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by scott00 9y ago
They do. The author reset the password to gain access.
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One key difference is how much time operators have to figure out what's going on before action is necessary. If an aircraft autopilot fails, time before crash is likely measured in minutes, so the pilot taking 10 seconds to snap back i
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The two roles are not comparable in my opinion. In most cases an instructor of humans has no capability to control the car. I've heard of some cases where they have brakes installed on the passenger side, but I'm not sure how comm
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by scott00 9y ago
I like mined diamond vs lab diamond.
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Greater flexibility in hours and reduced scrutiny of immigration status are two reasons I can think of someone may knowingly prefer a lower than minimum wage job driving for Uber than making minimum wage at, say, a fast food restaurant.
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My non-lawyer opinion: I would be shocked if a motivated Illinois Assistant State's Attorney couldn't turn this into a criminal conviction. The definition of wire fraud in Illinois (720 ILCS 5/17-24) is "A person commits
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by scott00 9y ago
He was most likely referring to the proper noun "Spectrum", rather than the common noun "spectrum". It's a cable tv/internet company owned by Charter.
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Mine does this as well. They do it because they've convinced their regulator to let them raise prices in exchange for doing it.
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by scott00 9y ago
What would you recommend as a minimum budget to have a reasonable chance of success?
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I would expect deferred payment for goods already received to show up on the balance sheet as accounts payable, and would put that in the "short term liabilities" bucket along with short term debt for modeling purpose. I'm sk
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Because fraud protection costs money, and it's useful to have an electronic payments medium that doesn't have it, and therefore avoids those costs.
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by scott00 9y ago
It's very hard to get regulatory approval for a banking charter right now. The FDIC has been approving less than 1 new bank a year since 2009, as compared to an average of 154 a year in the eight years prior to 2009[1]. And that's
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by scott00 9y ago
It does. I'm sure some would move, but New York and California maintain high tax rates without turning into ghost towns. To be clear, I'm not arguing the union position is correct, just that it's not ridiculous on its face. I
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by scott00 9y ago
The unions simply want taxes to be raised to whatever level is necessary to pay them what they want. It's been a while since I did the math, but my recollection is the level of taxation required to balance Illinois' books is not c
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by scott00 9y ago
Everything's negotiable, but the wisdom of trying it depends on the strength of your negotiating position. Many severance agreements simply reiterate obligations to which you've already agreed in employment/non-compete/n
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by scott00 9y ago
> what is the basis for the prohibition on selling shares? How are those prohibitions enforced? If the basis is contract law, then you can't necessarily prevent people from undertaking the prohibited action, can you? Just collect da
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by scott00 9y ago
I was consuming the feed in question via an API provided by the vendor and didn't have direct knowledge of the wire protocol, but based on how it was described to me during the sales process it was probably either FAST or a proprietary
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by scott00 9y ago
Using the x86-64 C struct layout as the serialization format is increasingly common in financial trading protocols. Skipping all the bit twiddling has a huge performance impact at high message rates. I once compared two feeds covering the s
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by scott00 9y ago
I keep track of fiber deployments in Chicago by looking at the city's permit database (which is public and has a pretty usable search UI hooked up to it). Might not be as easy in other cities but I'm wondering if it suggests a gen
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by scott00 9y ago
> Is it a valid legal defence to say, that was just marketing lies so don't take it seriously? There actually is a recognized defense to fraud claims along those lines. The concept is called "puffery": https://d
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by scott00 9y ago
A recent estimate of the digital ad market puts it at $105 billion[1]. Divide $16 billion by that and you get 15%. [1] http://avc.com/2017/12/the-digital-advertising-duopoly/
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by scott00 9y ago
There was actually an interesting paper written about this recently: http://john-joseph-horton.com/papers/uber_price.pdf Essentially, when Uber raises fares it increases earnings in the short term, but not long term, b
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by scott00 9y ago
Your criticisms about it not being the amount that came in or that can come out also apply to stocks. If all I know about a crypto asset is that it has a market cap of $100 million, I know it's a very niche asset in comparison to bitco
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Lockheed Martin teams up to build supersonic business jet(washingtonpost.com)
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by scott00 9y ago
Crypto market cap doesn't mean the same thing as the market cap of a stock, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless. It approximates the total amount of wealth currently held in the form of a particular crypto, which is intere
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by scott00 9y ago
I was wondering that myself. At least at a first pass higher bandwidth doesn't look like an advantage. The system you link to promises up to 2 Gbps, the same as a Ubiquiti AF24HD microwave system. Perhaps it's easier to put severa
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by scott00 9y ago
He graduated in 1966, so it's been at least 51 years now. There's a pretty good chance the professor is dead, and a near-certainty he's retired. So I would say close to no chance at this point. Back when Esquire did the story
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by scott00 9y ago
Can any computer chess/stockfish experts comment on the choice of 1 GB for hash size? I have no chess or computer chess domain expertise whatsoever, but it strikes me as a suspiciously low setting for a memory-related parameter on what
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by scott00 9y ago
The discounts on shipping you can get for buying multiple items from a single vendor make the objective function non-linear.
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The barrier to entry is that they're building a marketplace. Building a marketplace from scratch is hard: no driver wants to drive for a network with no riders, and no riders want to ride a network with no drivers. To make it work you

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