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by infinotize 11y ago
GM's deliberate cover up of of faulty ignition modules which resulted in dozens of deaths. (The mistake wasn't deliberate, but the systematic sweeping under the rug and ignoring the known issue definitely was) That and banks get
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by infinotize 11y ago
> Many of your top executives will go to jail. So naiive. I would be very very surprised if anyone goes to jail over this. VW is going to take a huge hit but doomed? Puhleeze... companies have survived worse.
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by infinotize 11y ago
Cache page doesn't hang forever for me, had to give it about 15 seconds; seems like it's trying to contact the page for images and eventually gives up and shows you the cache. Clicking "Text-only version" made it load i
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by infinotize 11y ago
Besides being a super well-written and interesting series technically, the Call Me Maybe blogs have been very revealing as far as different organizations' response to criticism. Especially considering all of the target applications ar
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by infinotize 11y ago
There's actually a SoMa office now (as well as London, which has been around).
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Abandoning the Work I Hated(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
10 points by infinotize 11y ago|0 comments
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by infinotize 11y ago
Only on HN! Doesn't this beg the question: Why would you suffer such an unreasonably irrational wife?
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by infinotize 11y ago
Also, what about the carbon output for the cart, equipment, and consumables?
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by infinotize 11y ago
Whoa: > In the split second it took for the rod to travel the remaining 8.3cm, the reactor spiked to 20 GW, 6300 times its safe operating capacity. (Up from that days' configured power output of 3 MW, happened while operator was lif
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by infinotize 11y ago
To be fair this seems to be more of a classic example of a documentation or training problem. Right from your link: > During the mishap sequence, the MP started engines, perfomled an IBIT, and had a fully functioning Flight Control Syst
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by infinotize 11y ago
Many (most?) of these people don't even live in these apartments. In fact, developers actually use this as an argument in favor of new construction - it won't put any more pressure on local infrastructure, because no one will liv
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by infinotize 11y ago
That is a big understatement. In the current world, you lose your job and you're on your own, save some meager, temporary unemployment. Society does not value the jobless and nor are we very good at enabling lost "worker threads
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by infinotize 11y ago
What would they do if their jobs were all eliminated overnight? Would they go get a job that will give them a better life? Probably not, because they would have done that already.
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by infinotize 11y ago
I think having to rob a human is a significant barrier, that would be eliminated. A human is not going to stop as easily, can drive evasively, is a potential witness, can call the police almost immediately, etc. Bringing an automated truc
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by infinotize 11y ago
I don't know what kind of situation you're in, but people cannot generally go and rent real, not-falling apart 1BRs in the the 20s for anywhere near $1500.
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by infinotize 11y ago
This lawsuit is exactly why most companies have opaque interview processes. Once you start providing feedback, especially if any of it is positive, you are giving leverage to a potential discrimination suit.
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by infinotize 11y ago
A different type of problem with electronic keys, mainly for motorcyclists, is if you have the key laying nearby in, say, a garage, hop on and ride off (there are some bikes with keyless start), you just stranded yourself wherever you end u
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by infinotize 12y ago
That's misleading. It's not technically a byproduct, but taking literally tons of salt that was spread evenly throughout the ocean and dumping it out at high concentration at the end of a pipe has significant (and bad) ramificati
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by infinotize 12y ago
AF447 was flying in "alternate law" with limited (or maybe no) automation capability due to iced over airspeed pitot tubes. The aircraft did not know its speed and could not fly itself, or offer the anti-stall measures that would
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by infinotize 12y ago
This topic resurfaces every so often, usually with no particular context, but now as a knee-jerk after the horrible and preventable Germanwings incident. Here is Patrick Smith's (formerly of Salon's Ask the Pilot column) comment f
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by infinotize 12y ago
The growing realization that walkable and bikeable cities are neato easily outpaces the ability to construct that into a reality in the US. There are decades of intertia from cheap cars and fuel and the "suburban-dream" lifestyle
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by infinotize 12y ago
Another InfluxDB user here. I'd done some evaluations with OpenTSDB and the Graphite suite, and while I had some concerns with stability and maturity the main things that sold me on it were: * No dependencies. Compare this with settin
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by infinotize 12y ago
"Check this shit out" - whatever point the author is trying to make is severely diluted by this.
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by infinotize 12y ago
The grass isn't always that green on the other side. Commuting on the nyc subway is no place to get work done, just as stressful and/or boring as driving, and despite the numerous and comprehensive lines commute times are still as
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by infinotize 12y ago
I can see why some people might enjoy a collective day of rest, but that's no justifiable reason to make it illegal for people who don't care about that to buy and sell goods. Not everyone has the same 9-5 M-F week schedule. It&
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by infinotize 12y ago
There are a few hypothetical landslide/displacement-driven tsunami events that are interesting to read about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami#Potential_future_me...
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by infinotize 12y ago
It is stealing but it gets lumped into the "things that happen in NYC that screw you over" category where you lose patience over in taking more seriously past getting your own money back.
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by infinotize 12y ago
I never have in maybe half a dozen times, but if I and more people did it would happen less. I believe the consequences to the driver are quite steep. Usually if you are refused and not in the cab yet the driver won't stick around fo
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by infinotize 12y ago
See also above poster who feels 20% is not a high tip! To be fair most tipped workers do not make enough without tips and are allowed to be paid well under the minimum wage if they work in a tipping industry, so by not tipping at all you a
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by infinotize 12y ago
I thought this was a pretty blatant cheap trick the first time I saw it (similar to restaurants putting tip calculations on bills from 18-25% (which are usually post-tax no less!!)) and on the occasion I am in a cab always punch in "Ot

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