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by thisone 9y ago
The I-12 median barrier that significantly worsened the Baton Rouge area 2016 flood.
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App That Paid Users to Exercise Owes Nearly $1M for Not Paying Users(gizmodo.com)
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by thisone 9y ago
my phone is currently sat on my desk, about 10 inches from my right arm. I can, and do, check messages on it, by only repositioning my arm to unlock it. I easily read any messages by glancing at the phone, never coming into any decent imagi
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by thisone 9y ago
I shop once a week out of habit and because it's when I refill my car (I could shop every two weeks now that I've found fresh milk that has a very long expiration), except for meat and veg. I go to a gigantic butcher's shop o
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by thisone 9y ago
tracking you as you browse around is relatively easy, which is what I believe these particular scripts are doing. To actually track checkouts/purchases correctly so that you don't advertise to those people requires a completely di
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by thisone 9y ago
from my perspective of someone who likes working in collaborative environments, it's bullshit and indicative of a place that I would never want to work for.
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by thisone 9y ago
My devices don't distract me. I'm neither popular enough on Twitter or Facebook to be receiving notifications on a regular basis. I have no need to get slack notifications unless I'm directly @'d and that's rare. I
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by thisone 9y ago
I believe those were minutes not days (account is now '1 hour' old). guess there must be a bug report button around here somewhere
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by thisone 9y ago
If the US doesn't have a tax treaty with the country you are in, pensions become quite difficult. Even in countries like the UK where there is a tax treaty in place, it can be difficult because the UK offers a wide variety of tax wrapp
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by thisone 9y ago
Hargreaves Landsdown. I've found the platform easy. They're good at getting the 20% top up, though it takes about 4-6 weeks after each deposit for the extra 20% to be deposited. Not the cheapest though, but I think they may actual
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by thisone 9y ago
quite. For my SIPP provider, I've ended up having to go with one of the more expensive providers, when all I need is one of the cheap diy ones, because the cheap diy ones don't allow US citizens to open accounts When I called to c
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by thisone 9y ago
I believe that was sarcasm
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by thisone 9y ago
What kind of light were you using? I currently use 5w LED grow lights for garden vegetable hydroponics. They are very cost effective. At about 12p/kwh, make it easy and say lights on for 10 hours a day, that would be 1 kwh every 20 day
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by thisone 9y ago
don't know about the states, but in the UK grocery delivery is incredibly popular. Most people I know use it with an 'unlimited' subscription and feel the money they save, by knowing exactly what they will be spending and by
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by thisone 9y ago
perhaps Atom bank https://www.atombank.co.uk/
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by thisone 9y ago
Listening to The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb and wondering how I missed this when it was new. Reading The Evermen Saga by James Maxwell. No self help or technical books for me, just pure fantasy.
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by thisone 9y ago
I've had ringing as long as i can remember. My mother's description, she has it too, when a doctor told her it wasn't normal always stuck with me 'oh i just liked hearing the pretty music' Thankfully that's wha
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by thisone 9y ago
if grubhub's practices meant that you received food that made you ill, you may have a case.
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by thisone 9y ago
A half laugh and a 'seriously, come on now.' Or 'really? that's kinda fucked up' They jump on you for that kind of light 'check yourself' comment, well then I guess it would be now much clearer to you what
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by thisone 9y ago
email is a dead end with Uber. If you listen to the Reply All episodes about a hacked account, the only way they got to a person was by calling the emergency phone line. (ignore the vast portions of the episodes where they wild goose chase
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by thisone 9y ago
why was he complaining to you, that your company workstation, I assume that he has in front of him if he's trying to use webcam and speakers (sigh), wasn't responding to some stupidly shared root account? Along with just about eve
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by thisone 9y ago
A place that allows discrimination is not a positive environment for everyone who is not part of the discriminated group. People who are not part of the discriminated group do see what's going on. However they are often powerless thems
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by thisone 9y ago
how do you know the 'great culture' is for assumedly white dudes (what does that mean even, white dude is not some singular set of human traits)? I'm female, I've been the first and the only woman on teams. I don't
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by thisone 9y ago
I changed the thing I have (and want to have) control over, the sedentary lifestyle. The time I spend not being sedentary is also the time I don't spend in front of screens.
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by thisone 9y ago
As for proof, I don't know how assessment works, but there are types of income protection insurance that do cover accident, injury, illness.
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by thisone 9y ago
Oauth is an authorization protocol, not an authentication protocol
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by thisone 9y ago
We discuss what we did over the weekend, and that quite often involves talking about personal projects. Hell, we even may ask each other questions and opinions on sticking points. Then again, I work for a sane employer and from reading the
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by thisone 9y ago
Re 2, if that becomes your plan make sure you research immigration law in the country you choose first. It's not always legal to just move to a new country and start applying for jobs. A history of breaking immigration rules won't
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by thisone 10y ago
Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester: http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/books/Fondly-Fahrenheit.h...
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Redemolished, which is a collection of short stories and articles by Alfred Bester. You'll need to like, or be open to, 50s-60s style sci-fi, however.

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