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depending on your original account, if it has a minimum balance to avoid fees you might want to leave the minimum balance in there and transfer the rest first. Then close the account officially and get a check for the remainder. the reason is that if you transfer it all and it goes under a minimum deposit, you could get a fee and then you are overdrawn, generating more fees and more overdraw. Generally just taking all money out of an account doesn't automatically close it.

a big drawback is not performance but that most lidars are expensive and fragile.

yes chances of getting more than a few bucks are slim. $125 is the max payout. if everyone affected signs up the payout is a few cents. so its somewhere in the middle.

I didn't see much evidence in the article about 'ghost towns'. it may be true but the article didn't back it up.

Freakonomics speculated that it was because of Roe vs Wade in 1972.

Question : so what do you do besides host it yourself? Do you set up a backup on a different cloud service so that at least you can failover without too much downtime? you then have to at least pay for the some of the resources even if there is no traffic. or backup locally but have a process set up with the different service so you can provision and get back up quickly? or is there a better solution?

thanks for telling me about 'git amend'. I frequently screw up and fail to add the files I want or as soon as I commit I remember I needed to change something else. So my projects all have strings of commits that are a few seconds apart.

I'm a casual GitHub user, and for me the fork button enabled me to grab a copy of some other repo, make changes , commit to my github repo without perturbing the main project and still keeping an online history at github. Its a step above just downloading the zip file and below getting commit rights to the original project. If I just made a personal branch, then I would have everything but the online backup because I couldn't commit.

One example is used by many online learning companies: they provide some baseline of code for use in a course. you need to get it to use in the lessons (edit: and make changes that you want to save). You can download a zip, clone or fork the repo. zip and clone don't get you the online backup.

It would be interesting to see how many people use Github for the reasons cited in the article (using a fork as staging for a pull request) or like I do.

As I wrote this, it made me realize I am a parasite on GitHub and the projects I fork, since I rarely contribute back (mainly because I don't have anything useful).

its like the difference between Overhaulin and Pimp My Ride

just an anecdote about UTC vs GPS time. GPS time doesn't have leap seconds.

So my team was testing a system with some devices, one of which was a GPS and the main system had UTC from NTP. We had a big display that showed all our data including both times, so we could monitor what was going on. So the two displayed times were 13 seconds apart (the number of leap seconds then). Our program manager was a smart guy but gaffe prone. So in a demonstration of our system he blurted out to the whole room of observers, 'hey something is wrong, those two times are different'. We cringed and explained, but it sounded like we were covering up an error. But he would go on to repeat the gaffe again to a different group.

I think a lot has to do with folks in the US being more OCD about cleaning their food. For example, most people in the US would never eat cheese that was crawling with visible mold and bacteria but the French prefer it that way (so I was told by a French friend. he said cheese must have 'the bugs')

it's funny how folks from different countries throw shade on the ones that treat their eggs differently, as if that is an indication of which country is better. Every few months a thread on Reddit gets this going. Nice to see an article that says that both approaches work about the same.

i would guess that if the employee handbook calls for two weeks notice of resigning, there would be some sort of case for getting paid if they were walked out right away. I'm probably wrong though.

i was in the 70's era with baggy solid green fatigues and they you usually got one or two wears out of them before they needed to be starched again. They looked good for about the first hour after new starch and then terrible. Apparently there was no need for camo during the cold war.

that said, I did see that Avengers End Game got the 70's fatigues right. And also the hideous baseball cap we had to wear.

In Github terms of service, if you make a repo public, others are free to view and fork it, apparently even if you place a commercial license on it, or no license. The lawyers will have to figure out if that means copy, use or whatever.

https://help.github.com/en/articles/licensing-a-repository

I can imagine that lawyers in general would prefer to use a contract template that has withstood the test of time (and was held up in court) rather than try to write one up from scratch.

I'm not talking about your case though.

are employee 'walkouts' a protected class? Like a union on strike?

" Lots of people choose the cheapest flights possible regardless of other considerations ". so true, and then they complain when there is extra cost for bags etc. it's the customers that drive the airlines to eliminate all frills or things that use to be 'free'.

I'd phrase this a little differently.

I'd say "they do what they do because they are motivated by other peoples expectations".

you are right. in this case the guy is the chairman of the committee. for the next few days anyway

I'm not saying the ER prices are reasonable, but an ER has to keep a lot of expensive staff and equipment sitting around until they are needed. OK, some ER's they are sitting around. But there is a price to have all that service ready for an emergency.

As for high drug prices like the $60 ibuprofen, you are mainly paying for it to be delivered to you by a nurse.

ER's have an average profitability of 7.8%. Higher than Walmart but lower than Apple. So if they became non-profit in some way, they could cut that percentage of costs. That's some, but still very expensive.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/7-things-to-kn...

my source says intersection of Dallas Drive and Parmer Lane

the opposite of Sweden apparently https://www.bbc.com/news/business-41095004

officially it is at-will, but there are so many exceptions that it almost isn't.

Yes, its poor writing/editing of articles that don't define their acronyms. or at least the important ones in the title.

The catch is that on DOD systems, encryption is very difficult to add. That is, to be certified by the NSA and compatible with the military key infrastructure. So its better to avoid mentioning it unless its forced on you. Better is a relative term here. I mean, in terms of cost and effort to add. Not security.

Take ownership

California does have some legally guaranteed entitlements if (edit) there is a mass layoff. Apparently like this case if a company just goes under with no money left that doesn't apply. What is the situation in Europe? The healthcare continues, but if a company has no money who pays the entitlements? Do employers have to fund a reserve? Or the govt pays?

question for people who know the subject (from someone who doesn't) : is this paper legit or written by conspiracy minded individuals? I didn't want to say 'nuts'.

The article left out the part about the lightning rods : https://www.businessinsider.com/marines-order-lightning-rods...