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by abduhl 8y ago
I'm not a Hitler expert, but I didn't know he was elected. What position did he get elected to prior to the Enabling Act giving the Nazis power? Is it comparable to being elected President in the US?
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by abduhl 8y ago
bsder said: "As a licensed Professional Engineer, you have to be quite careful criticizing other engineers. As long as the engineer signing off met "standard practices", he is covered and saying that he is not could get you i
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by abduhl 8y ago
I'm unaware of any liability that can be picked up through rendering an opinion on a design. I have participated in forensic engineering / expert witness cases in geostructural matters. In fact, the opinion of an engineer as an &q
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by abduhl 8y ago
Lol this post shows an amazing savior complex. These poor altruistic artists just want to work for meagre amounts and no profit but thankfully heroes like you appreciate their craft and are unwilling to let them peddle their wares for anyth
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Judge rules that Amazon isn't liable for damages caused by a hoverboard it sold(cnbc.com)
83 points by abduhl 8y ago|109 comments
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by abduhl 8y ago
I am trying to think of any other first generation first year car that had a problem so basic as being on the order of "car doesn't recognize the key/keyfob and so won't start" and I can't think of one.
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by abduhl 9y ago
Why would the strength requirement for a 5 story building be different from a 50 story building? Do the building materials behave differently when you increase a number? The Millennium Tower is not a "counter proof" to my argumen
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by abduhl 9y ago
I think he is referring to base isolation which, I agree, is non-standard.
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by abduhl 9y ago
Liquefaction mitigation is possible (ground replacement cells, compaction grouting, etc). It costs a lot and the only place that we (my company) have done true liquefaction mitigation is on large state funded jobs. The preferred alternati
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by abduhl 9y ago
I see things like this ("These buildings aren't unsafe because there's no choice, they're unsafe because the builders wanted to save money and the building code was too loose to stop them.") posted by people on HN q
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by abduhl 9y ago
ironically, a simple google search for "Honda falcon wing door alignment issues" brings up only Tesla results.
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by abduhl 9y ago
your case in point is that someone who wanted to park decided not to use his brakes? is removing your foot from the accelerator instead of using the brake a standard learned behavior amongst bolt/volt owners?
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by abduhl 9y ago
not to be pedantic, but in America 35 tons is exactly 70,000 lbs
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by abduhl 9y ago
Start early and patent early to maintain market share and relevance. This is obvious even now with the Waymo v Uber lawsuit.
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Can Tesla's Elon Musk Revolutionize Tunneling?(usatoday.com)
2 points by abduhl 9y ago|0 comments
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by abduhl 9y ago
> I never take the government word for anything, and generally assume the government is lying at all times. History supports my position. Do you habitually eat food that has been left out for longer than government guidelines allow becau
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by abduhl 9y ago
so you would act like a bro and then stab your friends in the back by exploiting your fake friendship with them to get their most personal information and then leverage that to mess with them (after you have explored their accounts a bit lo
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by abduhl 9y ago
I would imagine writing the whole thing off as a loss is better from a tax perspective.
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by abduhl 9y ago
What company was this? I have literally never heard of a spin off that did not result in a stockholder getting ownership of the parent and spin off, or the stockholder retaining ownership of one company and being paid out for the value of
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by abduhl 9y ago
Aren't your posts here telling the GP how important and useful a specific group for females is despite them explaining why they didn't want want to be a part of it a form of mansplaining?
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by abduhl 10y ago
AASHTO publishes the standard specification for bridges and other road structures. It can be purchased at https://bookstore.transportation.org/item_details.aspx?ID=22... "The AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications ar
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by abduhl 10y ago
Companies sometimes offer people good deals to leave due to slowing business. If you opted into this you would have been voluntarily laid off. If enough people do it, then there are no involuntary layoffs. Japan Airlines did something sim
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by abduhl 10y ago
I've seen a lot of people with this type of attitude, but I honestly don't buy it for a second. Airline customers don't have any brand loyalty - all they care about is that $10 they save. If you're serious about boycott
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by abduhl 10y ago
Please read the court documents. The lawsuit alleges that Uber's agreement with drivers had them acting solely as a payment collection agency, or at least this was the drivers' understanding. Under this agreement, Uber's jo
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by abduhl 10y ago
This is incorrect, per the complaint: v. In exchange for use of the Uber Software, drivers will be charged a service fee on a per transportation basis calculated as a percentage of the determined fare. This is found under the allegations se
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by abduhl 10y ago
It sounds like the lawsuit is alleging that riders and drivers are shown different fare estimates and that these fare estimates inform the final price paid by the rider to Uber and then from Uber to the driver (minus Uber's set fee).
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April 3 project update: [TBM] Bertha on the verge of breakthrough(wsdot.wa.gov)
1 points by abduhl 10y ago|0 comments
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Drive times to the centerline of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse(greatamericaneclipse.com)
2 points by abduhl 10y ago|0 comments
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by abduhl 10y ago
Not to be rude but why'd you immigrate then? It's not like taxes just started happening recently.
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Uber has a law firm investigating me – Susan Fowler(twitter.com)
277 points by abduhl 10y ago|112 comments

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