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Chicxulub asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming(newscientist.com)
1 points by DrScump 8y ago|1 comments
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by DrScump 8y ago
... which makes it a bit easier for kids. It was common in areas like East San Jose for kids to work strawberry farms below age 16, when more conventional W-4 jobs become an option. There was a huge strawberry field behind Piedmont Middle S
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by DrScump 8y ago
Exactly. That's how the "mortgage crisis" happened. In such cases, "forgiven" debt is taxable as regular income in that year, which adds another layer of problems.
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by DrScump 8y ago
they can always sell the house and take the loss. If the proceeds aren't enough to pay off all mortgages, it's not so simple.
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Strandbeest – Wind-propelled kinetic sculptures appear to “walk” along beaches(youtube.com)
1 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments
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by DrScump 8y ago
... especially since SF is clamping down... hard . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17148644
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by DrScump 8y ago
(September 2012) Actual title: "That Gut Feeling". It's about a lot more than serotonin.
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by DrScump 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17119473 50+ points
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by DrScump 8y ago
John Batchelor interview of “Farewell Titanic” author Charles Pellegrino: https://audioboom.com/posts/5461925-how-could-a-coal-fire-si...
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Coal Fire, Not Just Iceberg, Doomed the Titanic, a Journalist Claims (2017)(nytimes.com)
1 points by DrScump 8y ago|1 comments
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by DrScump 8y ago
Microsoft Security Essentials. Free, auto-updating, and you forever avoid the extortionist dinning renewal scare tactics of the commercial products.
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by DrScump 8y ago
The 3B series was an odd assortment. The 3B1 AKA "UNIX PC" AKA "PC 7300" wasn't even Intel inside, it was Motorola 680x0. The true 3Bs (3B2/3B5/3B20) had WECO processors. (The first UNIX machine I used dai
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by DrScump 8y ago
But wouldn't that reveal who its owner is?
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by DrScump 8y ago
I would think that 27 years of such capital investment, if genuine, would result in some tangible, visible effect.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Lots of retailers accept payment via PayPal. (PayPal has its own negatives, but it protects against this particular scenario).
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by DrScump 8y ago
Even basic, sloppy sterilization practices can transmit HIV, Hepatitis C, etc. in a dental office: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/60-oklahoma-dental-patients-te... Let alone allegedly deliberate infection, like the earl
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by DrScump 8y ago
Or at least pier -reviewed. I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords.
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by DrScump 8y ago
This judge is a distinguished graduate of U.C. Berkeley, a former clerk to Justice Breyer, and an Obama appointee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Chhabria
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by DrScump 8y ago
(October 2016)
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by DrScump 8y ago
Not even. It was killed in committee , as only two of nine Democrats supported it. Half the Republicans on the committee voted Aye; only one voted against.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Most of driving difficulty boils down to proper handling of all the edge cases, including hundreds of opportunities for human error. An error in voice recognition means you get shipped dowels instead of trowels. An error in automated drivin
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by DrScump 8y ago
profitable for cities to have jobs inside their borders but a money loser to have housing This is unrelated to Prop 13 and predates it by over a decade. Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, etc. all focused on industry and jobs whil
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by DrScump 8y ago
it needs to create 2,000 more residential options for those employees But that's not how it works because they can't discriminate in housing that way. If they build 2,000 homes and put them on the market, most won&#x27
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by DrScump 8y ago
Tolkien was more influenced by World War 1 than WW2.
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by DrScump 8y ago
I highly recommend the three-part John Batchelor interview[0] of the Zaleskis on their book about the Inklings (including Tolkien and Lewis): [0] https://audioboom.com/posts/4420047-the-fellowship-the-liter...
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by DrScump 8y ago
Playing with something new should be as simple as unpacking a tarball and rm -rfing the directory when done. Needing a single install script before, and uninstall script after is acceptable.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Where, specifically, are you seeing decreasing rents in SOMA?
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by DrScump 8y ago
can someone explain what I said wrong? For one thing, you are assigning powers to "homeowners" that they do not have. Homeowners don't control zoning or other policy; politicians, and the bureaucrats they appoint, do.
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by DrScump 8y ago
The relatively fixed supply of rent-controlled apartments is a random cost-of-living subsidy for low-income workers Rent-controlled units are generally not preferentially occupied by low-income workers. They are generally first-co
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by DrScump 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17044397 11+ comments, including why the title is clickbait

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