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yakak
4y ago
They pay out 60 days of notification pay in their severance packages and still don't notify. Technically, you can refuse that and I would guess that you would remain a worker who isn't allowed in the office.
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yakak
4y ago
Copyright is independent of license.
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yakak
4y ago
I don't get your point or you don't get mine. The individual individual's incentives are to have benefits without them being measurable income so Tax being about dollars makes dollars less desirable without many more actions
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yakak
4y ago
The exceptions in the rules here for example are almost certainly directly constructed by Congress or anger from Congress and not particularly consistent with how the IRS expands laws by expanding existing theories if left alone: https:&#x
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yakak
4y ago
I would want to exchange peanuts and consequently owe no taxes. That is why the US has very complicated rules to discourage bartering and gives every sign it would complicate and eventually outlaw quid-pro-quo family/friend arrangement
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yakak
4y ago
Tax and benefits wise it is usually a mistake to get married and if you are already near the survival minimum it can be a horrible mistake.
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yakak
4y ago
I'm not sure why they aren't treating this as a possible embezzlement? It seems to me like anyone familiar with this system could take payments for someone apparently without tracking and the result would be clawed back from later
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yakak
4y ago
Perhaps they get enough interviews where the cert is accepted that it isn't worth their time to review these technologies ahead of interviews.
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yakak
4y ago
Dan Grossman's Programming Languages is a great 3 language online course. It gives you the opportunity to compare standard ML, ruby and racket. Before that course I was already grouping languages by inheritances from C or Lisp families
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yakak
4y ago
If it's like other tech the more people are now in the developing world which would mean high volume usage but have trouble reaching past heights of speculation.
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yakak
4y ago
I'm going to commit crimes to make sure Apple customers get the best experience?
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yakak
4y ago
I think you have the same problem as car owners. Seeing these occasionally it isn't worth the trouble. Once a prevalence of a defect is popular enough (or barely popular but easy to locate) and indictive of a good bounty it makes more
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yakak
4y ago
That's just trying to put a "positive spin" on what I said. Deduct regular sales, war costs and loss of IT off-shoring income and similar and Russia is making less than ever as an economy. They are all in on making enough fro
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yakak
4y ago
I read that too, I think a quick reading of this gives the wrong idea though. In any other time period Russia had all of it's regular oil sales and it's actual private sector with no disruptions. I'm not sure they can survive
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yakak
4y ago
I've never understood why offering adjustable mortgages to people at the edges in the credit calculations isn't guaranteed to create a housing crash when rates go up. A significant number of people will absolutely have to sell as
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yakak
4y ago
I think most companies comply by still not giving notice but paying out the 60 days in the severence plan, what is not compelling about saving 30000 employee/days of salary?
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yakak
4y ago
> The nice thing about the free market is that there are alternatives to choose from. That's the nice thing about a free market with perfect trust busting. You are trying to make me choose a large tech to like just so I can buy a ph
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yakak
4y ago
I generally see Apple's port oddities as part of their overall ecosystem as a trust pattern. I can't pick things from their ecosystem without an inconvenience not because inconvenience is necessary and beyond the skills of their d
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yakak
4y ago
In fairness, if I were fortunate enough to live in Berlin, Italy I would hate everywhere else too.
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yakak
4y ago
Industry defines standards and then fights for dominance. At some point you have electrocuted enough elephants and it is time to normalize on something for a while. I mean the US' 110V AC absolutely sucks in comparison to many things,
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yakak
4y ago
Sure, I specifically use these POSIX orientated emulation layers for the process of porting "UNIX" apps. I would consider windows an acceptable replacement for UNIX as long as one isn't working with people who use its native
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yakak
4y ago
Silly to use the term UNIX at all, it was replaced by POSIX which is still not perfect but less amorphous. Anything that is POSIX-complaint or near-compliant is a usable system for someone who would have accepted a UNIX system last millenni
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yakak
4y ago
The whole point of using it is to connect AdWords spend and/or the maximum amount of data you can get out of google search. There's a definite cost to not tuning these things as well as google possibly can. If you actually want to
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yakak
4y ago
I found PressReader's offer pretty interesting and would probably be using its premium plan if I were seriously going to read 1-2 papers on an average day to be able to regularly try out different sources. Buying individual papers on i
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yakak
4y ago
I've seen them keep scheduling new calls where they restart each topic they don't want (or know how?) to answer until someone was frustrated and then close out access to their support for not attending all the meetings. But it did
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yakak
4y ago
A city has a government, a city is also the collection of people, organizations, etc that are interested in the success of the city. The point being argued was that someone is disappointed by comments in these threads and somehow their upse
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yakak
4y ago
It seems to me like you are inventing ridiculous interpretations. A city of a million can do whatever it likes with private and public fund raising to support it's art and sport choices. San Antonio wanted a professional symphony for 1
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yakak
4y ago
> You could just have used the time to release some new records. If you were a soloist you could have used the time. If you were a 5 piece you could use about half the time depending on region. Larger groups had a lot of problems given t
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yakak
4y ago
It seems to me like they are expressing shock that cities the size of San Antonio aren't willing to pay enough or for whatever reasons don't raise enough for a symphony. There's not really an alternative, the suggestions of p
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yakak
4y ago
OTOH it's more difficult to learn German to fluency in German speaking places where it's very easy to have a career and social life in English.
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