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by blang 8y ago
I wish Netflix had the equivalent of Prime's x-ray. I'm also very surprised that X-ray does not hi-lite items on the screen that you could click to buy on Amazon (I assume someone is working on this), not saying I want it, just su
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by blang 8y ago
A movie about the wine industry and fraud, Sour Grapes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sour_grapes_2016/ If you want to do long dives anything by Ken Burns, baseball is a classic: http://www.pbs.org&#
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by blang 8y ago
Saw a mid 90s car that looked like that at a car show this summer: http://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=102913&country=uk
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by blang 8y ago
Interestingly it looks like the Michigan bottle bill was enacted in 1978 when $.10 was more like $.40 today
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by blang 8y ago
This is for life insurance, which is a very different product than health insurance. Health insurance is something that pays for things continuously while you are alive to keep you alive and healthy. Live insurance pays your beneficiaries (
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by blang 8y ago
As a fellow Seattle resident the arguments seem to break down this way: (From the left) 1) Amazon contributed to homelessness by increasing property values by paying too many engineers too much money 2) We don't have an income tax, so
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by blang 8y ago
Like these? https://kingcounty.gov/~/media/depts/transportation/metro/tr... https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/travel-opt...
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by blang 8y ago
As in you don't know you are thirsty or you don't have access to water?
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by blang 8y ago
To put into perspective of how tight the Concorde is on space. The Dreamliner that sits in the same room as the Concorde has engines with a fan diameter that is virtually the same size as the diameter of the Concorde's fuselage (112 i
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by blang 8y ago
If you just drink when you are thirsty, you should be fine, it has sustained us as a species for a very long time.
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by blang 8y ago
I also have a couple of kids and have thought this would be a great side effect of getting a Roomba, but then I always think, after I clean up all the toys running an upright would only add 5% more effort to my total clean up time. Then ag
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by blang 8y ago
My guess would be no way for outsiders to access the camera.
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by blang 8y ago
I'm not sure how accurate this data is, but it seems to draw a similar conclusion: https://overflow.solutions/special-projects/each-congression...
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by blang 8y ago
There is also the 1994 mid term elections where Kansas republicans picked up 2 congressional seats and the governor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#House_of...
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by blang 8y ago
Though to be fair the state of new york has lower per capita carbon emission than California, though I think that mostly has to do with the density of new york city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_
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Bitcoin miners to pay more for electricity in central Washington(geekwire.com)
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by blang 8y ago
Typically insurance companies buy insurance against this, it's called reinsurance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance
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by blang 8y ago
I think one of the problems with this idea (which I do find really interesting) is that this type of legislation encourages people the smoke more responsibly rather than encourage people not to smoke, which is what most legislation aims to
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by blang 8y ago
only slightly related: https://www.cartalk.com/content/cowboy-and-consultant
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by blang 8y ago
Looks like king county is getting them for $9/dose: https://www.jems.com/articles/print/volume-42/issue-6/featur...
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by blang 8y ago
The $450 Million was the amount of money they already raised through donations, it's nothing they have to pay back.
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by blang 8y ago
It's also easier, NYU med school has ~530 students, NYU undergrad has ~26,000 students
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by blang 8y ago
There is time for life outside of residency. My wife started residency with a 5 month old and had another child half way through, this delayed her graduation a total of 4 weeks.
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by blang 8y ago
Changing how compensation is structured, would probably be the most effective way to discourage things that might not be needed.
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by blang 8y ago
Not just 19th century: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattles-5-million... less privacy as a design choice seems to be very deliberate
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by blang 8y ago
I've been in your camp before, but generally mopeds are legally defined by maximum engine displacement (usually 50cc, though not sure how that works with electric motors) and speed (50km).
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by blang 8y ago
I imagine they mean not in a retirement account that has restrictions (penalties for drawing money out early) but also has tax benefits
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by blang 8y ago
CNN really loves to write about Millennials and retirement: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=millennials+retirement+site%3Acnn.... My favorites are: https://money.cnn.com/2014/05/02/retirement/r
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by blang 8y ago
I know i've said this before, but I'm 90% sure Ford used to have two separate keys. One for the door and ignition and one that only opened the trunk.
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by blang 8y ago
It was also covered in the nytimes years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/style/keeping-your-car-sa...

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