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13y ago
But then again, nuclear medicine devices were never on the dollar menu.
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13y ago
If your house burns down and you receive the check and don't spend it repairing your house, oh well. If you get cancer, get a check to cover the total expected cost of treatment, and don't spend it on treatment, the hospital can&#
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13y ago
It's barely fair to even refer to Florida as a singular place, because South Florida and "The Rest of Florida" are two different cultures. South Florida is the nice beaches, upscale stuff, and the progressive, educated, impo
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13y ago
You can get a phone case for carrying your license and credit cards. One less separate item.
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13y ago
> If he were as smart as he thought he was, he would have gotten out of the business and the country shortly after he became a millionaire. I believe this guy is the second owner. If I recall correctly, the first guy did pretty much exa
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13y ago
Yes, for those types of programmers, finding them is the problem.
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13y ago
Your argument is similar to the "why are you scared if you've got nothing to hide?" response to the NSA scandal. According to society, we all should be perfect citizens whose outward lives perfectly reflect our inward, priva
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13y ago
Adult traffic is pretty useless to most traditional affiliate marketing-ish offers. It's almost like the users just have this one, single thing on their mind and can't be bothered with anything else at that moment.
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13y ago
When I needed to host adult landing pages, Rackspace indicated they had no restrictions on regular adult material. You might want to check what their limits are, but they're certainly OK with your run-of-the-mill hardcore porn.
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13y ago
There's a huge segment of "serious drug addicts" in our population that show exactly what crack and meth users would be like if their drugs of choice were legalized: it's called Alcoholics Anonymous. Are you equally con
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13y ago
> I can't help but feel like your advice smacks of elitism. When I read your post I get a subtext of, "Everyone else is dumb if they don't get what I'm saying. At best, that is! Usually they're trying to shoot me
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13y ago
I work all day on a MacBook Air 13. I spend 70% of my time in a terminal, so screen size doesn't matter much to me.
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13y ago
Anecdotally, the IT recruiters I know make more money than the developers I know. If you look at industry averages then you'll probably find recruiter income to be misleadingly low. Like most sales jobs, there's an incredible am
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13y ago
I keep a high level of protein my diet. I've tried veggie burgers and other substitutes and enjoyed them a lot, but I can't replace all my meals with them because they're just so damn high in sodium. Any suggestions?
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13y ago
I laughed out loud at your letter, but I'm sure you'll still get some attention from DSS.
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13y ago
I mentioned I was a software developer when getting in touch with Hive76 in Philly. Never heard back from them.
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13y ago
The international uproar over a shoot down would likely be of little comfort to the dead pilot.
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13y ago
He worked as a "technical assistant" for the CIA. He probably picked up a few tricks during his tenure but he didn't go through the clandestine service trainee program, which are the people you're thinking of when you t
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13y ago
I cringed when he mentioned the National Security Letters. Didn't even realize he was supposed to be getting rid of those, too.
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13y ago
This is first class trolling.
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13y ago
> Of course, it also raises the issue of whether or not people who (try to) commit suicide really want to die or not, or are just "looking for help" or whatever the phrase is. I don't really have a stand on that. I certainly see the gen
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14y ago
"From talking to them, many express that these experience have focused/clarified what they hope to gain from college, intellectually and personally." As someone who made money on the internet in my teen years, I too spent quite a bit of tim
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14y ago
https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/ Apparently she does things like this frequently, they just never hit the front pages of news sites before.
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14y ago
I don't think she could've imagined that he would've been fired over something like that. I'm sure that surprised everyone. The "bullying" I referred to was simply exposing those developers' picture to her considerably-sized twitter audie
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14y ago
The conduct was not comparable. Their conduct was immature, surely, and PyCon had a process in place to deal with it (and they did). Adria did not let it stop there and used her influence and position to publicly bully them under the guis
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14y ago
While the timing would seem to indicate it is a direct reaction to the current shitstorm, I also can't imagine how she could continue with the company as an effective "developer evangelist" after an incident like this.
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14y ago
I don't think #2 will work without reforming the system to incentivize that kind of behavior. My grandmother goes to the podiatrist to have him cut her toenails (diabetes). There's barely any risk of her doing it herself, but he charges $
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14y ago
> We need to get rid of employer-provided health care benefits, and focus on getting people to buy it directly themselves. This. People are given these ridiculously expansive health care plans and most of the premium is picked up by th
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14y ago
> On the surface, "don't be nice" appears pretty douchey. Very true, but I think the broader point is to avoid being the stereotypical "nice guy" towards women. For better or worse, being "overly nice" or eager to please is a low-confi
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14y ago
How would one begin a relationship with an agency? Is it possible to do on a less than full time basis?
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