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by Digory 9y ago
In many (most?) US jurisdictions, bodycam video is cloud-hosted by Taser.[0] I don't have direct experience, but I'd bet Taser doesn't let podunk police departments really "erase" video. And given the volume, you&#x
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by Digory 9y ago
Does DG carry fresh produce? You mention milk, and the article mentions groceries. My observation has been that they seem to carry the kinds of things that never expire -- high profit, low turnover, little spoilage. Lots of soap, spam and
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by Digory 9y ago
Given the scale of technology at the time, it was a hotbed of agriculture, timber, mining and transport. To New York and London of the 1800s, the Midwest (especially) looked a lot like China did to us 20 years ago -- a massive pool of reso
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by Digory 9y ago
Looking for Dropbox alternatives a few weeks ago, I found a consultant talking about Amazon as a competitor. Lo and behold, there’s an Amazon Workdocs buried at AWS. It’s $5/mo per head, 1TB of storage, Mac and PC clients. It is roug
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by Digory 9y ago
Furniture has a huge warehousing problem. Buying furniture without seeing it is the pits. That means successful furniture stores have become massive, so you can see the goods and buy immediately. In the midwest, Berkshire's Nebraska
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by Digory 9y ago
I wonder if it has anything to do with the $600 1099 floor. Staying below that might encourage under-reporting on taxes; staying above that gives the researchers pretty reliable addresses and SSNs from participants.
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by Digory 9y ago
> one room At scale, almost no one has a "room." Think about a mortgage bank or cell phone provider, or a car insurance company. Even if they tried to use 'a form', they have to manage hundreds of little details abou
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by Digory 9y ago
Agreed that this is happening; laundering is pejorative, but AFAICT, the Bar has said it's all kosher so long a lawyer is ultimately responsible for the advice and making the effort reasonable. So, for our friends at Atrium, whether or
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by Digory 9y ago
AtriumLTS appears to be working on tools for lawyers, however; wouldn't you agree that's a much easier sell for regulators? As opposed to a LegalZoom or even Clerky model? Now, if they're trying to gin up some "big data
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by Digory 9y ago
Yes, it always happens -- which is why large corporations are successfully reducing fees where litigation is routine. Refusing to give any account of the time spent on the matter would probably get the lawyer disbarred. There's a leg
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by Digory 9y ago
Somewhere in between. In many federal cases, there is little "picking" allowed. And where picking is allowed, it's mostly intuition. In large cases, jury consultants have typically been hired to use their intuition, with
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by Digory 9y ago
"Daddy Bridge builder" sounds odd in English, too. Two thousand years, and we don't give "pope" or "pontifex" a second thought.
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by Digory 9y ago
The Apple Watch, in particular, has been a Yankees bugaboo for awhile. There was a minor kerfuffle around Ned Yost wearing an Apple Watch in 2015 for the All Star game, building on Yankee complaints against Cleveland [0] Presumably Joe Tor
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by Digory 9y ago
Government was making things worse in this area in so many ways in 2008, it's always maddening to hear this one floated. Yes, those loans probably made things worse in some neighborhoods. But those loans didn't trigger sudden, wi
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by Digory 9y ago
This is an odd way of framing it (the NBER article isn't quite so slanted). If you were leveraged in 2008 you were more likely have (on paper) a high credit score (with assets far in excess of liabilities). But you were also going to
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by Digory 9y ago
In this case, it appears the title had already passed to Grandma. A blockchain title could/should prevent Dealer from shutting down Grandma's car over Grandson's debt. If Grandson is right about the clause not appearing in t
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by Digory 9y ago
Good news: blockchain of the future will prevent disabling a car for the debt of a person outside the chain of title. Bad news: This is the kind of smart contract I see blockchain handling well: locking people out of cars, houses, hotel roo
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by Digory 9y ago
I understand that resources are limited. In my city, you'd just evacuate certain areas, rather than the whole metro area, but I'll assume Houston made its decision in good faith based on data. Hopefully, the death toll stays low.
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by Digory 9y ago
Because musicians still get paid by the sale or play (like radio). It was far cheaper to treat streaming like radio, so YouTube scans uploads for music and pays money to musicians for each play. If youtube encouraged downloading, there woul
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by Digory 9y ago
I've lurked there for years, precisely as an antidote to my own bubble. Probably in part because of Jessamyn's presence, it was a good proxy for well-educated, New England-style liberalism, with a sprinkle of granola. The Steven
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by Digory 9y ago
The WSJ article said Apple prototyped one work area, and then multiplied it across the available space. "Having settled on an overall shape, the team then broke it down into smaller parts. “One of the advantages of this ring is th
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by Digory 9y ago
No? He's addressing, in part, preferences, that are distributed differently. If some women, on average, want to do things differently than men, on average, that will result in some apparent gap in the averages -- not because of adva
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by Digory 9y ago
Yes. More like a minimum wage, but that's a government intervention into price, too.
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by Digory 9y ago
The 'inelastic' fees aren't the result of overt price fixing, but the professional rules imposed by the bars. At some point, lawyers don't take on the duties for less than $x00. Lawyers on the internet will tell you a l
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by Digory 9y ago
The Air is perfect for professional wordsmithing (the other kind of pro that Steve Jobs always seemed to remember). If they could stick a retina display it, they'd sell a ton of them. This was a kiss off, kind of like the IPhone SE.
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by Digory 9y ago
Probably not. At State U, you'd have a decent lawsuit if they jerked an admission over ('merely') offensive speech. This kind of filtering probably goes on all the time, but it's hard to connect the admission decision t
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by Digory 9y ago
Yikes. If $70 is a 'middle' blazer, what's left for low? Sears and Penney always offered better clothes than discount stores like Woolworth's, Wal-mart and K-Mart; you could get pants or a suit that might be worth tailor
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by Digory 9y ago
The interview goes into the history of pharma's search for a non-addictive opiate. I assume that started with decent motives, even if not altruistic. The research critically failed a lot of people. Among other things, says Quinones&#
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by Digory 9y ago
Russ Roberts' Econtalk podcast had a stunningly good interview with Sam Quinones about the opioid epidemic. I am fairly libertarian on many things, but this is not a simple case of prohibition run amok. Heroin/opioid addiction is
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by Digory 9y ago
Amazon most certainly has selling Associates. But like much of the gig economy, they try to avoid employees. [0]( https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/ )

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