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811.
by wl 8y ago
Does this mean we'll get our plus operator back?
812.
by wl 8y ago
From the product page: > Why are there so many negative reviews for the BEKANT sit/stand desks? > In 2016, IKEA identified a batch of BEKANT sit/stand desk Power Supply Units and underframes that stopped working after some t
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by wl 8y ago
The reason I was wondering is because I found I was transferring through LAX more than leaving the airport. Atlanta, of course, is a stopover almost every time I go to the South.
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by wl 8y ago
> Dissatisfied customers who don't find refuge in a refund policy/process It's dangerous to label such things as fraud. Chargebacks are a consumer protection mechanism of last resort as well as a remedy for unauthorized ch
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by wl 8y ago
I wonder how many passengers on that route are on connecting flights. HSR is likely to be an alternative for those who have LA or SF as destinations, but not for people traveling onward.
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by wl 8y ago
Commercial environmental test labs exist and are widely used to test electronic equipment. The ESD testing shouldn't be an issue for any of these labs, but the temperature and grit testing might be a little extreme for the equipment a
817.
by wl 8y ago
Catalog Choice[0] has really helped cut down on the junk mail I receive. [0] https://catalogchoice.org
818.
by wl 8y ago
While you can get a good edge on a knife made with garbage steel, the edge goes away quickly.
819.
by wl 8y ago
Alternatively, skin effect limits the amount of AC current you can throw over a single conductor. With DC, you can make your conductors arbitrarily thick and you'll use the whole thing.
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by wl 8y ago
Current law is that you have no right to an explanation for why your visa was denied. After this litigation, the no-fly list is a different thing entirely. I'd put money on her visa being denied because the folks who screwed up and put
821.
by wl 8y ago
Yeah, med school/boards require you to memorize some trivia about some or all of those fields. That doesn't mean such knowledge is clinically useful. By necessity, most of that knowledge will be superficial because there is far to
822.
by wl 8y ago
The movie is entertaining but misleading. If you have the time, check out the book the movie is based on.
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by wl 8y ago
I'm an electrical engineer, too, and my experience working for small companies in Silicon Valley is that nobody has a PE. Are you by any chance working in power? That's the one place I've commonly seen EE PEs.
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by wl 8y ago
Sure, traffic engineering requires a stamp. Traffic light timings? That's a little rich considering the guy who created the formula in question was a physicist who never held a PE.
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by wl 8y ago
Call them what they are: physicians. A four year entry level degree in a subject is a bachelor degree, not a doctorate.
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by wl 8y ago
The funny thing about the medical community trying to monopolize the use of the term "doctor" is that physicians are rarely actually doctors themselves. While MD programs require a bachelor degree and certain prerequisite course w
827.
by wl 8y ago
If he were holding himself out as a "professional engineer," I'd absolutely agree with you. However, there are entire fields of engineering that have largely ignored the PE. Good luck finding a PE, for example, to work under
828.
by wl 8y ago
In many circumstances, yes. Fraud and commercial speech are subject to more restrictions. If someone isn't holding themselves out in a commercial context as one who is licensed to practice medicine, isn't actually practicing medic
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by wl 8y ago
2/3rds of the membership of the Supreme Court has changed since Gonzales vs. Raich. There might be more skepticism about applying Wickard here given that the majority of Americans now support legalization. It shouldn't matter in t
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by wl 8y ago
I've worked at private companies where we've had cesium atomic clocks in the lab. I've owned a rubidium atomic clock. I'm not saying that shutting down WWVB/WWVH/WWV isn't foolish, but atomic clocks are re
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by wl 8y ago
If you want to play power games in Freemasonry, you certainly can do so. That seems to me to be missing the point. I'm also not sure what kind of second secret life your friend has to hide from the craft. I think most folks misundersta
832.
by wl 8y ago
These kinds of organizations generally don't exist to have a public impact. They exist to transform individuals. > Is it a private matter if someone held on trial is the judge's boss in a secret organization they both belong to
833.
by wl 8y ago
I'm a member of several initiatory groups that practice secrecy. The secrecy bonds initiates together and makes the lessons imparted more powerful. Such practices have antecedents dating to antiquity. If it's not for you, that&#x2
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by wl 8y ago
> re: the satanic panic, the tunnels (under the school) reported by the children were verified years later. Some true believer found an anomaly with ground penetrating radar and called it a tunnel. It's more likely a buried garbage
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by wl 8y ago
Conservative in the sense of maintaining the status quo. The key word here isn't "socialist." It's "urbanist."
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by wl 8y ago
As a reminder, Apple removed the telnet client from 10.13 in a frustrating exercise of short-sighted security paternalism.
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by wl 8y ago
Egyptian funerary practice is pretty formulaic. A quick glance at the inscriptions, and I spot some traditional offering formulae. Here's a translation from the register on the right in the picture with the label beginning 'Priest
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by wl 8y ago
It's sad that even ISPs seem to think that WWW = the internet these days. If I were traveling and I couldn't VPN into my home network because of this, I'd be really pissed.
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by wl 8y ago
"Stolen" is so much nicer than "murdered."
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by wl 8y ago
I've seen this attitude in engineering majors who have been required to take humanities and liberal arts classes. Maybe such a requirement helps some people, but I suspect resentment is a more common outcome amongst people already pred

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