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It's not unlike propane tanks for a grill. You turn in your tank and get a different, filled tank.
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NPR covered that in another recent story: > The fallout from such fear has concerned U.S. doctors for weeks while they have tracked a worrying trend: As the pandemic took hold, the number of patients showing up at hospitals with serious
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Wow, Vox actually did that. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21128209/coronavirus-fe... > reducing handshakes is recommended generally to prevent the spread of colds and flu, but not specific
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Radio Influenza: An Artwork by Jordan Baseman
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The textbook definition of a recession may mean that prices will continue to fall until the recession ends -- in fact, as soon as prices rise it ends the recession. But by that definition, the "great recession" ended in the USA in
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This is why I've stuck so strongly with Ember for web development. Even with the modern edition of Ember, Octane, it's as simple as `ember new my-project` and off you go. No choices to make, no toolchains to configure, just writin
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You're only targeting old 1990s GUI users there, though. If you wanted to also help silghtly more modern users who are used to discoverable-UI conventions from mobile apps, you would have it so shaking your device brings up some form
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On Firefox (Windows), the .hero-media::before element is disabling interaction with the video controls. Add pointer-events: none to the element to fix this.
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I remember before hitting Middle School (maybe in 5th or 6th grade?) my elementary school rotated the classes in groups of three throughout each day as a way to transition to Middle School's much larger un-grouped class transition. By
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I have pretty much never charged my phone and used it at the same time. The cord is too short, and cords that are long enough are unwieldy. Plus, the cord sticks out right where my hand wants to hold the phone. Is this something people actu
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Why do you keep grilling them about Android? They never mentioned Android. They're not comparing iPhone 11 Pro Max to Android phones. They're comparing it to iPhone 6S. And it's not worth their upgrade.
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Second Street | Engineering (Front-End, Back-End), DBA | Saint Louis, Missouri, USA | Full Time We have open positions for multiple roles at Second Street! Second Street is an audience engagement software platform that is used by over 4,000
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In those days I don’t think the electoral college members were bound by law to vote for the president that state-run popular votes determine are the state’s choice. Of course the purpose isn’t being served if the men and women of the colleg
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I decided to delve into their public policy ( https://www.gop.com/platform/americas-natural-resources/ ), and I found this: > Climate change is far from this nation’s most pressing national security issue. That i
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Sure, but every bit of automation that "increases productivity" and "gives more time for other things" naturally ends up replacing those that it was helping -- if not directly, at least replacing potential future hires i
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If my brief glance at the St. Louis City municipal code is correct, St. Louis, Missouri, USA is like this too!
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It's funny, because in St. Louis, MO (often considered a heavily-blighted city by outsiders) the presence of densely-occupied street parking is usually seen as a sign of wealth. Blighted areas instead have what appear to be extra-wide
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There is terrific irony in this comment, encouraging people to read an article about the dangers of piracy... which has itself been pirated on an "archive" site.
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Second Street | Front-End Software Engineer | St. Louis, MO | Full-time | Local preferred, Remote possible | http://info.secondstreet.com/now-hiring-front-end-dev Second Street has an immediate opportunity for a Front-End S
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There are major exceptions to this, usually involving the city's potential expansion zone being bounded by water on multiple sides. Manhattan, San Francisco, and Seattle all have this feature -- and they've all developed into crit
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> [...] we believe there are other factors broadly impacting our iPhone performance, including [...] US dollar strength-related price increases They did address this.
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Second Street | Full-Time Senior Software Engineer | St. Louis | ONSITE, REMOTE (U.S.) for the right candidate POSITION SUMMARY: Are you looking to join a fast-paced team and help lead it to success? Are you a well-rounded team player with
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The entire blog post is about how to over-engineer FizzBuzz for fun and learning.
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Second Street | St. Louis, MO, USA Second Street is an audience engagement software platform that is used by over 3,000 media companies and marketers. Some of our leading-edge products include online contests, ballots, polls, quizzes, sweep
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Oh hey there, you're in our building! We're on the bottom floor, Second Street. :)
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> Unimaginably fast From the article: > I also like the load time estimation found in the bottom right corner -- that's a constant reminder how long it will take the page you're working on to load for your visitors. My resum
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It also doesn't have the same operations/output since one is a squirrel photo and the other is a webpage with English text.
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It also says: > Yet the experience of towns like Ames and Des Moines show that such “labor shortages” might be due to insufficient wages and crummy working conditions > Indeed, across the economy, companies have shown a remarkable unw
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Yehuda Katz - Endurance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYihop9gHj4
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From the perspective of "the retailer is being taxed," then this _is_ taxation (of the retailer) without representation. But of course, almost every retailer passes sales taxes right along to the consumer, so "the retailer is
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