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by silencio 16y ago
(Random, but in the event that your kids are still the right age for that toy...) I got a very similar product made by the same manufacturer from Costco for a friend's kids, and I don't think that they're worth it. The one I got came with a
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by silencio 16y ago
Yep, this is my problem, not that I actually forgot all the logins to my individual OpenID provider accounts and variants (but when that happens once in a while, that's also a clusterfuck...). I have one for my domain with myOpenID, I have
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by silencio 16y ago
You can basically read it two ways. One way is that you're suggesting that she's at fault for being an assault victim (all other things aside about this story). Along the lines of "she deserved it", "she was asking for it", and similar vict
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by silencio 16y ago
Not only is the lack of steady work a problem, but also there are other costs of freelancing that people don't consider when employed. I have to be pretty careful about additional taxes, cost of equipment and other necessities (everything
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by silencio 16y ago
Laptop insurance can often cover accidental damage on top of theft and other things that can happen to a laptop. In very limited cases, other insurance policies may offer limited coverage as well. They're all capped with limitations, but fo
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by silencio 16y ago
It really shouldn't matter what you use or how long you've been using it for if it works for you. I freelance and find these types of billing/time management applications to provide a service that is invaluable to me. I can more accurately
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by silencio 16y ago
Indeed. I just recently shopped around and bought a new TV. As someone that had a budget of upwards of $2k, everyone and their mother in every store I went to, including Fry's and Costco, were pushing 3D TVs at me. They all needed $200+ gla
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by silencio 16y ago
I addressed this in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1591129 . To continue addressing it, credit card processing does not end at a card swipe. Unlike for internet retailers, brick and mortar can have more steps to take to complete a tra
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by silencio 16y ago
It's already been used to decline credit to people based on the likes of their shopping preferences. Not necessarily how much they spent and how much they paid off of that, but where they shopped. Whether or not it was justified, I can't te
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by silencio 16y ago
Right now I'm using Costco's partnership with Elavon for credit card processing that also includes debit cards, and it's been a while so I don't think there's anything terribly different about accepting them. It's the same old industry that
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by silencio 16y ago
That ultimately depends on the merchant agreement. Regardless, it's a percentage and/or a flat fee (and usually the flat fee that makes no sense for micropayments), and varies depending on other factors (which creditor, what kind of card, e
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by silencio 16y ago
There's ups and downs to all payment methods. Cash can be reused to provide change to other customers, and to make smaller payments. Just like credit card transactions can be used to pay for larger payments to providers. Just like CC proces
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by silencio 16y ago
> Since I don't get charged for using them... That cost is factored into your purchase somehow, and if it isn't and it's a problem to the retailer paying the fees, it will be eventually. Transaction fees seem insignificantly small, but
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by silencio 16y ago
I hate having a huge stack of $1 bills even more, especially given the state of US paper bills now (hello wear and tear) and that they are identical in size and feel to all the other bills. When I was vacationing in Europe, I absolutely lov
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by silencio 16y ago
This chair discussion and zed shaw's recent RSI discussion led me to looking at buying a new chair since my current one is giving me problems. I've settled on the Mirra, since I prefer it to an Aeron and I've found some reasonable deals for
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by silencio 16y ago
> Adderall is notably different in SR and XR varieties as well; SR is a short intense spike that lasts 2-4 hours, whereas XR works after an hour and a half and keeps rolling for 5-9 hours, depending on food/caffeine intake. I take XR in
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by silencio 16y ago
Agreed. As depressing as this comic can seem to people only superficially aware of what ADHD is...that's not quite what being on stimulants makes me feel. On one hand, you do see a side of me that can sit down and get something boring done
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by silencio 16y ago
Agreed. Even worse are the comments talking about how difficult Mandarin/Chinese is to learn compared to English, so let's just stick to Spanish and French. Well, I wonder just how many people learned English or a similar language as their
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by silencio 16y ago
Neither are their products. :( As a woman, the ads amused me so much that I was tempted to buy one of their products, but it was the fairly masculine scents that put me off. If Old Spice ever sold unscented products (looks like they did at
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by silencio 16y ago
One thing to note is that that's only a deodorant, not an antiperspirant. It certainly helps prevent smells with no lingering perfume, but that's it. I tried the Crystal deodorant and was happy with it, but I had to switch back to my regula
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by silencio 16y ago
Bummer for me too, wish I knew about the meetup sooner (or even the group! joined.), would have loved to meet up this weekend. Thanks for the link to the Thursday lunches, never knew about them. Would be cool to drop by one day :) A handful
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by silencio 16y ago
I'm not unaware of that. Neither was I debating that this was an invasion of my privacy, because Blizzard can do whatever the flying fuck they want with their own game and their own servers, and it requires ME to do something for it to beco
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by silencio 16y ago
Oh, no, they're not part of your in-game experience. They're part of your overall package you get for subscribing...but that's still part of the game. You don't HAVE to use it, but then again, you don't have to advertise your ICC craftabl
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by silencio 16y ago
Forum access is included in my WoW subscription. I've been told by a GM to go post in the forums once. Official tech support forums are...on the forums. Yeah, not part of the game. Right.
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by silencio 16y ago
Guess what. Loss of "anonymity" isn't going to do ANYTHING about that problem. There will still be plenty of people with fake Real Names and the Real Names of the people being billed (read: not the actual people playing the game, i.e. in th
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by silencio 16y ago
Posting in the forums is not completely optional. I mean sure, you can go your entire game-playing life without doing so, but if you ever get a hankering for posting bug reports or wanting more help than GMs can provide in-game, the tech su
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by silencio 16y ago
Or, you do find out that that pretty Draenei is actually female. Guess where it goes from there. I get enough shit for joining vent and talking as a woman that plays WoW in anything non-guild related (oh, please, I still got shit there unti
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by silencio 16y ago
> It will be optional to display your main characters name. Which is hilarious and retarded at the same time, cause I'm posting on the blasted Battle.net forums in the first place because of the game I'm playing (in my case, WoW). It sh
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by silencio 16y ago
I've found that I read a lot more on my iPhone/iPad/Kindle because they're all more convenient than lugging around paper books and I have one or more of them on me all the time. I don't find myself reading slower than with paper, but I defi
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by silencio 16y ago
Because it's not a storefront to sell apps, it's just a catalog, and the developer of the webapp needs to take care of anything like that on their own. The submission/review for these is basically a cursory look to see if it's actually an i

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