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frenchman_in_ny
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Comment #48860361
I've been there before. I had a high deductible health plan, it was December & I hadn't used any of my premiums... I had a heart attack (I didn't know it at the time). And my mind …
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Comment #48660055
On your point of self-driving, I was just looking into if this would be compatible with a comma.ai autopilot, and it looks like Slate doesn't even have the default hardware onboard…
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Comment #47297449
Cornell ILR is trying to build out a job board [0] like this -- but I feel like it's failing because it's simply an aggregator of other job boards, with limited value add. [0] http…
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Comment #47250072
I get it that this is satire, and that they're giving DB a hard time about their constant delays -- but on the other hand there's EU Regulation 261/2004 for compensation for delaye…
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Comment #46941070
Announced during the super bowl, and got hug-of-death instantly. HTTP 503 Service Unavailable
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Comment #46940207
I agree with you that FAR covers all airspace. There's an interesting case on airspace (over an Indian reservation) & an emergency landing that's winding its way through the courts…
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Comment #46796643
Sadly accurate - and what is worse is that child support laws by state [0] are actually even more dated in their mechanisms, where despite using an "income shares" model, most don'…
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Comment #46653340
Interesting - will this open a back door to having Chinese EVs on US roads? I would assume some sort of kei truck loopholes would have to be found to solve state-level registration…
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Comment #46444268
Curious about what you're using as a cycling platform -- just the Peloton, or are you on a bike trainer? There's a huge library of workouts out there (see [0] as just an example), …
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Comment #45996074
Adding summary analysis from AVHerald [0] [0] https://avherald.com/h?article=52f5748f&opt=0
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Comment #45910251
I'm coming at this as someone who had an MI at a relatively young age: For the goals -- and this may differ between EMT / paramedic & protocols -- but I would really wish that ther…
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Comment #45568940
There's a very specific reason (or quirk) as to why Texas leads the nation in renewable energy -- ERCOT. Basically, 90% of Texas' electric load is serviced by in-state assets, and …
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Comment #45512431
"Lewis had unknowingly violated an Indian law that requires individuals to obtain a license before owning or using a personal satellite communication device." I'm curious -- would …
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Comment #45503735
I found it especially ingenious when they mentioned: "another candidate wrote more than 120 lines of code to influence A.I. and hid it inside the file data for a headshot photo." N…
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Comment #45388139
There's still a human in the loop with Garmin Autoland -- someone has to press the button. If you're flying solo and become incapacitated, the plane isn't going to land itself.
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Comment #45386554
No - planes cannot "land themselves with zero human intervention" (...). A CAT III autoland on commercial airliners requires a ton of manual setting of systems and certificated air…