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by brightsize 9y ago
Free tuition for foreigners as well.
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by brightsize 9y ago
If a compile-to-python functional language might work for you, there's http://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/DOCS.html#pipeline
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by brightsize 9y ago
And Python3 with the NDB library.
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Mark Zuckerberg Might Be the Most Dangerous Presidential Candidate Who Isn't Yet(alternet.org)
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by brightsize 9y ago
I'm a Ham too and I'm wondering if it might be a good time to assemble a crystal radio - no power needed.
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by brightsize 9y ago
I use the http://weather.weatherbug.com app on Android. It appears that they have an iOS version as well. I'm pleased with it and the "Spark Lightning" feature is fun.
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by brightsize 9y ago
Yes, they'd give you all the resources you wanted, because they had tens of millions in R&D funding. https://goo.gl/iHb698 (vintagecomputing.com)
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by brightsize 9y ago
If I understand correctly, Evergreen uses written evaluations rather than grades, and this has evidently worked well for students and faculty for a long time. But are students allowed to petition for changes in these evaluations?
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by brightsize 9y ago
I live in Spokane, not terribly far from this area. The scablands really are spectacular and well worth a visit. The Palouse is simply beautiful. Even here within city limits we have impressive cliffs like those described in the article. I
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by brightsize 9y ago
> These days I'm a handyman. Carpentry, plumbing, painting. Stuff like that. I've thought of doing this myself. I've been DIY remodeling my 100+yo house room by room while preserving the "period" style and have d
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by brightsize 9y ago
> We need to find a way to detach progress from capitalism What, you mean this[0] isn't progress? /s The surge in irregular jobs doesn’t just create problems for the people working those jobs. It’s also led companies to feel
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by brightsize 9y ago
> Why don't you try joining a monopoly game in the middle of the game and see how much you still like capitalism? And/or starting the game with sums of money that differ by orders of magnitude between players.
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One thing about "modern" software development that I find striking is that the process seems to have largely jettisoned user testing. That is, testing performed by humans, usually by teams of testers. Maybe that's still a thi
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by brightsize 9y ago
I was going to comment on this as well. Even in the mid-90s the companies I worked for used PVCS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVCS Not long thereafter Visual SourceSafe got traction in my workplaces. Then along came
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by brightsize 9y ago
>(e.g. the "Muslim ban"). And "sanctuary cities".
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by brightsize 9y ago
Here's one avenue for doing that: https://www.donorschoose.org/
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by brightsize 9y ago
I use BackCountry Navigator on Android for hiking and four-wheeling. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crittermap...
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by brightsize 9y ago
Maple Valley still has infrastructure in place though I'm sure it's rotting away. I drive by there often when I'm back in 05301-land and it's haunting to behold. I think it's been for sale[1] for ... decades ... har
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by brightsize 9y ago
I haven't been in a union, but back in the day my retired father was (and still is) a member of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) which represents "over 93 percent of all working letter carriers"[1]. At one p
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I believe there are four or five brewers in my home town of Brattleboro, population ~12K. And then there's this phenomenon: http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-07-29/how-small-vermo...
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A nod to your username, that's one of my favorite coffee shops on the Wet Side of the state. If one were to make the WW booze pilgrimage I suggest it would be worth also checking out the Spokane fermentation scene. It seems like there&
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by brightsize 9y ago
>Advertisements are a form of free speech. ...that can be regulated: "After passage of the billboard-regulating Highway Beautification Act of 1965, Vermont moved to ban billboards outright in 1968. All billboards were gone from Verm
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"'We're Getting The Hell Out Of This Sewer,' Entire Populace Reports" http://www.theonion.com/article/84-million-new-yorkers-sudde...
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"1GB indefinitely" is the case I think. The legacy GAE datastore allows you to store 1G of data for free over the course of a month. Datastore I/O is charged separately after free limits are exceeded. If I understand correctl
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by brightsize 10y ago
Far more people in the past, say pre-1980, seemed to be able to deal with these phenomena and avoid obesity. 'The average weight for men rose "dramatically," in the CDC's words, from 166.3 pounds in 1960 to 191 pounds in
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There's of course the other "meat": insects. "Because they are cold-blooded, insects are very efficient at converting feed into protein (crickets, for example, need 12 times less feed than cattle, four times less feed th
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Able-bodied and young. "You’ll need to be 55 or under when you apply."[0] [0] https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/options/wo...
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>Under a medieval feudal system You don't have to go that far back in time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patroon
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Yeah, one of these stories is not like the others. '“It just kills me to sit here, and not work, and have the abilities that I do,” he said. “I call it a rainy day that turned into a rainy month that turned into a rainy year.”' He
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> A nonstop stream of toxins just flowing right into our local water tables I thought that sounded familiar. The following is about the Midnight Mine uranium mine in eastern Washington. "The exposed surfaces of rock in the ore piles

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