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by timbre 14y ago
A lottery doesn't seem to me to do anything but mitigate the benefit of fancy redialers or other automated ways of getting your ticket order in first. With or without a lottery, allowing resale for profit gives people willing to pay more a
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by timbre 14y ago
I'm rusty on C, and confused. What should I use instead of signed int?
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by timbre 14y ago
You can deduct taxes paid to your country of residence, so it's more max-taxation than double-taxation.
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by timbre 14y ago
I'm not surprised that employees are judged by hours worked, but I'm very surprised that an interviewer would have the awareness and honesty to say so in an interview. Was it at least rare?
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by timbre 14y ago
I don't think it's fair to say the author missed this. He seems to be asking precisely if this is the strategy, and if so how well it's working. > Is that Amazon’s real goal with the Kindle -- is Amazon in the device business only to s
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by timbre 15y ago
> The second secret is that most teams, frankly, are not that good. It's so important to remember this, as well as the corollary: I'm not that good myself. The article included this line: > If you need to follow a prescribed proces
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by timbre 15y ago
If it is just a result of the credit card companies being American, JCB is a fairly widespread non-American (Japanese) alternative.
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by timbre 15y ago
Permanent travelers, the homeless, etc. can receive mail at the post office by general delivery. (Letters addressed to J. Doe GENERAL DELIVERY Anytown, Anystate 12345 are held for pickup at the post office for 30 days.) This was once comm
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by timbre 15y ago
As VOIP becomes more common, I've found that some people consider it rude to use these free services. Things have shifted from a VOIP setup not being a proper phone because it can't connect with these numbers, to these numbers not being pr
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by timbre 15y ago
In fact VMG's HBS link, which generally encourages making the first offer, includes this caveat: > There is one situation in which making the first offer is not to your advantage: when the other side has much more information than you d
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by timbre 15y ago
Office.
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by timbre 15y ago
For a language I know well, this is not appealing, but it could be very useful at the level of (non-native) language proficiency where I can write well enough to make my meaning clear, but can't avoid sounding stilted.
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by timbre 15y ago
What's so infuriating about the options though is that they're meaningless even to geeks . Choosing a WiFi chipset at least means something to someone. Among "Everyday Computing," "Design & Performance," and "Thin & Powerful," I
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by timbre 15y ago
A side issue, but there are real differences among what many people think of as interchangeable brands. I started using Tide many years ago after, dissatisfied with my laundry results, I found a Consumer Reports article that said it was the
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by timbre 16y ago
For Microsoft, X-box comes to mind as something they started after they were already huge, which was, eventually, a success. It took them a while to get it right though. Perhaps it's easier for big companies to do well with new hardware b
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by timbre 16y ago
That may be optimum if your goal is to get through immigration quickly and easily. Clearly that's not the authors primary goal, as he says his behavior gets him hassled, but "that’s a small price to pay to remind these thugs that their pow
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by timbre 16y ago
Here's a horror story from the other side (the buyer's -- or person-who-wanted-to-be-a-buyer's) of PayPal. I'm American, but 7 or so years ago when this happened was living abroad, had no credit card, and wanted to buy things online. So I