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by sjf 10y ago
If it's anything like getting sick in India expect misdiagnosis, over-prescription of drugs and prescription of drugs that are banned in the US.
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by sjf 10y ago
I should have said technology instead of computer, I would include smart phone under a broad definition of 'computing device'.
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by sjf 10y ago
I'm sure he _knows_ how to drive. Its getting to the point where not being able to use a computer has the same impact as not knowing how to read.
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by sjf 10y ago
I didn't realise this until I heard that Hillary didn't know how to use a desktop computer and could only use a specific version of blackberry. Apparently it's still possible to be to totally functional without using technolo
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by sjf 10y ago
Only for Indians.
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by sjf 10y ago
The rupee is a closed currency, the OP was never permitted to take the notes of the country in the first place, so there is no way to change them.
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by sjf 10y ago
Is the article saying that in 2013 a man was kicked out of a Seattle cafe and a convenience store for being black?
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by sjf 10y ago
If you are worried about the environment there are far more effective approaches we could use, like increasing density to reduce transport emissions.
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by sjf 10y ago
Welcome to retail, 100% is nothing for small items, I'd be surprised if the markup wasn't 10x.
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by sjf 11y ago
Don't over-generalize, both of the big tech companies I've worked at in the last 10 years have this clause and require _explicit_ specific approval for any outside work, open source or not. Otherwise, yes, according to the contrac
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by sjf 11y ago
It's a requirement. (IANAL)
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by sjf 11y ago
Exactly, the translation of microscope from Greek is also 'small looker', if we didn't have such a fetish for using Greek and Latin words to make things sound more 'sciencey' English would be equally transparent.
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by sjf 11y ago
Are you sure about that? You still need an employer sponsored work permit, and you can't change jobs without getting a new permit. Then it takes five years before you are eligible for Long Term Residency. You can go from an H1B to a gr
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by sjf 11y ago
I think it's great exercise, but why don't they just use an absolute scale for parent's income? "About $2,400 in annual income separates the bottom two dots, while nearly $1 million separates the top two", I would n
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by sjf 11y ago
You have to go through a refund process. If they host doesn't agree to the refund, it goes through arbitration which takes a long time and is kind of pain. They are supposed to find you alternative accommodation, but they didn't f
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by sjf 12y ago
BDSM has been shown to improve mental health in a number of ways. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsm.12192/abstrac...
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by sjf 12y ago
That's usually called a relocation bonus.
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by sjf 12y ago
Because you're effectively taking unregulated medicines with similar mechanisms to standard anti-depressants?
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by sjf 12y ago
Opiates are the most effective cough suppressants, I'm guessing that was the reasoning behind it.
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by sjf 12y ago
Your taxes are not funding international research.
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by sjf 12y ago
If you are trying to fuzz a protocol, there is no reason not to test it on a local machine. And it would probably end up _faster_ than the jpeg example because a network request has less overhead than execvp.
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by sjf 12y ago
Probably with a loom something like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oewvqPF9JU There are still villages in remote areas, e.g. Himalayas, where weather and location mean you have to pretty self-sufficient. As others h
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by sjf 12y ago
Not really, human genome is a bit of an exaggeration "The short DNA fragments that persist in these ancient samples limit the areas of the human genome that you can match the fragments to". And even if you could recover a genetica
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by sjf 12y ago
I understand why Netflix can't license new material, but why don't they have a comprehensive back catalogue? I'm sure they could easily license those b&w movies that play all day on TCM without commercials. Their movie se
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by sjf 12y ago
I would actually like to know what apps want in /proc that they can't get through the API.
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by sjf 12y ago
There's not many details, it looks a failure of JVM sandboxing? Ok, the actual paper describes the problem "popular GUI frameworks by design can potentially reveal every UI state change through a newly-discovered public side chann
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by sjf 12y ago
Depends on who answers the phone apparently. Instructions here, http://catherineryanhoward.com/2012/02/24/non-us-self-publis... I gave up my Amazon seller account because they started asking for EIN/ITI
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by sjf 12y ago
Was applying recently in the SF bay area, unemployed with a one year gap in my resume. Got an interview with > 75% of my applications. No one really questioned why I wasn't working, or seemed put off by it. I was travelling, but I c
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by sjf 12y ago
Apply some common sense, you think they let MS employees just commit to any codebase they like? And this is leaving aside all the annoying steps of locating their repository, figuring out how to build it, testing, finding out the right pers
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by sjf 12y ago
On the otherhand, when I was shopping for auto insurance I asked my Lyft driver what he pays and he says he has the state minimum and pays ~100$ / month.

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