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by bb611 9y ago
It appears you're confused by the use of variations on volunteer in different The facts of the situation were this: 1. United offered vouchers up to $800 - this is the volunteer phase. 2. They received no volunteers. 3. Moving on from
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by bb611 9y ago
Until United staff say "Your ticket is revoked", you are still a volunteer. You are in the negotiation phase for volunteering until they actually come tell you that your ticket has specifically been revoked for the flight, at whic
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by bb611 10y ago
He's said he won't provide documents for the trial, at which point Google's lawyers would ask for a judge's order compelling him to do so. His lawyer says he won't provide them in that case either. They skipped the
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by bb611 10y ago
That's a pretty poor approximation, and I think the result discounts the meaning of the original point. The A380 is a lot more like 3 boxes (based on A380-800: http://www.airbus.com/fileadmin/media_gallery/fil
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by bb611 10y ago
My understanding is that the economics of power generation are deprecating coal: http://www.triplepundit.com/2016/12/despite-trumps-promise-e... So it would be better to have electric vehicles than ICE in its curr
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by bb611 10y ago
I think a much more self-aware article from him would be "Personalized emails didn't work. My recruiter didn't help. But studying the crap out of Data Structures and Algorithms did. My personal projects might have helped but
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by bb611 10y ago
Unlikely to be your doctor, even releasing your name in combination with the health provider's name provides evidence of a patient relationship and violates HIPAA.
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by bb611 10y ago
You're not paranoid, I don't know if money changes hands but my changes of address have 100% been accompanied by spam snail mail. I just don't change my mailing address anymore.
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by bb611 10y ago
Quite different, the turboprop for the Super Tucano is the better chunk of $1 million. It's a Lamborghini in the propeller plane world, where the 172 is a Honda Civic.
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by bb611 10y ago
Lyft took $500 million in financing from GM and is partnered with them to deliver self driving cars through the GM acquisition of Cruise Automation. Lyft isn't doing their work in house but they are on a similar timeline to Uber for au
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by bb611 10y ago
It seems you significantly value not having to tip over rewarding drivers appropriately. I use Lyft because I can ensure that the other person in the transaction is fairly compensated. I see you would prefer for both services to fairly comp
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by bb611 10y ago
> As a passenger in these services, I had an expectation of privacy---I would not expect that the driver could record me. I've certainly had conversations on the phone that I would expect to be private. My understanding is that Cali
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by bb611 10y ago
The danger of wider knowledge was significantly eclipsed by the danger of a malicious attacker finding the cached data without public knowledge. The vast majority of the people scrambling to find an older cache were the owners of those cach
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by bb611 10y ago
It's a reach to suggest that the pressure to get to the moon directly caused the Apollo 1 fire. There's no evidence that the engineering decisions that led to the fire or the poor escape hatch design would have been avoided with a
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by bb611 10y ago
The Space Shuttle was fundamentally flawed because NASA compromised with DoD to get it funded. Had NASA been fully funded for space exploration alone they would have made better choices.
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by bb611 10y ago
Concorde may have failed but jet travel is far more common and affordable today than when it was rolled out.
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by bb611 10y ago
The article's premise is that most people thought Trump was bluffing/lying about barring Muslims, as well as about increasing deportation of undocumented workers. These executive orders proved Trump was serious about Muslims, and
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by bb611 10y ago
Profits
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by bb611 10y ago
Yes, there's strong political opposition to immigration enforcement, but there's also strong opposition to illegal work enforcement. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/california-farmers-bac.
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by bb611 10y ago
Udacity is trying with their nanodegrees.
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by bb611 10y ago
The F-35B is still being deployed on the Wasp class: https://www.f35.com/news/detail/f-35b-completes-first-sea-tr... The problem is that without a catapult the takeoff weight and therefore range and armament of an
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by bb611 10y ago
I think you have some confusion about indicated airspeed - it's used because it provides pilots with predictable information about how the plane will react, it's not indicative of the actual speed of the plane: https://
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by bb611 10y ago
Is that a real problem? Genuinely curious why that bothers you
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It appears that Trump's CBP is significantly different from Obama's though. Where CBP had the option to stop travelers and didn't exercise it in the past, they're now doing so more frequently (at least for the subset of
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by bb611 10y ago
I didn't realize there was a student tier, thanks for the note!
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Yup, the current battery uses thousands of 18650s, but they developed a more 'economically efficient' 2170 cell for the model 3 - https://qz.com/879121/teslas-tsla-cheaper-more-powerful-2170...
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by bb611 10y ago
In my experience (4 years in ed orgs with 15-5,000 employees), chromebooks dramatically changed the ed market. Instead of $1000+/unit, you can buy chromebooks and their support infrastructure (9-5 support, networking, charging) for abo
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by bb611 10y ago
wordpress.com is owned by Automattic, which I don't believe publicly publishes their revenues (a requirement for a fortune ranking). To break the 500 a company needs over $5 billion in annual revenue, Automattic's total valuation
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by bb611 10y ago
What in your reply contradicts the facts presented in mine? I'm happy to debate whether the topic is appropriate for HN, but that requires at least bilateral application of intellect. Even if your fact was contradictory, it's from
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by bb611 10y ago
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. The president of the United States just signed an order legally barring hundreds of millions of people from e

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