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by knz 10y ago
At least they were able to recover some cost. My wife was nearly killed due to the negligence of an ER doctor during the pregnancy of my first child. Every doctor and nurse we dealt with could not understand how it happened and several told
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by knz 10y ago
Personally I think the opposite is true to some degree. Age does not guarantee that you are a rational and well informed citizen. I've also read numerous articles about how young people are more tolerant (gay marriage is a good example
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by knz 10y ago
I'm not talking about precheck. At my local airport (and others I have been to) there is a regular TSA line with one screener at the end of the line. Once you clear the ID and ticket check you go into multiple lines for the scanner&#x2
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by knz 10y ago
My point was more that everyone pays the same fee to be screened by the TSA but by purchasing a more expensive ticket from the airlines you can avoid the long wait to be screened and therefore increase the wait time for most people. To be c
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by knz 10y ago
My "favourite" part of the TSA line is how business and premier customers often have access to a shorter regular TSA line (not precheck, just a separate entrance to the normal TSA line). My understanding is that the TSA is partly
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by knz 10y ago
My objection to precheck is that I question how effective it really is. Not to dive into another controversial topic, but it reminds me of proponents of gun control who think that background checks will solve mass shootings. Passing prechec
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by knz 11y ago
Google I/O is in a few weeks - is it possible this is a precursor to something more involving Weave and other IoT systems?
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by knz 11y ago
It was hit from the side I think? The height of the pickup definitely made a difference because most of the cabin was sitting up on the median rather than squished into the barrier like the rest of the truck. Your point about the weight is
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by knz 11y ago
I understand your point that modern vehicles are relatively safe, but after seeing the result of a semi truck taking out a pickup truck on the Interstate yesterday I am seriously considering my choice to drive a compact vehicle. I assume la
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by knz 11y ago
> I can think of a few examples of solar firms that failed even after being given massive subsidies. Many car companies have collapsed over the last century. I assume the intention of a subsidy is to support the industry as well as the s
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by knz 11y ago
I'm familiar with it. Personally I don't see any clear or compelling evidence that the bombings did not play a role in ending the war. It's not as if the Allied Commanders had direct access to the inner circle of Japanese lea
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by knz 11y ago
> In fact Europe was for centuries a most brutal place with disease, warfare, and oppression. I'm not sure that only applies to Europe...
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by knz 11y ago
Re nuclear weapons - the context matters. There were predictions of over 1M allied casualties for an invasion of the Japanese mainland and after the bitter fighting during previous campaigns it seems plausible. https://www.quora.
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by knz 11y ago
Nearly every home I have ever been into in the US owns a plunger due to poor performance of US toilets. Every kiwi who has stayed with me has had issues. I think the biggest proof of how useless they are is the fact that if you go to Home D
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by knz 11y ago
I can only speak for New Zealand, but the whole disposal method is fundamentally different. Instead of relying upon the swirling/draining motion to dispose of the waste, water is forced straight down into the much larger gap. Every kiw
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by knz 11y ago
I don't think the average kiwi has seen a cheque in decades. After 10 years of living in the US I have started to rejoice in how despite being one of the most technologically advanced nations on earth the US still clings to things like
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by knz 11y ago
Many commercial operations don't have ADS-B installed (I wish! That would make my life easier.). They use other systems like MLAT and primary radar to track them.
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by knz 11y ago
I work at a large airport near where these operations have occurred. From what I understand the local FAA office is well aware of them. I've been told "Don't ask" when we see unusual flight patterns. Commercial aircraft
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by knz 11y ago
This assumes that surveillance aircraft have their ADS-B transponder on. It's not required until January 2020 ( https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/faq/ ).
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by knz 11y ago
Is Docker that difficult? The Dockerfile is a nice single file that defines all container dependencies and then it's three commands (build, create, and start) to be able to easily work in the exact same environment for dev, qa, and pro
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by knz 11y ago
I found docker-machine and VirtualBox quite stable (running multiple Flask, Python, and PostgreSQL containers). The only major issue I had was from a 5 year old VirtualBox bug and sendFile. That said, I won't miss the extra steps of ru
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by knz 11y ago
KNOW (Minneapolis/St Paul) have been pushing "Sustaining Membership" for a few years now. While it hasn't eliminated the need for the member drives it has reduced the number of days they run them for.
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by knz 11y ago
Agreed. There are a lot of GIS jobs out there but unfortunately many of them are technician level rather than developer/engineer. Of the developer positions I do see posted, most of them are for ESRI/.NET. If it wasn't for FO
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by knz 11y ago
Fair enough. Thanks for the reply. My high school had a target shooting club that satisfied much of the curiosity for my friends and I at that age and taught us gun safety. Since moving to the US I've definitely noticed that some gun o
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by knz 11y ago
I think it's great that you ask (as a parent unsecured firearms also concern me) but wouldn't it make more sense to ask what type of firearms are in the house and how they are stored? There is a huge difference between an unloaded
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by knz 11y ago
> The per-capita homicide rate in the US is 5x higher than the UK and that difference is almost entirely composed of gun crime. Is this because of the accessibility of firearms or other factors (specifically inequality and poverty)? Whil
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by knz 11y ago
> Protection from wild animals? Contrary to popular belief, we don't all have polar bears in our yard. > We had a coyote on our street last year, but nobody felt threatened enough to pull out a gun. I didn't mean to suggest
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by knz 11y ago
Indeed. And they also have comparatively high rates of firearms ownership per capita ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_c... ). Hunting and protection from wild animals probably factor in to tha
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by knz 11y ago
Let's not forget that the UK also doesn't have brown bears, black bears, mountain lions, wolves, coyotes, and a southern border with a country that routinely has horrific murders involving decapitated bodies. Personally I can unde
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by knz 11y ago
> But I do not think as a society we can manage the general public having guns, Australia and the UK are a very good example of how new laws have come into place There are numerous other developed/OECD countries with "high&quot

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