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Randler posted:I assume under US tax codes getting paid in stock does not result in that stock being taxed at the regular income tax rate upon receipt of the stock? depends if you buy stock at market price, you only get taxed on the gains if you are given stock and tis valued at lower than market rate, then the IRS taxes you on the difference, then you pay taxes on the gains
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Tobermory posted:Pretty sure the notion was that it would provide tons of little social networks centered around advertisers, sort of like facebook if facebook only did groups. I only remember this because I spent ages thinking they were somehow basing their pitch off the circuit board architecture, and I was utterly baffled as to how that would work. To this day I still don't know what they named themselves after. backplanes are electrical circuit cards that are designed to interface a bunch of single board computers and ccas together it's not something you would see in general commercial usage, it's something you're going to be seeing in industrial or military usage
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Jul 9, 2017 21:18
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Tobermory posted:Yeah, I know what a backplane is. I've mostly seen them in blade servers. What I meant was that I spent ages thinking Backplane (the company) was named after backplane (the circuit board), which makes no sense whatsoever. Presumably Backplane (the company) named themselves for something that isn't a circuit board. I do not know where Backplane (the company) got their name. their software was going to be the "backplane" of a new social media platform
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Jul 9, 2017 22:44
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fishmech posted:The Model 3 sure is down market, in that it looks like total crap inside and out. The Nissan Leaf models that have been out for years, or the Chevy Bolt that came out this year, are much nicer cars for the same price range, the Bolt even has superior battery range. Does the Volt come with a speedometer placed outside of your peripheral vision
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Jul 23, 2017 21:44
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Inescapable Duck posted:Why not have gas stations add electric charging or battery changing stations? It takes 10 minutes to refuel a car It takes 10 hours to charge a Tesla
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Jul 24, 2017 16:59
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fishmech posted:higher quality wiring quality is a bit subjective, itd likely be lower gauge wire for higher current capacity
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Jul 24, 2017 18:52
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Klyith posted:the superchargers take like 30 minutes. if electric cars in general get more popular there will be gas stations that add electric chargers, particularly on highway stations and such. I asked the guy at my office who owns a Tesla. I checked again, he doesn't use a supercharger, since the nearest ones are 40 miles away and take about an hour to get to on a day when traffic is good. So if you use a supercharger if you can find one (its apparently hard in this undeveloped wasteland that is eastern Massachusetts) otherwise you're spending 10 hours to charge.
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Jul 24, 2017 20:09
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Discendo Vox posted:Am I safe in assuming the lion's share of these bitcoin operations are organized crime at this point? Dunno The sketchy russian Bitcoin payment processor just got busted as being behind like 99% of ransomware stuff, but that was seized by the feds, so it's not really operating anymore.
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Jul 30, 2017 16:40
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Cicero posted:You'd have to be delusional to think this will happen. Open-source software is fine for libraries and frameworks and occasionally even client apps, but the number of successful/significant consumer-facing OSS services is very low. its about GOG and that's about it. Origin basically is just EA stuff, UPlay is basically a glorified cross-platform download manager/social club at this point, and Humble Bundle while letting you buy keys from the Devs without paying Valve, like 99% of the cases are for games on Steam and reinforce Valve's hegemony. (and 99% is probably low)
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Aug 4, 2017 05:56
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TACD posted:I guess I'm behind the times, but since when did Uber start renting cars to its drivers? I thought drivers bringing their own cars was their whole deal and fairly central to their already-tenuous "we're not a taxi company" gambit? A while ago, though generally they're not the people actually doing the leasing/renting, they cut deals with another company and then set up an even more predatory relationship with the drivers.
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Aug 4, 2017 16:14
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I can't see Elon Musk saying, "Yes, I am totally happy to take over your multimillion-dollar lawsuit AND your failing business model." *looks at SolarCity*
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Aug 21, 2017 19:13
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jre posted:Are you claiming you can't be wrong just because your parroting something you read in a book? He's never actually specified the book as far as I can tell
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Aug 25, 2017 13:42
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We had to take both home ec and tech when I was in middle school (6 thru 8) every year. I can't remember ever taking a tech class in high school though. I just don't remember a woodworking room anywhere. I remember there being a home ec room, but I think it was only an elective in high school.
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Sep 12, 2017 16:12
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a wrestling company started an ott vod service. it's going poorly
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Sep 13, 2017 02:03
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nm posted:This only works when you're doing "attorney work." If you're doing non-attorney work, the priviledge will be found invalid by the court. Next you'll tell me that they can charge the husband and wife with the same crime.
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Oct 11, 2017 20:43
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fishmech posted:There's like 50 people still actually clinging to those, most of the rest have found acceptable cases or otherwise attachments that can do the job. nah, that's not really the problem. I've had to source ruggedized computers for work. Military wants a long term supply of stuff, longer than any sort of commercial product lines tend to go for. So a lot of those vendors will design for not state of the art, but a bit below it assuming they can get their hands on a stable supply line. (I know of one vendor who likes to go for the embedded Intel CPUs as opposed to the prior tick/tock cycles since they run a longer production cycle) actual ruggedization doesn't have poo poo to do with the features other than it gets to be a bitch around -30 F for LCDs as it can crack the display, but thats kind of it. most temperature stuff kind of is a non-factor, most electronic components are going to be rated in the 100F+ range and solder reflow is somewhere around 160F or 180F, and if the vendor isn't doing something stupid, they're probably also confomally coating the boards with paralyne or urethane to kill humidity and tin whisker issues
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vendors might test one version of a product family and then say everything else is by similarity the actual MIL-STD-810 testing for thist stuff probably only takes a month or two, depending on test house availability and ability to automate procedure for we once paid a environmental test lab technician to spend 10 days staring a st a screen to make sure the display didn't waver when we did temperature cycling that was fun
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Oct 16, 2017 04:03
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Inescapable Duck posted:Instead we have eighty zillion hats. Next up Valabe buys Gears for Breakfast.
