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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
At first, I think this would be just as complicated to enforce as US municipality taxes. There are several taxes to be levied within a given state, with the rates changing based on county/city borders (see New York), regional cooperati
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacklist_(TV_series) It's almost as if this TV series was written with Le Roux in mind.
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
> All of the teams’ email communications, with their macho posturing and detailed ops plans, were being simultaneously collected by the DEA’s Special Operations Division. Would that be the same division here that was pooh-poohed for pa
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
In the US, we've had this[1] in place for some time on products for phone networks. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
$3B valuation? $3B in revenue? $3B in assets under management?
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
Similar how Google did with Motorola Mobility.
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
http://keywiki.org/Laura_Poitras#Pre-knowledge_of_ambush.3F
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
@jacquesm, Or for a counterpoint: maybe it all comes down to an intentional strategy of timing? And our debate of morality vs. objectivity is late to the game. As in, people of authority are already aware of his actions (versus my original
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
Here's another case in the same vein, where a very public CEO with strong opinions had lost a decision in a very nasty sexual harassment case (while stating even more of his strong opinions in the duration of the case) which wasn'
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
Pissing off people in high places cuts both ways -- for people lacking morals not yet convicted, convicted criminals, AND for people pushing unpopular beliefs way before they're universally accepted as truths (e.g. current climate chan
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
In this particular case, "karma" appears to be "upsetting the morals of enough people, that regulatory and prosecutorial parties become invested in digging up enough of your past until they find something that sticks". I
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
It was a joke, for a similar acquisition made last year. Never mind.
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
Seems like a duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8268020
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
let's face it, the primary argument against working from home is not wanting to adjust communication styles. if you are part of a team that tends not to put communication in writing or text (email, IM, etc), and does more of the shuffl
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
So, Angie's List for non-contracting?
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
Generator take anywhere from 7-15 minutes to spool up and produce power. So every (serious) datacenter has rows and rows of batteries to cover the lag time between power loss and generator start-of-service.
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
The growing datacenter trend is to build dedicated co-generation facilities (typically, with the power company footing half the bill because you're doing them a favor and taking load off of the local grid). In the US, generator power i
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IANA gTLD Database(iana.org)
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
What. the. actual. fuck. Trips outside of NYC (aka the 'burbs) have the full street address listed. Those are addresses of people's single family homes, vs. the NYC addresses which tend to be multi-family dwellings.
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
Seconded. It's exciting at first, and but repeated business travel becomes tedious over time. Points are your personal reward for that necessary evil in the time you spend away from your home, family, and friends in cars, shuttles, tra
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
Before the current iteration of NYC in-cab media (the Windows system that plays a playlist of AVIs), there used to be a set of speakers in the rear of the cab. At the beginning of every ride, it would play a pre-recorded message from you, g
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
What I do on our app servers is create a new user for each app (via configuration management). That gives me both environment separation (A needs Ruby 1.9, B needs Ruby 2.0), resource accounting on a per-app basis, and a repeatable foundati
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Daimler to test self-driving trucks in Nevada(theguardian.com)
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by 15thandwhatever 11y ago
B2R Finance is funded by Blackstone, not Bridgewater. Joshua Adler is not head of the fund nor has he ever been, Jason Hogg is. Joshua Adler is co-founder of LaKritz Adler, a real estate investment firm based in and focused on the Washingto
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by 15thandwhatever 12y ago
Hindsight bias is a nice broad stroke to dismiss an area in which you have no or limited expertise in. It's like your management team saying "So what, we've been getting alerts for CPU above 50% utilization every day, but the
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AMD Bulldozer Linux ASLR weakness: Reducing entropy by 87.5%(hmarco.org)
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by 15thandwhatever 12y ago
Looks like there's a problem with displaying content in one language, but pulling descriptions from the wrong store language. 'THE EQUALIZER - WATCH ONLINE: STREAMING, BUY OR RENT You can buy _"Le Justicier"_ on Amazon I
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by 15thandwhatever 12y ago
By the time he searches for a new job, interviews, successfully gets a new job, stops contributing, and people finally NOTICE that he's abandoned the project: it's already too late. You can offer him all the $5 donations in the wo
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by 15thandwhatever 12y ago
I thought it was pretty clear on their site that they offered the "security transfer" only at certain terminals, for certain airlines. For instance, if you were flying Continental out of Newark, it was great to come in via USH and
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by 15thandwhatever 12y ago
As a registered telecom provider with the state, you need to file at least one interconnection agreement (the telecom equivalent of a peering agreement) with the regulatory body showing that you are connected with the incumbent (Verizon) or

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