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It's not rich people who are gambling. It's folks who, like when marijuana was legalized, now have an easy/legal outlet to gamble on sports they were already watching without havin…

In some states it is. The total price for registering a car in Colorado takes the weight of the vehicle into account (along with the price and the age). I remember having a minor p…

Spending a Saturday putting soft-close hinges on every cabinet door in my house was one of the best quality-of-life investments ever.

So people driving new Ford vehicles won't be able to get weather/emergency information in the Rockies/Sierra's (and others I'm sure) along with the vast stretches of I-70/80 (and l…

Not the parent commenter, but I was on disability as a SWE following abdominal surgery since I couldn't drive to work and working remotely wasn't allowed by my employer at the time…

Colorado School of Mines is fairly selective (11K applicants for 1400 slots). DU (University of Denver) is a bit less selective. Both are private schools.

With the exception that if you break the lease, you now owe those "free" months back.

I had the experience of getting an all access pass to an NHRA event at Bandimere in Colorado a few years back. I stood behind the start line, about 15 yards for most of the event. …

or, as with my experience in licensing IBM stuff, the charged per CPU.

And you can get burnout from exercising too much. Had this happen when I was training for some ultra-distance stuff before I had the proper training framework.

From a strictly money perspective, you get the pay bump from the promotion, then another pay bump from changing jobs.

Similar thing happened to me with a much shorter move: central NJ to Philadelphia suburbs. Once I started using an address local to my job search I had no issues getting interviews…

They have a DVD center in Pheonixville, just west of Philadelphia.

My team, and most of the teams in my division, are full-time Comcast employees. Our PM and QA orgs, however, is full of contractors.

Reminds me of when I lived in southeast PA by Kennett Square, a town with a lot of mushroom farms. I was curious as to why they were in that area. Turns out you need hay and horse …

I grew up by one of these in NJ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yards_Creek_Generating_Station I remember parking at the lower reservoir and hiking to the upper one and being amazed…

Losing her chip is major red-flag. I've raced 3 full IM's, 13 half-IM's, and a bunch of sprints/olympics/etc. and have never lost a chip and know very few people who have. Losing a…

In CO, buying MMJ still requires a medical card. If you go to a medical/recreational dispensary without a medical card you can only purchase recreational MJ, which tends to be sati…

In philly, and yes, the degree has paid off.

Stevens Tech I assume. I'm an '02 grad in CS.

4 marathons here. Three were Ironman marathons and one just-a-marathon (Philly 2007, 3:48). I followed a similar program for the standalone as I did for the Ironman marathons: one …

Or the the rising wages in China means that building a fully automated line isn't as cost-prohibitive as it was in the past. And with states/cities throwing tax incentives at compa…

It's generally asked at the end of the interview.

While we don't ask FizzBuzz in particular we have a question my manager asks: If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times, how tall would it be (very rough ballpark figure)? Our su…