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atria

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    Comment #14089695

    ... but so true. I grew up in the South and am in an inter-racial marriage. After I moved up to a northern "blue" state, I met more overtly racists people than I thought possible. …

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    Comment #14006883

    Interesting. It looks like they are not subletting/subleasing, but working with property management companies to sign up tenants. They are basically offering a service to match ten…

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    Comment #12978982

    I'm sure this has nothing to do with recent articles detailing how Russian FSB agents successfully use LinkedIn to find, contact, groom, and network with potential sources and agen…

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    Comment #12458409

    Oddly, this is how they fire people at my wife's workplace; take them out to coffee and drop the hammer. I don't think this is professional advice. In fact, I think it's horibble a…

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    Comment #12445779

    Do they no longer teach critical analysis in literature classes anymore? I remember rolling my eyes, and being forced to learn about author's lives, as the author's live experience…

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    Comment #12407283

    Nice. I'm forever looking for any viable alternative to QuickBooks. I've even thought about writing my own invoicing application. Looks great, but I personally don't like the colla…

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    Comment #12383267

    Just wow. This is terrible. You don't understand the difference between a statutory employee and independant contractor. If you are an employee, the company is required by law to w…

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    Comment #12277323

    I'm weighing the same decision. It's time to replace my eight year old Mac Pro, and I'd like to go with a laptop + docking station + external monitors, but I'm torn as to weather a…

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    Comment #12221216

    I hope it gets voted down. It was John F. Kennedy that introduced the Community Mental Health act of 1963 to close down and defund mental institions. The idea of cutting spending f…

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    Comment #12174905

    I deleted my twitter account last week and deleted the twitter app after Milo was banned. I wasn't a follower of his, but I perceived an active bias against conservatives or filter…

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    Comment #12138887

    You want us to render advice that covers several legal specialties which converge between state, federal, tax, business, and immigration law, which if wrong, could result in a deni…

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    Comment #12097542

    Too funny. I would love to see how they identify a 10x person from an 8x person. I worked at a fortune 500 company that measured productivity via a ticketing system. "Write a devic…

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    Comment #12082823

    I'm unique persective in that I have a degree I received 20 years ago, and decided a midlife-crisis meant going back to get an electrical engineering degree. My chemistry class wou…

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    Comment #12074506

    Autplaying videos infuriate me. I've given up after trying to configure chrome to stop autoplaying videos. Now I just turn off javascript and only enable it for the sites I need ja…

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    Comment #11717451

    This is a worthy goal, but is it a good thing to have 100% voter turnout? Every direct democracy has failed since the time of Socrates. After several generations, direct democracie…

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    Comment #11717404

    Perhaps that has something to do with people who aren't supposed to vote, who's demographics skew to the left side of the political spectrum: - Foreign citizens with drivers licens…

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    Comment #11612010

    ^ This times 1000000. There is so much chicanery and malfeasance in the nutrition and fitness industry. I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes a few years ago. I went to dietitian who pr…

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    Comment #11240890

    Interesting. When I ran my S Corp, my goal was to avoid estimated tax payments. At the end of the year, the accountant would calculate the required taxes and I would issue a "net z…

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    Comment #11240857

    Unless you cannot, because you aren't in the allotted time window. Can distributions be treated as dividends?

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    Comment #11240456

    If you don't know the basics, how to do you know when your accountant or bookkeeper is making a mistake, or giving you bad advice? How to do you know if they are optimizing their a…

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    Comment #11110995

    Am I the only one that sees the icon and thinks that it looks like an abstract drawing of the sphincter or the underside of your anatomy? Must be tortured remembrances of goatsee v…

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    Comment #11081305

    ..and they use H1Bs, and those H1Bs aren't counted against the cap.

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    Comment #10362886

    So there isn't any equivalent to #pragma pack in Go? I'll stick with C/C++, thanks.

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    Comment #10305494

    Do the agents get assigned Soviet handler on the first visit, or do you have to attend a few meetings first?

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    Comment #9880997

    I'm not familiar with European regulations, or medical procedures, but in the U.S., a medical diagnosis can only be made by a qualified licensed medical professional. Even making s…