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MatthewMcDonald
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Comment #41514682
Many (most?) dealerships have a policy of not accepting more than a few thousand dollars on a credit card, they don't want to pay the fee
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Comment #33871465
You can get a non-driver id card from the same department that issues driver licenses in your state
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Comment #33167503
Check out MySudo. It doesn't _forward_ the calls and texts, but you can have multiple numbers that you can call/text with from the app.
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Comment #27515350
I don't know about the bankruptcy laws, but Germany's GMBH (similar to an LLC) requires 25k in capital to get started.
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Comment #27369360
The real downside is if you say something that isn't negative, that then gets taken out of context and spun in a way that makes you a target.
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Comment #24968513
The only way to get around your dependence on OAuth connections is to migrate off of them, one at a time. My suggestion would be to get your own domain, get an email service that s…
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Comment #24850436
I use them for my GitLab pipelines
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Comment #24838941
All it does is make me think that they aren't full time, and may not be committed. I also have questions about IP concerns. These may not be serious issues, and they can be easily …
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Comment #24802209
It's worth mentioning that this isn't just a case of people not being able to use the patch outside of AWS; the patch is actually impeding pgbouncer from implementing a similar fea…
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Comment #24236571
Signal was given $50M by Brian Acton (WhatsApp co-founder), I think they will be fine for a while.
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Comment #20040142
not to mention filing state returns
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Comment #19700076
It's general purpose hardware; our rooms use an Intel NUC with USB camera/mic, and an iPad to control it. There's no lock in as long as you're switching to something else that uses…
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Comment #19700017
We used appear.in for a few months, and paid for a premium "room". It was nice to just give someone a URL (no client or extension required). It could be better now, but we had a lo…
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Comment #19363129
I wonder how much of that is related to Model 3 availability. To me, a high-end 3 seems like a better buy than a lower-end S. If you expand your date selection farther back, it loo…
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Comment #18554450
I'm not sure if it would have been better on a supported phone, but in the past year I've had good coverage with an iPhone SE on Fi in New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, and Austri…
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Comment #18193923
> I then spent ~1 year at a startup, as CTO - the experience sucked, and I consider it to simply be a big mistake. What about the experience sucked? What was the mistake?
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Comment #18042288
FYI this was a credit _lock_, and not a credit freeze > Unsurprisingly, the bureaus’ use of the term credit lock has confused many consumers; this was almost certainly by design. B…
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Comment #17671431
Perhaps I should have clarified; part of the reason that contractors can negotiate higher rates is because businesses are willing to pay more if they can avoid a long term commitme…
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Comment #17666039
Part of the reason that contractors have a higher hourly rate is to account for the time between contracts.
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Comment #17652461
Yes, depending on where you're from. I was raised to show up at the start time for events, this is pretty common in the Midwest. If the host is someone you know, you'll often ask i…