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by black6 8y ago
This is one of the unspoken rules of the road I learned on a trip to Puerto Rico, only it's not only at traffic signals -- any time a vehicle is signaling a left turn common practice is to slow/stop and allow it to make the turn.
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by black6 8y ago
The GI Bill still exists, for those who serve. The Post-9/11 GI Bill got me through college debt free.
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by black6 8y ago
My children’s art is definitely abstract most of the time.
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by black6 8y ago
Great native ad.
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by black6 8y ago
> That they make bogus claims like: "RF-EMF has been proven to be harmful for humans and the environment." Ever had an RF burn from an antenna? I have. It can definitely be harmful.
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by black6 8y ago
That’s where I stopped reading, too.
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by black6 8y ago
My first grade teacher taught the class that word as the longest in the English language. I remember it to this day.
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by black6 8y ago
I dug into campaign finance when a single state representstive tabled a bill to allow on-site sales at local breweries (the rep had received >$19,000 from AB-InBev over the past 10 years) and one of the things I noticed was that EVERYONE
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by black6 8y ago
If you use it to build homes you provide shelter for more people.
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by black6 8y ago
I read First and Last Men after listening to the bartender in Hong Kong wax poetical to JC Denton about nanotechnology bringing about the Second Man. It was, indeed, a real slog.
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by black6 8y ago
I’d like to see a comparison done against Bob Woodward’s work. As you say, 140 char micro logs are a horrible training set for analyzing a long form essay.
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by black6 8y ago
> Running experiments on the planet we live on is usually frowned upon. Without another Earth to act as a control group, you could say experimenting is technically impossible.
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by black6 8y ago
Most people will always flock to the “free” option that all their buddies are on. It’s entirely possible for me to host streaming video on my web server that I pay for. Hell, it may even be within my skill set to deploy it. But if you watch
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by black6 8y ago
This reflects the sad state of modern journalism. It costs nothing to link to the original study, which is online somewhere, in some format. Nothing, that is, besides lost advert views and potential clicks.
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by black6 8y ago
Rob Reiner.
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by black6 8y ago
FTA: > Obayashi envisages a space elevator using six oval-shaped cars, each measuring 18m x 7.2m holding 30 people, connected by a cable from a platform on the sea to a satellite at 36,000 kilometers above Earth. 36000 km is GEO, so it
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by black6 8y ago
Same issue with Firefox 52.9.0 on Win10. Works in Chrome.
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by black6 8y ago
Ain't like we're limited to 140 characters...
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by black6 8y ago
> I honestly think the american defense contractor industry poses a national security risk. Doubleplusagree. The military-industrial-intelligence axis and their cadre of lobbyists are forever heightening tensions around the world and gre
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by black6 8y ago
> If you have a lot of pure helium gas and a really good compressor you can increase the pressure until the boiling point is high enough to exceed the temperature of the gas, so now you have a liquid helium at an insane pressure. The cr
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by black6 8y ago
> It’s not a zero sum game. The very definition of inequality , unfortunately.
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by black6 8y ago
It’s a problem of motivation, alright? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime, so where’s the motivation? And here’s another thing, I have eight different bosses right now.
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by black6 8y ago
And phase out that nasty bunker fuel ships burn in international waters. But then there’s the issue of what to do with the bottoms from the column.
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by black6 8y ago
The arid locations mentioned in the article are lacking one of the feedstocks for this reaction -- water. I am not an Aussie, so what I know may be wrong, but doesn't Australia already have a water shortage inland?
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by black6 8y ago
We can start by voting against every incumbent on the ballot this fall. Congress continues to act against the public good, except for a few (mostly) Democrats, and they all deserve to be fired. Take it a step farther and vote against anyone
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by black6 8y ago
Link to Lofstrom's paper on the loop, which is need of some editing: http://slides.launchloop.com//launchloop.pdf
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by black6 8y ago
For the space industry, The Space Review[0] is a fantastic, regularly updated collection of essays. [0] http://thespacereview.com/
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by black6 8y ago
Extremely expensive compared to an undeveloped lot...
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by black6 8y ago
“The best phone is a landline, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite!” John C. Dvorak
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by black6 8y ago
I grew up in the Mississippi Delta and still live in the South. The government incentives are to have more kids and no job. Drop your kid on the head or smack ‘em around a bit while they’re young and you get more money on account of mental

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