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by DrScump 8y ago
Maine is not called "North Massachusetts" What we call Maine was just a discontiguous part of Massachusetts going into the Revolution.
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by DrScump 8y ago
The latter name is just nonsensical -- EPA is northwest of PA and in a different county altogether. When the Four Seasons opened in EPA, they initially gave the address as just "Palo Alto" but with the proper EPA Zip code, knowi
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by DrScump 8y ago
Or as attributed to Al Capone: "I don't even know what street Canada is on."
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by DrScump 8y ago
Baja California Norte No, just Baja California, or officially, the "Free and Sovereign State of Baja California" (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), according to its Wikipedia entry.
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by DrScump 8y ago
The Baja peninsula includes two separate Mexican states: Baja California and Baja California Sur.
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by DrScump 8y ago
I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords.
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by DrScump 8y ago
More gig workers will be competing for fewer tasks.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Dude. CA minimum wage was more than that in the 1970s .
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by DrScump 8y ago
"Robot runs into pedestrians' shins" better describes many of these cases than "people kicking robots". It seems inevitable that there will be scooter-robot collisions -- a VC nightmare.
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by DrScump 8y ago
( U.K. government)
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by DrScump 8y ago
Did you look at the privileges you gave the Uber app when you installed it on the phone?
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by DrScump 8y ago
the restorers' choices would likely have been in conflict with the artist's original intention Like this, perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(Martínez_and_Giméne...
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by DrScump 8y ago
(Requires LinkedIn credentials)
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by DrScump 8y ago
TL;DR: "The experiment did not show that the implanted mice lost more weight than a control group"
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CA Proposition 13: On its 40th anniversary we look at its history and what’s new(mercurynews.com)
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by DrScump 8y ago
No, that nobles were more likely to get the best surgeons, if non-nobles got surgery at all. Remember, human sacrifice was common[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice#South_America
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by DrScump 8y ago
I wonder if bi-quinary decimal influenced the later Packed Decimal (known as COMP-3 in COBOL), which stored numbers in just over half the space of the text equivalent (e.g. a 7-digit number would need 4 bytes).
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by DrScump 8y ago
It's a year older.
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by DrScump 8y ago
And they didn't consider that their sample was already biased in favor of survivors? Didn't the Inca and their predecessors dispose of their non-nobility dead mostly via air burial and burning?
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by DrScump 8y ago
Transparent, yes. Fast, no. To get back to real mode they had to reset the CPU But from the user perspective (remember when the user perspective used to matter ?), it just worked and gave them power and functionality they'
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by DrScump 8y ago
I used DOS/16M extensively on 286 (one specific example was my home Zenith AT at the time, a 80286 at 6MHz with 0 wait states). This was with all but 512K on an Intel AboveBoard in the backplane.
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by DrScump 8y ago
All of this data is self-reported . As punitive measures for fighting increase, it seems natural that more fighting would go unreported over time.
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by DrScump 8y ago
"A solution might have been to switch back and forth from Protected Mode. But entering Protected Mode on the 286 is a one way ticket: if you want to switch back to Real Mode you have to reset the CPU! Bill Gates, who understood very ea
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by DrScump 8y ago
Are there conflicting codes, though (rather than some just being more strict than another)? Is there no "one best way" that is compatible with all local codes?
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by DrScump 8y ago
property tax is lower for older residents That's incorrect as written. Perhaps you meant to say that "for otherwise equal properties, tax is lower for owners with longer tenure in that property." It has nothing to d
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by DrScump 8y ago
And here's an example in Sunnyvale: All 3 are in San Jose, according to the page.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Unreinforced masonry won't cut it in earthquake country.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Prefab components are mostly used for faster RoI by building quicker ... or by displacing work to places where labor and materials are cheaper (even if mainly due to poor QC and/or compromised worker safety). A classic example
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by DrScump 8y ago
CA where raising local taxes is fiendishly difficult The vast majority of local tax increase attempts (sales tax add-ons, parcel taxes) over the past few decades passed, and on the first try.
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by DrScump 8y ago
PayPal originally paid a $5 bounty for new account referrals.

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