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by slapshot 7y ago
> "The unwanted products could disqualify them from receiving a brace under Medicare if they need one in the future, prosecutors said." I read an implied "if we hadn't caught the fraudsters" into that sentence.
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by slapshot 8y ago
I currently own a house. I love owning my house. But there have been long (decade+) stretches when I actively did not want to own. I was single, or I knew my family size would change and didn't want to buy a huge house, or I knew I w
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Elon Musk lays into SEC with more tweets after contempt claim(latimes.com)
2 points by slapshot 8y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 8y ago
Single stream recycling is largely solved. Unsurprisingly, humanoid form factors aren't optimized for conveyor flows of materials. Lots of gates, air puffers, filters, size categorizers, etc. Maybe you could add an arm at the end, bu
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by slapshot 8y ago
The article says "pollution" not CO2. Given that they burn bunker fuel (very dirty oil left over after things like gasoline are refined away), it's likely the article means particulate or sulfur emissions. The CO2 emissions
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by slapshot 8y ago
Seatguru has extensive details on every plane and major carrier flight (down to which 777 variant and how recently remodeled).
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California would become first state to restrict plastic straws at restaurants(latimes.com)
1 points by slapshot 8y ago|1 comments
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by slapshot 8y ago
The SEC only has authority to levy civil fines. They issue a fine, and then hand the case over to the US Attorney's Office (and often state attorney generals' offices), which then build a criminal case. Stay tuned. This may not
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Man dies on Mount Everest during cryptocurrency promotional stunt(sfgate.com)
105 points by slapshot 8y ago|54 comments
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by slapshot 8y ago
Google "map of France." I see only one in the first 32 that includes French Guiana ("fully" French, use Euro, etc).
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by slapshot 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_mariner#United_States or from gCaptain, which is linked elsewhere in the thread as a source of info on this particular incident: http://gcaptain.com/mariner/
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Cost of California bullet train system rises to $77.3B, take 5 years more(latimes.com)
39 points by slapshot 9y ago|33 comments
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by slapshot 9y ago
In the U.S., rail freight volume appears to be going up and to the right, measuring both by distance-weight or just by total number of containers moved any distance: https://www.railserve.com/stats_records/freight_railr
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by slapshot 9y ago
A few San Francisco companies seem to be doing this already: Grand Rounds, Amino, and to a much lesser extent Castlight. They sell through the employer-payer; not sure if they are competition for AmaMorganShire or potential vendors to them
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by slapshot 9y ago
Much longer article: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/arisebank-raises-questio...
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by slapshot 9y ago
The cost of the Central Valley segment ALONE is $10 billion. The total cost SF-LA is $64 billion: https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/13/confidential-report-c...
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by slapshot 9y ago
Going through the Central Valley and stopping in Fresno, Madera, Kings-Tulare, Bakersfield... (etc) to get to Los Angeles is not faster either. Buy a fully autonomous car and go point-to-point faster/cheaper/better. The train wil
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by slapshot 9y ago
There is high speed transit from San Francisco to Los Angeles today. It's called Southwest Airlines. Tickets are $45 for SFO-LAX each way in February right now (less than the expected cost of the train ticket). Other pairs (OAK-BUR,
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by slapshot 9y ago
That is literally a hotel. An "apartment complex" that is rented by the day is functionally identical to a hotel. Everything old is new again. Next up, Turo announces they will buy a bunch of white of Chevy Malibus and rent the
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SEC suspends trading of red-hot Bitcoin stock(money.cnn.com)
4 points by slapshot 9y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 9y ago
https://www.fenwick.com/publications/Pages/Proposed-Tax-Refo... > The proposed bill leaves Section 422 of the Code, governing the taxation of ISOs, untouched, apparently exempting it from new Section 409B. As a
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by slapshot 9y ago
Because it doesn't work that way? The banks that fund the "giant loan" in #1 put in covenants preventing any payments to the equity investor (who has to put in their own money) from paying out on the equity until all the deb
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by slapshot 9y ago
>It's retarded >is retarded It's 2017. This type of ableist language should not be socially acceptable anymore, anymore than calling something the n-word as an adjective. Differing abilities should not be an insult.
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by slapshot 9y ago
That's the one thing that's probably pretty standard. Here's Amazon's S-1 from 1997, or over 20 years ago: [T]he Company believes that it will incur substantial operating losses for the foreseeable future, and that the
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by slapshot 9y ago
> if you legalize marijuana you go a long way to solving the problem Well, Colorado tried that. Recreational weed has been fully legal in Colorado since January 1, 2014. You can walk down any major street in Denver or Boulder and pass
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by slapshot 9y ago
> decrepit and aging industrial base This is such a common canard that seems to lack any foundation. The United States manufacturers more "stuff" than at any point in history, for any reasonable definition of "stuff"
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by slapshot 9y ago
> I wonder how much of this could be counteracted simply by capping profits, such that all net revenue in excess of some fixed amount is forced by the corporate charter to be turned into either employee compensation or stockholder divide
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by slapshot 9y ago
Dang marked it off-topic, fairly, so I deleted. Regardless, there's no button in the interface to do that.
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by slapshot 9y ago
Editing people's quotes is not cool. Please stop.
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by slapshot 9y ago
The article at least claims as much: "And once United in effect told Dao that it was breaching its contract with him and told him to get off, he was probably under a legal duty to comply."

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