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    Company Raises It's Minimum Wage to $70,000 and All Hell Breaks Loose

    Pay secrecy policies are illegal in many circumstances. Only exceptions I'm aware of are supervisors and independent contractors, and HR employees are prohibited from talking about a 3rd parties salary. Even if you sign an NDA you are still protected to discuss salary under the National Labor...
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    Parent Thread

    First thing I would do is contact your health care coverage provider and explain the incident to them. Hopefully they will pick up the ball from there and get everything taken care of. Next I would try to get ahold of the owner, assuming it is an independently owned franchisee. The business...
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    Smartphones

    Assuming you are talking about the 2015 Moto X it also does not do wireless charging.
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    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    Of that $60mm, sounds like only the $31mm signing bonus is truly guaranteed and the rest is injury guarantee BS.
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    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    I am pretty shocked you get that much business via the yellow pages. I know when they show up on my front porch they are immediately round-filed. I still do yellow pages but I've cut way back on my spending/ad size there. A couple of years back I put a super-aggressive offer right in my yellow...
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    MLB 2015 Season

    Is Fernando Rodney Tipping His Pitches? - Lookout Landing
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    Smartphones

    Hands-on with the 2015 Moto X Pure Edition-stock Android at a great price | Ars Technica Moto X Pure has been announced. $399 for a stock Android flagship-level device seems pretty attractive. Assuming you are in the market for a screen that size anyways. Pros: Stock Android, highly rated...
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    Tool might eventually release a new album someday

    NEW ALBUM NEWS.... Fuck, wrong MJK band. Puscifer Announce New Album, Premiere Epic Song and Video | Rolling Stone
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    MLB 2015 Season

    In the past 10 years 90% of the teams in MLB have made the playoffs, compared to the NFL's 87.5%, and that is with the NFL having 40% more available playoff berths. Over the past 30 years 8 NFL teams have combined to win 24 of the past 30 Super Bowls, no matter which sample of 24 you pull out...
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    Parent Thread

    3 months is still a little early for sleep training and setting a nap schedule probably, I'd still just let him do his thing on his schedule for now. Probably start trying to be a little more regimented starting at 4 months but might be up until he is 6 months old before he will really start...
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    Running/Jogging

    Appreciate the feedback. I'm currently using the same shoes I used for doing the Tough Mudders which I believe are technically trail-running shoes, but not nearly as aggressive as some trail-running models. They are pretty light weight and toward the minimalist end of things though which was...
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    Running/Jogging

    I'll give the compression sleeves a shot. I don't have a high-school track like that (it is cement) but there is a 1 mile long sawdust trail about a 5 minute drive from my house so maybe I'll move my training to that. Hopefully I can get trained up enough that my shins can make it through the 5k.
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    MLB 2015 Season

    For the record, MLB has had the best parity of any of the major sports for a good long while now. Anyone who thinks salary caps help with that are delusional.
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    Running/Jogging

    I got made fun of in the "losing weight thread" or whatever it is because I was 6' 195 and wanted to drop some pounds. I don't think my BMI is an issue at all. I will admit I've never taken running seriously as a sport. I am pretty athletic but have alwaysHATEDrunning. I find it incredibly...
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    Running/Jogging

    I have the exact opposite problem. The front of my lower legs (shins) start to get very tight/painful after even a little bit of running. I'm not sure if it is a lack of form issue or just a lack of running issue. I don't have the same tightness/pain when playing softball and I'm running down a...
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    Parent Thread

    I did that exactly once, never again. Probably also the reason I've never tried cocaine. That was a bad day.
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    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    Yup, I need to start an expansion franchise, I'm taking Luck. I need to win a Super Bowl this year to win over my fanbase to get them to vote to approve funding for a new stadium, I'm taking Rodgers.
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    MLB 2015 Season

    The M's will probably be buyers at the deadline continuing to use '95 as an excuse as to why they are not out of the race.
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    Pregnancy Thread

    My wife made a bunch of WH stuff that she didn't end up using at all I think, but she was also freezing them. Between that and pumped breast milk I had no room for hops in my freezer for a while and it was quite the point of contention in our relationship.
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    MLB 2015 Season

    I think that is by design.Royals, Rays reinventing how teams use starting pitchers - Business Insider
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    Parent Thread

