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by bigpicture 8y ago
Chicago has a CLT building - the new flagship McDonald's restaurant is CLT and steel. Additionally, a CLT office building has been approved in Chicago and will be the largest CLT building in the United States when finished.
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by bigpicture 8y ago
A) PowerShell was inspired by OpenVMS DCL. B) OpenVMS on x86 is due to be released in 2019 (it's in private beta right now).
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by bigpicture 8y ago
I've driven through wind farms in middle America and for the most part, each tower has a small gravel pad around it with a gravel access road to the nearest public road. Everything in between is farmed as normal. While the overall fo
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> As far as US judicial system is concerned Osama and Pablo are innocent. Osama bin Laden was tried and convicted for the first WTC bombing
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by bigpicture 8y ago
As far as content caching goes, making it built in to the operation system is a win-win situation. It lessens load on Apple data centers and speeds up downloads/reduces bandwidth for customers with multiple Apple devices. The current
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by bigpicture 8y ago
As an example, look at the Comcast arbitration agreement [1]. They do not want to choose. They want it to be either the AAA or a judge making the choice. You might also notice that they are totally fine with you suing them in your local
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by bigpicture 8y ago
Arbiter bias is one of the very few areas in which you can sue to throw out an arbitration award. The entire legality of forced arbitration is predicated on the arbiter being unbiased. The company absolutely has an interest in not choosi
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> But... the author is also a professor at MIT. I feel like if this work wasn’t somewhat publicly funded, it really should have been. This is published by MIT press, but the author (Friedman) is a professor at Indiana University.
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by bigpicture 8y ago
My oven, which is just a plain old GE oven, has a feature in which you set the temperature and cook time, and it will randomly turn on, cook for the prescribed time, and then turn off.
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> These bugs can be avoided by using a template function to infer the destination buffer size I'm a big fan of using strategies to avoid bugs. Another strategy than can be a big help is to spend a little time thinking about what ki
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Last witness to first nuclear reaction dies at age of 94(news.uchicago.edu)
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> Do you trust the inflation index Keep in mind that while "the news" reports only a single "inflation" number, the available data is quite granular and is available for a large number of geographic areas[1] [1] http
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> This is probably an exceptional rate of change for the _vast_ majority of static sites. I also doubt that many static sites have much "overhead" related to maintaining nginx config files and Let's Encrypt certificates.
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> I am also really hoping for razor blade tipped ramming drones In my high-rise neighborhood we have peregrine falcons. That's pretty much the same thing.
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> Put it on a train, unless it will spoil? Oh yes, there will always be exceptions. But it will have to cost more. There is no escaping that.
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by bigpicture 8y ago
I can corroborate, but the central issue once again is pay/working conditions. The pricing assumes that long-haul truckers don't get paid much and it assumes that they will drive up against the legal limits and it assumes that th
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by bigpicture 8y ago
I work in Chicago and our office of 75 people has 2 dishwashers, 3 refrigerators, 3 microwaves, multiple drawers and cabinets full of plates, drink ware and utensils (including chef's knives and other cutlery). It's not even hard
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> virtue-signalling survey Oh, well in that case... I probably read an average of 4 to 5 books a day (to my young children) while drinking fair-trade coffee, on my American-made couch with vegan-friendly upholstery, lit by energy-effici
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by bigpicture 8y ago
I can't answer as a CTO-like person, but I'm in an Architect-type role and deal with our CTO-like person on a daily basis. The high-level management cares only about "The Big Rewrite" because it is the only thing that ge
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by bigpicture 8y ago
The City of Chicago and Cook County are two very, very, very different government agencies. Fun exercise: Bring up Google Maps and type in 'Chicago City Hall'. Zoom in on the satellite view. The east half of the building is Coo
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> But I have a hard time accepting that swimming shorts, is to swimming as shoes are to running. Oh, it's huge. These new "tech" suits are big and you now see them in competitions for young kids. Some states have banned
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by bigpicture 8y ago
In the context of a retailer, "high turnover" means that individual products spend very little time on the shelf before being sold, and they are replaced with new products very quickly. For LIDL that means places where they have
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by bigpicture 8y ago
What you are asking for existed 100 years ago. Cheap oil killed it. Oil isn't so cheap anymore, maybe it would be viable again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
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by bigpicture 8y ago
I don't think economists agree with the concept of Big Government. Here's an entertaining back and forth between Thaler and Gene Fama about the efficient market theory [1]: > Q: So policy makers should use bubbles as a way to
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by bigpicture 8y ago
I own two parking spaces in a private garage on the edge of downtown - have one car and rent the other space. 5 years ago, I could rent it for $300 per month with a waiting list of people that want it. Today I am renting it for $200 per m
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by bigpicture 8y ago
Michigan is not known as a big farming state. I don't know why. Tons of Midwestern agriculture data available here: https://www.chicagofed.org/research/data/ag-conditions/index This also includes links
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by bigpicture 8y ago
Of course they are. A firm-wide email celebrating the "successful" conclusion of a litigation and naming specific associates who did important work is primarily how associates gather the necessary recognition to make partner. The
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> Winters are usually bad for at least 2-4 weeks sometimes much more. Weather constantly changes and can be unpredictable. Chicago is the same. Lake Michigan has a large impact on weather patterns. Grand Rapids on the east and Chicago o
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by bigpicture 8y ago
The Blue Line isn't a train to the airport, it's a commuter line that just happens to have an airport at one end of it. Airport-bound passengers have luggage that takes up space, blocks aisles and seats, etc. Moving them to a ded
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> Are developers expected to build those? Sure, maybe. Offering to build them for the city is a great way to build goodwill for your project. If you want to see the ridiculousness of building in the Bay Area, however, you only need to c

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