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> The point is that any theory made after events are observed cannot use the events it is explaining as evidence that it is correct.

That's complete nonsense. Theories are almost always made after collecting observations.

They may be confirmed using future observations, or by statistical analysis, however.

The title says "wrongful arrest" which is not accurate, since the police computer says to pick up that person - it's just the arrest of the wrong person.

A wrongful arrest is more like an arrest with no warrant and no evidence - like walking down the street and refusing to answer questions or show ID to a police officer who is attempting to infringe your civil liberties.

From what I've read, the fancy credit card terminal that was deployed nationwide is actually not compatible with European-style chip-and-pin, which will be the next version of credit card standard. So billions were spend for nothing.

> People pay for RHEL, SUSE, Windows, Mongo, MySQL, etc.. support even though they may be part of a company perfectly capable of resolving any issue with the software.

Regarding those examples:

1) For RHEL and Windows, paying is not optional 2) Mongo is so buggy most people need to pay for support in production 3) MySQL works well, but don't expect anything more than "forum answers" from Oracle support. Only 1 in 1000 companies paid for support according to the former president of MySQL AB.

Actually, companies are reluctant to pay for support for Open Source products, hence the business model tweaks of Redhat and the Open Core models of Nagios and other smaller Open Source vendors.

A lot of the ad network and exchange companies were bought by Yahoo and Google for $100+ million basically for the team and not the technology.

Although the "technology" more or less worked, it was discarded and re-written or substantially changed.

In the case of Google, I'm thinking of AdMob.

In the case of Yahoo, I'm thinking of the 2-sided ad exchange network they bought and then ripped out the 2-sided features.

> People have not been harmed to an alarming extent by this event,

160,000 people were displaced and will live in school gyms for the rest of their lives. Most have lost their livelihoods.

I suggest you talk to them before saying they have "not been harmed."

US Regional/Charter airline pilots used to be horribly underpaid until the new ATP experience requirements in 2015.

Go Airlines just signed a new pilot contract for $60k/year for pilots and $35k for co-pilots.

Well, yes and no.

The owner is dead, so the phone data is not needed for a trial against the owner.

It might be evidence against "co-conspirators" - sadly, we have a vindictive, lawless government now that likes to go after former roommates and acquaintances.

> tore at her skin in the belief that bugs were crawling on it.

symptom of meth use

They've discussed moving from Palo Alto to Menlo Park, so the layoff may be related to that.

Google's HQ is in Mountain View. Why did you have to live or buy a house in SF?

Most enterprise projects fail, either in terms of budget, time or functionality.

Pretty much any telephone billing system is late or shelved, for example.

In this case, you have a shipping conglomerate with divisions that can't talk to each other.

> Scientists are not prone to falling back on explaining observations via postulating a new kind of matter we can scarcely observe.

You mean like ether?

I was sitting on large bank and calling real estate agents in the Bay Area ... who either committed suicide or left the industry. So no house for me.

No, it's not an urban legend.

Commercial properties prune their palm trees regularly to avoid falling coconuts.

Though I worry more about jacktrees. Their melons can weigh over 100 pounds!

When police use encrypted radio channels, they can't interoperate with EMS, other agencies or in disaster zones. So becomes a problem.

Reads more like a pub crawl companion evaluator than an employee interview guide.

Employees don't have to be likeable - they have to be able to get the job done.

The need is still there ...

1) American recruits are too fat to carry a pack nowadays

2) Marines in Afghanistan suffered from ankle injuries from carrying 70 pound packs on cobblestone fill.

First, airliners have complex systems that need to be understood in detail since you can't just pull over at the side of the road like in a car.

Second, newer families of airliners by Airbus and Boeing do have similar systems and often a type rating covers 2 or 3 models now.

Third, each operator has their own standards and practices. In fact, airline operator standards are considered to be more pertinent than general FAA or mfg. requirements.

It's banned because the general public cannot assess the risk of private flights, and the flight is not under an AOC.

The FAA maybe a lot of things, but they're 100% right about this.

I like the idea of a legal response code, but is just one granular enough?

Likely there should be:

* censorship * rights * private * right to be forgotten * geo-limited.

No, she will be hauling in around $1 billion over 4 years.

The Yahoo! ex-CEOs is known as a billionaire's club.

Historically, Yahoo! operated for the first 10 years of their existence without formal QA teams. The first USA QA hires were for Japanese product QA.

Nowadays OpenCV is used a fair amount, and they're migrating to modern industry-standard tools.

The story goes much deeper than that.

The public sector unions across California circulated a letter in each municipality that they would only support candidates willing to approve 8% guaranteed annual pension returns.

And they got it. As a result, California cities are all bankrupt today.

FYI: San Jose is bad, but ironically wealthy Palo Alto has one of the worst budgets.