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by slapshot 9y ago
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by slapshot 10y ago
The US Navy uses much of this as well. For example, here's an aircraft carrier launch from inside the "bubble" (the control area that actually triggers the steam catapult). The officer repeats the mantra aloud for each airc
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Okta prices its IPO and hopes to hit a $2B valuation(businessinsider.com)
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by slapshot 10y ago
> they're either marked or not They were marked when Ivy's assistant asked to turn the 9s around 180 degrees. The design on all the cards was identical; it's not as though face cards had a different pattern on the back. T
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Should Big Data Pick Your Next Doctor?(forbes.com)
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by slapshot 10y ago
It could. It could also go from one-point-something to zero-point-something. Until now, the floor for car occupancy was 1. It's now zero. There is the possibility of empty trips (repositioning for next shuttle run, driving to dista
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by slapshot 10y ago
> baldness is treated before malaria because of... To be fair, the top two baldness treatments were side-effects of drugs aimed at curing more "serious" conditions. Rogaine was first developed as a cure for ulcers. That didn&
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by slapshot 10y ago
"Active investigation" means a the pre-arrest phase of investigation. E.g., they send a cop by a suspected trap house but don't want to tip off the residents that they are under suspicion. Otherwise, a criminal organization
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by slapshot 10y ago
If you want to verify the identity of a signature, get a notary or a witness. Signatures were never intended for that.[fn] Signatures became common as a legal formality in an age when many people were illiterate and signed their name with
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by slapshot 10y ago
For context, in 2013 Germany was producing around 50,000 barrels per day. [1] Germany is a huge net importer and a very minor producer. The US state of Wyoming produces more than 200,000 barrels per day. [2] The US as a whole produces more
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by slapshot 10y ago
I've seen their giant demo truck parked in San Francisco. I was wondering why a huge truck had what looked like parking cameras and radar domes on top. And who in the world was driving a full size semi into SoMa just to park it on th
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by slapshot 10y ago
I'm not suggesting that you eat only McDonald's every day. Nobody is. But relative to some of the stuff that kids find palatable? It's not really much better or worse. It's saltier than I would cook at home, but a he
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by slapshot 10y ago
Here's a B-2 that bombed Libya on a round-trip from Missouri. [1] Of course, doing it this way requires airborne refueling. Lots of airborne refueling. And if you thought the military paid a lot for jet fuel on the ground, wait until
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by slapshot 10y ago
He has. I believe this lawsuit predates the official judgment. http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/10/01/enoughs-enough...
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by slapshot 10y ago
> aren't you putting selection pressure on the diseases to be airborne? > an airborne strain does not have an advantage over mosquitoes borne strain There are hundreds of millions of people today who don't currently have mal
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by slapshot 10y ago
> what if the disease that are currently only spread via mosquitoes mutate/evolve themselves to be airborne? Evolution doesn't have an intent. Diseases can't "evolve themselves." Evolution happens through rando
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by slapshot 11y ago
Any word on if they had any employee liquidity in the round?
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by slapshot 11y ago
You're missing the role of the IRS and tax law here. In order to grant ISOs (Incentive Stock Options), which are taxed less unfavorably than NSOs (Non-qualified Stock Options), the strike price of the options must be equal to or above
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by slapshot 11y ago
Right or wrong, the problem that the court had in Kyllo was that the infrared scope gave an indication as to what was going on inside the home. The Supreme Court reasoned that the inside of the home was entitled to more privacy protection
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by slapshot 11y ago
It's pretty bright line that no warrant is required under current law. Like it or not, since the 1980s it has been the law that from "public airspace" police can use any visual technology to look at the outside of your proper
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by slapshot 11y ago
Edit: I forgot about Ciraolo, which is another case where police, without a warrant, intentionally flew over a backyard that was enclosed by a fence. In that case, the police found marijuana plants growing. The court upheld the conviction
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by slapshot 11y ago
No. From "public airspace" police can use any visual technology to look at the outside of your property. Right or wrong, it's pretty settled law that if the public can fly somewhere then law enforcement can also fly there w
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by slapshot 11y ago
GS doesn't bypass security. It bypasses the line of people waiting to start the security process. At every major United hub airport I've seen, the GS passengers get dropped at the front of the TSA precheck line but still go thro
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by slapshot 11y ago
Really suspiciously light on details. This sounds like a judge issued a bench warrant and he ignored it (didn't go to court on the date he was supposed to go to court). A bench warrant us essentially an order to appear before a court
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by slapshot 11y ago
I am close to somebody who has been strongly affected by depression. She has, in any material respect, a perfect life. She has food, clothes, a supportive family, a great job, plenty of money, etc. There is nothing "wrong" with
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by slapshot 11y ago
In short, the "up or out" policy of banks and consultancies is notorious for having more "out" than "up": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out To put hard numbers on it, McKinsey is one
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by slapshot 11y ago
> out-of-college salaries for programming are often better than virtually everything else (notably, banking and consulting); but after ten years, the opposite is relationship is reversed (considerably so) Don't forget that there is
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by slapshot 11y ago
Taxes. At least in the US, if a company with a non-zero valuation grants actual stock to an employee, income tax is due at the time of grant on the difference between what the employee paid and what the stock is "worth" (I'm
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by slapshot 11y ago
If you're going to smear a school, at least get it right. GMU was never known as a "community college." It was founded as an eastern campus of UVA and then promoted directly to being an independent research university. The

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