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by imroot 9y ago
Put the Flight Attendants on the Jumpseat, and put the pilots on the UPS flights that to go SDF. If they were truly "Space-Positive" must-rides, they would have had seating assignments. Seriously, this wasn't hard.
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by imroot 9y ago
In the past, I used a USBank based service for small businesses. Low rates, API to get purchases, and fairly easy to get/qualify for. Assign credit limits per-employee and per category (so, for example, Maintenance Guy A can't p
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by imroot 10y ago
I was part of a startup that put on a hackathon with a 10K first prize many, many years ago. We had a group of presenters who had a polished product and were looking to put our API/whatever into their product so that they could be eli
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by imroot 10y ago
This isn't just something that's limited to John Deere tractors -- even though John Deere is using provisions of the DMCA to 'highly discourage' farmers from screwing with the internals. Caterpillar also has a fair share
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by imroot 10y ago
As a society, we have no way to differentiate who we're mad at, and who we're truly afraid of. Rehabilitation options are nonexistent, as most prisons and jails removed them in the 90's. Offenders go to Prison and come out
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by imroot 10y ago
This is one of my favorite hobbies to take part in. I've got a hot glass shop on my farm in Kentucky (where I will make blanks and other artistic pieces), and I have built a cold shop with some tools (my favorite is a mold that uses pe
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by imroot 10y ago
It'll be interesting to see the intersection of this and forge.mil (which was/is the DoD's implementation of SourceForge and associated services). About 5 years ago, there was a fair amount of Open Source Software being ran
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by imroot 10y ago
I've used http://www.shipwire.com/ in the past with a fair amount of happiness. Decent API's, not a horrible cost, and minimal hassles (I had issues with shrink and damage at Amazon warehouses, haven't had t
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by imroot 10y ago
There's a really good book about the design of the slot machines, called Addiction by Design. It talks about the different UI and design elements that go into keeping the gambler engaged and why they keep spending more money. It&#x27
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by imroot 10y ago
I hung out at the Board of Elections office. It was printed, and posted, every 15 minutes or so, as polling locations came in. When I was there, it was me and a college student from the local college who was there working for the AP awaiti
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by imroot 10y ago
I did this in the 2014 election cycle, reporting a county in Ohio. They pay $50 for someone to go to the county and report the election results. There's an iphone, android, and mobile web site, as well as a call center that takes that
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by imroot 10y ago
AirBNB is interesting. Before I even stayed at an AirBnB, I paid for a AirBnB, and then was kicked off of their system, because after they "searched public records," they discovered that they didn't want me as a customer. Int
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by imroot 10y ago
That's actually a pretty egregious violation of Amazon's Seller policies -- if you report it to Amazon, they'll get their seller account blacklisted. There's one or two power people in the Fulfilled by Amazon world who d
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by imroot 10y ago
But what you'll get in performance, you'll lose in sanity. I know that everyone has their "Horror" stories about a provider that they'd avoid at all costs, but, Softlayer still has an IBM "Mindset." Provi
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by imroot 10y ago
I'm a big fan of DevOps; for one reason or another, I've been in this 'space,' if you will long before it was DevOps...since about 2004/2005. If you ask me what DevOps is, this is the answer that I will always giv
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by imroot 10y ago
I have a friend who is a sergeant in the LAPD. She was asking me a question and followed it up with something about trying to not seem stalkerish, and I made a joke about "isn't that what NCIC (National Crime Information Computer
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by imroot 10y ago
My friend (who is an ER Doctor) had a medical emergency (man had a stroke) on her flight from Pittsburg to Miami when she came to visit my family a few months ago. She actually told me afterwards that she thought that the bag was extremely
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by imroot 10y ago
I'm a HUGE fan of using softcover.io to build documentation for runbooks and other technical documentation. You can write the text in Markdown (with some LaTeX and other goodies), and it automatically converts it to both HTML as well
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by imroot 10y ago
The ownership stake in Atlas with Amazon is interesting to me. Amazon was contracting with Air Transport Services Group (Airborne Express/DHL US, for those keeping track at home) for flights into and out of Wilmington for an air sort p
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by imroot 10y ago
There was a DA who did this in California when he was running for re-election in the early 2000's -- no more plea bargains. What happened is that the ADA's workload tripled, they ran out of courtrooms (and had to get courtrooms i
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by imroot 10y ago
What's to stop the factory to cut you out and just sell on Amazon? That's why many folks use freight forwarders who break out, wrap, label, and send the items to Amazon.
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by imroot 10y ago
This is a copy of the contract that the OHP with ERAD Group: http://oklahomawatch.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/files/2016/06/E... Highlights: * ERAD is taking 7.7% of all funds seized. * Anywhere between 9.95 and
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by imroot 10y ago
Upcoming Games, player stats, feeds of player photos.
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by imroot 10y ago
Ford tried to do the "No inventory" dealerships in the late 80's and it was a spectacular failure. While buying a vehicle isn't the same as Amazon's same day delivery, do you really want to be the person who just t
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by imroot 10y ago
ESPN had an API for a while, but, it didn't provide scores (they were getting the scores from a third party). I've been looking for something like this for one of my personal projects, but, haven't really had the time to spen
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by imroot 10y ago
My issues with Instacart is that not every shopper knows how to shop for produce. I order avocados from instacart: They're all black on the inside when I cut into them. I order specialty chips or cheeses? They're marked as "
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by imroot 10y ago
It's not a bad "base" bourbon, and for the longest time, it was distilled and aged at Four Roses. It also pairs really well with citrus (for use in an old fashioned). The pricing of Bulleit is sometimes weird: I was in Vegas
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by imroot 11y ago
I like Odoo, but, there doesn't seem to be enough glue in the Open Source release to do things like billing for services in a sane and coherent manner. The UI for LedgerSMB is just horrible. I don't think it's really been up
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by imroot 11y ago
If you look at past cases where the All Writs Act has been invoked, the Courts have rejected this type of government conscription. Effectively, the government is forcing Apple to take receipt of a device that it does not own or posses, then
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by imroot 11y ago
That's kind of interesting for me to hear. The last few times that I've rented an Uber, the driver (I usually use the "black car" option) usually shows up in a rented National/Enterprise vehicle (if you rent enough

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