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by bmelton 9y ago
> There's no "unplanned murder". Intent, and (depending on jurisdiction) premeditation are requirements for a murder charge Generally, the only real requirement for a charge is an affirmative response by a Grand Jury. I
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by bmelton 9y ago
> Lastly, the economics of movie theaters have created a feedback loop that results in "big tent pole" films like Disney / Transformers / Star Wars dominating the screens. Adults want serious drama like "House of
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by bmelton 9y ago
Which is worth having, since I've learned the hard way that drinking a movie-large soda while fully reclined is a risky proposition.
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by bmelton 9y ago
You can always choose to pay cash for everything you want, and eschew credit altogether, it's just so much harder to muster up the cash for big-ticket purchases like homes and automobiles that it's easier to game the system for cr
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by bmelton 9y ago
> If you’re spending real money, you should have an account team. Talk to them if such a problem happens The colloquialism for "real money", at least to me, is "a substantial sum". If that's what you intended, w
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by bmelton 9y ago
And of course there's people like myself -- I love cars, but I actively hate commuting. Not because I mind the driving, or the traffic, but because it's time I'm getting nothing done. If I lived in or near a bigger city, s
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by bmelton 9y ago
Ah, I misunderstood. I believe you're correct about that -- I always get the opinions from ScotusBlog, and admittedly have never looked for the opinion delivery audio.
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by bmelton 9y ago
> What's wrong with Congress questioning someone about legal but shady activity? If Congress had invited him to come testify, and he'd accepted, I would have absolutely zero problems with that. But that wasn't the situati
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by bmelton 9y ago
Here's at least one, and IIRC there were others sprinkled throughout this topic when it was much smaller. They're probably much harder to find now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14931689
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by bmelton 9y ago
> Look, if he hadn't been convicted of securities fraud, I would still be defending his rights as a... defendant, but now that he has been convicted, I don't feel sorry for him. Unfair sentencing is just as much judicial malfea
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by bmelton 9y ago
> but the decisions are not They are. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/16
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by bmelton 9y ago
The fraud part, which also happens to have been the illegal part, is that he misrepresented the size of the situation while soliciting investments. It might eventually have been true, but was specifically not true at the time he made the
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by bmelton 9y ago
Not trying to play contrarian here, but are there any reported cases of people who've actually died for lack of Daraprim? > Find one person who got it for free This guy got it free, for life. http://www.news.com.au/
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by bmelton 9y ago
Because he defrauded them in order to get their 3x return. Put simply, if I burn my house down in order to collect the insurance money, I've committed insurance fraud whether or not I pay that money back, and no amount of profit on the
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by bmelton 9y ago
It was the radio Q&A segment. The speaker had a British accent, but I don't recall the name.
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by bmelton 9y ago
The assertion made on NPR this morning was that it was likely that the 'approved' VPN clients that remain on the App Store are likely to have backdoors to the state. I have no knowledge on that, so if that's an absurd asserti
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by bmelton 9y ago
I highly doubt it will matter. I was at the dentist's office about 6 months ago, and as I'd had a few dental procedures done over a spread-out timeline, I'd made friends with the dental assistants. We were talking about the
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by bmelton 9y ago
OSHA[1] recommends keeping knives sharp to prevent restaurant and kitchen maladies from occurring. The Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation[2] recommends the same. The Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics[3] cites dull knives as a
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by bmelton 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14787849
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by bmelton 9y ago
The OP I'm responding to said, specifically "The snake-oil has done nothing," which they cannot know for certain, especially given that the dietary supplements were not even listed.
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by bmelton 9y ago
I'm saying that if you, a person who is probably not privy to the medical details of another random internet poster, cannot factually assert that dietary changes had nothing to do with his hay fever, then it is inappropriate to assert
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by bmelton 9y ago
A completely rational explanation that may or may not be the answer. If my car disappears from my garage, it may be because it was stolen, or maybe because it was transported to an alien planet by extra-terrestrial life forms. My assertion
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by bmelton 9y ago
Counterpoint - why would I want to build my business on software that, if the parent company screws me in some unrelated way, I have no recourse but to rebuild my entire software portfolio, or just accept that I've been screwed? If the
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by bmelton 9y ago
Same here, but with 5 units, and I'm supremely pleased by its overall performance. For some odd reason, after moving to a new house, the Powerline networking in my office degraded from the consistent 300-400Mbps in the old house to &lt
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by bmelton 9y ago
Sure, but that's why participation rate varies pretty wildly from one practice to the next on whether or not they accept Medicare or Medicaid. If a doctor doesn't like the rates Medic[are|aid] are paying, they're free to not
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by bmelton 9y ago
So, it's an enterprisey company, for sure, but for just Technopedia API access, I think that the rates are fairly approachable -- in the order of a couple hundred bucks a month maybe. That said, I no longer work there, and companies of
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by bmelton 9y ago
Technopedia (a BDNA product) does exactly this, but might be expensive for a startup. https://www.bdna.com/products/technopedia/ Disclaimer: I used to work for BDNA, and on this product, but have since left the c
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by bmelton 9y ago
I'm usually opposed to video evidence, but in this case, I think the video was an especially good means of illustrating the aggregation of resources to the right in a way that a series of static images would not have captured. A d3 ani
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by bmelton 9y ago
It took me a long time to switch gears. Going from The Wire to Treme is kind of like switching from Windows to Linux -- the hardest part is unlearning what you already know. In my case, I kept expecting Treme to be more Wire-esque. It is
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by bmelton 9y ago
I've seen Generation Kill multiple times, and regard it as exceptional, though I wasn't aware of Simon's involvement.

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