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by jobu 10y ago
"... drivers who contend they should be classified as employees and therefore entitled to reimbursement for expenses, including gasoline and vehicle maintenance." Isn't all that tax deductible? Uber pays the drivers, and th
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Breaking rules to set up a sham business that scams and steals is one thing (and often the reason the rules exist). Breaking rules to create a product that most people like and find better than the alternative is completely different. Unfo
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There's a lot to parse in that statement, but the call for whistleblower protections seems to be the single most important (and achievable) item. Most people are aware of Snowden and Manning, but it really surprises me that these haven
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Often the medical errors happen on very common procedures like central-line catheters or IV insertions. Staff are overworked and tired, or they get distracted and miss one step and it results in a patient blood infection and often death. Jo
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> When storing a kWh costs $0.10, and there's also adaptive pricing to match supply and demand better, these problems will melt away. If the math and assumptions in this article are correct, then that's exactly the (wholesale
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by jobu 10y ago
> Next it will be "See what crazy change to solar made energy purchasers sit up pay attention!" That is _much_ worse, and I refuse to click on any link with that sort of headline because it's guaranteed to be more ads than
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by jobu 11y ago
Unfortunately most nuclear reactors aren't modern.
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by jobu 11y ago
The CPUs are already impressively fast, they just suck tons of power to do it. There are a few games I won't play on my phone anymore because they absolutely kill the battery. (Same with the Facebook app.) If there was any way to drama
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by jobu 11y ago
It's hard to tell if the article is just confusing capacitors and batteries, or if the researchers consider using the coated nanowires in a capacitor configuration as a proof-of-concept for use in Li-Ion batteries. From the article: &
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by jobu 11y ago
It's unclear to me why they think it was a drone or a bag instead of a bird. This whole thing seems overblown. They have no idea what they hit, and it didn't cause any damage to the plane.
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That article contains a link with a better explanation of the law: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/14/obscure-german-... Basically it's a holdover from the monarchy, and there are similar
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by jobu 11y ago
The first part seems probable (sell to the DoD), but intentional fraud is unlikely. Remember Hanlon's Razor - "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." It seems more likely they were very close
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by jobu 11y ago
The prize for the DOJ in this settlement was an admission of wrongdoing. Theoretically this opens Goldman Sachs up to a lot more lawsuits and damages from private investors that were screwed when Goldman Sachs knowingly sold them mortgage b
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by jobu 11y ago
Money quote in the last paragraph: "When we get into things like this," [Judge William Downing] said, "anonymizing stuff, that’s well over my head technologically, then it becomes very murky and hazy." That sounds to m
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by jobu 11y ago
Very impressive with the ocean swells tossing the drone ship around as well. Also, I liked the running commentary between the various reporters. It almost felt like a sporting event.
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by jobu 11y ago
They don't mention what I think is the biggest benefit of body cameras - deterring bad behavior (by police and civilians). When the Orlando, FL police department did a 12-month trial with body cameras: In the 12 months from March 2014
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by jobu 11y ago
It can also help corroborate times, distances, and other hard facts that tend to be exaggerated or distorted by the mind when remembering stressful situations.
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by jobu 11y ago
> they're afraid internal discussions would get negative attention if made public in some tracker That's understandable for a company like Apple. It just pissed me off that they had a workaround, possibly for months, and neve
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> Like, I've also had much worse experiences with some competitors where I'd file a report including a possible fix (something like 'change <= to <' in soure x line y), and 6 months later there even hasn't
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Exactly what I was thinking. Unsupervised learning from trolls created an AI troll. Seems like a success in the learning aspect. How do they fix it though? It doesn't seem like balancing it with more "normal" input would be e
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by jobu 11y ago
At 160 knots: "we weren’t really flying, but were falling in a slight bank" That's 184 mph! Nearly the top speed of the only plane I've ever flown (Cessna 172). We never got near that speed, and I still thought we were
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by jobu 11y ago
It seems like this comment is meant to be funny, but it actually hits at the root of the problem. The "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists" (AUMF) was passed in 2001 and is still in effect. The AUMF allows t
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by jobu 11y ago
It was/is a combination of a couple MTHFR gene mutations and black mold exposure. The mutations make it more difficult for the body to process mycotoxins, and those started messing with her nervous and endocrine systems. The misdiagnos
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A close family member was on antidepressants for almost two years after being misdiagnosed with depression (that's a whole different story though). The tapering process was _very_ rough. At first the doctor recommended tapering by 1&#x
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Planet Money did a podcast that was basically about this: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/15/463237871/episo... There seems to be a few issues at play. First is the "file drawer
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From that blog post: "Most HFTs run a market making strategy. What this means is they play both sides of the table - they take no position on whether a stock will go up or down. Instead, they try to offer securities both to buy and se
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Pretty sure this is the initial analysis from 2010 - http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/FlashCrashAnalysis_LOD.html "If the average or base quote rate is around 10,000/second, then it only takes an additional 1
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by jobu 11y ago
Interesting that this practice doesn't seem to affect the WSJ's rank in Google search results. Cloaking content based on user-agent is definitely a violation of Google's webmaster guidelines ( https://support.google
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It's surprising that this is rarely mentioned in this debate. The US is pretty open and tolerant now, but Cook has lived through times where being gay would destroy a career. Even now there are countries where being gay can get you kil
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Thanks! Looks like it's back. Flagkilling this post strikes me as an interesting statement about how divisive race can be - even for this demographic (i.e. mostly well-educated tech people) As a side note, it would be very interesting

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