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by m-ee 5y ago
They used their covid relief funds for this. Also some ATVs and personal vehicles for retired chiefs.
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by m-ee 5y ago
I have no problem with spotting schematic issues (or spotting code issues) given appropriate time to do it. I actually prefer these to rushed questions where you have to implement the solution because it lets me get into the design consider
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by m-ee 5y ago
I've interviewed for ME, EE, FW, and SW roles. It's not better in hardware. There's an equivalent to all the things people are complaining about here. Take home coding challenge -> take home hw design challenge where they
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by m-ee 5y ago
Sullivan and Cromwell helped overthrow an entire government to avoid unions.
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by m-ee 5y ago
For a visualization https://i.imgur.com/azrbSBf.jpeg
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by m-ee 5y ago
A friend of mine did this during the pandemic. Asked for a rent reduction and the landlord refused but offered them an identical unit in the building at the lower price.
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by m-ee 5y ago
Or not working with insurers at all. SF general chose to be out of network with all insurance providers which led to patients getting astronomical bills. SF has other hospitals, but SFGH is the only trauma center in town. If you're inj
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by m-ee 5y ago
No engineer that knows anything about batteries would call a battery pack/BMS design that meets automotive requirements simple.
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by m-ee 5y ago
In high school we were supposed to do a similar project about squirrel populations. We got lazy, stopped doing the walks and just submitted numbers similar to the team that had done the same project the year before. I mention this to one of
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by m-ee 5y ago
In California there is opt out genetic testing for newborns right after birth. Unless you opt out you get free testing for genetic disease but the samples are stored indefinitely and monetized by the state EDIT: I remembered wrong, parents
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by m-ee 5y ago
I don't see how this change would make that worse, could you explain?
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by m-ee 5y ago
What your describing is a matrix org. I’ve only seen managers praise it and every IC I know hates it, including myself. But maybe it’s done right somewhere.
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by m-ee 5y ago
I wouldn't call it a defensive patent just because it kept the trolls at bay, it was a genuine innovation we were actively trying to commercialize. And it wasn't just some random business, it was the inventor himself setting out t
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by m-ee 5y ago
Do you think there is value in small businesses and startups? The original intent of the patent system was to give inventors a leg up to commercialize their idea before they can be bullied out of the market by large competitors. Without tha
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by m-ee 5y ago
It was money explicitly given to the company for the purpose of building a business. But if you wanna view me as a thief for getting my salary from it go ahead, with all the pork barrel spending, tax cuts, iffy DOD contracts out there the S
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by m-ee 5y ago
Yeah you nailed it. This was ostensibly a technology company but they haven’t put out any real products I’m aware of in long time and have extracted some large amounts from big tech over the years. If they tried to knock us off or invalidat
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by m-ee 5y ago
Keep in mind this is for undergrad only. Stanford is fairly generous with aid as well, but for a masters degree the only aid is loans unless you get a TA/RA position.
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by m-ee 5y ago
That would eliminate all of SBIR funding, but maybe that’s what you want? I worked for a start up that was spun out thanks to an exclusive license to the technology the founder developed at a university lab, and then supported with SBIR mon
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by m-ee 5y ago
As mentioned by the other poster, prop 13 makes the surprise tax bill situation moot. And in this current market you will not have to sell for less. My sister in law recently accepted an all cash offer for more than asking price. Made about
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by m-ee 5y ago
I'm not a medical professional, maybe my terms are off but that's what I've seen it called in the media. In any case people are admitted with what appears to be schizophrenia only to end up perfectly lucid a bit later once th
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by m-ee 5y ago
Unless this is a regional thing I wonder where the doctor even got that idea, I wasn't even aware people snort meth until now. Meanwhile I walked past two people lighting up after leaving a job interview in soma last week. Any doctor w
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by m-ee 5y ago
I love the term celery man-type GUI and do like that I have an easy way to make my own cinco identity generator now. I've only watched the demo video, but a large portion of my last job was a) tuning devices with serial data streaming
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by m-ee 5y ago
You are reading that wrong, the agreement you describe would not be enforceable in California The only part of a non compete that is valid to my knowledge is that if an employee leaves for a competitor the company can have them sign an agre
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by m-ee 5y ago
They wrote the urban dictionary entry for l33t
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by m-ee 5y ago
The checkout situation alone has made it so I haven’t gone to my local Safeway in almost two years except to use the DMV registration machine. The self checkout is almost unusable, and ever since the private equity buyout years ago I’ve nev
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by m-ee 5y ago
That quote was from someone at the office of emergency services, not the pastor. And the workers at the vaccine we’re telling people it was open to everyone 18+. I live here, this is information I got from talking to neighbors. There’s acco
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by m-ee 5y ago
I’m saying that claim is not accurate, there were no eligibility rules at this site later on. They tried restricting to get shots to people in west Oakland reached through the networks of the church and other community organizers, then deli
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by m-ee 5y ago
They didn’t skirt some eligibility rules because no one asked questions. The west Oakland site first tried reaching out to local low income community members and after seeing low uptake opened it up to everyone one, the pastor of the church
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by m-ee 5y ago
If the lab even did secretly have SARS-CoV-2, they must have acquired that sample somewhere. Which means it was out in the wild spreading and ready to spillover. Even buying into the conspiracy theory a bit the lab leak still doesn't s
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by m-ee 5y ago
People said the exact same thing about international trade making war impossible before both world wars.

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