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by tdfx 9y ago
To anyone who is perplexed by Trump (I certainly counted myself as one) you will find that one simple rule will help you decipher his outbursts: he doesn't mean what he says. His manner of speaking simply is not meaningfully quotable
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by tdfx 9y ago
There are negative traits about both teenage boys and teenage girls. The writing style more closely matches teenage girls in this instance, so that's why the connection was made. Sexism exists in tech but this is not it.
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by tdfx 9y ago
You can elect to have your LLC taxed as an S-corp to avoid some of the self-employment tax [1]. 1. https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-a-reasonable-salary-for-a...
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by tdfx 9y ago
And Mike's Tyson's derivative: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." Make sure your plan is flexible!
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by tdfx 9y ago
I believe he's saying that this girl deserved punishment but the act of punishing her sets a dangerous precedent that may be twisted or abused in unforeseen ways later on.
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by tdfx 9y ago
But that person needs to know the appropriate tool to use, given their experience. They are going to gravitate towards services they're familiar with, and by pricing things on the high end, you'll reduce the number of people who
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by tdfx 9y ago
Almost as distasteful as his use of tabs and camelcase in Python.
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Wojtek – the bear who went to war(en.wikipedia.org)
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by tdfx 10y ago
I had an initial negative reaction to JSX, as well. It grows on you, though.
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by tdfx 10y ago
It's a dolphinfish (actually quite an ugly fish and visually very distinct from a mammalian dolphin).
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by tdfx 10y ago
It does not mention what Google's response was, or if they have complied with the order.
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by tdfx 10y ago
You can rent a US number on Twilio for $1/month and use the free Twimlets service ( https://www.twilio.com/labs/twimlets/voicemail ) to have calls go straight to voicemail and email you a link to an mp3 of the
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by tdfx 10y ago
Actually the whole point of the distributed blockchain is that there's a very public paper trail. The only hope for anonymity is obfuscating the movement of value through the blockchain, which can be accomplished to varying degrees de
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by tdfx 10y ago
Could you elaborate? As an American who hasn't traveled as much as he should, this came as a surprise to me. I always assumed the "scientific method" that we were taught in school was some universal international standard.
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by tdfx 10y ago
Sure, social position is influence. In my experience, people have been more impressed by social position than wealth.
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by tdfx 10y ago
Well, money itself really doesn't put you ahead. You can be a rich guy who owns a bunch of real estate and nobody would notice. Buy the Miss USA pageant and all of a sudden lots of beautiful girls really want to get to know you. If
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by tdfx 10y ago
Club soda with a lime in a regular drink glass instead of a water cup. Everyone will assume it's a vodka club.
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by tdfx 10y ago
Just like anything else, people want social interactions that are stimulating and rewarding. Being around other people for the sake of being around other warm bodies is typically not very interesting for most people. Who has no shortage of
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by tdfx 10y ago
Also: agent forwarding.
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by tdfx 10y ago
I've certainly given this plenty of thought. The idea of alcohol slowing my mind down is only appealing in social situations and I've never found drinking in and of itself to be enjoyable. I consider it a "social enhancemen
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by tdfx 10y ago
I'm not a naturally extroverted person, but when I drink I trend more towards that personality type. I spend less time overanalyzing things and I am more engaged with the people around me. In a way it "dumbs me down" and ma
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by tdfx 10y ago
Because of the police unions: not much. They are shamelessly intent on keeping the most demonstrably unqualified officers on the force, regardless of their behavior. Philadelphia is particularly bad: "Through arbitration about nine of
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by tdfx 10y ago
I don't know why it's "bloated", but after a few minutes of video chat it's got my computer sounding like a jetliner preparing for takeoff.
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by tdfx 10y ago
Except that we don't need cheap labor immigrants anymore. We just vilify illegal immigrants while allowing the US businesses that exploit their situations to stuff their pockets with money. If anyone was really concerned about illega
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by tdfx 10y ago
> This situation is a dramatic departure from the original immigration spirit of the US which used to welcome creative immigrants with $0 in their pockets dreaming of success. I'm not sure this was ever true. A blunt review of hist
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by tdfx 10y ago
Most interesting to me was that the "junior CIA officer" who ran the most infamous black site ("the Salt Pit") appears to be incredibly financially successful in the 15 years since, presumably via continued government se
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by tdfx 10y ago
I think the other poster's argument is that the price of the basics will be artificially inflated as those sellers know that low income/basic income people have additional money to spend on required items. The price of a penthous
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by tdfx 10y ago
You, sir, have a way with words.
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by tdfx 10y ago
I back all my Gmail, Google Drive, contacts, etc. to S3 each year. Essentially I've got a yearly snapshot of each year's data, encrypted with GPG, in a rather redundant form of extremely cheap storage. Knowing this, deleting old
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by tdfx 10y ago
I make $125 cash comp as a manager. Full stack engineers under me typically make $100-120, more dependent on negotiating skills than experience. Fully remote work environment.

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