Anechoic

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by Anechoic 14y ago
Downvoters, this is something to consider. I'm no fan of money in politics, but I have a real difficult time trying to figure out how to get money out of elections without stifling the ability of folks (rich or otherwise) to advocate for th
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Having spent some time in the White Mountains in northern New Hampshire, the sky I saw looked a lot like those pictures, I think they are fair depictions. I definitely remember it as being my first and only time when I could actually see th
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by Anechoic 14y ago
What this fails to mention is the _way_ that Adria handled it Because in this context, it's irrelevant. Let's say Richards was completely and indisputably in the wrong (eg the guys were just sitting there minding their own business and ha
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since the 2nd Amendment very specifically protects firearms ownership I've seen folks use that rationale, but the 2A doesn't say "firearms" it says "arms" - presumably "knives, nunchucks, brass knuckles, etc" would fall under that, althou
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You know we're talking about assisted-opening knives and not switchblades, right?
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Until there are TV & radio ads addressing the issue, I wouldn't count on the case taking up too much mindshare. Let's see if it comes up during the debates in Springfield (a poor city with a large minority population).
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Would you consider it sexist if someone started a developer list only for people that identify as male? It really depends on the context. If the list was started just to encourage juvenile behavior, than yes. If it was started to address
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by Anechoic 14y ago
(BTW I'm jealous you got to work on the project) The great majority of my work was at night (nighttime noise patrols). Looking back on it, I learned a lot about construction in general and the Big Dig in particular, but at the time it was
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by Anechoic 14y ago
You see US workers in similar getups in certain situations (usually workers involved in wet or messy work like concrete/slurry pumping, drilling etc or working in cold environments). I for one (having spent thousands of hours on constructio
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Are you implying that there's something wrong with the state of work wear?
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Soil freezing wasn't new when it was used on the Big Dig, but it was either the first time it was used in the USA, or it was the first time it was used on such a massive scale in the USA (similar to the use of slurry walls, which had been u
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Thank, I'll remember that for future Reddit links.
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Since my earliest days on the internet and on the web in the early 1990's, I've always been nervous when services wanted by birthdate for (AFAICT) no good reason whatsoever. Since then, I've always used proxy dates as my "birthday" (dates t
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Ugh, I'll see if I can find it, I don't even remember what the original topic was. edit - found it: http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/184uh5/as_a_w... Looks like that post was heavily downvoted. You can read up the parent cha
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by Anechoic 14y ago
A textbook example from a Reddit thread: in a conversation about college, one poster lamented the existence of women's and minority groups (like the Society of Women Engineers or the National Society of Black Engineers) that exclude white m
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by Anechoic 14y ago
It doesn't seem easy to me to steal a ring from someone's finger Maybe, maybe not, but there are all kinds of professions and occupations where rings must be removed for safety and/or security reasons. It would seem easy for a thief to be
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Harvard admins secretly searched deans’ email accounts, hunting for media leak(boston.com)
2 points by Anechoic 14y ago|0 comments
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by Anechoic 14y ago
* Teaching, especially at the elementary-school level and younger, nursing, HR, administrative assistants, and others. Why is there no effort to bring more men into these fields?* There are efforts: http://www.menteach.org/ http://www.m
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by Anechoic 14y ago
People do not want want to be segregated, even if it is, supposedly, for a good cause. Really? Because self-segregation is pretty obvious in any number of contexts.
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Using a socio-economic standard you abstract away the race issue and give an advantage to those who have less money which has a stronger correlation to actually having less opportunity. The problem wrt to race and using a socio-economic s
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by Anechoic 14y ago
In a similar vein, I'm trying to figure out why tech types keep thinking that their experiences are comparable to everyone else's. Hint: not every office desk job just involves sitting and typing on a computer all day. I'm sure some jobs
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Surveillance Camera Man Points Camera at Strangers Without Permission(petapixel.com)
3 points by Anechoic 14y ago|0 comments
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Your password is not safe with anyone. Use a unique, strong password for everything. While I agree, that is more easily said than done for most folks. Looking through my Keychain file, I have almost 850 internet password items. Assuming t
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Is Kurk actively trying to stop all real estate and building development activity in his state? One of the first things that often happens when someone is planing a public or private development is that developer/architect/engineer commissi
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by Anechoic 14y ago
"Find other ways to get support, then keep moving" As longs as those "other ways" don't including attending a women's symposium, and small talk. Sigh...
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by Anechoic 14y ago
It's fine to note that but I have no idea what that has to do with anything I wrote.
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by Anechoic 14y ago
rather than partnering with convenience stores like in Europe? As others have pointed out, they already do. Go to http://www.usps.com and click on "Find Locations." Put in your zip code, click on "See More Results" and sort by "Approved
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by Anechoic 14y ago
We could try using the Fermi estimation technique ("how many piano tuners are there in Chicago?") I have to agree with suresk people, out of all of the folks I know, the number of guns is either 0 or >1. I don't know anyone with just
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by Anechoic 14y ago
there are no reliable sources in this area. So you would agree that the 200 million number is also unreliable? Another data point: the NRA-ILA puts the number of gun owners at 60-65 million http://www.knobcreekshoot.com/FirearmsFacts.htm
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by Anechoic 14y ago
1) I'm not assuming anything, I asked for a source for the 200 million number and then provided other sources with lower numbers, If you have a source with different numbers, I'd love to see it. 2) "still an order of magnitude more than pol

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