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Visa and MasterCard don't issue credit cards, don't provide credit, don't have your personal information, and don't provide personal information to credit agencies. They are just t…

I have 2 lightly-used home ZFS servers (OmniOS/Napp-IT), each with 8x ST3000DM001 drives, for 16x drives total. The drives were purchased in mid to late 2012, all shucked from exte…

GemShare just announced today that they are joining NextDoor to build out the recommendation system. From their email this morning: In pursuit of our mission--to build the absolute…

That's one of the best examples of a content-free apology from customer service I've seen. Too often, the responses you get are apologetic, polite, and completely fail to address t…

I'm running iOS8 on an old iPad 2 just fine

SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote Rails full stack, with a focus on the front end I've been building two mobile-first Rails web apps using contractors for several months. The apps work a…

Average gross margin in a traditional grocery store in the US is 26-33%, depending on local competition. There is a huge range (0-90%) by product category however. Net income after…

SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote Rails full stack, focus on front end I've been building two mobile-first Rails web apps using contractors for the past several months. The apps work and…

As soon as I registered, I started getting "No Caller ID" phone calls every few minutes from some unknown person speaking Chinese (which I don't speak). This is pretty annoying, to…

Contrary to other comments, splitting costs is perfectly legal for private pilots under FAR §61.113(c) The fact that an intermediary allows the pilot and the passengers to find eac…

My late 2013 MBP 15 (16GB 1TB 2.6) randomly freezes 2-3 times per week, sometimes more. It seems to happen more frequently when under CPU load, but not exclusively. The mouse freez…

Based on the heatmaps, it looks like the customer base is highly concentrated amongst apartment dwellers and students. Having said that, we live in a house in Palo Alto and my wife…

There's an article in the New York Times today that covers diabetes management technology and the large recurring costs of diabetes supplies http://nyti.ms/PxdJNO As others have sa…