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Recalled SUV Destroyed $45M in Cars,Burned a Ship,Sparked Lawsuit(jalopnik.com)
3 points by DrScump 7y ago|2 comments
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by DrScump 7y ago
In the Bay Area, there was an even more detailed, local binder-style map producer -- Barclay Maps, perhaps? They were the best for ongoing local navigation, popular with salesfolk and Realtors alike. Later, when I did voter data and precinc
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by DrScump 7y ago
The Mars Climate Orbiter[0] was lost due to errors in converting between Newton seconds (SI) and pound-force seconds. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
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by DrScump 7y ago
The Lawrence Expressway store was also walking distance from the original and second locations of the Fry's Electronics flagship store. The current location is only slightly farther away.
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by DrScump 7y ago
(September 2015)
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by DrScump 7y ago
Since each email you send requires a login through your outgoing client (e.g. SMTP), your emailer has to know the server address, security type (e.g. TLS), etc. Most clients configure this the first time you try to send vis that server and
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by DrScump 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20591071 270+ points
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by DrScump 7y ago
What email client doesn't do this? I was using this feature in Forte Agent 20 years ago. Even the basic Samsung Email app on Android supports this.
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The Earliest Farmers Were Also Sailors(sciencemag.org)
2 points by DrScump 7y ago|0 comments
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by DrScump 7y ago
It's so strange to drive up Mathilda and not see the Blue Cube or buildings 101-102 anymore.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Superdiscs weren't difficult to get at all. I had a Panasonic (?) digital camera that had a Superdisc drive inside. Pictures you took would be written to whatever disc you had inside (a regular 1.44mb would fill quickly). There was an
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by DrScump 7y ago
What about Caltrain grade separation, where you suddenly find trains running even with the second floor of your building at many major road crossings?
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by DrScump 7y ago
But they ignore the risks of infill where infrastructure approaches capacity. And much of the infrastructure dates back a century or more. As you infill, demand for water/sewer/gas/electricity increases.
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by DrScump 7y ago
it is illegal to build housing almost anywhere in the state of California. No, it is legal almost everywhere without adjacent neighbors. Most land is unincorporated anyway.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Either the Legislature or an initiative petition drive could put whatever property tax changes you like onto the ballot. Then, you just need a simple majority vote. That's what Proposition 13 was in the first place. For example, you
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by DrScump 7y ago
make users take a photograph of the correctly-parked scooter You can upload any picture of any of their scooters. It's just a picture, and it may or may not have any metadata, or unaltered metadata.
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by DrScump 7y ago
the tax rate never increases But assessed values do. My property tax bill is 50% greater now than 17 years ago.
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by DrScump 7y ago
land value in the US has very little to do with buyers or demand, and is exclusively valued by whatever property transactions happen to occur nearby it I don't understand the distinction you seek to make here. Those transaction
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by DrScump 7y ago
the letter I used as an example was definitely not from a minority person You didn't give a single example, let alone one where you know the ethnicity of the author.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Fortune? The problem is recognizing that appreciation without weathering the crushing taxes. Proposition 5 (portability of Jarvis Gann property tax bases) would have helped, but it was voted down. Take a single person with $1 million in
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by DrScump 7y ago
a half-billion dollar cable car to the Oakland airport ... which was suspended mid-construction for several years. The empty trestles over Hegenberger were reminiscent of the "Freeway to Nowhere" (the 280/680/101
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by DrScump 7y ago
the Expressway System (Page Mill, Oregon, Central, Montague, San Tomas, Lawrence, Capitol) Don't forget Southwest Expressway, that sad little stretch from Stokes(?) to 280 south of San Jose City College. As for San Mateo coun
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by DrScump 7y ago
Source?
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by DrScump 7y ago
PC-NFS let us do our DOS/Windows builds on our Sparcstations using a cross compiler. We did our builds on SunOS and could keep our source repository on SCCS. I still have the retail box and manuals!
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by DrScump 7y ago
am large (6'2.5", 235kg) 235kg is large indeed. Did you mean 235 lbs?
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by DrScump 7y ago
By why doesn't McDonald's pursue them on copyright violations, at minimum?
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by DrScump 7y ago
This appears to be the official app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mcdonalds....
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Ask HN: How do such suspect (counterfeit?) apps survive on Google Play?
1 points by DrScump 7y ago|4 comments
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by DrScump 7y ago
It is also a very Western-centric view, limited to western scales and tunings.
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by DrScump 7y ago
the saxophone doesn't translate well to electronic mediums Perhaps a broader exposure to various saxophones and their players would help. For example, Grover Washington Jr. (e.g. Winelight) contrasted with the soprano sax of Ja

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