steve-howard

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by steve-howard 11y ago
My school's student addresses ended in @u.northwestern.edu. You can imagine this was annoying sometimes when email addresses ending in .edu were used to verify student status.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
What an amazing site. I was clicking through the advanced IPv4 settings on Windows 10 and clicking through the simulator for Windows XP and saw that they were exactly the same, beyond the different OS themes. So much overhaul for what net
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by steve-howard 11y ago
It's possible this is less of a "kowtowing to dictatorial states" move and more "we can't afford to comply with somebody's law" [1]: As of 2009, non-military cryptography exports from the U.S. are control
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by steve-howard 11y ago
I think it's more of a tongue-in-cheek self reference. "We've spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it." The spellcheck underline at the
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by steve-howard 11y ago
But on the other hand, gambling can bring serious social ills. Gambling isn't banned in most places because we don't want you to risk $5 to win $10, it's banned because of addiction, associations with crime, heavier impact on
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by steve-howard 11y ago
What if you produce your opus and a series of constant organizational changes puts you right back in hell? Is there an end?
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by steve-howard 11y ago
Hotels might have a reasonably fast uplink but still cheap out on the wifi infrastructure. When reception tells me "the wifi works best in the lobby" I know what they're really saying is "management cheaped out and didn
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by steve-howard 11y ago
Career is certainly not a choice I make. It's a necessity. Hell, I'd probably enjoy it more if I didn't need it.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
Especially since the number jumped from 1% to 2%, and even assuming that's a significant difference it still deserves a lot more qualifiers.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
Many people attempt this ad-hoc through the inflight beverage service.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
And when you have bad enough depression, s/We'd/We/. You'd be surprised how little any of that shit matters when you are more or less disconnected from the society that wants you to take care of those things.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
Anything that decouples my ability to meet medical needs from where I work would be an improvement. I can't buy insurance on the open market that's as good as my employer's, and I have no access to detailed information on ot
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by steve-howard 11y ago
On the flipside, Obama has endorsed the usage of "Obamacare," because he does in fact care: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/on-bus-tour-obama-embraces-obama...
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by steve-howard 11y ago
Also the digital transition, which was a significant effort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition_...
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by steve-howard 11y ago
And remember to turn off the ads they layer over the broadcast.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
I'm not much of a business guy, I just find this kind of stuff interesting. Thanks for the reply, I know M&As are delicate but I don't know a whole lot of the strategy behind how they're carried out.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
If we ignore the long term, we can trust anyone!
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by steve-howard 11y ago
Is it unusual to stage a merger like this with the explicit goal of splitting into three smaller companies in the near-ish future? If the company is planning on splitting, I would imagine the consequence of having two headquarters would be
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by steve-howard 11y ago
If I understand correctly, companies used to be able to spin off large amounts of shares tax free by bundling them with tiny segments of their business. The IRS used to let companies ask "did we do this right?" but this time inst
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by steve-howard 11y ago
One of the biggest losses moving out of my old First Hill apartment was that they had CondoInternet and where I was going they didn't. I don't even care about the throughput, it was just incredibly reliable.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
I would imagine that in Israel, it's easier to criticize what Israel is currently doing without the assumption that you hate Israel's existence or, worse, Jews.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
Here's another company that overhauled its reviews not so long ago: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/microsoftpri0/2013/11/12/micro... I have as little insight into the process as before. We get to do
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by steve-howard 11y ago
I've never liked appeals to a "silent majority" because it groups everyone who doesn't make their voice heard into a vague group that's assumed to be on the same page. I'm generally silent on these issues, for
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by steve-howard 11y ago
There are people who would have you believe this is a good thing. I share your revulsion.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
Medication has some pretty serious side effects, and while the upside can outweigh the downside it's absolutely reasonable to oppose forcing other people to take medication.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
The last thing I'd be afraid of after selling fake weapons to a brutal terrorist regime would be going to prison for fraud.
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by steve-howard 11y ago
I work at Microsoft. I don't speak for the company but feel like sharing my experience. We do have to comply with certain restrictions (e.g. don't do it on company time, company property, company equipment; don't compete wit
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by steve-howard 11y ago
That's not really what happens with alcohol products, though. Bourbon, for example, has specific requirements on the proportion of corn used, the barrels it's aged in, what proof it's distilled to, etc. There's a wide
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by steve-howard 11y ago
And TurboTax spends a lot of money on lobbying [1] and advertising [2] to ensure that, first, it doesn't get any easier to file directly with the government, and second, that consumers think "TurboTax" when they think about t
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by steve-howard 11y ago
Torture gets people to talk. Those who say it doesn't work believe that it can't be relied on to get people to talk truthfully.

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