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Would love to bicycle to work. Here in the USA, very few people do so because (A) there's almost no room on the road and (B) motorists are almost always in a big hurry and not payi…

Ah. In the states, you only get severance if you're laid off. If you're fired, I don't think there's any severance pay involved. Also, in the states, if you're laid off, you can ap…

When you compress air, it heats up and expands -- thus making the pressure go up faster than one might expect. So, when storing it you lose a lot of energy as heat. When you let it…

I don't really know what you mean by "settlement". There's no settlement that I know of when you get fired in the USA. Here, a "settlement" is something you might get if you were t…

Those things would be easy if it's just you. However, imposing those policies on the wife is another matter. It just devolves into fighting over money all the time.

One data point you are missing: if you fire the incompetent wife, in the USA by default she gets the kids too. Guess what kind of life they will have with just her raising them.

> It is actually quite hard to fire someone in Germany, who wants to stay. Wow. In the USA, companies can basically fire anyone for any reason at any time (in my experience). And g…

No, not anybody can. What if you have a family and are barely making ends meet as it is? It's very difficult to convince a wife that you'd like for the family to spend a little les…

How does a founder get fired? So, the CEO says "you're fired". Well, I'm guessing that if you're a founder then that means you're a co-owner. So, don't you just tell the CEO, "um..…

Thanks for sharing. How do you like e-junkie? What other alternatives did you consider?

The article is not coming up. Can anyone advise how I might go about finding a mirror?

What you allude to in your first statement is incorrect for most cases, IMO. Staying together doesn't necessarily mean letting it decrease your happiness. It might just mean you ha…

> Are you saying we should just leave it? I don't know what you mean. I'm saying that you'll understand what Mark is talking about after you've gotten married and had children and …

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Thanks for the reply. What about if it's not a public company? That is, 2 or 3 people and an LLC?

Heh. Wait until you're married and have kids.

How does one technically get a "share of the business"? What does this mean? What paperwork is involved?

Thanks for the link. Though, I still tend to gravitate toward the simplest solutions, and in this case, a series-wound brushed motor is about as simple as it gets. Regular DC motor…

DC motors are very efficient, so, I'd have to see some numbers to buy that. Also, a big plus for DC motors is that the controllers are simpler. AC motors require a high-power adjus…

Lots of people do their own EV conversions from ICE (internal combustion engine) cars. Trouble is, up until now they've all used lead acid batteries (and as such, were heavy and di…

Looks redundant, but easy. Thanks.

Given my html as described above, what would you recommend to use for the DOCTYPE line?

My plan has always been: * keep making tags lowercase * keep quoting attribute values * keep closing tags after I open them (and properly nesting tags) * keep using the closing sla…

I'm not sure exactly how optimized Dvorak is. There are far more sophisticated (computerized) ways to optimize keyboard layout now than there was back when the Dvorak layout was cr…

Right. I think the current max is [5 blades]( http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930 ).

> You should just always be explicit. I generally agree. Note: I think if you leave out any specific encoding configuration from your my.cnf, mysql implicitly goes with latin1. For…