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by abruzzi 12y ago
Most of this, pre-eBay. The article mentions conventions, but I wonder what the primary avenue for his sales was?
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by abruzzi 12y ago
But farmers aren't the only consumers of water, so is everyone that lives in CA. The issue as I see it is the drought combined with agriculture combine to drive the price of water up and it's unlikely the corrective (forcing farm
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by abruzzi 12y ago
That one is all over the net though. You can even view the original patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US3475623
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by abruzzi 12y ago
The biggest problem with MVNOs is that they generally only get access to lessor company's towers, and not to any roaming agreements the lessor used to augment their coverage. The most obvious example is Sprint users have coverage in M
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I'm not sure I'd call them cliches, but the kind of one dimensional portrayal of the various marine characters. For example the Bill Paxton character--he starts the film the most outwardly bloviating and macho, and becomes the mos
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I think the photos of Archimedes and Isaac Newton are inaccurate. Edit: seems to be a bug in iPad safari causing the wrong images to display...
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by abruzzi 12y ago
In my case, I live in a city of 200,000 in the lower 48, and according to Tesla's website, the nearest open access charger is 347 miles away. Now I expect those numbers to go down, but currently, a Tesla would be a toy and not a viabl
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I suspect the vast majority of people who drive cars until they fall apart are not buying the car when new, so aside from propping up resale, those users are not terribly relevant to manufacturers.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
As a regular visitor to the Grand Canyon, this saddens me, but fortunately the Grand Canyon is big, and even if this gets built, there are still plenty of places where you can visit the canyon and see next to no development, such as Torowea
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by abruzzi 12y ago
One offhand sentence in the article articulates my biggest fear: specifically about scientists getting involved in advocacy. I fear this would create a dynamic where the science is written off because it is too associated with a cause of
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Museum Rules: Talk Softly, and Carry No Selfie Stick(nytimes.com)
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by abruzzi 12y ago
1) when I read the offending tweet at the beginning of the article my first thought was "she's making fun of clueless white/rich people traveling abroad." (If you've traveled you may have bumped into this not-uncom
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I don't count my rereading, but for good books, once is never enough. When I got the the end of "Satanic Verses" for the first time, I was so taken, I started it again the very next day. Similar with "Against the Day&q
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Yup, they used MIPSpro compiler but it cost extra. And my recollection was that gcc wasn't fully functional without MIPSpro installed.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Which is sad because ESRI desperately needs some competition. It always feels about 10 years out of date.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
The problem I've found is the algorithms for detecting taste seem to struggle greatly the further ones taste deviates from the norm. I find Netflix's recommendations to be fundamentally useless and is always reccomending things i
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by abruzzi 12y ago
In the us all tires have a number stamped in the rubber that indicates the year and week of manufacture. This has been there for a very long time. I'm sure the idea was efficient inventory management more than anything (easier to rea
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Im a dabbling electronic musician, so I understand a lot about keeping very old technology functional in the modern world. A lot of these old synths (all mine are digital synths) are irreplaceable with newer technology. My stuff goes as f
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Or the Cathode Ray Mission from Videodrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJzbgfaFANg
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by abruzzi 12y ago
thats a great line. There are all sorts of secondary meanings that could be added by new connections. Yes, easily broken, but also inconstant (dropped calls), easily distracted. This is very much like the whole authorial fallacy. Meanin
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by abruzzi 12y ago
"The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel" -- That is one of the all-time classic opening lines. It is also something people will gradually lose since most people no longer have that grey static
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by abruzzi 12y ago
> Yeah, I like metric but I still prefer my beer measured in pints. Its funny. Orwell was against the metric system, so there is a small amusing scene in 1984 where on the proles (an old man) in a bar complains that he hates liters of b
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by abruzzi 12y ago
> A future Congress could overturn it Short of a constitutional amendment, any congressional action could be overturned by a future congress.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Nice starting point, a few comments/suggestions: 1. When I first make a connection, the application window jumps to full screen size. This is very annoying. I running on a 4k screen with 1:1 pixels, so that is far more real estate th
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by abruzzi 12y ago
This a bit of an aside, I have slight astigmatism, and I have some prescription glasses in a drawer somewhere that I haven't put on in ten years. Fixing my less than perfect vision is not worth the hassle of having to wear a device on
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by abruzzi 12y ago
My thermostat recently died so I had to replace it. Looking at my local Home Depot and Lowes, I could spend $300 for the Nest or $24 for programmable weekday/weekend device. I would have been happy to pay a premium for better technol
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I'd like to see a test fire video of this. The question I have is how long is a damaging shot? In rough seas the boat can rock and pitch. If the shot has to continue for several second, you would probably need to stabilize the assem
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by abruzzi 12y ago
>To achieve an explosion you have to induce super-criticality with very precise timing. Otherwise the uranium will melt and become sub-critical before it explodes. True, but the complexity of the Fat Man plutonium bomb (shown in the link
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Not a war character, but Ranulph Fiennes has led a very interesting life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph_Fiennes
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by abruzzi 12y ago
While there are absolutely benefit of a system like this for legal sales, the problem is most sellers of legal goods have many existing outlets that they can use. While they might not like the fees, most accept them as the cost of doing bu

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