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 Discussion on answer by o.m.: Are the…

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Tom W
Aug 14, 2019 16:56
@Pakk certainly the link mentioned provides no evidence that this was an instance of censorship.
 

 Discussion on question by Equinox: Is…

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Tom W
Apr 18, 2019 01:05
There are a multitude of reasons why a student may not have been able to keep particular (or any) essays Like? I can't think of any. Why wouldn't you keep all your work?
 

 Discussion on answer by Richard U: Ho…

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Tom W
Jan 17, 2019 16:40
Firmly disagree. Any monetary value attached to your employee's efforts immediately prompts the comparison of the effort made to the reward gained, and $100 is a puny amount for a salaried professional's time. The intent - to show a token of appreciation - will be lost in the value judgement attached to the amount, even if it's known that it's out of your own pocket and not the company's. The insinuation is that the company's valuation of the effort is zero.
 

 Discussion on answer by Fattie: How t…

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Tom W
Jan 17, 2019 05:03
Employees who are really busy often resent having to take time off because all the work they would otherwise be doing will still be there, and be even more urgent, when they return. If you're going to do this, you have to ensure that it's not simply delaying the next lot of over-committed work.
 

 Discussion on question by CFL_Jeff: H…

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Tom W
Jan 16, 2019 04:36
Why does his being salaried entail that he isn't paid overtime?
 

 Discussion on answer by Oddthinking: …

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Tom W
Jan 12, 2019 04:35
A point which may be relevant is their definition of "virgin" forest - by the definition in the paper, any forest whose original biodiversity has been altered, not one that has been razed and replanted: "The second kind of loss is qualitative and involves a change or degradation in the structure, function, or composition of an ecosystem (Franklin et al. 1981; Noss 1990). At some level of degradation, an ecosystem ceases to be natural. For example, a ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forest may be high-graded by removing the largest, healthiest, and frequently, the genetically superior trees"
 

 Discussion on question by qwerty1234:…

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Tom W
Oct 18, 2018 08:53
@Araucaria ? They have?
Tom W
Oct 18, 2018 08:53
@R.Schmitz it doesn't exactly work like that in the UK. Sick leave is a statutory entitlement, is always paid after a certain number of days, doesn't come out of a pool of 'allowed' days (your employer has no right to allow or disallow you a statutory right) and would only feature in employment contracts if the company has chosen to go above and beyond the law.
 

 Discussion on answer by Philipp: How …

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Tom W
Oct 13, 2018 22:55
@JimmyJames hit the nail on the head there. The management-type who wants to add resources is trying to get something done within a set of constraints. The conclusion to draw from being presented with Brooks' Law is that you can't get that thing done. This is not an easy fact to accept for someone who already feels that they lack control of the situation.
 

 Discussion on question by PStag: How …

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Tom W
May 10, 2018 17:35
Does the premise of the question require spacecraft and not other more exotic forms of travel? A broken teleporter lost or discarded would be a plausible if unoriginal trope.
 

 Discussion on answer by awjlogan: UK …

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Tom W
Apr 27, 2018 10:45
@MonkeyZeus trying to throw feces from a distance username checks out
 

