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These tactics were not illegal when he used them. Although they may be considered anti-competitive, Standard Oil's monopoly waned after the turn of the 20th century. By the time that its monopoly was broken up in 1911, its market share
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"Anyone reading this" isn't in the population of people who don't know how to use a computer. Contrary to the beliefs of many people over the age of 40, being born around the time that the personal computer or the Intern
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Not only GitHub but the specific user's account could be compromised through e.g. a weak or reused password. In the general case, you should be fine. Even more so if the person whose GitHub account you are authorizing regularly checks
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If your boss can do your job, then he understands its technical realities and the problems you may be facing. If your boss thinks his/her adolescent nephew can do your job, then he probably doesn't understand it and views it as a
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Indeed. Even more so when you consider that they have a population of approximately 66 million. Interestingly, Austria is the country with the most tourist vistors per capita[1] excluding microstates and island countries. [1] http:/&#
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I'm a Canadian and I dread dealing with the Canadian customs more so than the US agents. Thankfully I haven't had too many questions on my last few trips. One friend of mine was returning from a conference in San Francisco. The bo
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I think your point would be stronger if your comment included a few links to the tweets in question.
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As opposed to a mailing list based interface which allows everyone to read and respond with the tooling of their choice.
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A fair coin means that it is equally likely for you to take a penny from me as it is for me to take a penny from you. For instance, if we play the game 1000 times, heads might come up 505 times and tails might come up 495 times. Over time,
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Race, color, national origin and citizenship are all protected classes which are illegal to discriminate against in the US. Race is orthogonal to nationality and citizenship. Especially in countries of immigrants like the US and Canada.
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Canada has a much better treatment of capital gains than the US. Instead of a separate tax, 50% of the gain is taxed as ordinary income.
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Just to clarify for those who may be less familiar with Canadian tax rules: Canadian-controlled private corporation is exactly what it sounds like and has special tax rules (including lower tax rates) in Canada. I interpret the parent as re
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A high deductible health plan is usually optimal for the unattached 20s crowd that startups tend to attract. This caps an employee's annual health expenditure to the amount of the deductible. Employer contributions to an HSA will furth
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ESR claims: But you guys have competition out there: Go, Nim, Swift, D, and maybe other languages that aren’t on anyone’s radar yet. All those languages are garbage collected or use automatic reference counting. Rust is unique in using i
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That article does a good job of explaining the problem with an inherently deflationary currency. It does not explain why the author claims that Bitcoin is not a curreny. Neither does it explain why the author claims that Bitcoin is a Po
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It isn't even that there is no source - the code is available (upstream is here: https://people.freebsd.org/~abe/ ). She figured that since it was a 1-bit bug, xxd -> vi -> xxd -r was going to be quicker and
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especially when compared the the new H1B threshold at 100K What on Earth are you talking about? That $100K threshold is designed to target body shops. There are a class of employers which are H-1B dependent; generally, those with at least
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Many ISPs abuse DNS to serve ads. One method is to rewrite all NXDOMAIN responses to an ad server. Another involves injecting ads into HTTP responses by hijacking DNS. Although your points about capability and motive are valid, I don't
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To save others the trip to Wolfram Alpha: Assuming money is put into the fund in year 0, a return of 2.35x capital in year 9 or 2.6x capital in year 10 is required to get a 10% IRR.
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No, the Master's degree quota is unaffected by this legislation. The version of the bill presented in the previous congress is here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5801... I expe
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Since this might be relevant for some startup founders on here, I have a slight nitpick related to the 15% number. There are still thresholds for employers with 50 or fewer employees. Total Employees | threshold to be classified a H-1
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I believe that you must have HDHP in order to contribute to a HSA. HDHP satisfies the penalty. DPC helps save costs on routine care.
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Sorry, I didn't mean for my comment to be taken as a criticism of the overall piece but rather a nitpick of that particular paragraph. I agree that separating disaster/catastrophic coverage (ie: insurance ) from routine things l
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OK, so the first part demonstrates that given a password, OpenSSL generates the symmetric keypair using MD5 and a salt. So what? That doesn't break AES since the only secret thing in the system should be the password/key. The issu
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> My understanding is that health insurance originated in this country as a means to plump up employee compensation in a situation where paying more wages was not desirable. You could not entice good employees by offering them a pay rai
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For Santa Clara county Total donations: $59,683,708 Democrat donations: $28,362,650 (47% of Total) Republican donations: $7,613,361 (13% of Total) It is weird that the percentage column reports 75% and 20% instead of 47% and 13% respectiv
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undergrads aren't going to get $100k straight out of college. That's normal in Silicon Valley/San Francisco and NYC. In Seattle, it is normal at the larger tech companies.
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The text of the bill presented in the previous session of congress may be found here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5801... The actual text of the bill only effects employers whose
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I wanted to cry, thinking that I could buy bags of White Russian but I wouldn’t be able to take them out of Colorado. If we bring our son’s marijuana when we travel, we worry that we’re committing interstate drug trafficking. Isn't m
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In my company's contract, we limit our liability to the amount paid by the client. The amount paid by the client in this case was $12k so that wouldn't have changed anything except perhaps the scary lawyer letter (which they suc

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