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I have done this several times, moving cross-country via U-Haul. It's easy enough to drive the trucks, even with your car on a trailer behind it. I hire loaders/unloaders based on reviews. You can really save a lot of money doing it yourself, and it's prudent to hire professionals to do the heavy lifting.

Sure, you can run into problems and have a bad experience this way. But the movers my company paid for didn't do such a great job either. On the other hand, the guys the Army sent were amazing.

I have a toy U-Haul truck on my bookcase, because wanderlust.

Here is my simple strategy. It doesn't work perfectly, but it increases the probability that I will answer an important call and let an unimportant call go to voice mail.

I change the ringtone for everyone on my contact list to be different from the default ringtone. I do it when I create the contact. That's it. Two ringtones: they're a contact or they aren't.

When I hear my phone ringing in the other room, in my pocket with friends, on the bus, I know whether I may be interested in either taking the call immediately or listening to the voice mail fairly soon.

For one added level of differentiation, I use a very few other special ringtones: -- one that sounds like knocking on the door when I receive a call or text from Amazon or UPS and other delivery services -- a strident one when my doorbell rings (in my apartment complex, the exterior doorbell calls a phone) -- immediate family has a different one

The price and availability of truffles in the US may improve in the future as the result of "the great race to grow black truffles in Wine Country [where] Sonoma County has beaten out Napa Valley despite getting a later start"

"Ground-breaking truffle harvest portends something big in California" https://www.sfchronicle.com/wine/article/Ground-breaking-tru...

You have to include Robert Greene's '48 Laws of Power'. Whether you choose to participate in power plays and scheming and maneuvers, it is exceedingly valuable to understand them and their perpetrators. This is the modern version of Macchiavelli, full of historical examples.

I had the privilege of working with Bill Fouse and other brilliant people at Wells Fargo Investment Advisors in the 70s. At the time, it was a huge technical challenge to crunch the numbers for a multi-million dollar investment, and to execute it without affecting the market prices of the target stocks.

Look for olive oil from California. It's really only olive oil.

I believe he is referring to the area he traveled through after he left Lucca, not Lucca itself, which is on many tour itineraries.

Looking at your alias there, I can imagine that possibly you don't like talking about your work herding goats?

CA has frequent water shortages, and is in drought conditions right now. Where would the water for the sprinklers come from? What is going to raise it from the underground water source to the roof level? Electricity, which may not be available? Are you going to retrofit a large and heavy cistern on every roof, that relies on gravity to distribute the water?

Here's my long-ago contribution. Scroll down for the visual. https://codepen.io/daphneokeefe/pen/Ayxlz

Well, you only get an opportunity to explain something when they ask.

In order to have an impact on election results, wouldn't you need a very large number of people without ID's standing in line all day long, for hours, to vote multiple times at different precincts?

And they would have to give a valid name of a registered voter who had not showed up yet, or the pollworkers would realize that the same person was trying to vote twice.

Or you could only impersonate voters who voted by mail (thereby voting twice in the same name).

Sure, you can come up with examples where a very small number of votes determined an election outcome. But for the vast majority of important contests -- and especially for state and federal level -- it does not seem feasible to round up enough thousands of people to cast enough fraudulent ballots to affect the election outcome.

I am a pollworker in San Francisco, and I can tell you from personal experience with thousands of voters that Ranked-Choice Voting is widely misunderstood. The common refrain is: I only want to vote for this one candidate, and not for anyone else. In a hotly-contested election, they absolutely do not want to vote for the other guy as #2.

Not sure where "here" is, but everybody working the polls in California is paid, and there are a lot of us, so it isn't "cheaper" because of that. See my comment below.

For comparison, that is below the local minimum wage of $15 per hour.

I am a pollworker in San Francisco. On voting day, there is an army of us temps working at polling places all over town from 6am until 10pm or later, for about $150. The city is having a very hard time recruiting people for those long hours on a work day.

We have very old fashioned voting machines that scan ballots marked by voters by hand. The paper ballots are retained in the machine after being scanned, and are picked up at the end of the day by sheriffs deputies.

There is another army of mostly city employees working all day and night, for several days, suporting the polling places (in a dozen languages) and processing all of the ballots. So it is indeed a costly system.

We have been able to vote by mail for many years, but for various reasona, about half of the voters prefer to come to the polling place to cast their ballot (and get an "I voted" sticker).

Meanwhile, Washington, Oregon and Colorado have only voting by mail. No voting machines no polling places, no army of workers all over town. No doubt there are issues with processing those ballots as well, but it removes the voting machines from the vulnerable spots in church dining halls and residential garages all over town.

I simply refreshed the page (in Firefox), and it went away. Well, it was quickly followed by the now-universal popup asking me to subscribe to their newsletter, but that was easily dismissed.

I know of two cases in my own family where one elderly spouse died, and the other announced that they did not want to go on, and they died within about a week.

"The Laws of Human Nature" is scheduled for publication in October 2018. You can pre-order it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BJLX414/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

No doubt this book has been an inspiration to many (including myself), but what I find most fascinating about it is the author.

Here's a quote from the link below: "Napoleon Hill is the most famous conman you’ve probably never heard of. Born into poverty in rural Virginia at the end of the 19th century, Hill went on to write one of the most successful self-help books of the 20th century: Think and Grow Rich. In fact, he helped invent the genre. But it’s the untold story of Hill’s fraudulent business practices, tawdry sex life, and membership in a New York cult that makes him so fascinating..."

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-untold-story-of-napoleon...

Obligatory "48 Laws of Power". You have to understand the rules, even if you don't want to actively participate. Greene's other books are good, too.

If your friends really want to include you in their event, they will find a way to invite you.

I have a very active social life, and have never been on FB.

"Don't ask me how I know" often means that the speaker is an insider who must remain anonymous.

If you are a Prime buyer and your package is not delivered by the promised date, you can request and receive a free one-month extension of your Prime membership. I have done this several times. For obvious reasons, Amazon doesn't publicize this much.

When the slides contain a lot of text, it is not possible for me to simultaneously read and comprehend the slide and understand what the speaker is saying. The slide appears, I start reading. You start talking, so I have to decide where my attention goes. Often it is neither the slides nor the speaker, just a jumble of words coming at me. Then the next slide comes up...

That preliminary phone interview will also help you to establish your credibility and expertise before they get a look at you. In case you aren't a young white or Asian man.

Wonderful advice from the community here. I always defer providing references as long as possible.

There have been a number of occasions when I thought the outside recruiter wanted to make the reference calls because they wanted to make sure a weak reference wouldn't interfere with them making the sale. The hiring HR is happy for the recruiter to do the legwork. The recruiter makes sure their candidate is accepted.

Generally, it is free to "anchor" but you have to pay to tie up to a dock at a marina. When you anchor (drop a heavy weight on a rope to the sea bottom to keep your boat from drifting away) you have no connection to the land. You have to use a smaller boat (perhaps a dinghy) to row or motor over to the dock. Even then, you have no external electrical outlet or water hose.

If you pull your boat up to a dock in a marina, you can get electricity and water, and you can walk away to dine or shop, etc.

These are generalities. Sometimes you have to pay to anchor, and sometimes you can park at a dock for free.

In Chrome, you can also use uBlock Origin, which is potentially a little easier to use if you're not an advanced user.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

As a software engineer in downtown SF, I invite the new teammate to lunch the first day. Help them relax after a stressful morning. Walk around the block for some fresh air and to see what food and retail is available. Have a nice lunch and chill. Refeshed and ready to plunge back in.