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by chiph 6y ago
Also Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was attacked for suggesting that doctors wash and change clothes between doing postmortem exams and new births. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2675443/
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by chiph 6y ago
German is also famous for stringing several words together, so you will also see "Herr Doktoringenieur" for someone who has a PhD in engineering. And is even more right than a regular Herr Doctor because he is also an Engineer.
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by chiph 6y ago
Bitcoin (and the other coin systems) ultimately need to be able to handle transactions by a large number of users if they are to gain widespread acceptance. If I want to buy something with my coins, I don't expect to see "Sorry yo
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by chiph 6y ago
> The upshot is that if you set the thermostat to warm the lower 2 floors to, say, 65F, the 3rd floor main bedroom will be intolerably warm and dry. Every townhouse I've ever lived in had this problem. The thermostat is on the grou
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by chiph 6y ago
That depends on your timeframe, acceptance of risk, liquidity needs, and the other usual suspects. I will reevaluate my decision in about 6 months, so I'm happy to keep it in cash for now (earning bupkis, but very low risk and easily
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by chiph 6y ago
One of the reasons r/wallstreetbets got created was they felt that the buy & hold strategy wasn't going to work for them (hurt from the crash of 2008, were being taken advantage of, general disillusionment, etc.), so they&#x27
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by chiph 6y ago
My UPS will occasionally go on battery because the incoming line voltage crosses it's "too-high" threshold (127V). I sent the power company a dump of the logs and requested they adjust the tap on my house's transformer.
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by chiph 6y ago
Hot summers. Well, yes. It's Texas. I saw 113F one time. High cost of pool maintenance & landscaping. Most people scoop their own leaves out & add chemicals. Also, xeriscaping is a thing so you don't have a $500 water bi
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by chiph 6y ago
> They seem to be very focused on giving developers what they need, but only to a point. This may be a consequence of the consent decree they signed in the early 2000's, where it was alleged that they used their control of Windows A
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by chiph 6y ago
The film with Tom Hanks just scratches the surface of everything that went on. Worth watching, with good performances by him, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472062/?ref_=nv
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by chiph 6y ago
I was thinking that European bison were smaller than North American bison, but according to Wikipedia, not really. European bison have less variability in weight (800-1000kg) but American bison can be heavier depending on the individual (40
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by chiph 6y ago
My brother-in-law lives on the coast and had some property on an inlet. An alligator started hanging around and was getting too close to the children. He consulted with one of the local game wardens who told him "If there are kids thre
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by chiph 6y ago
I'm now seeing occasional usage of "the" in the southeast: "Sorry, traffic was backed up on the I-77." I'm not sure if that's the influence of much of the media we absorb being created in Los Angeles, or C
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by chiph 6y ago
Enron made the utilities pretty skittish with regards to market-based pricing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ejzBYus8qE
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by chiph 6y ago
A couple of years ago they ordered 20,000 Sprinters from Mercedes-Benz for the US delivery fleet. Previously, MB were selling about 27,000 yearly, so this one order tied up the factory for almost 9 months. https://www.trucks.com&
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by chiph 6y ago
> or a facility/premises designed by the governor Interpreting this in the worst light -- this could be a jail or prison if the governor has designated such to be where people charged with violating this law are to be confined. But
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by chiph 6y ago
The ones that could are probably too heavy to be 50 stories up. Figure the typical sporting-goods store gun safe weighs about 350 lbs (159 kg) and isn't really all that secure (a sawzall with a metal blade can open them). They don&#x2
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by chiph 6y ago
Maybe they're different now, with Mary Barra in charge. But previously they would flit from idea to idea, never fully committing. Like the Hy-wire concept. If you look at it's "skateboard" battery design, it's essen
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by chiph 6y ago
A coworker in Austin had a Subaru with the EyeSight system, and it would hard-brake on RM-2222 when it saw the rock walls in a curve. Presumably the "obstacle" took precedence over the fact that the road was curving. She pretty mu
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by chiph 6y ago
Bellsouth took a few days to get my ISDN up and running and it worked great for about a year [0] - then it went down and they couldn't get it working again. Bonded ISDN channels at 128kbps was amazing - fast, and no waiting 15+ second
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by chiph 6y ago
Lexus was first with the absurdly large grills with their "Spindle Grill" design around 2014. BMW was next with the 7-Series and X7, followed quickly by Mercedes.
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by chiph 6y ago
The extended warranty folks are getting vehicle registration data from the DMV. Although, I wouldn't put it past a dealer to open a new revenue stream selling customer data too. (I'm still getting "Your warranty will expire s
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by chiph 6y ago
Because troops may not follow an officer they don't trust and respect. When I was serving, I once came across a unit who didn't respect their commander. And the unit was pretty fucked up as a result. They weren't effective, t
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by chiph 6y ago
Likely for people with Chinese heritage or relatives. It's clean, orderly, and it's super easy to start a business there.
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by chiph 6y ago
Brownout is the commonly used term for this.
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by chiph 6y ago
The AF uses muscle cars to chase it down the runway as it lands to give the pilot feedback on their height above the concrete. They have to stall it from 2 feet up (61cm) to have a successful landing. If they do it from 4 feet up (1.2m), t
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by chiph 6y ago
Depends on the state & locality. Places like Virginia where having a radar detector is illegal (and the police have detector-detectors) and going 20mph over (32kph) or faster than 80mph (128kph)[0], gets you charged with reckless drivin
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by chiph 6y ago
(not a rocket scientist) They didn't need the thrust once they lightened the rocket by burning most of the fuel.
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by chiph 6y ago
Benji Smith, who used to hang out on Joel's software forum, was on the Costa Concordia with his new wife when it ran aground and sank. Being on the high-side of the ship helped them survive, using a rope they found to climb down the hu
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by chiph 6y ago
The American Society of Civil Engineers had a presentation from Dr. Angus Law, a UK lecturer in fire safety engineering. There are lots of engineering details covered about why it spread so quickly (approx. 30 minutes from a single room fir

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