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We also don't understand how some drugs work, either (e.g. Tylenol).

It's no myth. The bank will keep the money in many cases by claiming you were negligent. You have no recourse.

My 80 yr old mom had her atm card stolen. The guy withdrew close to 5k in small dips over a week. He had the pin, so my guess is he watched her enter it then distracted her to swipe the card. Bank refuses to cover it, despite her reporting it immediately on discovery. They claim if he had the pin, then she was negligent, and they are not responsible.

This presumably happens regularly, as the guy's con was very practiced and slick and he knew exactly what to do to maximize the payoff. But the bank didn't pick up on the obvious pattern, and evades responsibility by blaming the victim.

Ask yourself if you'd be willing to painlessly end your life, if given the option. Most people prefer to keep on living, which is strong evidence that on balance, despite all the bumps and grief of living, life is still pretty awesome.

"Support me on this I'll support you on that" is typical and routine in the halls of legislators, although much quieter. If we look at this as DeSantis telling Disney "support me on this legislation and I'll support more of your self-governing district" it doesn't sound nearly as bad. It kinda happens all the time, everywhere laws and sausages are made.

Just want to say that here in the US, if your employer ever doesn't pay you what you think you're owed, contact the Department of Labor. There's a division dedicated to making sure the employer doesn't play games with wages. They'll show up real fast, possibly even that day, and your employer will pay (plus fines).

I've been in this situation and I second this strategy. I removed ten+ years from my resume's experience section, removed graduation dates, and immediately saw an uptick in calls.

It isn't necessarily bias against age; it's bias against "overwhelming experience" that scares hiring off, for various reasons. But the result is the same.

Just to add my insignificant voice, I too was put off by the use of the word. I'm not familiar with the expression "pimp my ride" despite being American from birth. But I do know what a pimp is and it is a negatively, sexually charged word. I'm not asking you to change it, but I think it is to your benefit that you are aware that some subset of commenters here find it uncomfortable.

When the newspaper prints what time is sunrise, I don't write it to protest that the sun doesn't go anywhere; it's the Earth that is spinning on its axis. Sunrise is just the way we refer to that phenomenon because it looks like the sun is rising.

I think it's perfectly fine to say that your body was designed to do this or that. It may have been the result of random mutations, but evolution has done such a good job it damn well looks like it was designed.

> If you have production outages resulting from new code you have serious gaps in your certification process

If you have production outages every week, yeah. But no organization is free of production outages. When they do happen (I said when, not if) it matters a lot if you used standard libraries, code that is plugged into the infrastructure, and the like, and not hand-rolled cowboy code

It's easy to say that now in hindsight. Wasn't that clear back then.

Depends where. Some routes in NYC are downright suicidal. I was knocked off my bike on one occasion in a roundabout. Injured my knee and swore off cycling to work. There are unfortunately plenty of jerks driving out there.

You don't need separate kitchens to keep a kosher home. Both the meat and dairy ovens are located in the same kitchen. Separate kitchens are only needed for food establishments, to facilitate supervision.

In fact, it is possible to keep kosher with just one oven and separate racks, but it is a bit of a hassle.

Yes. I need 7.5 hours/night to have sufficient energy to be productive, but usually get 6.5-7. I sleep extra hours over the weekend and this resets me back to where I need to be feeling. Sundays are amazing.

It's true that what I feel doesn't count towards proving a scientific fact for other people, but I don't see why it can't prove it for myself. After all, people's bodies occupy a broad continuum when it comes to how they operate, and scientific studies generally stipulate that their conclusions aren't true for everyone.

Didn't see your email there.

I'm in my 40s with 20 years experience in NYC. Applied to a handful of positions, but was politely turned away. I suspect age is a factor, but of course no way to prove it. I'm considering shaving 10 years off my resume and see how that goes. I've done management successfully but it was stressful, and I went back to development.

To beef up my list of skills, I'm starting to expand into areas that are natural progressions from my current set. For example, I use C# and Asp.Net for backend work, so I began using .Net Core; I use React on the front end, will add Redux; MySql/SqlServer for the database, will start working with Postgres; AWS for the cloud, will research Azure.

I'm not sure if I should be adding a whole new bullet point, such as learning Erlang/Elixir, Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, or something completely different.

That "gut estimate" converts to a concrete deadline in your PMs mind before you put a period at the end of your sentence.

Normal rate is 40 hours/wk. New rate is (e.g.) 80 hrs per week, so the pay should reflect that. 80/40 or 2/1 or 2x the rate.

Happened to me. Now, my Debug web.config file has a setting that directs all outgoing email to a local "SpecifiedPickupDirectory".

Just created a "Magento" instance and attached a static IP. It still unreachable with a browser after a few hours. What did I do wrong?