Anechoic

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by Anechoic 13y ago
Pop open your glovebox; there is a nice picture book in there that explains with nice line-drawing illustrations how to change your oil. That hasn't been a given for many years. My 1998 Passat and 2006 Jetta manuals contained no in
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Just unscrew the bolt on the oil pan underneath the car Getting to that point on many cars (I'm looking at you VW/Audi) can involve many more steps - on my last car, before you can even get to the oil pan, you have to remove the
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Constructing the World’s Largest Self-Anchored Suspension Bridge(wired.com)
2 points by Anechoic 13y ago|0 comments
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Does Apple have to pay Microsoft for the ability to access FAT partitions? Apple & MS have a cross-licensing agreement dating back to 1997 that has been renewed at once (and probably more than once). FAT patents are presumably include
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by Anechoic 13y ago
It's not well known, but Dr. Bose had a stroke a few years ago. I was an officer of a local Acoustical Society of America chapter in Boston. Dr. Bose had been awarded a plaque at the national ASA conference in the summer of 2011, but h
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Perhaps highway engineers simply have other methods for achieving these two goals, and don't find it convenient to rely on porosity In terms of noise reduction, there are other things you can do to the roadway (basically different fo
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by Anechoic 13y ago
The self-healing aspect of the asphalt is very interesting, but the big problem with porous asphalts (there's a lot of research in the area performed by Purdue, US DOT/Volpe Center and other places) is that road salt and dirt tend
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Interesting fact: majority of rape victims in USA are male. This has been addressed a couple of times. Note that 1) the 216,000 number is for victims of "sexual abuse" which doesn't necessarily mean "rape" and 2)
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by Anechoic 13y ago
And I mean no weapons. No pepper spray, no tasers. Nothing. I would wager that I've been on the ass-end of police interactions more than the typical US HNer and while I sympathize with this position (and like you wrote, it's &q
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Offline maps is what's kept me on the Nokia Symbian platform for so long. There are quite a few places in the US with poor or non-existent cell coverage and those tend to be the places where I really need access to map data.
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Google for "gay rights"(google.com)
6 points by Anechoic 13y ago|0 comments
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by Anechoic 13y ago
One of the reasons given by Thomas Jefferson for the separation from Great Britain was a desire to rid America of the evil of slavery imposed on them by the British. And yet Great Britain managed to abolish slavery three decades before it
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Have you been to the hood lately? Just got back from a bicycle trip through "the hood." I didn't experience any hostility or criminality so I'm not sure what you're referring to.
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by Anechoic 13y ago
i wondered if it rang true for others? (Black male American citizen here). Yes, that was pretty much the the reaction I had (you can look at some of my posts in the Swartz submissions). I've spend most of my adolescent, teenage and a
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by Anechoic 13y ago
just like how in the US engineering (except houses) uses metric Copying from a previous comment: This isn't true in my experience. Of course my experience certainly isn't comprehensive, but in my work I interact with a lot of US
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Note to mods: this is my second submission in and hour - I'm not someone that normally submits a lot of links, but I just saw this in the sidebar of the other article I submitted and thought it would be interesting to the board.
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Friend of Bradley Manning Drops Lawsuit Against Feds Over Seized Laptop(wired.com)
2 points by Anechoic 13y ago|1 comments
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by Anechoic 13y ago
It likely includes all of the preliminary engineering geotech, and environmental work that came before implementation. You can't just freeze the ground like that, there are a lot of potential adverse effects (ground) shifts being the bigges
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How Engineers Are Building a New Railroad Under New York City(wired.com)
35 points by Anechoic 13y ago|52 comments
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by Anechoic 13y ago
What if the falsehood results in a libel claim? Now you're talking about significant legal involvement (and costs). Liability insurance ( http://www.authorsguild.org/services/media-liability-insuran... for example) would help to mitigate
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Regulation allows Company A to influence the government to implement regulation "Regulation" doesn't allow Company A to influence the government, the First Amendment allows Company A to influence the government. In your statement, regulat
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by Anechoic 13y ago
You don't think Google Maps changed the world? Translate, search, etc.? Those examples "changed the world" in the same way the iPod and iPhone changed the world: extremely elegant implementations of products and ideas that had been out th
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by Anechoic 13y ago
That story changed under interview You've mentioned that a couple of times here. Can you point us to a link?
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by Anechoic 13y ago
now that kids are starting to do it more Do you have citations to show that this was a bigger problem now then it was 10/20/30/40 years ago? Plenty of folks blew shit up during my day. she later admitted someone told her how and encourag
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by Anechoic 13y ago
She is already at a new high school. The Orlando Sentinel story linked in the OP says she "is now attending classes at an alternative school." Is that "alternative" as in "another" or "alternative school" as in "remedial school geared tow
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by Anechoic 13y ago
The article seems to want to attribute this trend to one source and no more than one source. ? The article calls gas prices twice as well as other economic problems as reasons for the decline. For example: "Researchers have not yet been
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by Anechoic 13y ago
US DOT should set standards for minimum yellow light times. They do, through the MUTCD: http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/knowledge/faqs/faq_part4.htm#q32
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by Anechoic 13y ago
The premise of the thread is hackers saying "yes, I blew stuff up when I was a kid" gavinlynch's premise is (literally) "Right. But you didn't do it during school." (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5651679 ) So which is it? Is th
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by Anechoic 13y ago
why the hell would you be doing this at school? Perhaps she didn't have anywhere else to do it?
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by Anechoic 13y ago
we were smart enough to do it in my backyard Does she have a backyard?

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