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by 300bps 10y ago
Once when the law was on my side I had a judge rule against me for a moving violation and he dismissed me with, "if you don't like it, appeal it to the county." I could've done that, but for a $90 no-point ticket it did
932.
by 300bps 10y ago
How would the insurance policy differentiate between patent trolling and legitimate patent abuses? Because I could foresee a company purchasing this insurance and then willy-nilly violating patents to their hearts content.
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by 300bps 10y ago
if .5 is completely random, what does it mean that I got it down to 0.4781666666666667?...Eventually I ended up back around .53 It means you were temporarily a statistical outlier.
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by 300bps 10y ago
I haven't eaten meat in 29 years. I don't get offended when I go to work events where meat is served or even offered as a centerpiece of the event like at a pig roast.
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by 300bps 10y ago
The real problem is the amount of crime. Fix that, and none of this is a problem. True, but is that even a problem? It's possible that fines and restitution paid by people causing the police to be called is actually making the local
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by 300bps 11y ago
Do some side work for a local business and you'll see how powerful code can be. I did 20 hours side work per week for four years and small projects were able to replace teams of employees that used to hand calculate and process work i
937.
by 300bps 11y ago
Stopped reading here: A child born in 1900—little more than a century ago—was likely, on average, to die by the age of thirty. This is so misleading, suggesting that people typically died before they were 30. The misleading average here i
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by 300bps 11y ago
Exactly. It's the job of the police to present exculpatory evidence in their possession and it is the job of the judge to understand it.
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by 300bps 11y ago
The issue of taxi drivers lying and saying their machine is broken when it isn't is so rampant they even cover it in the FAQ you linked to! >What if a driver says the system is not working? The passenger should note the medallion nu
940.
by 300bps 11y ago
The end of he article details how the motel was sold in the 90s and subsequently completely razed.
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by 300bps 11y ago
That's the thing that a lot of HN users don't get. A lot of thought has been put into how to get fewer comments on HN. You have shadow banning, thread depth delays, thread depth limits and so much more. They don't want to t
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by 300bps 11y ago
If they're smart they'll just find a legal reason to fire you. Ever surf the web for personal reasons at work? Every use your personal mobile on work time? There are so many rules that people violate every day without repercuss
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by 300bps 11y ago
I've run into the programmer vs normal person difference in thinking quite often As a programmer I can't understand how we are more secure by bunching people into large tight groups in security lines to protect people on the oth
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by 300bps 11y ago
Fourteen healthy, non-obese subjects between the ages of 18 and 30 participated in the study. Is this a representative sample warranting this level of attention? Subjects who were deprived of sleep said that they felt hungrier, and had m
945.
by 300bps 11y ago
On an iPhone the window for the article is about a half inch high and there was no obvious way to make it bigger.
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by 300bps 11y ago
Low interest rates are great for the rich. Wealthy people in general know how to effectively utilize capital to make more money and if that capital is cheaper then all the better for them. I mean cost of capital is one of the chief compon
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by 300bps 11y ago
e.g. I don't own a smartphone, because it's a consumption device rather than both consumption and production, is just silly. So is a photoalbum, so is a book, so is a TV, so is a music player. It's not actually silly becaus
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by 300bps 11y ago
Good summary, but you left out the Plaintiff's argument. Their argument is ridiculous but it bears summarizing. The law requires transactions between affiliated businesses to be "arms-length" [1]. That means that both parti
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by 300bps 11y ago
Anyone who thinks being a homemaker is not a profession has no clue what it entails. I was married to a stay-at-home mom for 12 years. When she moved into an apartment and left me with the 4,000 square foot house and our three kids I rea
950.
by 300bps 11y ago
Absolutely! I had a USRobotics 16.8k Dual-Standard modem that I bought in 1992 under the discounted Sysop program and that thing made the coolest noises of any modem I ever owned.
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by 300bps 11y ago
It also allowed you to compete in online games through the big fish in a small pond principle. I used to dominate LORD, TW 2002 and Proving Grounds BBS games. First time I ever played Internet Quake or any other Internet game was a humblin
952.
by 300bps 11y ago
I agree. Reading HN is like taking a break to eat a chocolate chip granola bar. On the other hand, reading reddit is like hooking a syrup IV to your veins.
953.
by 300bps 11y ago
You're correct. Insurance companies have several metrics called loss ratios. One of these is called the combined ratio and is defined as the sum of incurred losses and operating expenses measured as a percentage of earned premium. A c
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by 300bps 11y ago
May be true but not applicable to this story about a rail gun that is more dangerous to the person setting it up and firing it than any potential target of it. The thing couldn't even shoot through two sides of a car door.
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by 300bps 11y ago
You'll get complaints no matter what. 16 years ago I created a website for a large insurance company. When a customer signed up for policyholder functions it generated a random password for the person to use initially in the format o
956.
by 300bps 11y ago
I agree that the ban should be lifted. And I think car dealerships would survive without it. I recently spent some time on many car companies' websites and navigating the options is extremely difficult. They use all their marketing j
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by 300bps 11y ago
Surprised to hear they did that but I guess it makes sense. I'm sure working with the FDA to pioneer new health testing isn't cheap.
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by 300bps 11y ago
Buying the 23andme kit several years ago was the best $99 I ever spent. I originally did it for the ancestry information which I found very interesting. But I have to say I was blown away by the health information. The information is sim
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by 300bps 11y ago
A great summary including a link to a (lengthy) position paper by the FTC: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2014/01/26/fake-reviews-everyone... In summary, reviews like this are illegal.
960.
by 300bps 11y ago
I don't think inability to speed will be as much of a problem with automation. People speed regularly today because other than getting to a destination, driving is so unproductive. If you're able to do what you want while drivin

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