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by biot 11y ago
As the article states: “Lead in Flint is the tip of the iceberg,” notes Dr. Richard J. Jackson, former director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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by biot 11y ago
Given Poe's law, how can you be sure the person missing the satire isn't you?
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Actually, it is foreign investment: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/in-a-six-month-peri... "In a recent six-month period about 70 per cent of all detached homes sold on Vancouver’s west side w
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by biot 11y ago
Both sides are interested in getting a price and, ultimately, it's the person in the weaker position who ends up revealing theirs. Imagine the roof of your house was getting old and started to leak, so you figure it's time to repl
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Ah ok... maybe you have a different usage, but "lip service" is used to indicate "all talk, no action". So paying more lip service to something means they're churning out more empty words without the activity to b
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by biot 11y ago
Aren't you contradicting yourself? If post-Jobs they only pay lip service to quality but with Jobs they actually took action, doesn't that suggest Jobs may have been a positive influence on quality?
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by biot 11y ago
Yeah, I know... but in this case it's almost infinitely better. There were others but Daily Mail had a few more images included in the article, and since the content is from Associated Press anyways I didn't think people would min
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by biot 11y ago
That's a horrible site on mobile... it tries to do some weird app loading thing, wants to consume additional local storage while a percentage counter slowly climbs one percent per second with no content visible. Better link: http:&#x2
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The solution is to mandate explicit maximum noise levels and pollution emissions and budget for random, mandatory testing with large financial penalties for noncompliance. This, in turn, will greatly increase costs to the tour operators in
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by biot 11y ago
Particularly "Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle": http://www.norvig.com/sudoku.html
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by biot 11y ago
That agreement he's being asked to sign is worrying. Either don't sign it or, if you must, ensure it contains wording to the effect of removing all references will be done on a good faith, best-effort basis. Otherwise, one missed
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by biot 11y ago
Why not purchase these items via your company, batch them up into pallet-sized shipments, then arrange for commercial air transportation? You can then provide commercial invoices, cover any duty and taxes, have insurance to cover the goods
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by biot 11y ago
They are slightly tender and the stem can be wiggled a bit. Beyond that, I don't know how to objectively quantify it, but if you know what a perfectly ripe avocado feels like, it's about the same or just a little bit less. They mi
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by biot 11y ago
Avocados are tough to keep at a consistent firmness. Left on the shelf, they go from rock solid to bruised mush in no time. What I do personally is buy ten at a time and leave them out to ripen. When each one is just about to be ripe, I put
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by biot 11y ago
The Guiness World Record holder for typing can sustain 150 wpm on a Dvorak keyboard for 50 minutes [0]. Compare this to the average audiobook: "Audiobooks are recommended to be 150–160 words per minute, which is the range that people c
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by biot 11y ago
It would certainly make for an interesting sci-fi story. Imagine if the large snowfall on the east coast were a higher being providing us instructions on how to fix our planet, if only we knew how to reassemble the information. And the plan
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You're seeing the paint (of each car's color) being atomized upon impact.
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by biot 11y ago
I'm not sure why everyone is being so elusive with their answers. Nipples (on either sex) can become erect when exposed to cold. The band-aids are meant to imply that the women should apply them to their nipples to hide them from pokin
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by biot 11y ago
If you saw this video almost 7 years ago there's really nothing new here. At the risk of being redundant, it should have "[2009]" in the title. Here's an article from 2009 with aftermath pics, etc. showing the difference
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Kind of click-baity, no? Though the title is missing "You won't believe what happens next... developers hate it!"
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On the flip side, an investor puts money into funding an idea which they (ought to) know has a 90% chance of not working out. I don't see anything morally or ethically wrong with saying "I/we gave it our best, but the idea di
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by biot 11y ago
You know what else is crazy? If you find yourself in the position of scaling your dev team because your business is successful, salaries will bite you. If you thought MS licensing was expensive, try hiring senior developers! :)
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by biot 11y ago
I'm sure a few here have run across Stack Overflow. edit: http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture
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"You know how when the credits roll on a movie, it shows a list of songs the movie has licensed? Same goes for software. I have as much ability to influence Instagram as Mozart does to influence the movies his music is in."
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by biot 11y ago
gzipped it's a 9043 byte file when the source is the number expressed exactly as bits. gzipping that 9043 byte file yields a 129 byte file, which gzip can't compress any further. Base64 of the file: H4sICBPHnlYCA2EuYmluegDt0LE
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by biot 11y ago
That's an interesting theory on why time accelerates as people get older. If one's sense of time is the rate at which new patterns are formed, if that rate declines to 25% then 2 years will pass by and it will only feel like 6 mon
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by biot 11y ago
I've always thought that's how memory worked, especially given the way I recall things. Anything you remember is essentially a stored state of sensory patterns. And because those patterns aren't unique, each new thing you lea
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EDIT: (controls were unintuitive on tablet/mobile) It seems like you need to select the shape then tap on the line you want to apply it to. One tap previews the change, a second tap on the same line applies the change; tapping elsewher
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by biot 11y ago
I have a bank you can deposit your money into and invest through. I also have an insurance company that will guarantee you won't lose a dime with that bank. Trust me.
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It could easily be handled in a seamless way. Have a system default, but also let third-party developers build configuration screens to let users choose when, how, etc. they want to adjustments made. Configuration aside, the only time the t

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