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by slapshot 11y ago
> Owning slaves obviously doesn't pass the test. You're at best begging the question here. In the South there were (horribly wrong) people who honestly and truly believed (incorrectly) that not only was it morally permissible
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by slapshot 11y ago
Southwest has the opposite thesis: it believes that baggage handlers are faster at loading bags under the plane than passengers would be trying to stuff those bags overhead. At least in the US, Southwest is known (notorious) for the having
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by slapshot 11y ago
GoGo is the big ground-based provider. GoGo uses a network of cell towers that point up rather than down. An antenna under the plane connects to towers much like civilian cellphones. [1] By contrast, Row 44 (used by Southwest and some inte
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by slapshot 11y ago
Southwest does that in large part: there are zero in-seat entertainment systems, but 80% of planes have WiFi that includes (free) streaming live TV, (pay) streaming movies, and (pay) Internet access. No outlets yet, but rumors are that the
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by slapshot 11y ago
When 65% of the amount that the headline uses came from Toyota and Bernie Madoff [1], I'm not sure that this article actually supports that conclusion. Reasonable people can debate whether Toyota should have paid $1.2 billion for the
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by slapshot 11y ago
> When I was for a couple of months in US in 2004, there was no advertisement on cars that showed consumption in brief specs that should catch your eye Every single new car sold in the US comes with a huge window sticker with the miles-p
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by slapshot 11y ago
I'm totally with you in spirit. Solitary should not be used for long-term punishment for offenses in prison, or as punishment for what happened on the outside. But what do you do about an inmate who terrorizes his cellmates, his peers
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by slapshot 11y ago
Colorado legalized marijuana for recreational use and stores opened January 1, 2014. They are widespread in the state. In 2014 and 2015, heroin overdose deaths in Colorado continued to increase over prior years. Among Colorado men, heroin
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by slapshot 11y ago
Odd, in that worker's comp sets a ceiling on damages, which many companies prefer. In major workplace injury cases you often see the company arguing that it's a worker's comp injury and the employee arguing that it's no
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by slapshot 11y ago
Nearly all aesbestos class action litigation is filed in Oakland --- it is perceived to have a favorable jury pool and you can always find a dockworker in Oakland who may have had contact. Forum shopping is so popular that it has a name: &
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by slapshot 11y ago
> Sitting on money Except the Harvard endowment isn't "sitting" on it -- it's not hidden in some extra-long twin mattress somewhere. Harvard invests that money in a variety of places, including with a number of the l
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by slapshot 11y ago
You have clearly never dealt with a spider mite invasion. They. Are. Everywhere. They routine infest indoor houseplants, even in places you wouldn't expect. They'd find their way into a roof garden. And because most predators re
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by slapshot 11y ago
It may require regranting a new strike price. I have no idea what their cap table looks like, but assume old employees have options with a strike price of $0.10 and new employees are being given a strike of $1.00 (each based on the 409A va
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by slapshot 11y ago
RMS, is that you?
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by slapshot 11y ago
Somebody did this. Before the experiment, they expected a background level of Cesium 137 of between 1 and 2 bq/M^3 (caused by 1950s nuclear testing, which released a ton of it). They found actual levels between 1 and 2 bq/M^3 ac
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by slapshot 11y ago
> even children can understand how to count and monitor them Except they have no error correction and admit ambiguity as to a voter's intent. That's all great and theoretical, but the inability of some voters in 2000 in Florid
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by slapshot 11y ago
To your "dialect with an army and a navy" point, don't forget that in the US a language is taught called "Serbo-Croatian." In Serbia, it's "Serbian" and is its own language. In Croatia, it's &q
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by slapshot 11y ago
But under the (still hotly contested in the Digital Age) "third party doctrine", information held by a service provider (an ISP, a website, a hotel, a cell phone company, etc) law enforcement can request data with just a subpoena.
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by slapshot 11y ago
Well hang on a second. You show a graph and claim that "the actual development is pretty close to a scenario predicting a collapse mid century". But the model to date (1900-2000) shows steadily increasing population, food produc
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by slapshot 11y ago
But but but you're destroying the Earth by wanting to live in a peaceful small town where you have to drive to go shopping rather than taking public transit everywhere! /sarcasm To be serious, though, threads about various trans
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by slapshot 11y ago
> which was released sooner than they intended The major markets (NYSE, NASDAQ) require that major news be released 15 minutes before the markets open or after the markets close, to give participants time to "digest" it without
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by slapshot 12y ago
It's not for the dead. It's for the survivors. Many people want a place to gather, pay their respects, and create a tangible connection to their loved ones. There's no theoretic reason why it has to be an individual headst
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by slapshot 12y ago
This model seems to come up every few years but never quite makes it. Here's a version from 2000 with uglier graphics and more shouty copy, but the same idea: https://web.archive.org/web/20001018093126/http:&
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by slapshot 12y ago
Surely, two parties can settle a civil case in Germany. Otherwise every dispute between two neighbors over a fence would end up taking up the court's time when they are perfectly capable of agreeing to a solution. Two seconds of Googl
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DMV says UberX, Lyft drivers need commercial plates(sfgate.com)
4 points by slapshot 12y ago|1 comments
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by slapshot 12y ago
The scenario is simple: under current rules, if you want to search a computer then the only judge who can issue a warrant is a judge where the computer is physically located. That means that it becomes impossible to search a computer behin
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by slapshot 12y ago
No offense to your friend in DC, but she's obviously not a criminal lawyer. The rest of Rule 41 (of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure) still applies. It has about 5 pages of detail about how to get a warrant, what the process is
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by slapshot 12y ago
I'm just an unfrozen caveman lawyer (and not your lawyer), but if the following is the relevant part then it appears the change here is only that the judge who issues the warrant may be where the victim is located rather than where the
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by slapshot 12y ago
> Price each ticket based on what it costs and a fair margin That sounds great in theory, but airlines are the textbook example of "what it costs" not making sense. An airplane costs almost the same to fly from New York to San
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Whether Working or Job Seeking, the Algorithm Is Watching(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by slapshot 12y ago|0 comments

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