergency funds for my personal use is the trivial part. The real problem is covering everything that the insurance policies won't cover to a sufficient extent: ev
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by silencio 13y ago
> One important advantage instacart has over the in-store experience is the filtering and sorting of goods. That's assuming you get what you ordered in the first place, and ripeness of an avocado is barely touching on these problems
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by silencio 13y ago
But Korean Air at least, and Korean pilots have already faced that hurdle (if they aren't already the poster children for culture issues among pilots), and if it comes down to a cultural issue again I'll be more than a little surp
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by silencio 13y ago
Probably older, probably more experienced, subject of a news story, in a fairly professional context? Kind of offensive (IMO). I think outside of common terms like "chick flick", this is just like using "girls" to refer
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by silencio 13y ago
> do not tie them to an individual Just knowing the transit pattern for any particular ID would be a huge indicator of who the individual is. Imagine the consequences if you looked at my Clipper (SF Bay Area) card. I almost always get on
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by silencio 13y ago
> what's to stop you booking a cheap hotel or hostel for the night? Special needs, traveling with others, just plain tired after a long trip, middle of the night, better amenities, better accommodations, hotels are booked full, mayb

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