billh

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by billh 2y ago
> If you cross the Atlantic a lot, you don't have to spend 6 hours crossing North America first. Unfortunately Nashville International Airport doesn't have very many non-stop transatlantic flights so the geographic proximity sa
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by billh 2y ago
Also Google and Facebook have both recently constructed large data centers just outside of Nashville. https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/montgomer... https://www.facebook.com/G
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by billh 2y ago
One of the things that came to mind when I was listening to the ToS song it generated was a video I had watched years ago on the very dry topic of Rule 803 - Hearsay Exceptions but it was put to a catchy tune and made it very memorable and
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by billh 2y ago
I just had it make a rap song of its own ToS https://app.suno.ai/song/7995f966-6265-4b34-a68e-400981f5931...
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by billh 4y ago
> Your employer has the right to waive the garden leave, but you do not. How is this not an illusory contract?
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by billh 4y ago
Trevor Paglen has a pretty amazing talk that discusses finding and photographing some of these satellites. I've linked the specific part of the talk where he starts getting into this, but the entire thing is well worth a watch. https:
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by billh 4y ago
Southwest does not overbook their flights as a matter of policy. https://www.southwest.com/help/changes-and-cancellations/ove...
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by billh 4y ago
I think the parent means that if you're not hired in the process, then you must wait a full year before entering into the candidate pipeline again.
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by billh 4y ago
Sadly, in my experience this only works if there's a viable competitor in your area. Last time I asked to be transferred to the retention department, after getting nowhere with the Comcast rep, the only question they had for me was &qu
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by billh 5y ago
A few years ago I bought some brand name shampoo from Amazon and what they sent was very clearly counterfeit. The product and packaging were so bad that if anyone was paying attention to the supply line they should have been able to figure
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by billh 5y ago
IMO it would be better for NHTSA to create rulemaking that would regulate pulsing brake lights for use under heavy braking conditions similar to Europe. Effectively making it a safety feature instead of yet another annoying distraction on t
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by billh 5y ago
Flashing red lights are generally illegal and reserved for emergency vehicles. Pulse skirts this by claiming it's not a flashing light, but a pulsing one. "Pulse is the only pulsing third brake light that meets regulatory require
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by billh 5y ago
Pulse has a "Gross Margin Analysis" spreadsheet published (probably unintentionally) on their website[1]. It shows that they're charging dealerships $59.00 for the part and it installs in about 15 minutes. At a 500% markup, i
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by billh 5y ago
A few years ago I bought some shampoo from Amazon that was very clearly counterfeit. The product and packaging was so bad that if anyone was paying attention to the supply line they should have been able to figure it out. Since then my gene
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by billh 5y ago
> A democratically elected government of a state is at least answerable to its constituents who can boot them out if the government doesn't do the right thing. How can constituents come to any informed opinion if a government appoin
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by billh 5y ago
Because that language is for dietary supplements which have a specific legislative carve out from falling under FDA regulation.
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by billh 5y ago
>consumers will get a $10 class action settlement for each device. Worse, it would likely be settled in the same way the Ticketmaster case was settled ... with a 10% off coupon for a Prime membership.
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by billh 5y ago
The same exact thing happens with TV shows and movies depicting american policing. If your script does not toe the line, good luck getting those permits necessary to film. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/opinions&#x2F
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by billh 5y ago
The point of the transition to BEV is that electricity production is fungible. It's easier to modify the mixture of generation sources and to scale into renewables a whole lot faster than trying to modify or convert the drivetrain of a
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by billh 5y ago
It's not illegal to store cash in a safe deposit box, but some banks have policies which will state that you cannot. Ostensibly over money laundering / illegal asset hiding concerns. But regardless of policy, it really does not ma
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by billh 5y ago
Ahh yes, the J.D. Power model of award giving.
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by billh 5y ago
I'm a techie type and have one of those comcast modems. I also have a descent Ubiquiti setup that rides behind it, but I'm kind of shoehorned into using their provided modem or alternatively paying for a modem myself and then payi
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by billh 5y ago
I'm not entirely convinced the good old days of the whitepages was actually good. The phone companies required you to purchase your privacy for a monthly fee if you didn't want to be included in their publications. Had these publ
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by billh 5y ago
I believe parent is talking about what the Chicago PD was doing a few years ago[1]. If there are others, I'd really like to know about those as well. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24&#x
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by billh 6y ago
There are treatments for cyanide poisoning. Hydroxocobalamin can be used to react cyanide and form cyanocobalamin (vitamin B-12) which is nontoxic and renally excreted. The trick is to identify the cyanide poisoning quickly enough.
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by billh 6y ago
Do you have a patient transition plan in place in the unfortunate case of Wyndly dissolving or a contingency for continual treatment for the duration of the 5 years? It seems that it would be rather difficult for a patient to transition to
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by billh 6y ago
10 years ago I did exactly this for the University of Wisconsin. My job was entirely to facilitate data extraction out of oracle databases / PeopleSoft for longitudinal studies done by faculty or other interested parties. There were a
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by billh 6y ago
Not from the perspective of an ISP. Doing this would transform broadband from a value added service to a commodity. In a commodity market, competition is stiff and this often drives profits down to an absolute minimum. The cushy profits the
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by billh 6y ago
A car is engineered to operated in multiple climates through the use of specific fluids designed for the operating temperatures of the climate they are used in. Further, power plants operate on error margins significantly more narrow than y
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by billh 6y ago
I think an even more simple and self limiting solution would be to require a payment for copyright that doubles every period. For example, the first 5 years would be $100, the next 5 would be $200 ... by year 100 you're paying $52.5 mi

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