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Comment #23706722
I actually think that the tax treatment differs as well - the 2 months free can be treated as a marketing expense, whereas the reduced rent simply results in the lower revenue. For…
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Comment #21779509
Yeah, the “enterprise” product lineage is more Live Communicator -> Office Communicator -> Lync -> Skype for Business (kinda direct link to, even though it’s SaaS only) -> Teams
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Comment #21554794
Well, they may export crude, but without refinery capacity they are probably capped at the rate they can produce usable product.
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Comment #18787387
How is that an enormous dose? The recommendation is 2x200mg every 4-6h. When doing competitive athletics, I probably took 1-3g of “vitamin I” a day. 600mg a day is barely above a s…
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Comment #10151769
I think I'd be willing to pay more to offset higher content costs for more theater/blockbuster type movies. If Netflix was say 14.99 instead, I wonder what that would do to help? P…
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Comment #9304589
System Engineer - Boston - Fulltime Systems Engineering Intern - San Francisco - INTERN Xamarin IT is looking for an FTE systems engineer in Boston, and an intern in SF to come in …
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Comment #9227658
That works until you get into anything complicated. Recently, I had a spreadsheet that our finance team built that provided different calculated values (for a multi table aggregati…
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Comment #8688637
Sure it can - think of smallpox: the first smallpox "vaccine" was actually inoculation with cowpox - a similar, but less virulent virus. The provoked immune response rendered a sma…
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Comment #8456423
Realistically, these are all the same thing in different manners - dissolving a business, and starting another immediately competing in the same space, which seems shockingly sensi…
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Comment #8011253
Yeah, I remembered that wasn't the right pairing after I wrote that (and thankfully ours weren't paired like that, we had the right names); but that also goes to show you the downs…
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Comment #8011102
I used to run a dual stack app, windows was Roman mythology, linux was Greek, that allowed us to keep roles straight across environments - apollo/hermes, athena/minerva, etc.
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Comment #7928930
This is technically true for MOST taxes in the USA. Generally municipalities have reciprocal agreements with each other, but when tax is fixed at a state or municipality level, you…
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Comment #7926535
You can be allergic to certain common components, e.g. egg albumin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_allergy#Vaccine_hazard
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Comment #7921579
Addressing number 1, I saw the other day a study that indicates that this can back fire for individuals with low self-esteem. [1] [1]: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/20/7/860
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Comment #7921178
I think it's a fine line- I'm not in finance, but from what I understand you want some incentive to purchase a new issue as you have a set target of shares you're trying to move. I…
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Comment #7921059
There's no requirement to go "public" in the sense of listing on an exchange, and available for public purchase. What changes at that point is SEC regulatory compliance kicks in: e…
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Comment #7907903
The issue with credit card vs cash is actually far more nuanced. For example, in Boston, cab drivers don't get to choose a payment processor, the processor/cab company takes about …
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Comment #7854282
I think the issue is more that the ISPs are demanding payment at both ends of the tunnel. They charge you and I for transit (best-effort though it may be) and then when a bulk of t…
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Comment #7826746
Thank you for the gogetssl.com link. I've been looking for a multi-SAN/wildcard cert that wasn't insanely expensive.
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Comment #7684086
From the DOL: "Being paid on a “salary basis” means an employee regularly receives a predetermined amount of compensation each pay period on a weekly, or less frequent, basis. The …
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Comment #7681125
This is why you sign an exclusion clause when you start anywhere. I don't know why this is so crazy. Salaried employees are paid regardless of hours worked, which means that you ar…
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Comment #7605137
Running headless virtualization on a server with KVM? Sure, for a desktop system it might make sense, but headless systems might be better served with QEMU-KVM.
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Comment #7574391
They also argue that this poses a long-term potential problem for VC as well. Eventually an institutional investor wants their money back. Eventually they have to settle up and see…
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Comment #7524478
How does this work for internal applications? I looked through your site, and couldn't find any documentation without creating an account.
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Comment #7513320
I've served in an operations capacity for exclusively *-nix, mixed-stack and primarily MS environments, and I will say that from my perspective the OSS community has more news, but…