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by steveax 10y ago
The clock starts ticking on coffee as soon as it's roasted (green beans last a long time). Grinding accelerates the degradation as more of the coffee is exposed to oxygen (nitrogen flushed containers help here). Coffee off its peak isn
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by steveax 10y ago
There's that old saw about a boat being a hole in that water that you throw money into.
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by steveax 10y ago
Agreed, it's time to start phasing out and/or putting caps on the mortgage interest deduction.
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by steveax 10y ago
Indeed, cue xkcd 1357
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by steveax 10y ago
Just you? Partners? If the former, a single member LLC is very simple to set up in many states.
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by steveax 10y ago
Because that's what Trump campaigned on and what he called it, until he didn't?
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by steveax 10y ago
Well that and the systematic destruction of unions in the US that started in earnest under Reagan.
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by steveax 10y ago
Conspiracy theory? No. Conspiracy? Yes. I often wonder what the Middle East and Iran would look like today if the CIA and the Brits had not overthrown the democratically elected Mosaddegh government.
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by steveax 10y ago
usenet.
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by steveax 10y ago
Yes, I'd say it is.
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by steveax 10y ago
Plus: "cuddle zombies" :-)
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by steveax 10y ago
I've thought about this ever since visiting the Needles fire watch tower and meeting Margee while climbing there. Sadly, that tower burned down in 2011 [1]. [1]: http://www.buckrock.org/needles.html
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by steveax 10y ago
First day of my High School wood shop class (do they even have those anymore?), our instructor opened up a couple of packs of hot dogs and ran one through every machine in the shop. We didn't lose any fingers in that class ;-)
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by steveax 10y ago
And, related: Trump’s pick for defense secretary has resigned from Theranos’s board [1] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/06/trump...
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by steveax 10y ago
But if a startup found a way to exploit the rules it would be labeled "brilliant" and "disruptive".
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by steveax 10y ago
Fortunately, Uber doesn't have the final say in this matter.
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by steveax 10y ago
One can never know the motivations of others, full stop.
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by steveax 10y ago
And if you want to run a company without having to deal with shareholders you can stay privately held.
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by steveax 10y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair
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by steveax 10y ago
It wasn't just "overlooking issues" many loan officers directed borrowers to lie on their applications and in some cases falsified income on loan docs themselves [1]. There was also falsification of appraisals [2], not to men
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by steveax 10y ago
Since the grades are subjective, and largely determined by the first ascentionists, (although through consensus sometimes re-graded) this is not possible. My subjective take on it, up to 5.11+, can't speak for anything beyond that, is
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by steveax 10y ago
Frank Sacherer worked at CERN: http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/tnb-forgotten-hero-fran...
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by steveax 10y ago
Yeah, 5.10a -> 5.10b is about the same step up as 5.7 -> 5.8 and the Yosemite Decimal System was indeed developed somewhere other than Yosemite: Tahquitz/Suicide in Southern CA [1] (where many of the golden age climbers and stone
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by steveax 10y ago
The real scam here is foisting "identity theft" off on the consumers rather than holding the financial institutions and other players responsible.
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by steveax 10y ago
Finding opals is not the problem, they are everywhere there, finding opals with valuable color traits is the problem. It's highly random is my understanding.
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by steveax 10y ago
In 1990 a friend and I spent a few months driving across Australia and stopped in Coober Pedy on our way from Alice Springs to Adelaide. We had intended to just stop for the night but ended up staying a few days because it was such an unusu
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by steveax 10y ago
~12.5% margin for CCA in 2015 [1]. I suspect that $227M could manage to pay for bringing some fresh produce into the commissary. Edit: not to mention the $890K they spent on lobbying. [1]: http://media.corporate-ir.net/media
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by steveax 10y ago
Dunno, were you around when Reagan was in office? He nodded off in public frequently, once famously in a meeting with the Pope.
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by steveax 10y ago
Your post reminded me of the Fresh Air interview with Sebastian Junger a while back [1]. I've not read the book yet, but it's on my list. [1]: http://www.npr.org/2016/05/21/478962909/sebastian-
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by steveax 10y ago
Cross-browser compatibility? That is mostly moot with modern browsers. You really do not know how bad it was in the IE5/IE6 days. Browser compatibility is positively dreamy these days. It is getting better.

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