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by ukoki 6y ago
Yep, adjusted for local taxes. Best strategy is to find a high CoL area with a low taxes and low CoL subregions.
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by ukoki 6y ago
> Spokane and Seattle are on opposite sides of the state All that matters is that Facebook consider them within the same CoL-adjusted region. If their CoL weighting is applied at the state-level (for example if Washington residents are t
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by ukoki 6y ago
Netflix competes with cable TV which has famously infuriating billing practices. they also compete with any “digital entertainment” you might choose to spend money on instead of Netflix: Xbox live, Spotify etc
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by ukoki 6y ago
Just one theory: If I go to a restaurant I expect they'll give me to-go box if I ask for it; If I accidentally buy they wrong size shirt from a high-street retailer, I expect to be able to return it. If a business doesn't meet the
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by ukoki 6y ago
I can't imagine being that smart and curious and being trapped in a tiny pool my whole life
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by ukoki 6y ago
Thanks! — Any idea how they worked this one out? > Assuming that the heat of the sun has been kept up by meteoric bodies falling into it, it is possible from the mass of the solar system to determine approximately the period during which
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by ukoki 6y ago
For the dog one I would argue that they are so tightly correlated that neck size adds nothing useful to the chart and is just noise. The article is about dogs getting smaller. The weight chart shows this perfectly. The fact that smaller dog
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by ukoki 6y ago
> Can you explain what you mean by "struggle"? An Arial 'g' and a Times New Roman 'g' are fundamentally different because 1. The stem is on different sides 2. They have a different number of loops For most l
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by ukoki 6y ago
As suspected it struggles with 'g' :) https://imgur.com/umYbkbn
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by ukoki 6y ago
I'll take coding interviews over expensive qualifications, work history and nepotism any day of the week. Let's say I give candidates a basic whiteboard problem that requires no fancy algos/data structures other than knowing
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by ukoki 7y ago
Also related is the recent three-part Netflix documentary Don't F k with Cats on the Internet https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81031373
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by ukoki 7y ago
If you want to see this taken up a few levels check out the incredible work done by Bellingcat to identify times and locations where minors were sexually abused in Cambodia. Includes consideration of Mango tree growth speeds, among other t
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by ukoki 7y ago
> Big sites will eventually convert to essentially "a web browser inside a web browser" so they have total control over the content and how it's displayed. This has already happened: Just look at how many websites pester
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by ukoki 7y ago
But then OP still has too much electricity — s/he just has too much electricity at different times!
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by ukoki 7y ago
> You can't make money this way Are you sure? What about something like this: 1. Buy art for $1M 2. Get your friends to bid up the price of the art by selling other works from the artist to each other at inflated valuations 3. Donat
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by ukoki 7y ago
Four of those marketing cookies listed on the Enfield privacy notice page have a pretty wild description: > Collects unidentifiable data that is sent to an unidentifiable source. The source's identity is kept secret by the company..
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by ukoki 7y ago
> If there's someone on the team who can't understand a particular piece of code, he should just ask and learn. There's no reason to weigh someone down just to make an inexperienced, incompetent programmer or unwilling to
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by ukoki 7y ago
I always just save the boarding pass PDF to Dropbox on my phone because I don't want to bother downloading the shitty app for every single airline (plus who knows just what personal data they are scraping from my phone). Never had a pr
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by ukoki 7y ago
Surely there are better ways to achieve this. Off the top of my head: * Force business to accept electronic payments. * Reduce the number of ATMs * Limit ATMs to lower denomination notes * Increase VAT for cash payments
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by ukoki 7y ago
H at the beginning of a word is silent in Portuguese (as in Spanish and Italian)
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by ukoki 7y ago
The Dollop podcast did a hilarious episode on the British Gin Craze recently: https://dollopengland.libsyn.com/10-the-gin-craze
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by ukoki 7y ago
So you are saying you would go to a restaurant that barbecues dogs, provided the dogs were barbecued on a different grill? Surely anyone who thinks meat is that bad would never step foot in a restaurant that cooks meat in the first place,
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by ukoki 7y ago
Also 1password has built in support for TOTP codes. The killer feature is that must have saved me ~hours is that it automatically copies the TOTP code to my clipboard after login https://support.1password.com/one-time-passwo
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by ukoki 7y ago
There are plenty of budget airlines that only offer economy
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by ukoki 7y ago
Are you sure? "America First" was a pretty popular Trump slogan (that spawned some excellent parodies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc )
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by ukoki 7y ago
Take home pay on a £100,000 income (top-end London senior dev salary) is £66,532, so a 33.5% tax rate. This includes income tax and national insurance (healthcare and basic state pension) but not optional private pension contributions. For
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by ukoki 7y ago
I think deniability of criminal activity is the main goal, rather than tax evasion.
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by ukoki 7y ago
Harvesting can be good because it provides space for more trees to grow and store yet more carbon. As long the timber is used for long-term purposes such as housing, then the carbon in the timber kept stored. It's not 100% efficient be
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by ukoki 7y ago
It might fix the problem of loot boxes. If the law applies to games, then it may apply to in-game items as well. Then players would be able to buy in-game items on secondary markets at known prices rather having to gamble for them as they d
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by ukoki 7y ago
> the best performing knee surgeon will be the one that doesn't perform knee surgery, collects a fee, and returns your knee in the same condition it was in. Why not? Eg: "Sorry sir, but as you are a weak/old/high-risk

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