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by bb611 8y ago
It's also cheaper than the cheapest subscription offered in the US.
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by bb611 8y ago
The subsidized battery replacement program is intended to offset the significant civil liability they have from making these phones poorly in the first place. This is not charity or even a long term business decision, it ends January 1. I&#
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by bb611 8y ago
I work for a company a couple orders of magnitude smaller than Apple/Amazon and we do. If you're in a production environment we're watching every network request, and there's no public access we don't want.
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by bb611 8y ago
The article doesn't address this, but the 15 years in question are actually 1996-2010. The city attorney's motion doesn't explain why, though it implies that the motion covers all cases prosecuted by that office.
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by bb611 8y ago
A cease and desist letter is one billable hour. Writing a licensing agreement could easily be dozens of hours, and would still protect the company's IP equally well. This is a management decision, as it is for most media companies. The
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by bb611 8y ago
Men are 42% of teachers at the high school level: https://www.aaeteachers.org/index.php/blog/757-the-teacher-g... School administrators are overwhelming male: http://aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArt
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by bb611 8y ago
SSNs should be unique, the only exceptions are fraud or errors. According to the Social Security Administration: > At its inception, the SSN's only purpose was to uniquely identify U.S. workers, enabling employers to submit accurate
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by bb611 8y ago
Contradicted more recently by > The substantial risk of putting an innocent man to death clearly provides an adequate justification for holding an evidentiary hearing. Courts and laws change slowly, and changing them requires sustained,
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by bb611 8y ago
The supreme court simply ruled that such a case COULD take into account only the patents/parts, rather than the entire device. They did not suggest a legal framework for doing so, and they did not mandate that the award must do so. The
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by bb611 8y ago
The revenue listed in the article is per month. The above appears to correlate with the subset whose monthly revenue is >$20k.
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by bb611 8y ago
This is typical of pretty much all US airports. It's very rare to have baggage claim inside security. The deterrent is that there are a large number of security cameras covering that space, and that continues out to parking structures,
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by bb611 8y ago
You imply a tale of woe by saying "few years", when it was really closer to 2 decades. He was on food stamps as a child, he'd worked at Yahoo for a decade and started working on Whatsapp with hundreds of thousands of dollars
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by bb611 9y ago
Are you sure they built a runway? Sounds more like a FARP for helicopters. Pretty much all US combat aircraft are tarmac bound due to low mounted engine inlets, with the exception of a couple transports and the A-10.
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by bb611 9y ago
> is systemic and harder to predict and deal with Is it actually harder to deal with? About 1/6 of fatalities are drunk drivers[2], and they cause another 1/6 of of car accident fatalities[1]. Almost half of all front-seat (dri
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by bb611 9y ago
> Is there any other field in which someone would profess complete ignorance about a topic, and go on to write about it in a national newspaper anyway? Yes, this happens in every field. This isn't a problem specific to computing, it
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by bb611 9y ago
It seems to me that author's point is that he was considered a failure in the Chinese system. He gained the 1/2 million dollar compensation based on his success in the UK & US systems.
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by bb611 9y ago
This is still absolutely the case for top tier schools - the Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, etc Ivy/West Coast Ivy level schools are all about building a social/professional network that will last the rest of your life. These are a
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by bb611 9y ago
They don't have no margin (i.e. nothing is 'at cost' as GP presumes), they just have very low margins which they make up for with high volume. It's not that novel, but Bezos has created a company with tolerance for lower
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by bb611 9y ago
> Seriously lucky that the disintegration didn't take out vital hydraulics or fuel systems in the wing, or penetrate the pressurised fuselage. It isn't luck. It is the result of millions of engineering hours spent on the develo
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by bb611 9y ago
Commercial airliners use a radar altimeter, not GPS/GNSS to assess altitude. Most if not all airliners equipped with autoland systems use ILS rather than GPS for position as well.
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by bb611 9y ago
Sorry, you want me to make your argument for you? I'm not sure that even given your selection criteria I could do so, but if I did your methodology is still fundamentally flawed. There is very little reason to continue attempting to pr
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by bb611 9y ago
The fact that you don't have any idea about the points I presented makes me doubt your story in its entirety. I would love to see a source on this one, but frankly it sounds farfetched. I can't find any record of a contract to upg
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by bb611 9y ago
> I briefly worked for Boeing once and they were working on a new fuel boom for the KC-135 Fuel tanker. Spent millions in research and then some idiot takes a bunch of photos of the blueprints and physical hardware and then sells it to s
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by bb611 9y ago
A town with a median income ~20% below the national median, mostly because it's got a huge population of non-taxpaying resident college students. Yes, they pay tuition, but that is all spent on Rutgers' campus and doesn't mak
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by bb611 9y ago
I think you're glossing over a ton of complexity with your "less random" comparison, because Lund is 2x the population density of Princeton. Given that sidewalks are highly linked to population density, they're probably
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by bb611 9y ago
> If brick-n-mortar want to compete with Amazon, they need to compete with their prices. However, they also have a lot of additional overhead that makes it untenable. Seems like a contradictory statement. The economic message you're
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by bb611 9y ago
I'm not sure why you are so grumpy and taking the questioning tone directed at me, given that my response simply proposed a possible explanation for GP's question. The courts are a lever to improve compensation just like negotiati
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by bb611 9y ago
At best a story about someone running a company with no idea of how to hire or manage for culture fit, at worst a fiction made to bring in some cash from the daily mail, a publication generally known for their lack of journalistic depth.
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by bb611 9y ago
> What is the end goal here? Presumably these women would like more money.
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by bb611 9y ago
I haven't worked at Google, but I have worked at a very large tech company, and this isn't accurate. They still hire frontend devs. Those frontend devs still do front-end JS with libraries. Some of them work on in-house libraries,

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