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by repiret 7y ago
I never want a sender with whom I have a bona fide relationship (business or personal) to feel ignored. If they were expecting a response and didn't get one, maybe I failed to perceive that expectation. Or maybe a technical issue cau
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by repiret 7y ago
The problem with the Jones Act isn’t so much that the ships have to be US flagged - that’s a natural requirement for a domestic operation. The problem is that it requires them to be US built but the US no longer has a competitive shipbuild
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by repiret 8y ago
Most of the solar installations around Prineville are replacing sage scrub, not forest.
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by repiret 8y ago
Auto insurers have no problem covering claims ranging from a chip in a windshield to eight car pileups with multiple fatal and life-altering injuries. The range of possible losses doesn't really make it harder for insurers. The fuzzy
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by repiret 8y ago
Indeed, which is part of why most flight schools don’t buy new planes at all. I was mostly trying to refute the grandparents assertion that it was a “perfect plane for flight school.” On the other hand, the discontinued Cessna 162 sold for
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by repiret 8y ago
You think so until you look at TCO. A used 172 equipped for a superset of the training scenarios can be had for 1/5th the initial investment. You can buy a lot of operating costs with the savings.
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by repiret 8y ago
I think its totally acceptable for the states to adopt codes written by an independent organization, as long as in the end, people subject to the codes can access them without restriction. I think the grandparent is right, the only viable b
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by repiret 8y ago
Do you have a good reference showing which restrictions came from Congress and which ones the Education Department is adding on? And whether those added restrictions come from some discretion that Congress authorized, or are simply illegal
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by repiret 8y ago
No, the argument is specifically that the harm from following up on false positives outweighs the benefit from finding true positives. While the 2011 study that the Medicare policy change is based on specifically concludes that this will n
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by repiret 8y ago
Unless that $9 expense was facilitating a $400,000 sale. I’ve had a number of those $9 expenses over the years.
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by repiret 8y ago
Years ago I worked somewhere where we had to use Visual Source Safe, on a Mac (OS9), over a sub-1MBit DSL. Doing anything would take hours to days.
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by repiret 8y ago
I find the treatment of binary numbers interesting. I normally see it approached as "numbers are these abstract objects that can have different names, and different number bases are just different ways of naming the numbers; base two i
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by repiret 8y ago
Regardless of whether or not it’s a good measuring stick to see who to hire (it’s probably not), I feel like DP is something that ought to be in a professional programmer’s toolbox. I’m an embedded developer too, and I end up reaching for D
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by repiret 8y ago
How do the jetpacks comply with 14 CFR 103.1(e)(4) which requires powered ultralights to have "a power-off stall speed which does not exceed 24 knots calibrated airspeed"?
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by repiret 8y ago
Assuming it would be operating under 14 CFR Part 91 like the rest of general aviation, I think the law is quite clear: 91.119: "Except when necessary for takeoff or landing, no person may operate an aircraft below the following altitud
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by repiret 8y ago
Its not meaningful to distinguish Thumb and Thumb2 - Thumb2 was just a bunch of new instructions added to Thumb. A typical ARMv8-A processor needs to decode the A64, A32 and T32 instruction sets, but that doesn't strike me as a signifi
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by repiret 8y ago
You appear to be conflating a credit with a deduction. A deduction reduces the amount of income thats taxed. So for example if you're in a 25% marginal tax bracket, deductions are worth 25 cents on the dollar. A credit reduces the amo
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by repiret 8y ago
Federal judges are appointed by the President and serve for life. There are possibly corruption problems in the Eastern district of Texas, but the root problems are the patent laws themselves, and its the elected members of congress who ca
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by repiret 8y ago
I agree that the structure of American democracy allows for the dysfunctional equilibrium that the US Congress presently finds themselves in, and I agree that some of that structure is in contrast to other contemporary classically liberal d
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by repiret 8y ago
The alternative to case law is that ambiguities in the statute are interpreted differently each time. Being subject to the law, I would much rather live in a system designed to automatically reduce ambiguities over time, rather than to hav
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by repiret 8y ago
float/double can store a subset of the rationals plus some other values which aren’t found in the reals
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by repiret 8y ago
I agree with what you say, but I think it has more to do with (perceptions of) control than the failure modes. When you’re in an automobile, you could choose to drive faster or slower, safer or more aggressively. You can tell yourself that
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by repiret 8y ago
That depends strongly on the work and the frequency. The ACGME rules require only that a medical resident work no more than 24 continuous hours with at least a 14-hour break after a 24-hour shift. Many residency programs had difficulty adj
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by repiret 8y ago
The latency between the AirPods and the iPhone is too high for the iPhone to do any of the real-time work. I have no idea if the AirPods have a DSP that would be able to do that work. But cheap, small, low power DSPs can do an amazing amou
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by repiret 8y ago
That depends entirely on the voltage. AC won because transformers are relatively simple and can change AC voltage, but we can now build stuff to change AC voltage too.
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by repiret 8y ago
Ease and reproducibility of the measurement is more important than its absolute accuracy. Whisky-ball magnetic compasses are cheap and easy to build, and have been throughout aviation's history, and don't require access to an acc
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by repiret 8y ago
It’s not impossible to switch majors at CP SLO. My wife was a physics major at CalPoly SLO until she got tired of being the only girl in all her classes and switched to biochem.
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by repiret 8y ago
It varies greatly depending on where you live. Where I live, an Amazon package was stolen once six months ago and it literally made front-page news in the local newspaper. People don't lock their houses, they leave their keys in the
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by repiret 8y ago
The problem with your proposal is several-fold: First, your hight from the ground changes very rapidly as you fly over terrain - you don't want to have to jot to the left every time you fly over a canyon. Second, it would require that
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by repiret 8y ago
The law doesn’t require you to serve your customers regardless of their abality to pay. You don’t have a set of customers who have figured that out and come to you for services outside your core competencies. The market also doesn’t expect

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