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howard941
22,428karma·4,690submissions·November 1, 2014
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My article submissions aren't endorsements, unlike my favorites...
My professional interests: Embedded and RF/networking. Droooooones. Bare iron, freertos, lately NuttX. Resource constrained or ARM. Hard realtime. *BSD / linux embedding and BOFHing. New product and sustaining devel.
Amateur radio. Attorney (Fla.)
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My polling place features first a comparison of photo id to the person and then an amateur attempts and fails to properly frank the voter's signature.
How is it that passing the Real-ID photo-ID …
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> 50-cent-piece (no name for this?) That's a half-dollar Unrelated to your post is two bits == quarter, if memory serves me it's by way if Spain.
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Financial engineers like this one need only to keep the thing out of bankruptcy for two years after the last asset extraction and the extraction's in the clear.
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Thank you very much for the link. Tinkering is precisely what I'd like to do with it, on the 70cm ham band if LTE is a bridge too far.
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Wow check out the prices for the hardware. By "wow" I mean I can't afford this. Clearly not the Amarisoft stuff where it doesn't even list the price, preferring that people contac…
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My MD sold his practice and when I showed up at the vendee he told me not only didn't he have the 4 inch thick plus paper-only but also that a) it wasn't yet scanned and b) he wasn't ev…
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Pretty neat. I like the ECDSA for remote control.
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Soul crushing, dangerous, unsustainable
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Yeah but I work in Pinellas Co
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Buried a few miles away from my rotten workplace https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24091730/harry-whittier-... …
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My experiences duplicate yours w/r/t learning QWERTY. Self taught touch typing the wrong way followed by a class during high school for the right way. Alternate layouts don't work for …
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Unfortunately I was long Kraft (the food co), completely unleveraged, and got taken out at a 15% loss thanks to a flash crash-induced stop loss. It taught me a lesson that only losing real money teach…
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I'm an experienced trader in the sense that I've had only bad experiences trading. Thinking a stop loss order would help I (and the order) failed to account for one of those flash crashes th…
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Your domestic workers could be just as motivated if you threaten them with deportation. I don't want to run in your race to the bottom.
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Agreed. And job insecurity is still a thing so even those who aren't overtly required to do so put in more than the expected amount to help reduce the likelihood they'll be in the discard p…
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Its earlier fear was for _its own data_, where it had skin in the game: "Investigators from the company and the FBI came to view events at Equifax as potentially a huge theft of data—not of consu…
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The Fed's Board of Governors?
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CVS is a PBM. How blatant does a conflict of interest need to be before policymakers take action?
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I believe too many made out fairly well and by not wiping out the shareholders we've created a gaping maw of a moral hazard. Corporate governance is in tatters, has been since roughly the 80s whe…
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Here in the US we're told the banks were to big too fail, the banksters too powerful to jail.
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Could have prosecuted and imprisoned for perjury dozens if not hundreds hundreds of people offering false affidavits claiming personal knowledge of loans they knew nothing about in support of foreclos…
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My bad for leaving any ambiguity at all - especially because I agree completely with your position but failed to make it clear. I apologize. You're gracious for following up and I appreciate it.
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And nothing. She shouldn't have launched without resolving the issue raised by the commission. You're either misreading my comment or my comment was unclear. I'm assuming the problem…
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She's quoted as relying on some understanding that others received permission retroactively. Not mentioned in the article is whether others have in fact received retroactive permission, whether i…
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Disagree. Value depends on the newspaper and the reader in question. My wife loved the ad-heavy Sunday paper inserts. I grew up reading the NYT on the subway and that (mis)set my expectations for ever…
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Thanks. The URL's protocol element threw me for a loop.
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Do you get something at http://pool.ntp.org ? My blowser times out as does telnetting to port 80