Gargoyle

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by Gargoyle 10y ago
If the emergency spillway goes, that's 30ish lake-feet of water that would drain uncontrolled. That would likely wipe out a few towns down the river. I think gp was getting to the fact that the main spillway is eroding as well, and it
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
While true, there has also been a tremendous amount of work done on flood control, levees and so on in the Sacramento/delta areas that flooded in 1997. Time hasn't been entirely wasted.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
They said they want to lower the lake as much as possible to relieve pressure on the emergency spillway structure.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Sutter Buttes are a couple thousand feet in elevation, well out of danger even if the whole dam collapsed.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
And if you profit from Google stock/options/rsus/whatever, you're benefiting from this exploitation.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Then don't read articles on a site he owns.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
The real value add here would be an explanation of each piece of legislation. Merely knowing the aye or nay vote isn't very useful without understanding what the resolution is actually doing, and it's usually not obvious to the un
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Tinder for seniors. The one dating segment where the women significantly outnumber the men.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I'm surprised San Francisco doesn't have a number of these. It seems like exactly the sort of thing SF would have.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
If you want the font on your webpage to be larger, change the pattern of magnetic data stored on your hard drive. This is what you need to do. Do you need more specifics?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
>It's the US' problem to find what to sell. If it's trade or war, it's China's problem too.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I don't think they were professional dancers, but I also don't think they were random people. Screened and rehearsed locals seems the most likely.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Describe the new jobs which can not be automated in the near future.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
>H1B abuse is more about hiring someone at near competitive wages and telling them they're working 60 hour weeks and slowly getting rid of native workers who won't stand for that. If the native workers won't stand for it,
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I was amused by this line- >We try to avoid “permanent exclusives” – first but wrong. Funny way to phrase it!
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Sounds like no one is hurt by this then. Let's do it.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
>I've set a goal for myself to get a specific number of friends and acquaintances to run Do you plan to run yourself?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
It's the same people making the content, it's just different people paying for it. Netflix and Amazon are just wave number #928288919 of funding sources for Hollywood.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
It's impossible to talk about politics in a non-hyperbolic way right now, so I've mostly just stopped. I'm not going to stop voting, but I'm going to stop trying to discuss anything, which means I will be much harder to
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
They're being paid a great deal of money on the theory that their jobs have a lot of responsibility. If they choose to ignore whatever parts of that responsibility they can get away with, perhaps they don't actually deserve that
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I enjoy watching Zuck speak because he has interesting perspectives on things that interest me too. But I don't think he has the charisma for a general audience.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
There is this section in the draft order, which presumably could allow for phd students to enter the US as being in the national interest. (g) Notwithstanding a suspension pursuant to subsection (c) of this section or pursuant to a Presiden
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
So I'm confused what has actually happened here. "(epa transition communications direector) said there was no mandate to subject studies or data to political review." Then what is actually going on? This article is very confu
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Another area where there's a glut of highly paid and semi-skilled workers is web developers. Whee!
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Uber knows the pickup and destination of every trip before it begins. Which means they know the route before it begins. Which means they can assess route and conditions to see if they are suitable for autonomous cars. So they roll out slowl
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Uber's main use cases aren't necessarily the "hard miles" discussed in the article.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Democrats will use it in completely analogous ways.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
The fact that it's always been done that way is not a sufficient excuse.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
It's useful as a sort of master list, but personally I'd like a much shorter list that curated for quality and relevance.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Has snark ever been a convincing tool? I think it must be among the very least effective tactics available. The point here is that due to having less contraband, any efforts to restrict the substances can be more effective. If there'

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