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by chrisro 13y ago
You're welcome! I have friends in college who would've qualified for expanded Medicaid but my state didn't expand either. They were talking about this exemption which is how I learned of it.
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by chrisro 13y ago
There are a whole host of exemptions from the tax, including: "You were determined ineligible for Medicaid because your state didn’t expand eligibility for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act." https://www.healthcare
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by chrisro 13y ago
Fashion and beauty are vehicles for self-expression very much like technology is (iOS or Android; power user or not, etc). We identify with the technology we choose every bit as much as we identify with the style we wear and the manner in w
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by chrisro 13y ago
So they knew she was in a bad place financially and still terminated her contract? There's not much to their response that changes this story. They didn't dispute her lack of benefits or the amount of her wages and they confirmed
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by chrisro 13y ago
If you're looking for a replacement, I really love the Roadtrippers tool: http://roadtrippers.com It's not a Wikipedia layer, but their data sets are interesting. There's a lot more context than the Wikipedia laye
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by chrisro 13y ago
Women/people certainly CAN choose to educate. Your presumption that she SHOULD or, rather, "The proper way to handle this issue is..." is what I took issue with. There is no "proper way to handle this issue" except
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by chrisro 13y ago
It is not logical for a woman (or anyone really) to remain in a situation that makes her uncomfortable and especially not logical to remain in a situation where she fears for her safety. Responsibility was the correct word--the onus on cree
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by chrisro 13y ago
>The proper way to handle this issue is to just be direct when someone is behaving inappropriately and not use ambiguous language It is not the responsibility of women to educate when they feel uncomfortable or fear for their safety.
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by chrisro 13y ago
>The difference between them tends, in my (male, second-hand) experience, to be one of persistence. Woman: "If you're not listening to me now when I say no, how can I possibly trust you will listen later?"
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by chrisro 13y ago
I think it's because the men in the ensuing backlash put themselves in the place of the creeper and empathize with a feeling of persecution or believe the behavior to be misinterpreted by the author/experiencer. Most men won'
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by chrisro 13y ago
I live somewhere with long yellows and it does encourage people to run the lights. It's a problem, but we are also a very bike-friendly city and long yellows give cyclists time to clear the intersection. Also, there is a delay after the red
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by chrisro 13y ago
Yep. I used to call it "waking insomnia" before I learned about segmented sleep. It's likely a remnant of our ancestor's approach to sleep, which was in two parts--first and second sleep. I'll wake 4-5 hours after first falling asleep with
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by chrisro 13y ago
Ah. That makes much more sense.
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by chrisro 13y ago
>Ammunition is still pretty hard to do well on your own. Could you clarify this? Reloading ammo is a very popular past time among many shooting enthusiasts and not difficult at all. You do rely on manufacturers for the powder, of course
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by chrisro 13y ago
This is terribly off-topic, but you don't have any contact info in your profile. Are you going to AdaCamp in June, by chance? If you are, please email me (it's in my profile), because I'm going and I've love to get to know other attendees.
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by chrisro 13y ago
Um, middle of nowhere is where food is grown and livestock are raised. It'd be disastrous to not have people living there doing these things. As more services move online, it is a public good to ensure all constituencies have access.
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by chrisro 13y ago
Oops! Thanks for the correction. I guess I missed that detail. $9/home/month or $110/home/year for 5 years is even more manageable, though! Edit: I see now where militiaman21 requested that the title be updated to "over 5 years" per new inf
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by chrisro 13y ago
Hopefully I haven't messed any of the numbers up: $11 billion per year for 20 million homes or roughly $550/home/year or $45/home/month And, for perspective: From 1936 to 1938, the Rural Electrification Administration spent $210 million ($3
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by chrisro 14y ago
I echo the sentiments here that tablets are media consumption devices, because that really is what they're best at. The most productive use I have for my tablet is using it to view a crochet or knitting pattern while I'm working on it or fo
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by chrisro 14y ago
The compulsion to be a tourist is ever-present in our lives. Social networks just move the reward of validation for tourism up to the near-instant. One of my favorite books has a significant character plot that explores the (sometimes ridic
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by chrisro 14y ago
Making choices is a part of web development and choosing not to include an audience based on the technology they use is a choice. It's perfectly valid to make that choice--even if it excludes people--but it's a choice (that should be) depen
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by chrisro 14y ago
One thing precludes the other, though. How can Android users be early adopters if apps are consistently released on iOS first?
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by chrisro 14y ago
I bought an ebook today from Amazon and it had the option to "rent" it. Wow. I can't even believe how quickly I was right. The paperback copy of this book was $28, the ebook was $15, and the cost to rent started at $8. I assume rental cost
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by chrisro 14y ago
As others have said, it's not so much that UPS knows this, but that they subscribe to a service that aggregates this kind of data. Go get your credit report online. You'll be asked similar questions. Do credit reporting agencies know this d
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by chrisro 14y ago
Judging by their move to ebooks, the cost will only be marginally scaled down. I do really look forward to a distribution system that will benefit content creators and be convenient and fair to consumers. I just don't know what it looks lik
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by chrisro 14y ago
If the publishers continue down this road, we're closing in on ebooks becoming time-based licenses to view content instead of things you "own."
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by chrisro 14y ago
You're thinking of a login form. If you were to try to register a new account with an email address already in the database, you should get some variation of "A user account with that email address already exists," verifying the existence o
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by chrisro 14y ago
Google seems to adhere to it as well. Google's founders (reluctantly) embraced text ads as a way to make the company they wanted to lead profitable so that it could continue to exist. I think modern business loses sight of this idea.
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by chrisro 14y ago
I really hate this sentiment. I think Ray Anderson, founder of Interface has it right: "For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher