QuotedForTruth

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by QuotedForTruth 8y ago
"Since I set the thermostat higher while I'm gone during the day" Aren't you looking for a way to store excess solar power generated during the day? Use it to cool your house! If your house is at 68 when the sun goes do
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
The ridiculous rate at which it is happening is not a normal part of evolution. It is the 6th great extinction event known. [1] Its "sadder" because its preventable. Humans are self aware and know that we are causing this. If w
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
I'm surprised its not just one of the players on the roster. Somebody who played goalie in high school or something. In soccer you occasionally see a hurt or red carded goalie replaced by a field player if the team has already used t
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
One that fits your butt. Basically you want to have your weight on the sit bones, not the tissue in between. Seats come in different widths and shapes to accommodate different shaped butts.
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
And here is the actual opinion PDF: http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/B270172.PDF
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
There is a general solution. Im not sure how you could apply it to creating districts for voting though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaMKInkV7Vs
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
There is space launch insurance. Private companies almost always have it since the risk of a failure and loss of a very expensive satellite is not negligible. However, the government tends not to buy insurance. For an entity as big as the
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
It is replaceable, just not replaceable without expertise and tools. Would you say that most of your car parts aren't replaceable?
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
I'm not sure what you are arguing. People watching doesn't make it any more or less moral, no. People or organizations profiting off the risky behavior of others is potentially immoral. IMO a large part of why its either moral or
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
And people were dying before helmets. The differences in risk between Rugby and football are not because of helmets. Its an entirely different game. There is blocking in football whereas hitting in Rugby is mostly limited to the ball car
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
Also even though Red Bull and other sponsors are making money off other's risk, they aren't actively trying to suppress and hide that info like it seems the NFL has been doing for years regarding concussion risk.
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
Your 5th amendment right not to incriminate yourself of course. But that doesn't mean the TSA have to let you fly. They would just turn you away for not cooperating. Just like they would turn you away if you said they couldn't
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
It doesn't seem to me that a single email should be sufficient to remove their liability for selling these things. They have sold thousands of glasses with the description of being ISO certified and safe to use. They've been sel
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
You should listen to the latest episodes of Reply All podcast. They go pretty far to investigate one of those tech support call centers. There is a part two as well. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/long-distance/
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
Its a listing that excludes candidates with felonies on a job board specifically for candidates with felonies.
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
There is an interesting documentary called "Check it" about a gang formed in Washington DC to protect its gay members from violence. They aren't exactly neighborhood watch though in that they only really look after their own
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
I think the point is he isn't "set for life" like some may expect NFL players to be.
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by QuotedForTruth 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621397
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by QuotedForTruth 10y ago
Another possible explanation for such a rise that I have seen repeatedly given is that the methods and basis for diagnosis changed in the early 90s. http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2015/01/05/
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by QuotedForTruth 10y ago
Sure, throwing one apple core seems pretty natural. But a national park is full of visitors every day. If it isn't a strict policy not to throw trash and food where animals can scavenge it, they learn to expect and rely on it. This
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by QuotedForTruth 10y ago
After reading the OP's linked article, do you see why his female coworkers may have been reluctant to openly and publicly complain about his shirt? "Mia" isn't the woman's real name. She talks about the threats of
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by QuotedForTruth 10y ago
Yes. People exist who may seem like really great bosses and nice people but are also aggressive and entitled with their female coworkers. It is important not to think of sexual harassment as only the skeevy creep who purposely takes advan
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by QuotedForTruth 11y ago
The counter argument is that human labor has an actual cost. That is the cost to keep a human alive and in some level of comfort. Government benefits of many different types have "artificially" lowered this cost. Where employee
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by QuotedForTruth 11y ago
The Rift CV1 weighs 470 grams (this includes headphones). The DK2 is 440 grams. The Vive is 555 grams. So the CV1 is very light compared to the other headsets. A pair of over the ear headphones will add 100-200 grams to the other ones. I
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by QuotedForTruth 11y ago
In cyclocross your pit bike becomes the bike you are riding. They switch bikes out to clean mud buildup off of them. So she never used this bike but only because she didn't have a chance to. They discovered it on the first lap.
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by QuotedForTruth 11y ago
Only if you are only picking two sets of numbers. If you are doing 10k sets, the last set has a 9999/292M chance of being the same numbers as one of the other sets.
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by QuotedForTruth 11y ago
Its not exactly the same but its pretty close when the chances are so low anyways. Playing 10,000 times in 1 drawing gives you the probability of winning the jackpot: 0.00003422297813=10000/292201338 Playing 10,000 times in 10,000 draw
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by QuotedForTruth 11y ago
How can they do this for events that have specific seats. Its not a general admission event. They sold this guy certain seats.
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by QuotedForTruth 11y ago
This would be fine if they weren't advertising a "Fan Protect Guarantee." They are offering additional safe guards or at least the appearance of them to encourage buyers to take on that risk. It is extremely shady when they
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by QuotedForTruth 11y ago
Stubhub also said they'll get him to the game. No mention of changing policy so that it doesn't happen again. Next time it wont go viral and they wont have to fix it. https://twitter.com/StubHub/status/

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