 The Frying Pan

Sometimes hot, always heavy. (cooking.stackexchange.com)
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Tom W
Feb 9, 2018 17:31
Sounds like the answer is 'good'
Tom W
Feb 9, 2018 17:31
@Jolenealaska hi! Wouldya believe I stopped by specifically to see how you're doing?
Tom W
Jan 22, 2017 17:47
Well ordinarily yes I get that, but yesterday's instance was mere laziness
Tom W
Jan 22, 2017 17:47
Doesn't help that I don't have a scraper, I use an unwanted credit card
Tom W
Jan 22, 2017 17:47
I actually gave up on the car yesterday, walked instead
Tom W
Jan 22, 2017 14:29
@Stephie ha I thought the German approach was to just jam a sentence's worth of words together into one big word
Tom W
Jan 22, 2017 13:39
I do this constantly
Tom W
Jan 22, 2017 13:39
Possibly somewhat related to associativity in language:
Tom W
Jan 21, 2017 16:15
Figures
Tom W
Jan 21, 2017 15:09
Does it say anywhere what proportion of it is salt? I'm not too keen on a lot of salt on food
Tom W
Jan 21, 2017 15:09
@Jolenealaska fancy. Looks pretty good
Tom W
Jan 20, 2017 23:31
Bit late for the weak, feeble Europe folks who don't see the benefit of staying up until the early hours dicking about on the internet
Tom W
Jan 20, 2017 23:05
You weren't around much during my occasional delurks
Tom W
Jan 20, 2017 23:05
Sorry @Jefromi
Tom W
Jan 20, 2017 23:02
And other people I might fail to remember
Tom W
Jan 20, 2017 23:02
wassup @Jolenealaska @ElendilTheTall @rumtscho
Tom W
Aug 21, 2016 07:45
I suppose if it was penicillium, it wouldn't be harmful. But that's not something I want to test
Tom W
Aug 21, 2016 07:34
if that's really true that's weird, cool and alarming
Tom W
Aug 21, 2016 07:33
> Coconut milk contains a plant growth hormone that promotes cell division, and so is often used as a culture medium in experiments. So, apparently, that's not bad coconut milk - that's SCIENCE! Congratulations on your new.... um, whatever!
Tom W
Aug 21, 2016 07:32
I assumed it was paint
Tom W
Aug 21, 2016 07:32
Wow
Tom W
Aug 21, 2016 07:32
Wow, I did not
Tom W
Aug 21, 2016 07:30
Now that I think of it, I had a coconut milk can filled with brush cleaner on my kitchen windowsill for mumble months
Tom W
Aug 21, 2016 07:28
@Jolenealaska the contents look...erm...not right
Tom W
Aug 20, 2016 17:31
A successful project, now there's a novel idea. What I'd give to work on a successful project
Tom W
Aug 20, 2016 17:29
is a developer
 

 Discussion on question by Guest: Is i…

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Tom W
Sep 15, 2017 06:56
In my experience you can tell a recruiter that you can't accept calls between x and y hours, they'll acknowledge that, and then call you whenever they feel like anyway. So you can set up voicemail or block their number, but asking them to restrict their calls to certain hours will almost certainly be ignored. You can force the issue using voicemail and if they want your business, they'll have to deal.
 

 Discussion on question by Company Com…

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Tom W
Mar 8, 2017 17:56
Can we please clarify the meaning of the term "snapped" - in British English this would generally be interpreted as a momentary flash of rudeness or hostility, nothing to be particularly concerned about, but in U.S. English I gather the term is meant similarly to "going postal" or "losing it". This drastically alters the interpretation of the question.
 

 Discussion on question by Selyuu: My …

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Tom W
Mar 6, 2017 19:06
A diligent mortgage agent may refuse to accept such an arrangement when they learn that you are not truly 'in it together' - but if they don't, that doesn't mean it isn't a terrible idea. Form a limited company with terms that adequately protect you and buy the property through it if you are truly insistent on helping this person.
 

 Discussion on question by Dave Farrin…

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Tom W
Dec 8, 2016 00:35
"She can come here, we'll pay."
 

 The h Bar

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Tom W
Dec 7, 2016 21:25
News to me, cool
Tom W
Dec 7, 2016 21:24
I'm happy to accept the theory supports it, I am suspicious that only one firm claims to have built one - to my knowledge
Tom W
Dec 7, 2016 21:24
The phrase "similar machine" in my original statement is significant
Tom W
Dec 7, 2016 21:23
And that is to say, actually building and demonstrating one
Tom W
Dec 7, 2016 21:23
Yes that's what bothers me
Tom W
Dec 7, 2016 21:23
Are they presenting the same kind of machine solving the same kinds of problems that D-Wave proposes to?
Tom W
Dec 7, 2016 21:21
The fact that there is only one D-Wave with no competitors and no contemporaries in academia publishing peer-reviewed research showing that their own similar machine produces good results gives me the creeps
Tom W
Dec 7, 2016 21:15
@BernardMeurer I'm not at liberty to say. There is a degree of facetiousness involved but I just wanted to remark that this is not simply a trolling exercise so don't ban him straight away...please?
Tom W
Dec 7, 2016 21:13
You're probably being invaded by a different StackExchange right now btw