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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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Credit card debt is generally dischargeable if it wasn't incurred in the 60 days before filing, wasn't fraudulent, and doesn't fall under other exceptions (such as charging your tuition…
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Closeness-building hostility towards Emmanual Goldstein is literally a plot element of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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I hoped flight school would rid me of acrophobia (I realize it's a different fear but still, you're high up in the air). I earned an instrument rating and started working on my commercial ti…
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A piece of anecdata on what happens when it's not as opaque: I took the script for a lumbar MRI to a standalone imaging chain advertising low costs. The phone quote was 1/10th the price quo…
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> Consumers, meanwhile, buoyed by insurance and tax breaks, have little idea how much they are really spending and little incentive to know underlying costs. Almost weekly there's another post…
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Some economists don't accept the damage that austerity coupled with the lack of robust fiscal stimulus continues to exact on the economy.
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Well said. Would only add that US history, well-taught, cannot help but entrain classical Greek and Roman history and culture.
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But for some unusual but binding decisions applying the Fed Arbitration Act against consumers, situations where it's not cost effective to sue as an individual can be cost effective with private …
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It might help if shelters wouldn't throw their charges out at a 7:00 AM
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The fact the piece was taken down from the web supports the need for physical libraries where access and preservation trump spur-of-the-moment reactions. It's much harder to deep-six elements of …
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Link to the study: http://www.nber.org/papers/w24846
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Have his results been replicated? It's been 3 or 4 years since his work was published (per https://seniorplanet.org/can-a-controversial-new-treatment-r... ).…
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Yes, just as a sleep aid only.
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My physician won't prescribe these to me; I've asked a number of times. In lieu of the Z drug [1] I was given a prescription for temazepam [0]. At first temazepam was great but lost effectiv…
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I agree. Other than test code we develop internally for use in develop, every product I work on is subject to some level of testing at Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory for standards complianc…
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> WordStar used only Shift and Control as meta keys and laid out its keyboard commands intuitively. And comfortably because the Control key was on almost all keyboards above the left shift key. Wis…
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Talk about memories. I used to fantasize about getting a Diablo spinwriter hooked up to my system for true letter quality proportional output. All of the pros went that way. When I finally develop obs…
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Even though teachers are woefully underpaid here like most other state workers other than those who write laws or live in the governor's mansion there hasn't been a teachers strike in Florid…
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The world might beat a path to your door if you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_a_better_mousetrap,_and_... …
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Every time I see it on the front page I forward the link to my direct supervisor and my contact at the mother ship one hop away from the CEO and it feels like I'm doing something, therefore it&#x…
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This. Firefox has become far more aggressive in policing use. For ex., if HTTPS is misconfigured 60.0.2 no longer offers an option for one time exceptions, now there's only 'get me out of he…
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In the US the failing banks' owners would have shared in the loss along with the govt to the extent of deposit insurance, but the remaining institutions would have been smaller, perhaps smarter, …
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In light of my siblings' comments perhaps only lawmakers and their companions ought be exposed in this manner. I'm reminded of the swift enactment of restrictions on videotape rental records…
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I'm conflicted between gratitude for the translation link and anxiety over its NSFW picture. Damn this cube-shaped panopticon.
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C-SPAN videotaped Covelli speaking about his new book at a bookstore. About an hour long: https://www.c-span.org/video/?445419-2/the-order-time …
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As did yesterday's decision overruling the 80s decision requiring physical presence in a state to collect sales tax. Someone reneged on his promise to avoid 5-4 splits.
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I have a dumbass problem where after I've driven away from home I can't remember if I locked the front door or closed the garage door so I turn around and go back home to check. I've ma…
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"In an emergency there are no rules" - my CFII
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When next day processing was really taking off (the 80s?) Kodachrome was AFAIR the only media that had to be sent off to Kodak for processing. Complexity and toxicity explains that. Its wiki page is …