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> Wire transfer fees are a set amount, usually around $40, not a percentage of the total amount transferred. You can do the math to figure out at what dollar threshold sending wire…

This has happened very rarely to me, but when it has, the head purser would usually be carrying the manifest or an iPad and clearly referencing it. That takes the creepiness out of…

I think there are two nuances missing here: First, it's easier to ask forgiveness -- this is a descriptive statement, it doesn't say better . Second, this is predicated on getting …

If you "predict" that it might not make a bestseller list, it's not a particular leap to predict that it wouldn't make it past a publisher, either? I am making no attempt to quanti…

That is a bad look for Marriott, for sure, but if you disqualify establishments for unfairly firing a low-level employee, you should get used to travelling a lot less. This particu…

There's already a very easy and commonly deployed way to save on a concierge: don't have one.

> It's one thing to trust Amazon or Google, but now you also have to trust the hotel and its staff, the physical security of the device, and all the previous guests of the room. Yo…

The good thing about places like that is (a) they don't actually care about the money, it's a rounding error. For some smaller firms paying someone for three weeks of not working (…

In which case the correct answer is to sit tight for a bit until you understand the deeper problem. And then you fix the deeper problem, and then you fix the process.

In theory. In practice, the code will often have corner case behaviours that eludes any of the tests, yet are still important. As an aside, as I understand it, refactoring was popu…

The bit about the manager and director is in the main article. There's nothing about pay, but they're presented as entirely sympathetic and angry about the system on his behalf. As…

He elaborates a bit in the comments - it seems he's entitled to the money, but couldn't be bothered: "So I had to do an appeal, and go through a long process that I did not care mu…

So, this is about legalisation - I can totally see medical rescheduling working (and nobody seems to have countered Sajid Javid's announcement yesterday). It's a step in the right …

Yeah, well it's either that, or the significantly simpler explanation that involves very simple electoral maths: the tories are going to get exactly 0 voters to cross over on this …

And, pertinent to the name, such a bottle will often have a handle built in. https://siestaspirits.com/products/jim-beam-kentucky-straigh...

> FileVault use largely happens on more or less insecure computers, so it is an interesting case. That's not a good idea, an encrypted filesystem is only as secure as the computer …

If you decrypt an encrypted filesystem on an untrusted computer, it's game over already then. And assume that your passphrase is compromised as well.

That's not what's being contended. If you claim something about your product, that claim should be true, including it's geographical origin. But that doesn't answer the question: d…

The French has always had an oddly low confidence in the power of the quality of their products. The AOC is not a magic incantation, the "proper" Camenbert has indeed as described …

It would be quite useful in a general sense to develop a technique to transfer modest amounts of data over a voice call - location, obviously for 911, but also for plenty of other …

You don't come off as someone who is even remotely interested in being convinced of anything. Celebrating your downvotes and declaring "the truth hurts" does not invite debate. I'm…

Yes, you're basically wrong about those things, some more than others, but on the balance, wrong. You're not displaying any willingness to study the basics of the 350 years of scho…

For the record, I caught and appreciated the sarcasm -- but it's very difficult to pull off in writing.

I you're taking "fear" slightly too literally for the purposes of this idea. In a way, in the extreme, it is literal: in a healthy democracy, the citizens are so comfortable in the…