throwawayboise

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by throwawayboise 6y ago
That's not entirely true. If you had a "gap in coverage" e.g. you were without insurance for too long (about 30 days?) then limits on pre-existing conditions, etc. might be an issue when you get insurance again. But if you we
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
I had a unit on electronics as part of my HS physics courses. Can't recall if it was first year or second year.
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
I'd like some more details on how they are going to prevent the bogus, gamed product reviews that predominate on any other review site. Amazon hasn't cracked that nut (not that they have much to gain by doing so).
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
The Harbor Freight hand tools I've bought are really pretty decent. Wrenches, sockets, screwdrivers. I'm not a pro mechanic but I do a lot of my own auto maintenance. HF hand tools are least as good as current Craftsman, probably
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
Maybe I'm taking ths site name too literally, but I would think that computers, along with most electronics, are just one of those things that would never be a "buy it for life" purchase. I actually do have a Casio calculator
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
Having the chef prepare a great meal allowed them to have people working 12 hour days instead of 8, and saved them the cost of hiring more staff. It probably was worth it. Frugality =/= cheap. Frugality is about spending wisely; gettin
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
Worked for a company like this in the first dot-com boom. VC funded. Spending money like mad. Lavish offices. Big sales staff. Top-of-the-line Sun servers and Cisco networking gear. It was all focused on being ready to scale. Never had one
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
Amusingly, my local newspaper's paywall only works with JS enabled. Disable it, and you can read everything unencumbered.
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
> It's a huge part of what the Republican party has struggled with It is, but it's not just them. Mainstream Democrats are more center than the Party. "Defund the Police" did not play well with many centrist Dems.
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
People pick and choose both. What I have seen is that people generally start with what their parents taught them, but it's not that uncommon for them to end up completely different. And it changes over time. I was very much a "D&q
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
If the representatives don't know, what hope do the voters have?
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
Two things come to mind. First (and I don't know how true it is), some contemporary Catholics are not hard-line anti-abortion; second, at the end of the day you usually have a choice of D or R. You go with what lines up best. Voting fo
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
The tech stack is far down on your list of concerns before you have established that there is a real product and a market for it. Use whatever you already know/are best at.
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
> if you don't force the VP to vote himself back into office, the President won't be able to stop children from being raped. Extreme framing that makes it easy to dismiss. There are people who think this recent election had som
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
Personal experience agrees. I'm over 50. Started lifting weights regularly about a year ago. Lost about 15-20 lbs of fat. Consuming way less beer and junk food. Have not had levels tested, but noticing more signs of increased testoster
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
A timestamp is a timestamp. It isn't a date. If you need a date, use a proper date/time data type.
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
There's a name for a economic structure where corporations are privately owned, but operate in alignment with the governments political agenda and goals. Perhaps out of coercion, or perhaps just trying to avoid scrutiny.
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
In all the above cases (person spouting epithets at your bar, social media users posting hate on your website) these are people with whom you have no contract. They are there at your permission, as long as they behave according to your stan
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
So when a politician or pundit cherry-picks one sentence out of a larger statement and spins that to imply something other than what the speaker meant, perhaps even the complete opposite of what he meant, is that "fake news" or is
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by throwawayboise 6y ago
Yes, most likely. Eviction is a legal process, involving the courts. Did that happen with Parler?