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thekevan
7y ago
Yeah, even if I have plenty of Jewish customers in the rest of the world. What if I am Jewish?
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7y ago
>your company will not receive special corporate tax consideration if your company: >Enters agreements to refuse or actually refuses to do business with or in Israel The link does actually include the penalties, which are far more tha
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thekevan
7y ago
Wait, am I to understand that this law says I cannot boycott doing business with businesses located in Israel? I am in the US, so can not say, "I disagree with how the Israeli government is treating Palestine and thus don't want t
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Goodbye with Love
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7y ago
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thekevan
7y ago
Stallman came up with a great idea, got it started but has been a toxic personality in the community. The open source movement was created because of his involvement, yet flourished in spite of his personality.
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thekevan
7y ago
Just a few comments down, one teacher says she uses the app and doesn't penalize for bathroom breaks. It sounds like blame lies with the teach and not the app necessarily. Better title: "Teacher penalizes sutudent for bathroom bre
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7y ago
As someone who has done buying and selling of used furniture, I wonder how much of the variance had to do with increasing or waning popularity of an item. When I heard this on the radio, one of the first items they listed was a Better Homes
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thekevan
7y ago
What do you use on the back end to sort the items?
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thekevan
7y ago
>trust my business to you? Clearly you haven't taken a proper look. They are just scraping what is already there, so they aren't the ones holding the trust you mention.
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I don't care about the how, why the hell would you?
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thekevan
7y ago
I believe to maintain rental units which are available to those who do not or cannot afford to buy. There is a rental shortage in the city, thus rental prices are going higher. The more rentals that leave the market, theoretically, the high
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7y ago
>Now I’m going to be unable to carry out financial transactions, too. Not so, their wallet requires no FB or Whatsapp account to use. It's open and so competitors can build wallets which also have no FB connection at all. Your state
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7y ago
They lost my interest and intrigue what I learned you had to get the dealer to use a marked deck.
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thekevan
7y ago
tldr: The physical construction makes it pretty much impossible to use as a battery, it might have been used for electroplating but it seems more likely that it held scrolls.
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thekevan
7y ago
This isn't exactly passive but... I used to buy old furniture, refurbish it and resell it on craigslist. I made generally about $20 - $30 an hour. I also kept things for myself sometimes and slowly replaced different furniture items wi
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thekevan
8y ago
I would agree with your general theory, but your scale is way off. The cars you mention are going already be worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, except for 3), which would be a once in a lifetime incident and thus even more rare
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thekevan
9y ago
So they made today's equivalent of about $98k and bought a house for $196k. Did he buy the house the same year? Outside of major areas like NYC, SF and LA, a professional starting at $45k and buying a starter house for $100k is doable.
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thekevan
9y ago
You say "recently" and then compare computers from 18 and 25 years ago. That's just about a generation in human years. The comment I replied to said, "For what it's worth, PCs are subject to the exact same slow decl
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thekevan
9y ago
"For what it's worth, PCs are subject to the exact same slow decline" Maybe eventually, but not within 5 years. I'm currently typing on a 2011 Dell with an i3 proc and 6GB of RAM, running Ubuntu. I have 19 other tabs ope
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9y ago
Newt Ginrich has for years said it should be the people of PR who have the referendum and decide. While he was Speaker, he pushed a bill that allowed a referendum to be called for. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics&#
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thekevan
9y ago
Vermont was in it for the long haul.
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thekevan
9y ago
I should have done some more research before commenting. Also, there is the new effort to open source Flash.
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thekevan
9y ago
I wonder what will happen to large Flash games sites like Kongregate.
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9y ago
That's not upstate, it's the Hudson Valley.
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thekevan
9y ago
You talked about how great Rails is but you also switched to Python. Why the switch?
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It seems like an easy problem to solve. Line the taxiway with red/blue/green or whatever color is appropriate lights.
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thekevan
9y ago
Look at the button, it has the word "Easy" on it. It's literally called an Easy Button.
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thekevan
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"In a nutshell, the US government claims it should not matter where the data is stored. What matters is whether the company can access that data in the US." Ugh, not that I like the idea, I kind of think they are correct.
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His account talks about his overly verbose question and answer session and a bit of a click-baity "when they heard his response, they were floored!" ending. Mine was a bit of I ascertained their need, talked up some of the benefit
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9y ago
That's a terrible answer and to be honest, I don't particularly believe this actually happened. I was once asked to sell a pen to an interviewer and the first thing I asked them about was their pen use. After that, I pointed to th
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