marcusgarvey

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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
No, really, why are the departments picking up the tab, even in cases where the city's law prohibits this? The NYU paper has a couple illustrations. >Only one jurisdiction in my study—El Paso, Texas—reported a practice of never inde
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>Personal insurance requires personal liability to insure. Any insight into how this gets established by profession? Seems to be an entire industry offering and encouraging nurses to take out malpractice insurance, beyond whatever their
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
On making cops accountable, it does all come down to the public clamor for this. We see these incidents and many are horrified and yet nothing changes. This is why I wonder about working the wallet angle, and if insurance can be part of the
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Can insurance help solve this problem? As in, police depts. require each cop to get some liability coverage. When incidents like this lead to a payout on the cop's behalf, their premium goes up. Eventually it's too high for them t
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
I personally would not roll the windows all the way down, just low enough to hand them ID and to hear and be heard clearly, and I would make sure the doors are locked. The Sandra Bland footage taught me this. https://youtu.be&#x2
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
> I've been thinking off and on about how to start a channel since it's clearly a great way to pay for kids' toys based on the one show we watched where a kid and his dad assembled a gigantic Spider-Man drivable car. There
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Over 17 million views on...this. Wow. Good on her. Thanks for clueing me in to the genre.
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>Those youtube videos of people with toys are nuts What is this referring to, exactly? Videos of (adults?) playing with toys?
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
I'm not talking about all the world's ills but rather 4 recent events with global, often disastrous consequences. Perhaps it is news to you, but there is a certain kind of person who makes their daily bread on the strength of thei
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Iraq, the surprising arrival of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Brexit shock, rise of Trump...the commentator classes of New York, DC, London and other "tastemaker" cities need to reckon with their failures
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Copyright Office Wants to Change Protection for Libraries and Archives(techdirt.com)
1 points by marcusgarvey 10y ago|0 comments
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Substantive issues aside, Holmes seems to be getting very bad PR advice.
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Theranos' Highly-Anticipated Defense of Its Tech Is Called a 'Bait-And-Switch'(fortune.com)
79 points by marcusgarvey 10y ago|42 comments
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>Taxpayers may well be pulled into the fray and suffer as well in these situations. How might this happen - do you mean via the Transbay Dev.?
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
I'm surprised, too, but I don't think nuking it is the right answer. That's just what these folks want.
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
How so?
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>"I feel like I'm living in the movie Brazil." Says the Soylent salesman. Irony!
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Interesting to read the actual report (edit: actually BCG's summary of the report) and compare it with the Bloomberg article. BCG's using this report to make the case that private sector involvement, especially from financial serv
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Oh wow, the Department of Justice actually went after someone at HSBC. Are they trying to compensate for a recent report that concludes it let HSBC skate on its criminal money laundering business because it was too big to jail? http:/
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
For me the stream of consciousness style didn't work at all. But I'm referring specifically to these passages of the article, which set the novel in a new context for me. I always appreciate hearing someone else's well-articu
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
There's a piece of writing advice I like: "Take pity on your reader." Stream of consciousness style writing at such length is very painful to read. So I never understood why an author would do it, but for some kind of self-gr
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
I am so glad to have come across this article; thank you. Since an aborted attempt to read it -- with its hundreds of pages of stream-of-consciousness -- I have always wondered why this book was so praised.
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It’s a federal crime to visit a website after being told not to visit it(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by marcusgarvey 10y ago|2 comments
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Silicon Valley entrepreneurs turn to fasting and 'smart drugs'(mercurynews.com)
2 points by marcusgarvey 10y ago|0 comments
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Let's enhance said terms. 1. Government server - whatever the gov sets up. Chief attribute(s): security 2. Private sector email provider - a service like hotmail or gmail. Chief attribute(s): convenience and security. 3. Personal homeb
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Last year a Folsom engineer and retired Navy commander was fined $7,500 and placed on two years of probation for transferring classified data from a government computer to a personal computer. The investigation “did not reveal evidence that
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
But the distinction is material.
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
False. They did not have private servers.
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. >Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitte
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>previous people in the same position also had private servers Such as?

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