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$43,430 is the number that the federal government considers to be abject poverty. Clearly it's not though. But use your chart to check the 250% level often used as a cut off for services. You can make a 6 figure income and still be considered poor.
$43,430 split 8 ways is $5428.75/person/year, before taxes.
It's wrong though, the incremental expense of more children doesn't work that way.
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Seems like an unusually large percentage of posts on Hacker News are behind paywalls, some soft, some hard, some with a maximum free articles per time-unit. I peruse most of the top stories daily and can't read a good number of them making me have to just read the comments to get a sense of the article. It is seriously annoying. I wish there was some kind of flair or warning on these posts.
I think HN should have a rule that if someone puts up a link that is behind a paywall, they should give some way to get around it. Like they should make the first comment a set of instructions, like disable JS or an alternative link.
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> Some sellers can request disbursement at any time This applies to very few sellers.
> This applies to very few sellers. Fair enough. I am one of those few sellers and I tend to assume it's more commonplace than it is. In any case, I don't really understand the desire for instant disbursements. Certainly you eliminate the risk of Amazon carrying a larger balance than necessary, and in rare cash crunch situations it may rescue the day... But beyond that, why is it so desireable?
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Amazon seller here. Amazon doesn't make funds available for disbursement until 7 days after delivery. At that point funds are available for disbursement, but they aren't necessarily disbursed. Seller accounts created before 2011 have what are called daily disbursements: the seller has a button they can click once every 24 hours that will disburse all available funds. Most sellers accounts opened since then have bi-we…
God I hate the word bi-weekly; if you hadn't specified 14 days I would've thought it was twice a week. "bi-weekly" is never the right word to use because you always have to add additional information that makes it redundant.
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For some reason the bi-weekly vs. semi-weekly thing doesn't confuse me, but I take your point and the dictionary seems to agree that it can mean either every two weeks or twice a week.
It confuses me because I regularly hear "bi-weekly" to mean "twice per week". I don't think I've ever heard someone say semi-weekly. Usually you can make a good guess of the intended meaning from context, but the two time intervals are similar enough that it's frequently ambiguous.
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God I hate the word bi-weekly; if you hadn't specified 14 days I would've thought it was twice a week. "bi-weekly" is never the right word to use because you always have to add additional information that makes it redundant.
Biweekly is twice per week just like biannually is twice per anum. Fortnightly and biennially are 'every other'.
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For orders over 10 USD, Amazon requires a verifiable tracking number from one of the major carrier services. (It's possible to "ship" an order without a tracking number, but the seller takes a hit to their account metrics, and Amazon will eventually freeze their account for review). This is so they can verify you actually shipped the package, and verify it was delivered within the fulfillment promise date range, ie.…
Speaking of which: Amazon (and ebay, too) had recently started using a UK-based service called Yodel. Last time Yodel had delivered a parcel of $50 to my door (marking it as delivered), which obviously got stolen. You can’t call Yodel - their line is always busy, and the line is not a free number. Yodel had done that regularly to me, but I could never contact them or do anything about my delivery, since their custome…
Amazon support was able to do this for me. They also CC:d me on a really strongly worded email to the delivery company, which I found really surprising.
This was one of the euro amazons with european support staff.
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Thanks, I believe it's really important to call out and charge the leadership inside these communities. They know full well what is and isn't legal. If you shut down discussion on these sorts of issues, I believe you allow for abuses to happen and rage to grow against the larger community who are often innocent. As others have mentioned, the Hasidic community is an insular community. I have interacted numerous times…
Is it any more "insular" than the Haskell community or the Scheme community?
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> I wonder if the vendor gets his money earlier from Amazon if he delivered it faster No - Amazon pays sellers every other week.
This is not necessarily true. Some sellers can request disbursement at any time. For a breakdown of when Amazon pays sellers, see [0]. In this case, the only delay is the 7 day holding period after the latest possible delivery date. For example, if you sell and deliver a product on Jan 1st, you may be able to disburse the funds as soon as the 8th. However! This example does not hold for the situation described by the…
It might be unusual in the context, its not unprofessional, and in certain contexts associated with a premium service.
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Biweekly is twice per week just like biannually is twice per anum. Fortnightly and biennially are 'every other'.
A bicycle is not half a wheel, it is two wheels. If bi-annual is twice a year, then why does the word semi-annual exist? And I’m American, we don’t use the word fortnight unless we’re pretending to be British.
Your parent already provided the counterpoint, Biennially.
Additionally I'm not convinced by your bicycle => 2 => bi annual logic.
You could equally argue it leads to 2 times a year, because it doesn't happen a half every year just like a bike doesn't have half a wheel.