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by woobar 8y ago
Even smokers in other threads here complain how cigarette butts smell.
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by woobar 8y ago
So you have a centralized database that tracks all purchases country-wide? Maybe Portugal government could compete with Google/FB providing personalized ads...
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by woobar 8y ago
Currants are [mostly] unknown in the USA. Biggest reason is the ban on black currants cultivation from a 100 years ago. I don't care much for fresh red or white currants (they are good in jams though), but black currant is something I
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by woobar 8y ago
How is it different from when Time Warner media business and Time Warner Cable (ISP) were the same company?
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by woobar 8y ago
It is the same source for Denmark and Germany. Since US is not a part of EU, so I had to come with a different source. As for your other argument - both reports count "vehicles in use" (ACEA) or "vehicles in operation" (
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by woobar 8y ago
> that people hold on to cars longer and buy used more And yet the average age of the car in Denmark is 8.9 years [1]. For comparison Germany is at 9.3 year, and US is at 11.6 years [2] [1] http://www.aut.fi/en/stati
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by woobar 8y ago
Why don't you use your own email with iCloud account? Using your own email address to login into Gmail or iCloud will let you dump these services easier if you decide to.
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by woobar 8y ago
> What is stopping them from charging me an exorbitant rate Nothing. That's why everyone always asks for a good and trustworthy mechanic. Or an HVAC repairman.
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by woobar 8y ago
> This is a uniquely American issue. Russia is similar. Aerospace Forces, Airborne Forces, Navy, National Guards, Border Services operate aircrafts. Army used to have own aviation, but it was recently merged under Aerospace Forces.
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by woobar 8y ago
>People with an ideological ax to grind are bad at research, and bad at analysis.Data should lead the way. So why speculate and not use data instead? Look at your bills and use the price of kilowatt of electricity and the price of CCF or
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by woobar 8y ago
I think in this particular case insurance did investigate actual (or within a reason) costs and paid them. But there is no business relationship between the insurance company and an out-of-network provider. Should they go to the court on be
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by woobar 8y ago
"Efficiencies of power plants for the energy used for cooling relative to heating" is included in the number above. The factor is 0.5 for heating.
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by woobar 8y ago
Yeah, out-of-network coverage (if provided) is often limited by terms like "the usual, customary, and reasonable amount". When a provider charges unreasonable amount the insurance will not have any contracts that enforce the cost
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by woobar 8y ago
> they drive the speed they feel comfortable with, regardless of the speed limit My anecdata does not support this. When roads are not congested, I can see that most drivers accelerate from ~70+mph to ~80+mph right ofter the speed limit
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by woobar 8y ago
> When a package is coming via UPS, I weep. You can use Store Hold[1] at UPS Store (formerly known as Mail Boxes Etc). Wikipedia claims they have more locations than Fedex Office (~5000 vs 1900) [1] https://www.ups.com/us
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by woobar 8y ago
What grocery store let random people stock their shelves?
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by woobar 8y ago
Restaurants at the hotels in US also demonstrate this trust. You just write your name and room number on a receipt and leave. They don't ask for any proof of staying in the hotel.
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by woobar 8y ago
Not just WSJ. It was in the news last week: https://www.wral.com/north-carolina-apple-negotiating-deal-o...
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by woobar 8y ago
Stranger Things was a surprise hit, but not as massive as really big cable shows. See comparison to Game of Thrones or TWD: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
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by woobar 8y ago
The next name for their corporate product is MS Teams.
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by woobar 8y ago
Sounds like she's got an office job that is not much different from what programmers do. I once spent 3 minutes in the attic while HVAC guys were replacing my unit. They were hauling/removing through a tiny opening in the ceiling
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by woobar 8y ago
I am not sure you can equate a Greater LA CSA to a city. CSA includes multiple cities (and some deserts) that are ~200km apart. Densities in these cities are not so outrageously different. ~5,600/sqkm in London vs ~3,300/sqkm in L
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by woobar 9y ago
> But the article states quite clearly that he is NOT claiming to use genuine parts. Not trying to pick side in this argument, but a quick search on webarchive[1] shows that this page ( https://www.pckompaniet.no/reparasjo
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by woobar 9y ago
Aren't they all just burn investors money? Hence no income and no corporate income tax to pay?
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by woobar 9y ago
I once bought a sheet of uncut $2 bills from BEP [1]. They go for much more than a face value, but it was a nice souvenir from America. [1] https://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/2currencysheetsbeptestshee...
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Supplements are a $30B racket(arstechnica.com)
38 points by woobar 9y ago|49 comments
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by woobar 9y ago
Here is one of the two young entrepreneurs (19 and 23 years old) that secured ~$300M DoD contract. So obviously, it is not as bad. ;) In 2005, Packouz (23 years old at the time) joined Efraim Diveroli (19 years old at the time) in Diveroli&
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by woobar 9y ago
Nowhere it says that these slots were created to modernize software. These 40 slots are total amount of people (out of 80K employees) that could be paid above government rates. These slots were used to fill 168 positions over the 15 years.[
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by woobar 9y ago
It's all anekdata, but I never had this problem in US restaurants. Even at bigger gatherings when kids will sit together with other kids at the other end of a table, it is never a problem to pay for your spouse and that kid in a red sh
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by woobar 9y ago
But they are supposed to account for your orders and not just bill you out of thin air, right? So what is so cumbersome of keeping track of the orders. It is literally biggest part of their job - taking an order and remembering correctly wh

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