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Did that actually work or did foreign buyers create local LLC’s to purchase property instead and now you just sell the LLC and avoid the property changing ownership
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Taxes too. I have a relative who works as an auditor for the California Department of Revenue. Her job is to go into business in other states and determine if they are paying sufficient CA sales tax on their business.
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5y ago
Politically he was somewhat to the far right of Atilla the Hun
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5y ago
PDF/X is just a PDF with interactivity/JavaScript/forms removed and the layout instructions rationalized and colorspace for RIP fir commercial printers
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5y ago
I used Gurobi for logistics routing problems years ago and loved it. Especially loved that I could get a fully functional trial that was limited by total variables to develop my problem and use the license version for the production problem
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5y ago
But the proof of the validation is in the sending. If it’s important I send a validation email
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5y ago
This is why I read HN. You never know when a brilliant idea will appear. Thank you. I never thought of doing this for temporary work
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5y ago
All articles are true in some sense, false in some some sense, and meaningless in some sense. All comments are true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, true in some sense, false
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5y ago
Interesting. If it is indeed experimentation on human subjects then then they are in violation of tons of laws and regulations around informed consent. Makes me wonder what’s in the click through agreement
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5y ago
Target and Walmart take online returns at their stores, which no one in the supply chain likes. They will take bad suppliers to the woodshed if too many returns of an item. Hence they have skin in the game to carry quality products
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5y ago
And it’s chemistry that forces the additional benzene in denatured alcohol. Water- ethanol forms an Azeotrope at 95% ethanol. Benzene is added to break the azeotrope and get to 99.99% ethanol. Chemistry not a conspiracy
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5y ago
Pass phrase not password. You are going for length to protect from brute force. Soylent Green is NOT people Was one of my shorter pass phrases
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5y ago
Humans are often referred to as long pigs. Any barbecue recipes should work fine.
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5y ago
All of the prequel stuff and the books post Chapterhouse Dune are what happens when children take over the family business and run it into the ground, set it on fire, and grind the wreckage into dust. They are like the Highlander 2 of book
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5y ago
According to the company lawyer such an interpretation is incorrect. Live and learn.
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5y ago
> That would save everybody the hours, days, and sometimes weeks of picking a font, a keming, a line-spacing, etc, not to mention the annoyance of having to read awkward fonts. Thanks for the LOL moment. I had to look closely to see if y
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5y ago
For example, is one of the super VX alternatives a good candidate for a binary type delivery? Where two or more compounds react on deployment to create the toxic version. Now you can have people safely (for some value of safe when performin
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It is. I had one of those three month notice contracts. Negotiated my start, gave my notice, and the company chose to part ways immediately - but did not pay out the three months. If I am ever in that situation again, I'll give two
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5y ago
Right, but the source product is sugar a C6 compound, and the fermentation pathwasy removes carbon atoms. This process is building up from C1 so methanol is a possible side product. Or at least I bet that is the concern
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Removable media, network drives, low level disk operations? I don't think you can know with 100% certainty on a window machine
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Ethanol produced via non fermentation methods tends to have impurities like methanol or the separation process to purify the ethanol requires other not good compounds to bust the azeotropes. Everclear is 95% alcohol because that is the best
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Aspirin regimen for cardiovascular event prevention as an example of a cheap drug studied extensively.
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Vast majority of federal cases are plea deals. Frozen assets, stacked charges, potential for long jail time are all pressure designed to make you accept a deal
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5y ago
Did you ever complete a game of Supremacy without nukes?
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“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.” Terry Pratchett
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The challenge is to prove you have something that works. Animal studies are helpful here. Because once you have something, you can partner with the big pharmaceutical co’s for the regulatory hurdles.
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Perhaps we need anti Twitter —Where comments need to be at at least 280 characters to encourage explanations and discourse. I self censor in this regard where I start many replies, but discard them if all I have typed is two lines of witty
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And Technology. Used to be you needed to know how to solder pipe to work on plumbing. Now with the PEX systems, you push on connections and you are done. Gave serious thought to redoing my father's house in PEX. Then I learned that
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5y ago
Get a pet. A dog is a wonderful way to meet new people. And don’t be so quick to dismiss the older ladies. They might have daughters, sisters, or friends who are single in your age bracket.
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I went on a tour of a USPS Bulk Mail Center and asked what was the weirdest thing they ever came across. Mail person said they had a box bleeding onetime. They set it aside for the postal inspectors. Turns out it was steaks.
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