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   by DrScump 7y ago

   Note that this article is from 2017, but the crash-landing was in 1989.
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   by DrScump 7y ago

   A fair stretch of Bryant St. is bike-limited, with narrow barriers every few blocks. I used it in my bike commute from Sunnyvale to Menlo (which also used pedestrian/bike bridges that cross the creeks that define the Mtn View / Pa
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   by DrScump 7y ago

   I wish they had clarified how they eliminated terrestrial nuclear reactors/devices as possible sources.
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   by DrScump 7y ago

   (2013)
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   by DrScump 7y ago

   "There is no cannibalism in Amazon. And when I say, 'none', I mean, well, there is a certain amount."
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   by DrScump 7y ago

   Wasn't the Lakeside store a converted Fry's grocery store?
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   by DrScump 7y ago

   Where?
8. 428.▲
   by DrScump 7y ago

   No, that was MicroCenter, in the West end of Mercado. There has never been a Santa Clara Fry's Electronics. All 3 Sunnyvale locations were around Lawrence (Lakeside, Kern, now Arques).
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   by DrScump 7y ago

   Right next to St. John's!
10. 430.▲
    by DrScump 7y ago

    Yes. It's called a "quote".
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    Fry's does this by printing "quotes" that you take to the register.
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    full price I've never seen a restocked item priced at more than 90% of never-opened price, and their prices drop every week or two until sold
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    they hired unknowledgeable floor staff In some areas, yes, like anywhere else. For a counterexample, the female manager(?) in Components in Sunnyvale has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of everything in the department. The receipt-
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    I remember when Microcenter in Santa Clara started exhibiting the same visual decline as described here about Fry's.
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    Access by non-crew was restricted in USA airspace before then. I flew to Canada a few times a year in the late 1990s. I was invited into the cockpit several times, but I had to be out before we reached US airspace.
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    I run into this conceptual framework all the time. The problem begins when upper management views support, especially telephone support, as purely a cost center that never has downstream revenue effect anyway ("buyers don't choo
17. 437.▲
    by DrScump 7y ago

    You are practicing a form of time-restricted feeding (TRF).
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    It looks like a polite reminder that this use violates Amazon's affiliate program rules, with the logical next step being revocation by Amazon.
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    Nearly 98%(!!) of land in San Jose is zoned for single-family homes You misquote your source (it says that NYT says that it is 94%, but that's hogwash given that far less than that is zoned for any form of housing). The refer
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    Fun fact: the original hangar at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale was built for the U.S.S. Macon .
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    I really recommend Aza (Tamazight influence from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco). I've seen them live a bunch of times. (I attended this particular performance!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C1u_MFahhw&list=RD
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    Articles on this site appear to be uncredited copies of other content. This one is essentially the same as this Fortune article: https://fortune.com/2019/08/15/windows-10-update-microsoft-v...
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    Native link: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fanta-soda-origins-naz...
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    Vanguard 1 (satellite, in Earth's orbit since 1958)(nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov)

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    by DrScump 7y ago

    Perhaps they've developed a lossless pizza compression algorithm.
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    Times are given as EST/PST, but we are on Daylight Time.
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    Only those crops that use a ridiculous amount of subsidized water, like cotton and almonds. Read "Cadillac Desert".
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    "Nothing sucks like a Vax" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_sucks_like_a_vax
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20673550
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    by DrScump 7y ago

    (May 2018) Full title: "How One Recalled SUV Destroyed $45 Million In Cars, Burned A Massive Ship, And Sparked A Legal Battle Between Ford And BMW"