levinb

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Ask HN: Responsible/trustable background check companies?
6 points by levinb 1mo ago|0 comments
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by levinb 1mo ago
> To die with zero and an overflowing funeral attendance is success. great comment. However, you could say that about alot of horrible people as well! I live in a place where alot of those that claim the title 'Democratic Socialist&
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by levinb 6mo ago
As someone who disdains hyperbolic, motivated framings of everything in the news cycle, I normally don't like to use words like that. But, it was interesting to see the news discuss the "first time since world war two" compon
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by levinb 6mo ago
A different model of war and Empire. Yes brutal, for the defenders of the castles and fortified cities they conquered. But again, very targeted at key sites so as to assert an Imperial-vassal relationship. Not to really to metamorph the pop
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by levinb 6mo ago
They had a very kludgy, homegrown, but generally well-liked and cost effective EMR calls Vista. The fact that it was cost effective, but required internal expertise was exactly what led the Trump administration to kill it. Now they are tran
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by levinb 6mo ago
I am trying to use more neutral language when I comment, so that the underlying assertion of facts are more likely to resonate with someone who may disagree with me. I agree with your characterization, but I just wanted the parent comment t
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by levinb 6mo ago
Much more frequent conflicts, yes. Much less total death and dying as well, though. Battles were short and small scale until the Civil War (maybe the Napoleonic Wars prior? Debatable). The largest battles of history prior to the industrial
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by levinb 6mo ago
Stryker holds monopoly supplier positions for a number of medical products, esp including surgical implants and associated OR tools. If Stryker stays down, supplies of some things will run out soon and many people will find themselves witho
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by levinb 6mo ago
The ILWU controls labor at all west coast ports, including LALB, which is responsible for a majority of consumer imports from the Pacific. It has bargained effectively to block developing container handling automation systems.
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by levinb 6mo ago
I've been telling people for 15y that a phone is just "A TV that watches you back" And at last, the market has finally caught up with me :)
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by levinb 6mo ago
Lot's of good thought here but I will reiterate; helping others doing something you enjoy or are good at is almost always the way.
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by levinb 7mo ago
Remember, the Cerner acquisition enabled an essentially permanent beachhead for Oracle in the VA. It will pay off over time in 'we already run Oracle' across many dimensions of government. See the career of Seema Verma from last D
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The L.A. Times used carrier pigeons to deliver news from Catalina Island(latimes.com)
2 points by levinb 7mo ago|1 comments
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by levinb 7mo ago
Cue bandwidth conversation.
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by levinb 9mo ago
human.
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US-Flagged Oil Tanker 'Stena Immaculate' in Flames After Collision(gcaptain.com)
12 points by levinb 2y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Brick and Mortar owners; how do you accept CC payments privately?
4 points by levinb 2y ago|0 comments
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by levinb 2y ago
Yes. I bought the last two units left at any HD for a few hundred miles; drove them up there Monday. Apparently my friend had to drive in and out of his (utterly destroyed) neighborhood in Swannanoa because it required the app and cell serv
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FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets(nytimes.com)
223 points by levinb 2y ago|252 comments
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by levinb 2y ago
Re your father; wow, what a life. Thanks for documenting that for us. My grandfather became a Navy navigator, B25s I think, right as the war ended. Chased hurricanes in the Pacific. I was the only person in the family to ever get much out o
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by levinb 2y ago
Just chiming in to say your link led me to the document. The introduction is fantastic. I'm in the middle of an enormous woodworking undertaking and I am gonna have to hit pause and read this book. Completely nerd-sniped; other lurkers
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All Cars Sold in the US Will Soon Have to Be Able to Automatically Avoid a Crash(theautopian.com)
39 points by levinb 2y ago|97 comments
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With LaLiga in chaos, it's 'clear and obvious' VAR is broken(espn.com)
1 points by levinb 3y ago|0 comments
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by levinb 3y ago
I won't belabor points I've made below, but I do want to agree with you about 3rd party doctrine in general; the modern world makes it almost impossible to live a normal life without non-consensually making your self available for
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by levinb 3y ago
I guess that's the point I was trying to make - in our case we were not conducting a criminal investigation. And if we were headed that way (which only happened every once in a while) then yes, we'd have to go in to Criminal Mode
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by levinb 3y ago
> Out of charity, I'll assume the former. But to be honest, every time I've spoken at length about this with LEOs, it's inevitably turned out to be the latter. I am sure this is often true at the local LE level. But rememb
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by levinb 3y ago
> Just because it made your job easier doesn't mean that it was legitimate. So, I suppose that the main point. In these cases, we weren't investigating the individual as a suspect, we were trying to understand the nature of an
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by levinb 3y ago
Hi, I'm a former Federal LEO that has gotten warrentless access to medical records - a long time ago. I can't speak for every agency (there are more than 100 Federal agencies with sworn officers and arrest authority, and thousands
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SEO-Blogspam-Generator-AAS(atonce.com)
1 points by levinb 3y ago|1 comments
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by levinb 3y ago
Knew they existed, but had never seen one in the wild.

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