    My kid was waking up once around 4am till about 4 months, after that all the way through the night. Occasionally there would be a bad night or stretch of a couple of days where there would be multiple awakening, but those are pretty rare. When I was a baby I was the same way, slept great from...
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    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    I see this happen often with my pizza business as well. The most common occurrence is school carnivals. For the carnivals I've always given pizza to them at-cost plus I'll provide free soda (so they make a little bit of cash on the pizza and keep all the revenue from the soda they sell). I love...
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    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    Are you able to quantify the referral business he sends you? Do you know how much it costs you in advertising expense to generate a new lead versus how much it would cost you to service this one customer and keep their referral business?
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    Car Buying Help

    I hear what you are saying, and yes if you don't do your homework and/or suck at negotiating the dealer will get you there. But whatever the dealers are able to sell the new cars for is going to have a direct impact on the used car market. So I suppose you could infer that dealers luring in...
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    Car Buying Help

    Probably even less than that. For a few years there, there was a ton of negotiating room for dealer financing. When I bought my last car (3 or 4 years ago now) I went in pre-approved from my credit union for a 4 year at 2.5% and the dealer came back at my for up to 6 years at 0.9%. Oh, the...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'm going to say no, if a mid-aged wife wants the D she'll go for it, but dressing up like one probably wouldn't hurt your chances.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I think you guys are confusing midwife withbored middle-aged wife.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    A midwife takes the place of your OB/GYN for pregnancy and birth related stuff. Unless they are ALSO a doctor, midwives do not have surgery privileges so shit starts going down-hill they will be replaced by a doctor at the hospital. Many midwives are technically nurses as far as...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    It isn't that hard to sous-vide for different temp preferences, you can always get it to where you want it during the sear. If I had to do 11 different steaks to varying temps that might be a little difficult to manage, but if you are having like another couple friend over and one of them like a...
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    MLB 2015 Season

    I use it on my Roku to watch Giants games and it works amazing (not spoofing). We've spoofed on the computer to watch Mariners games and through the VPN it is pretty hit-or-miss but that may be our use of the VPN and not indicative of the service in general when spoofing.
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    The Beer Thread

    On the surface it isn't a big deal. Duvel has a lot of credibility in the beer industry and so far for Boulevard nothing has changed other than their distribution footprint. Duvel is a brewery first and foremost and has strong ties to craft beer culture, whereas InBev is basically a marketing...
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    The Beer Thread

    True, and I understand that. But the equity these brands (and craft beer in general) built was in a large part based on the fact they WEREN'T part of or in anyway like these giant corporate beer conglomerates. The consolidation is a normal part of a maturing industry, but what I will find...
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    The Beer Thread

    I don't think Duvel is nearly as evil as the likes of InBev, but we'll see. As far as beer quality, GI and Elysian have also remained pretty much exactly where they were before their respective acquisitions. But when kegs of GI and Elysian IPA started getting priced cheaper than kegs Budweiser...
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    The Beer Thread

    I'm not sure how to feel about this one. Firestone Walker Brewing Has Been Acquired by Duvel Moortgat . thefullpint.com
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    The Astronomy Thread

    "Pluto has an active interior, for reasons that are not at all clear," she said. "When ice-rich planetary bodies show evidence of resurfacing the interior it is usually tidal forces, but there is not a large nearby planetary body to raise tides. It's an extraordinary scientific mystery." Read...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah, but in that particular image the lack of craters in combination with that mountain range suggest active geology on Pluto which is going to cause a lot of geologist to go back to the drawing board on Pluto to figure out what is causing it. They were not expecting to find active geology.
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    Gardening

    There are a few cool flowers that bloom around my yard, but nothing that I planted on purpose, mostly leftover from the previous owner. Coolest things probably are the tulips, we also have a huge hydrangea that always impresses old ladies who are into flowers. /shrug Really though, I just...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    If you aren't catching it as it falls out of the chicken's ass then it probably isn't worthy of being sous-vided.
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    MLB 2015 Season

    It still amazes me that with all the history MLB has (and sheer sample size of seasons and games) that every year we always see something that has never happened before. A First: No All-Star Game Starters for Yankees and Red Sox
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    When I go camping I do what I guess is a sous-vide scramble or omelette I dunno. You just take all your fixings (bacon, cheese, peppers, onions, sausage, etc.) and have everyone put whatever fixings they want into a ziplock bag along with 2-3 eggs. Have everyone write their name on the bag and...