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DoubleCribble
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Some equipment is too expensive to be disposable and therefore requires enhanced cleaning protocols[0], but reusing as much equipment as possible just to save a few bucks seems penny wise but pound foolish. Why add unnecessary risk [1] if
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That depends on how big your backyard is and where you are located geographically. Assuming you have a temperate climate with decent soil... Can you build or afford to buy a greenhouse & a chicken coop? Do you have space for early, mid
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It seems to me like it would be harder for many juveniles to get into trouble if there just aren't that many other juveniles around. It's hard to form a gang if there's nobody else around to join.
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How much of the precipitous drop in SF juvenile crime is simply because there are fewer juveniles in the city? SF used to have a large middle class population that has largely vanished with the rise in the cost of housing combined with a r
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You know that wiggle room I described? It's quoted right there in the linked document. 1) Yale - "The Admissions Committee then factors in student qualities such as motivation, curiosity, energy, leadership ability, and distinctiv
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What features didn't the application process have? Every college I've ever seen advertises "diversity" in their admissions process. If we peek under that diversity umbrella, we can see: Legacy, Donors Kids, Athletes, Fu
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What standing could these students possibly have? They didn't get in to all the colleges they wanted to because the admissions process wasn't "fair"? It never was fair nor does any admissions office I've ever hear
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IMHO, one of the best TV intro's ever. "Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better...st
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One step closer to "having the technology". Colonel Steve Austin would be proud.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man
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Sorry, that's not true at all. There's often A LOT of wiggle room. Insider Tip: The internet desk is usually separate from the floor desk at your average dealership. When you know exactly which car you want to buy, negotiate thr
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3.75%APR seems a little high for a non-luxury sedan. The big automakers usually offer around 1-3% APRs on new models.
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Perhaps Portland is already taken, but I'm sure there are other cities where another parent and child [0] could open a bookstore in a warehouse in a rough part of town that ~50 years later becomes a beloved institution. And make no mi
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I wouldn't be so sure. Have you ever been to Powell's in Portland?[0] They seem to consistently liberate me from more cash in one visit than Amazon does in a year. [0] https://www.powells.com/
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Everyone seems to be missing the elephant in the room. This was obviously a ploy for special interests. Let's follow the money here because the big winners are the students of UC Merced and Cal State Bakersfield. Trainspotting and tr
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It definitely exists within the Apps Script functionality. [0] [0] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/document...
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No doubt there are enduring legacy effects of enterprise Office use. There's a very long tail there. However, I think Google is approaching this from the End User standpoint. They're making it possible for people with just a lit
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Maybe? But what's the average life expectancy of a particular workflow? As long as the feature outlives my workflow, I'm a happy camper.
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The features of Docs and Word are more of a Venn diagram than a circle. One does not easily substitute for the other.
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For those of us who work in Docs on a daily basis, it sure does.
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IIRC, much of the land for the 85 was never developed when they were building the suburbs in the 60's & 70's. The southern portion was planned decades before it was built. There were these long swaths of old orchards and empt
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"Taiwan, officially the Republic of China"...[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
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And yet, there was at least one... "On this occasion, Madiedo doubled the number of telescopes trained on different parts of the moon – from four to eight – in the hope of seeing an impact. “I had a feeling, this time will be the time
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courtesy of the late, great, Leslie Nielsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvWfbIe4X_4
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A good realtor cultivates relationships and deal flow. I suspect that a decent percentage of transactions in a competitive market never even hit the MLS as the houses are sold before they even get listed.
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Ohhh, will Julia Roberts be in the movie adaptation of this latest PG&E debacle?[0] She was so good in the last one. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich_(film)
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*mostly grass fed but with other supplemental feed. Mad cow disease propagates from feeding cows the ground up bits of other infected cows.[0] [0] https://www.fda.gov/animalveterinary/resourcesforyou/animalh...
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The Volt didn't do it. The Bolt couldn't either. Perhaps they're working on the Chevy Molt? (the first car wrapped in OLED!)
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There were big markups on the reintroduced Ford Thunderbird, too.[0] Sales tanked after the first year and it was out of production 4 years later. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Thunderbird_(eleventh_gen...
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You're absolutely right. City police are often a completely different organization from the county sheriff's office which is undoubtedly different from the state police. Serial predators like the Golden State Killer[0] have levera
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"This is where I coined the term “Fog Waves”" Nope. Sorry, Nick. Harold Gilliam has been publishing at least since '62 on the topic. "Fog Wave" can be easily found in the most recent scanned edition of his book,
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