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by DrScump 8y ago
It's not "complete crap" given that (a) it's in the paperwork they are given at signup time, and (b) if they are genuinely dissatisfied, they can downgrade back to basic membership and get refunded retroactively to the
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Are Bay Area residential towers too costly to build?(mercurynews.com)
1 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments
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by DrScump 8y ago
Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/YTn6YIwybwM
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by DrScump 8y ago
The tests were of a mockup of a bomb... a dummy bomb with no nuclear material at all, testing only the aerodynamics and guidance of the vehicle itself. We don't even do underground testing of nuclear warheads anymore, just sim
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by DrScump 8y ago
It's not much better. The tests were of a mockup of a bomb... a dummy bomb with no nuclear material at all. We don't even do underground testing of nuclear warheads anymore, just simulations using mathematical modeling.
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by DrScump 8y ago
"It was low-tech, basically the company that transmits the draw managed to record it minutes before, tell insiders the numbers and later transmit the video as if it was real-time." Not unlike the premise of the film, "The Sti
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by DrScump 8y ago
As far as we know, humans' originally competitive advantage in hunting was long-distance running. Game could out- sprint humans but not out- distance human hunters. So, after successfully running down game, they must have had enoug
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by DrScump 8y ago
If this was in the unsecured area, that may not have been an employee, but a stranger trolling for tips.
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by DrScump 8y ago
If there are use cases even now where a roll-your-own solution is best, imagine the 1980s. My first programming roles were in a mainframe shop with a major defense contractor, which had some brilliant mainframe system programmers over t
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by DrScump 8y ago
I had an EVO 4G Me, too! It was my last Sprint phone.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Sunnyvale (current ground zero of Apple) The Sunnyvale housing market may be "ground zero" for Apple due to supply, but Apple's "Spaceship" HQ is in Cupertino. Homestead is the border, except for a small ch
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by DrScump 8y ago
It's not just the zombies that jeopardize your safety in that scenario, though -- the non-zombie self-absorbed idiots inside your building are a factor, too[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Livi
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by DrScump 8y ago
WiMax worked well for me, and I lived in an often-unserved valley. My WiMax would be consistently fast even though voice was marginal in my house.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Not the case with all carriers. Sprint's original "4G" implementation was WiMax and was pretty darn fast for its time. The "4G" status icon meant WiMax then.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Banks were created to serve then-underserved communities. Bank of America, for example, was originally the Bank of Italy, focusing on the Italian immigrant community of San Francisco.
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by DrScump 8y ago
(2013) Original submit, 540+ points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6236478
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by DrScump 8y ago
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-budge...
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by DrScump 8y ago
the last few years under governor Brown have led to a budget surplus for those years no, it wasn't a surplus. 2017 showed a $1.6 Billion deficit [0]. [0] http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-b
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by DrScump 8y ago
California has a surplus now. What budget year are you talking about, where an actual surplus was evident when the budget year closed? Projections are just projections and can be seriously wrong. A projected $2.8 billion surplus[0]
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by DrScump 8y ago
Is there no instruction that just shuts off speculative execution altogether until they can properly bound it?
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by DrScump 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16987412 29+ points
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by DrScump 8y ago
But the chosen quote doesn't support that claim.
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by DrScump 8y ago
...oppose development, it's mostly upper middle class whites Wait for it... 53% of whites (*support* building more housing) Your own quote literally belies your claim. A valid conclusion from that source is that "w
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by DrScump 8y ago
I think the premise is that "older people" don't "need" as much space (interior or exterior) as they did when they presumably were raising children in the home. Then again, few people "need" SUVs.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Overturning Prop 13 isn't realistic since voters are selfish. Overturning Prop 13 for everything but one's legitimate primary residence would be a lead-pipe cinch. Yet neither the legislature nor any deep-pocket funder
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5 feet? Shocking SFO video, data reveal Air Canada plane near-misses on taxiway(mercurynews.com)
1 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments
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NASA's First Mission to Study the Interior of Mars Awaits May 5 Launch(jpl.nasa.gov)
2 points by DrScump 9y ago|0 comments
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BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to San Jose: SJ Sharks Sue Over Downtown Extension(mercurynews.com)
2 points by DrScump 9y ago|0 comments
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Construction costs could limit where homes are built in San Jose(mercurynews.com)
1 points by DrScump 9y ago|0 comments
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Self-driving cars’ shortcomings revealed in DMV reports(mercurynews.com)
2 points by DrScump 9y ago|0 comments

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