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by butlerm 4y ago
Utah is working on metering all urban secondary water use (sprinklers) where traditionally it has been unmetered leading to waste.
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by butlerm 4y ago
Guess what? The entire Wasatch Front is predominantly urban, in fact it is one of the most urban areas in the country. It is all metro area in other words, even if not part of the SLC metro area. There are so few people in actual rural area
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by butlerm 4y ago
Misrepresentation of salaries actually paid is false advertising. There was a time when stores would get in trouble for advertising discounts from prices no one actually paid either, like a permanent sale.
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by butlerm 4y ago
"Can't charge extra for using a credit card" is a contractual condition imposed by the credit card companies. If anything there should be a law voiding such conditions as contrary to sound public policy. Why should cash or d
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by butlerm 4y ago
The minimum salary paid for a position is useful information. The median or estimated median may be as well. Legislated disclosure of a maximum is useless. It implies that employees are interchangeable widgets with a cap on their market va
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by butlerm 4y ago
$400,000 in withheld funds is not the sort of thing you should just place on the back burner and ignore while your client fumes. It is business malpractice, the sort of thing you could get sued over and be penalized heavily for, if not mere
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by butlerm 4y ago
I would say he certainly did think it was worth that, just not for very long.
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by butlerm 4y ago
At least one person did, or it would not have sold for that amount.
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by butlerm 4y ago
If Twitter ceased to exist as a service then I agree creditors probably would not get paid or at least not in full. Liquidation isn't all that likely though. It is more likely that creditors would end up in control of the business, an
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by butlerm 4y ago
In the US, not during the automatic stay that follows a bankruptcy petition. When filing for bankruptcy notices are sent out to all of the debtor's creditors notifying them of the bankruptcy filing and informing them that they must ce
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by butlerm 4y ago
In the United States creditors can file a petition for an involuntary bankruptcy, which if granted would effectively put the company into receivership and no doubt under less friendly administration than a voluntary Chapter 11 filing.
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by butlerm 4y ago
Unless Twitter has no assets of any marketable value (which obviously isn't the case, the company itself just sold for 44 billion dollars) the landlords will get paid, worst case by having Twitter issue additional stock in a debt for e
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by butlerm 4y ago
Probably. All told the government basically covered 18 months of airline payroll expenses but the airlines had to pay about 25% of that back. PPP "loans" were intended as payroll support for a shorter period with 100% forgiveness
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by butlerm 4y ago
As you might expect, the Constitution of New York states: "nor shall any bill be passed or become a law, except by the assent of a majority of the members elected to each branch of the legislature" (Art. III S.14). "Every bi
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by butlerm 4y ago
There are many types of corporations beyond those organized for profit. Non-profit corporations typically have different governance structures. Both types are restricted to pursue the aims and purposes described in their articles of incorp
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by butlerm 4y ago
A corporation is a type of association and has rights that are derivative of its member's rights. An association is composed of people. The only reason why a corporation (or other association) has First Amendment rights is because it
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by butlerm 4y ago
Airlines did not qualify for PPP loans. They did receive substantial direct support from the federal government however. PPP "loans" were reserved for businesses with less than five hundred employees that weren't worth very
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by butlerm 4y ago
Not as much of their job as it used to be unfortunately. But that is a topic for another day.
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by butlerm 4y ago
I can imagine that, but MySQL didn't really start to become a competitive relational database until the 3.23 timeframe (around 2000), and it is hard to imagine MyISAM (with no actual transaction support) being used for a production dat
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by butlerm 4y ago
> Turns out that memcpy() didn’t handle data that was not aligned to a 4 byte boundary correctly in the 32 on 64 case. It took one of our sysadmins a very very long time to find it. That is surprising outside of the kernel. There are a
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by butlerm 4y ago
There is no possible way they could prove anything about this in a form adequate for a short article. You either trust that the writers are responsible journalists representing the truth of the matter to the best of their ability or you do
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by butlerm 4y ago
If it is in real time then presumably yes. Perhaps with exceptions for previously announced or expected attendance at certain public events like award shows and the like.
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by butlerm 4y ago
It would be more accurate to say that Unix time "accounts for" leap seconds by not accounting for them at all, but rather switching into temporal displacement ambiguous repeat timestamp la la land for an entire second before retur
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by butlerm 4y ago
> What makes you think that companies would have been willing to make the effort to deploy "IPv4+" any more than IPv6? The hallmark of a good IPv4+ solution is that it autodeploys without anyone at the network configuration and
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by butlerm 4y ago
If you are making toys for personal use, sure. Any professional software developer who just pastes code without thinking is basically committing professional malpractice. And that includes anything from StackOverflow. And what better way
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by butlerm 4y ago
He is claiming correlation not causation in the second. Correlation is symmetric, the converse is indistinguishable from the original.
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by butlerm 4y ago
According to this source, posted earlier, CVS would only be a collection agent and could not claim special tax treatment for passing through the charitable contributions of others: "This is where you round up your bill to give to a cha
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by butlerm 4y ago
What you call a pass through "loop hole" is exactly what happens by default with ordinary business accounting. As a business you have other expenses that increase by the same amount as your other income. Net income is unaffected
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by butlerm 4y ago
> SCOTUS has ruled that police have no duty to protect citizens. That is not remotely true. What SCOTUS has ruled is that police have no constitutional duty to protect citizens, i.e. the Constitution doesn't say anything about it
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by butlerm 4y ago
I am not aware of any operating system kernel that schedules tasks or timer expiration using a strict definition of UTC. Unix time is the most common, and local monotonic (non-decreasing) clocks are becoming common for that as well. Of cou

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