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by abduhl 7y ago
Carve-outs exist: (e) Businesses or enterprises with personnel qualified on basis of religion, sex, or national origin; educational institutions with personnel of particular religion Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, (
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by abduhl 7y ago
The article says that they received millions in tuition payments from these students so it sounds likely the program is at least partially self funding. In which case, this is a great use of government money.
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by abduhl 7y ago
You can get used to any smell given a long enough exposure. Ever been to someone's house that just reeks of dog or cat? Beyond that, it can happen in an acute sense as well. Hydrogen sulfide becomes undetectable above a certain expos
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by abduhl 7y ago
The whole liner is resin. It is produced in a factory per job (“wetted out”) and then brought to a job on a refrigerated truck then pulled into place and cured via steam/water/UV. They’re cured from the inside out but the whole th
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by abduhl 7y ago
I don’t disagree with any of the substance of what you said (as someone who has also had tangential experience in sewer rehab work), but it’s worth pointing out that ASCE has a vested interest in constantly throwing out the “nearly failing”
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by abduhl 7y ago
Sure, if we move away from the analogy and into real dollars and cents we can see that certainly the numbers show that Facebook, as a company, has higher revenues both in total and per capita. But that wasn’t the poster’s point with his ana
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by abduhl 7y ago
Facebook employs over 30k employees. The parent company of the company who performed this lift employs 11k employees working 900 ships. I don’t think your analogy makes sense from a “Don’t require so many people” perspective when you look a
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by abduhl 7y ago
For a counter example of GDP using Purchasing Power Parity where China is "much" bigger under this metric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
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by abduhl 7y ago
China’s economy is “much” smaller than the US by what metric? China and the USA are the top two economies by any measure (GDP, exports, imports, etc.) with both countries switching places as 1 or 2 depending on the metric.
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by abduhl 7y ago
The phrase spineless bootlicker is such an internet citizen phrase. Outrage culture signaling with respect to language is always so fascinating.
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FIGG is one of the premier bridge designers in the country. You can probably get on one of their bridges within a couple hours no matter where you live.
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Factor of safety in the way that most people understand it has gotten increasing difficult to tease out since the switch to load and resistance factor design (LRFD) over allowable stress design (ASD) for most structures. I think timber is t
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by abduhl 7y ago
As I’ve posted before, there’s nothing special about a guy with a PE other than him hanging out there with liability for the lawsuit. Someone with a PE license has met the minimum requirements from the state. Nothing else can be garnered fr
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Oh man wait until you learn about machine learning where they don’t even have a real world result to compare it to
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For building construction that is substantial, a 50 foot wide flange section is probably going to be 1.5 to 4 times heavier than your 4000 lbs, in my experience.
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by abduhl 7y ago
You have described a spin off or a change in asset of some kind, not a stock split. A stock split is when the same underlying asset is revalued due to issuance of new shares. It has the same ticker generally. For a stock split you would owe
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by abduhl 7y ago
Or, alternatively, we've hit the "preponderance of the evidence" stage for e-cigarettes and vaping in general being bad for your health and governments are doing what they think is correct for the health of their constituents
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by abduhl 7y ago
I can't speak to any of this data center or weevil stuff, but I do take two issues with your post. First is that, of course, the endangered species act has provably impeded progress. Required environmental impact assessments have adde
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by abduhl 7y ago
Which car company do you imagine Tesla would have "just bought out"? Keep in mind that Tesla couldn't even raise enough money to buy out themselves, not even at the incredibly discounted price of $420/share.
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Technically the answer is yes (any stress state results in deformation) but for all practical purposes the answer is no. The TBM does not bend to any degree worth talking about and is considered rigid. This leads to curves in tunnels genera
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Survey control is transferred down the tunnel from surface. How it gets down there depends on whether you launch from a shaft or pit, but once survey control is established in the hole it is straight forward to locate the TBM using standard
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The Boring Company took 2 years to go 6000 ft at 15’ diameter excavated. There are plenty of ways to slice and dice this number up but the short version is that this is not faster than how the original TBM performed (let alone 3x) - I know
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by abduhl 7y ago
This is partially correct. This is how the curve is maintained with the concrete liner. Steering is also accomplished via articulation jacks at the head and controlling differential stroke of the main jacks. It should be noted that only cer
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Where can I read more about this promise? What, exactly, was promised?
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This is most likely a direct result of the recent Supreme Court decision in Apple v Pepper where the Supreme Court upheld the Ninth's decision that app buyers could sue Apple for price inflation. One of Apple's arguments in that c
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Is there a place where I can find the list of things that should be decided democratically versus not?
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This analysis doesn't even make sense. "The actual financial transaction tax burden to this 401(k) holder will be considerably less than this $100 for two reasons. First, not all of the tax will be passed on to investors. The indu
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How many of those days and hours were spent inside an air conditioned room with a bathroom and, probably, a kitchen/cafeteria? I work in engineering for construction - when we were building Bertha's rescue shaft in Seattle the cre
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Oral arguments can be heard here https://www.oyez.org/cases/2018/17-204 A non-PDF version of the opinions can be found through that link or at https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us&
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by abduhl 8y ago
Sure, in the case of Komarov. But that's not what we're talking about in this comment thread - we're talking about the inclusion of a random tweet about Mike Pence that could have been left out without changing the message a

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