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Is a vacation home an asset?
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Exactly, One BillG example is, how does one value his da Vinci assets? For one, the Codex Leicester: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester
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7y ago
>> What’s the saying, if something is free then you’re the product. True for Facebook and true for public education. Public education is hardly free. Parents are generally required by law to educate their children. Society has general
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One major taxi company there has their own app, with dispatch and taxi tracking. https://www.mearstransportation.com/mears-apps/
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7y ago
One purpose for registration is to lock the person into voting in a particular district. Why? Ballots can and do vary by district. Different districts have different representatives (on both state, county and town/city level) Differen
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As of Dec 2018, they were reported to begin building ‘high end’ phones in India this year. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-india-exclusive-idU... Granted, it’s small production numbers, but have to start somew
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It forces and tests improvements in life-support systems?Generation, recycling, shielding, long term impact of humans on these systems. All things that are needed for future exploration/colonization.
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I guess I can’t read English anymore. The headline to me reads that the WORKERS appeal was rejected, but it’s a ruling FOR the workers, rejecting AMAZON’s appeal.
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7y ago
I think it also depends on what your looking for. At my small office of 10 people, where's 2 people that found matches on e-harmony, resulting in marriage.
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Do you think the paranoia leads to lower crime, via vigilance and reporting? And/or does the actual crime lead to ‘acceptance’ as displayed in the Anaheim boards? Perhaps a manifestation of the broken windows theory? https://
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As per the iFixit report, the Apple chip that identifies it as an 'Apple Battery' can be moved to another battery from any/dubious source. Given this, how can software KNOW that it's truly an Apple original battery. Ther
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I think a big driver for fuel injection and electronic ignition was reliability and meeting emissions standards. Old style carburetor and mechanical ignition regularly required ‘real’ tune-ups and had horrible tailpipe emissions.
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I view this as Apple not vouching (in the form of verifying/stating the health of a battery) unless THEY have a complete 'chain-of-custody' for the battery. Honest question: How can Apple KNOW it's a genuine apple batter
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Pre deregulation, the US government set the routes and prices, and even if an airline could exist. Eg. Southwest Airlines was forbidden to fly outside Texas. Prices were way higher and flight routes restricted. Very different today... Aff
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At the time, my healthcare was fully paid for with small copays. Went to Dr as needed. The issue is, that until I saw the Paxil add talking about social anxiety. I thought I was just very shy, so why would I talk to my dr about that? The A
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Until I saw an tv ad for Paxil, I didn’t know social anxiety disorder was a thing... visited their website, took their ‘survey’ and talked to my Dr. Started taking it and it was very helpful. Then after a few years, I didn’t need it anymore
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7y ago
From 2013
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Perhaps they can chalk the curb instead? 'Bracket' the tire(s) with marks on the curb, and a "code" indicating where the valve stem
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One purpose is for legitimate calls on the behalf of others. I got a call just yesterday from my DR's office reminding me of a scheduled appointment. Have no way of knowing for sure, but I have no doubt that it's a service spoofin
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8y ago
My work Fortigate firewall is marking mindk.com as malicious.
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> Contrast this with an employee who refused to make a sales call to someone who is gay, because that client is gay. Would you say that that employee should receive the same amount of tolerance and sensitivity as the one who was afraid
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I find being left handed and using the mouse in my right hand very useful. I can have a pencil writing notes in my left hand, while I control the computer via mouse in my right. Similarity, mouse the cursor with my right and type with my le
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Real question: Where were lives lost as a result of Valerie Plame being outed? Wikipedia doesn’t seem to know about it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair
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8y ago
Duplicated words: end of second lines and start of third
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A pdf version https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
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We’d all ending up working 8 days a week... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Days_a_Week
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Lot's of matte CRT's back in the day.. To name two: The 'flat screen' Zenith CRT monitors.. Had a TV version that was awesome... https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-05-13-870205... Sony
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Perhaps U.S. v Jones has some insight. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones FBI/police put a gps tracker on a guys car for long term tracking. Ruled 4th amendment violation, unanimous. Differing
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Starter pistols can be used too instead of a ‘real’ gun. At the destination they keep the bag secure for you to pickup, no getting it off the baggage carousels. Of course some destinations won’t let you have a gun...
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That’s done all the time. Called a trade secret. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret
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