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https://theoutline.com/post/2437/who-banned-roger-stone a man on a toilet gives advice to twitter OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Nov 1, 2017 |
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Nov 1, 2017 01:11
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Trabisnikof posted:We will very likely see self driving vehicles on the road in traffic with public commercial passengers within 3 years. We just did in Las Vegas and it immediately ran into a truck.
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Nov 9, 2017 22:01
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Sorry "parked and didn't try to get out of the way of a truck backing up"
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Nov 9, 2017 22:10
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Bitfinex was hacked for 72 million dollars worth of bitcoin like less than a year ago.I guess "hasn't been true for a while" is accurate if you mean "this week" or something. Bitfinex's sister company Tether who keeps pumping them full of "liquidity" was hacked and had like $30M stolen within like the last week or two.
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Nov 27, 2017 16:17
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jon joe posted:How true is the statement that you can't cash out bitcoins. Because I hear that all the time, but why. How. Where. I know the exchange kerfuffles of the prior years, like MTGOX, but what part of the current system prevents converting them to real dollars? Do you consider Amazon gift cards to be real dollars
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Pharohman777 posted:You could write a business law textbook and rely entirely on uber for examples and case studies. O hope the Dollop does an Uber part 2 to get all the poo poo they've missed from like June
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Dec 18, 2017 13:48
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boner confessor posted:pretend i posted brazilian_child_sex_assault_bitcoin.txt brazilian_child_sex_assault_bitcoin.txt? why would you remember something like that
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Dec 23, 2017 21:47
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boner confessor posted:you'll never forget it once you've read it I've been reading bitcoin threads for 5 or 6 years so I doubt your assertion
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BabyFur Denny posted:Australia 2025: gently caress, there's crows everywhere, what do we do about them Release the cats
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The Juicero guy has found the next new Big Thing 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/954218348107137024 its Austin, the same city who turned its homeless population into wifi routers in an attempt to get people to not dehumanize them
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Tehdas posted:The REAL engineers are the guys who work with engines. It’s in the name, ENGINEer. Technically the engineer engineered the engineer's engine.
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Triangle Shirt Factotum posted:Both of the people I keep up with from undergrad are material engineers in their field (Steel, Aluminum processing and QA-ish stuff). I'm the only one of the three of us to do a Phd. and I'm also doing engineering stuff. And it's not like we wen't to the top MSEN school either, so I dunno what you are getting at. Theres some drift because originally engineers were designers of engines (in this sense mechanical tools). Siege engineers made siege engines (catapults etc) in this sense. After the industrial revolution, engine came more to mean a specific type of mechanical device that converts combustion energy to mechanical motion. Due to the idiomatic drift, engineer also started to mean one who operates an engine.
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Karia posted:You could say that about other engineering disciplines: ethics isn't really part of calculating beam bending or chemical yield. But we've recognized that there are so many potential externalities that it's immoral to start a design project without a full understanding of its potential consequences. Ethics isn't linked to engineering because the math is fundamentally tied to societal repurcussions: it's because we've tried keeping them separate and it ended badly. This works better. https://i.imgur.com/g8htRAM.mp4
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suck my woke dick posted:undergraduate level physics is hard man things don't always fall as fact as newton said they would
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Isn't requiring a PE to sign off on things a form of regulation? It's not like companies do this out of the kindness of their hearts. yes
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Mar 25, 2018 23:58
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Absurd Alhazred posted:No, that's nuclear warheads. Reactors aren't meant to kill the people operating and maintaining them, and yet they did. Just about any incident on that list is pretty much some sort of industrial accident that doesn't really have anything to do with nuclear power. except for the guy who died in a nuclear waste processing facility but that didn't actually involve a reactor, just gross mishandling of nuclear waste by the plant staff
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:AR and VR seem like things people very obviously want and companies will keep making until someone actually makes it well. There isn't really any chance it's ever going to be dropped as a concept no matter how many times any specific company fails. Pretty much everyone wants AR and VR if it worked well enough. right, just like autonomous cars
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eschaton posted:Apps weren’t “patched in” later, the OS was steadily revised (starting before 1.0) to support third party apps, and SJ didn’t actually need any convincing. There just wasn’t time to do everything all at once. ah the f35 design strategy mobby_6kl posted:Don't forget that Americans have weak-rear end 110v power so it takes forever to charge a car. Hell they can't even use an electric kettle FFS. voltage isn't power OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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fishmech posted:The United States government isn't going to drop a bunch of funds for say Lowell, Massachusetts to get comprehensive bikeways built, for a comparison of an urban area of similar size. And if they were in the mood to do such a thing they're far more likely to spend some extra money to build better public transit in it, probably teeing it off from the current connections down to Boston.  
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twodot posted:Ok so definitely not "Again", because you've never asserted it would be dumb to build bicycle infrastructure in Lowell. What you asserted was that the US government wouldn't build bicycle infrastructure in Lowell. It turns out, not only are you wrong about that, even if you were right "What the US government will or won't do" is totally irrelevant to whether it is a good idea. 
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twodot posted:I have no idea what you're expecting me to see here. I meant to quote fishmech I live in Lowell, so this entire conversation is highly amusing.
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