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781.
by thrill 6y ago
Very nice. Having worked in home construction weekends and summers to pay for about half of my college, any technology that can reduce the labor and time to build homes, especially if it's cheaper, is a winner.
782.
by thrill 6y ago
In the video at TFA the lights appear to self adjust for pedestrians on the right side of the road.
783.
by thrill 6y ago
There's a lot of variables in play. It may be 20x less deadly in a specific scenario, but change that scenario slightly and some other variable may explode in influence.
784.
by thrill 6y ago
When you IPO you sell a (usually) significant percentage (generally from 20% to 80%) of your company for an opening price - you don't get to capitalize on the hoped-for increase except with the percentage you didn't sell, either p
785.
by thrill 6y ago
The author supposedly has a BS, MA and PhD from Yale. I think it's likely just poor editing, whether by himself or from a lack of appreciation of proper editors in publications.
786.
by thrill 6y ago
Only if their physical location is a condition of employment.
787.
by thrill 6y ago
Here on HN the articles that start conversations are often not the articles that later people read because the URLs get changed. There needs to be some obvious indication of that so that people are discussing the same thing.
788.
by thrill 6y ago
There's a pretty good fiction book series called The Naturalist that uses these statistics as part of its discussion about serial killers.
789.
by thrill 6y ago
The article keeps repeating the mantra that the quakes, or at least quakes in this model, add to the stress already there. That runs opposite to my (admittedly lacking) understanding of geologic forces. Wouldn't quakes indicate a r
790.
by thrill 6y ago
People use these apps because they're in some manner more convenient. The perplexing part is that anyone complains about such convenience to the point that government uses its heavy hand.
791.
by thrill 6y ago
This seemed relevant to the earlier discussion about deporting students now taking online only classes, however this particular article and its statement that half of counter intelligence operations are presently due to China's forays
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FBI Opens a New China-Related Counterintelligence Investigation Every 10 Hours(nextgov.com)
5 points by thrill 6y ago|1 comments
793.
by thrill 6y ago
"convenient"
794.
by thrill 6y ago
It's less political will than not having simple competence in any arena other than the political that got them there. Throwing gobs at cash at a broken system is what keeps Congress employed. If we had an unemployment system that did
795.
by thrill 6y ago
Who's with me to start the Ron Swanson streaming channel? It'll have all the worthwhile channels: hunting, fishing, and woodworking.
796.
by thrill 6y ago
If only people writing applications could find some way of testing that their apps function properly.
797.
by thrill 6y ago
This gets frequently abused in the US. Some of the abuse seems trivial on the surface - for example a friend can't legally pay you to fly him to a meeting far enough away to make driving undesirable on a clear pleasant day, even thoug
798.
by thrill 6y ago
They would also have strong motivation to never bother to get training or a license.
799.
by thrill 6y ago
No, that sort of continued excusing of the manufacturer is why Tesla, after 8 years of production no less, continues to deliver substandard quality. What pressure is there for them to do otherwise? Tesla accepts this, their customers, onl
800.
by thrill 6y ago
Hoarding? It is available in the US by prescription only. The only hoarding that could occur is by the people best qualified to control its use - medical professionals. The government screwed that up too by trying to prevent them from pr
801.
by thrill 6y ago
Patents can be used to protect yourself from others.
802.
by thrill 6y ago
No, it is not invented by the Court - it is interpreted by the Court as being within the law as it is written. Lawmakers need to rewrite laws if they don't like how they get interpreted. Lawmakers are the people the the People get
803.
by thrill 6y ago
The Court recognizes it has limited time and generally tries to choose cases that it feels it can make a solid argument of more than a single vote one way or another. Some cases are likely obvious, but many are contentious. The contentiou
804.
by thrill 6y ago
Every viewpoint some aggrieved group disagrees with gets blamed on the Court "making stuff up out of thin air". The Supreme Court believes it did its job the fist time and interpreted the laws as they are written commensurate wit
805.
by thrill 6y ago
People do. My brother's wife's sister's husband's father (yep) flew to Nigeria and gave them a suitcase full of money back in the day 20 years ago. He remains convinced that he will eventually get a huge return.
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by thrill 6y ago
Reinforces? ... Like the Amex Black Card is bad, why being in the black financially is bad, why cooking delicious ribs on the grill turns the outer portion black, why black is the preferred color for high end limousines, why Chanel and Dior
807.
by thrill 6y ago
"You can't use military to perform law enforcement actions" As a former military member, you need to go refresh yourself on how and when posse comitatus can be suspended, and to whom it does and does not apply.
808.
by thrill 6y ago
Yes.
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by thrill 6y ago
Cost of living adjustments should only be allowed to be applied if the location is directed by the company.
810.
by thrill 6y ago
Zuckerberg's employment of 50,000 people is the same as the median person employing 0.06 people.

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