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by sobani 6y ago
> And if the answer is: "but network effects", why not Facebook messenger? it has the same reach if not greater. The last message in my Facebook messenger is almost a year old when a single person wished me a happy birthday.
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by sobani 7y ago
As far as I know US tax law (I've never dealt with US tax, so grab yourself a salt shaker): When you sell a stock for less than you bought it (like if you sell something right now that you bought less than 3 years ago) you can subtract
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by sobani 7y ago
Short answer: we don't know. "The exact mechanism behind the seasonal nature of influenza outbreaks is unknown." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_season#Cause
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by sobani 7y ago
And wearing a mask when you have the sniffles was already very common in Japan.
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by sobani 7y ago
> Same quantity every paycheck Not with deflation. As the value of Bitcoin rises (in terms of food, cars and vacations), the number on your paycheck will go down. It's already happening these days. Besides housing and healthcare, in
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by sobani 7y ago
IIRC those mice were also locked up in drab cages. And the experiment was redone in a more natural environment (for example other mice to interact with) were they didn't show this behavior.
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by sobani 7y ago
This picture show the benefit cliffs in a very clear way: https://sacredcowchips.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/welfare-c... Most important part of that picture: "The single mom is better off earning gross incom
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by sobani 7y ago
The first table (image) in this post https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1735517 shows this issue. It's in Dutch, but the most important columns are the first (gross income), the second to last
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by sobani 7y ago
For the same reason(s) the common flu is more prevalent in the winter. Wikipedia has some proposed explanations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_season#Cause .
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by sobani 7y ago
Ah yes personal identification numbers (BSN in Holland) don't 'spark joy' either. In Holland every resident gets a unique BSN. So you can use it to uniquely identify a person. Except if you also have to deal with asylum seeke
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by sobani 7y ago
In Holland some government organizations use Jan 1st as 'unknown birthday' and others use June 1st. Also provides hours of fun for the whole family!
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by sobani 7y ago
Until Reddit decides your community is not OK and will quarantine you like https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/ or outright ban you like https://www.reddit.com/r/watchpeopledie Self moderatio
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by sobani 7y ago
> > I don't think there's any bank in North America that requires 2FA to login to your online banking. > This is required by the same law. FYI: no bank has to follow EU laws in North America.
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by sobani 7y ago
@Aaargh20318 could've mentioned that he linked to the EU laws about banking.
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by sobani 7y ago
Most companies are not Google, so their (local) reputation matters a lot. I'm a .Net developer. In my area there is a well known company that hires a lot of .Net devs. I heard from 2 people that .Net devs are basically treated as 2nd c
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by sobani 7y ago
If you equate constructive feedback with a dressing down, I can only feel sad for you. "We noticed you used an unsorted list, where a dictionary/map would've been a natural fit. Based on this we don't feel confident that
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by sobani 7y ago
> > That’s not how auditing works. The point of GAAP... > Hate to break it to you, but there’s other countries and other regimens out there. Which country are you from that it doesn't have Generally Accepted Accounting Princip
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by sobani 7y ago
Classic example is recommendations on a product page. If the personal recommendation service is not available / slow to respond, you might fall back on recommendations based on the best sellers or even fall back further by not giving r
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by sobani 7y ago
A cramp is not being at your limits. A good stretch and your ready to continue. This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWWRS9CpTY is being at your limits. But I'm willing to bet that a tiger would make her body remember
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by sobani 7y ago
This is probably related to the general 'people bond over a shared meal' thing. As you have more meals together, you are (they bond to you) and feel (you bond to them) more loved by the other people at the table.
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by sobani 7y ago
That only works if you can actually get that money. If you don't trust a VC to actually give you the money they promised it's wiser to go with one you can.
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by sobani 7y ago
What kind of awful subway is it, that takes 35 minutes to drive 7 stops? I just checked a Rotterdam subway line and it does 30 stops in an hour[0] which is a ~32KM distance as a bird flies[1]. [0] https://www.ret.nl/home&#x2
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by sobani 7y ago
> They import over 500M cars every year. Turkey has a population of 82M, so this seems unlikely.
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by sobani 7y ago
Even better: I remember there being a Wikipedia edit on some German person's name, that was copied by a newspaper and then that name in the newspaper was cited as a justification to not fix the name back. It might be https:/&#x2F
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by sobani 7y ago
What makes you think you'd be allowed to elect your judges in a country with a monarch with absolute authority or that you would be allowed to elect a gay judge in a ultra-conservative country? As for politics in justice, I'd like
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by sobani 7y ago
The (US) government today has a tax on investment returns. Tallying up the buys and sells seems like to be a much more complicated than keeping track of the total wealth. The way you accomplish this is by asking everyone: "What's
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by sobani 7y ago
For some religions, organ donation is a grotesque abuse of the body.
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by sobani 7y ago
From what I've understood from /r/personalfinance, you can probably get away with an initial offer of 5-10% of the billed price.
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by sobani 7y ago
> A part of humor is "reading the room". And nowadays 'the room' is becoming the entire world and can include a decade or more into the future. Today you make an edgy joke that everyone considers hilarious. A decade f
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by sobani 7y ago
Except in those cases it's even more important that the NPCs don't do anything unexpected. Those NPCs are like actors in a stage play, you don't want them to come up with their own lines and confusing the audience. Don't

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