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Bank’s severance deal requires IT workers to be on call for two years(computerworld.com)
7 points by dtparr 11y ago|13 comments
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by dtparr 11y ago
Since precedent-wise, it only applies in the Second Circuit (CT, VT, and NY), I wonder if there are any similar cases (or if there's another entity that might try their luck against Google elsewhere, say in the 9th Cir.) that might res
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by dtparr 11y ago
Great info, thanks. That's a 4-6x size improvement from what I'm seeing now, so that'd be very helpful. Probably actually cheaper to buy this than just get a larger HDD. I'd looked at options that would auto-transcode
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by dtparr 11y ago
Any idea how many people that covers? Looks like just a couple square miles of coverage (roughly eyebyalled). Is that mostly business or residential areas?
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by dtparr 11y ago
Can you run commercial servers for that price or is that only for residential users?
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by dtparr 11y ago
Yeah, I'd like NAS support as well. I think their thinking is that the variability introduced by the network speed (especially since they advertise it with wifi), might cause unexpected failures that they won't see with a usb dri
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by dtparr 11y ago
Again, another not super cheap option is Tablo[0]. It's different than most since it doesn't actually have an HDMI plug, but rather it's basically just a back-end box than records off an antenna and then can play back on its
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by dtparr 11y ago
Interesting, I have a similar setup, but with the old standard PCI-based tuner that just pulls the data and dumps it. I hadn't seen a tuner option that would transcode it on the fly. Is there any noticeable lag when watching live? Do
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by dtparr 11y ago
That tool is handy, but I think the more standard one, especially if you're looking for antenna advice on somewhere like the CordCutter reddit, is actually under 'Check your address for free tv'. Same major data provided, but
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by dtparr 11y ago
With the exception of the low power stations, if you're within 10 miles of the tower and have a 'good' antenna (for some reasonable definition of good), you shouldn't have any trouble picking them up. I'm about 15
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by dtparr 11y ago
My experience was with NYSEG[0], which is a private company as I understand it. I've heard similar reports from others in other parts of the country but can't answer specifics about them. They did not provide customer information
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by dtparr 11y ago
Regarding the Feynmann quote, I suspect that behavior itself is intrinsic to humans. Few people want to be the guy coming up with a wildly different answer from a consensus/authoritative answer. We see the same thing in election poll
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by dtparr 11y ago
Good point. We wouldn't even need to stop referring to spending them as 'dropping Hamiltons'.
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by dtparr 11y ago
In some parts of the country, utility usage is effectively public knowledge (I'm guessing granularity varies a good bit though). Before we bought our first home, our agent advised us to call the local electric company to ask for past
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by dtparr 11y ago
How does this differ from a reciprocal inter-insurance exchange[0] like USAA? [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_inter-insurance_exc...
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by dtparr 11y ago
Of course they do. People have limited time and energy and can't possibly be expected to have a good enough understanding of everything they touch in their daily lives to be able to "understand" them well enough to have suff
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by dtparr 11y ago
GPLv3 licensed for cases where that matters.
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by dtparr 11y ago
So, I don't think people have 'drunk the DRM kool aid' so much as everyone has generally agreed for the last decade or so that GPLv2 doesn't prevent tivoization and GPLv3 does. That everyone includes RMS, by the way. He
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by dtparr 11y ago
I'm not sure how this is premature. The reason the practice is called tivoization is because we went through all this years ago when Tivo did it. The FSF acknowledges that releasing the source but locking you out from installing your
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by dtparr 11y ago
Where does it say HDMI1? The only versioned thing I see in reference to the video stream is HDCP 2.2.
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by dtparr 11y ago
I haven't been able to find much about the legalities involved in these restrictions. How can a private company impose restrictions on public roads and beaches and land they don't own? Is there a governmental agency that will ac
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Elon Musk making enemies fast in Texas Gulf Coast hamlet hosting SpaceX launches(dallasnews.com)
3 points by dtparr 11y ago|1 comments
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by dtparr 11y ago
Yeah, I took that as the whole point. You can overlay one country on another to see how they relate despite being at wildly varying latitudes on this projection. E.g pull Greenland down to India.
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by dtparr 11y ago
Alum as well. The ones I know from that list personally fit that exactly. Pete Koomen was a Google a few years before Optimizely (the post says he got his BS in '06, but that was his MS). Dan Kador was at Salesforce for a while as wel
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by dtparr 11y ago
Of course, there's an enlightening stackoverflow question on this: http://stackoverflow.com/q/14415881/220347 Finally, my graduate-level algorithms class comes in handy in real life.
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by dtparr 11y ago
Took it on a smartphone. Also overrode to match case. So, at least 2.
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by dtparr 11y ago
I've definitely had friends who both did it, and then told me I should. So it's a thing, but I don't know how common. Guess we'll find out =D
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by dtparr 11y ago
Yeah, something similar was mentioned in the article. If this wasn't legal, they could just fire you, then offer to hire you under the new terms the next day.
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by dtparr 11y ago
Yeah, for whatever reason that headline stuck even on sites that are typically less click-baity and/or pro-Tesla. My favorite way I saw the headline explained was something like: I had major medical expenses this year and had to dip i
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by dtparr 11y ago
Again, they're not losing $4000 per car in the sense that their cost to produce one car is $4000 more than what they're selling for. (Meaning if they sold 50k more cars, they'd lose $200M) They had significant CapEx and so th

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