Avenger42

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by Avenger42 10y ago
That's probably just so that it'll show up in their store.
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by Avenger42 10y ago
> Should we even have to consider that a pacemaker could be used to gather data about us before we consent to a pacemaker? It shouldn't. Your pacemaker gathers that data (exertion history over time) so that your doctor can view it a
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by Avenger42 10y ago
From the article: > Compton, who has extensive medical problems, including an artificial heart implant that uses an eternal pump (I'm fairly certain they meant "external" there.)
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by Avenger42 10y ago
The issue with having experts on the jury is twofold: - If they're experts in the field, they may have had enough interaction with the case in question (or the people involved in the case) to have formed an opinion without having heard
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by Avenger42 10y ago
Ignoring the idea of a corporation being judged by other corporations, the idea that "peers" should be judged more strictly (i.e., limited to "people in similar situations" monetarily, professionally, etc.), I feel like
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by Avenger42 10y ago
Try this link instead: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106514 If you change the proposal # to 106514, it instead redirects to your link with 106514 as the question instead: https://area51.stackexc
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by Avenger42 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with a site that says "we can answer typical questions about A, B, and C, but we can't answer questions that require legal advice, so please don't ask those or we'll close them". That&#x27
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by Avenger42 10y ago
> I'm a believer than an app always outdoes a "mobile-friendly" site. On the other hand, the website is available on all platforms. An app is typically only available on whatever platform(s) the creator thinks is/are
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by Avenger42 10y ago
Even in such a case, the AG should be free to ignore the recommendation and say "sure, we've got enough evidence, but we're not going to pursue it". For example, if the charge is minor enough, or if the optics of it look
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by Avenger42 10y ago
Sure, you can write that story too, but this author seems more interested in across-the-eras comparison stories, like the one he linked comparing Peyton Manning to other great quarterbacks.
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by Avenger42 10y ago
I'm only going by what's in the judge's finding, which states: > "Plaintiff has submitted other affidavits and emails based on personal knowledge of others, all of which support that plaintiff then had no mental healt
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by Avenger42 10y ago
> to see the higher authorities side with the person that started the problems just to look politically correct and go against the "installed power" From the judge's opinion: "I accept that at least Rubin, as PI for p
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by Avenger42 10y ago
> Let's remember that he had problems with other people inside the team, not only with the PI. Note that the judge specifically said this: "It does not appear to be disputed that at all relevant times the lab members were appro
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by Avenger42 10y ago
> It is interesting that this article mentions German was with his parents as well. That swayed me a bit against believing that German was the real victim. This confuses me. I don't see how his parents being present affects the stor
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by Avenger42 10y ago
Apparently the place to get answers is the Swift evolution mailing list - they mentioned it several times.
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by Avenger42 10y ago
> I just don't get the yellow car bit at all. Note that it was actually a "white car" bit. Casey, Marco and John originally did a podcast called Neutral which was about cars, and the very first line of the first episode wa
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by Avenger42 10y ago
The statement says Ellard had "previously retaliated" against a whistleblower - but no timeframe is given. Unless other information is given out[1], who's to say that that activity didn't happen before Snowden's act
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by Avenger42 10y ago
You mean the IG that is facing termination for retaliating against other whistleblowers? http://www.pogo.org/blog/2016/12/intelligence-community-land...
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by Avenger42 10y ago
The new keyboard has less key travel, not more. From the Macbook page: > So we designed a unique butterfly mechanism, which is wider than the scissor mechanism and has a single assembly made from a stiffer material — allowing for a more
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by Avenger42 10y ago
Yes, apparently I should have been more specific. To be fair to Keverw, it's easy to think that I meant to reply to dman's post and was asking what the term meant.
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by Avenger42 10y ago
This has been posted a couple of times before; see earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12708344
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by Avenger42 10y ago
Chargeback?
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by Avenger42 10y ago
> I disagree that Trump would be such a shoe-in for 2020. The Democrats just need a better candidate. Note that it's almost unheard-of for the sitting president not to run for a second term. (I certainly can't remember a case i
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by Avenger42 10y ago
There's a grand total of one source for an article about the FBI being "in revolt", and he's not even an FBI agent. They can't get a single one to confirm, even off the record?
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by Avenger42 10y ago
That's exactly what I've been doing for years. I also gave it a custom ringtone that's 4 seconds of silence and turned vibration off, so unless I'm actually doing something with my phone, or else listening to music, I do
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by Avenger42 10y ago
His public service career may have ended, but he got gigs at several private firms, as well as Harvard, Exeter, and several other universities. I think most people believe it's unlikely Clinton will serve any time for the email lapse;
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by Avenger42 10y ago
> purposely disclosing classified information like Snowden did will result in prison Not necessarily. General Petraeus purposely handed over documents to his biographer / girlfriend, and he got nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
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by Avenger42 11y ago
The landing takes place at approximately 36 minutes into the video.
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by Avenger42 11y ago
> I won't even get into the impact on stockholders who buy the stock to, in general, make money with their investments not for social issues. Several years ago, in response to a request that Apple commit to only agree to measures th
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by Avenger42 11y ago
Posted earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11423411

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