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Seattle was darker this week than during the solar eclipse(seattlepi.com)
3 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
Given the amount of money and resources that goes into recruiting and hiring, I find it hard to believe that the industry is not serious. On the other hand, the current approaches clearly don't work very well, and everybody knows it, b
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Mile into the Wild Walkway(wildanimalsanctuary.org)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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A mysterious boiling river straight out of Amazonian legend(sciencealert.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
I think there might be a use for recording devices which record an encrypted record which can then only be played back as part of a due process investigation. I think the due process requirements could largely be enforced by proper key m
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Mom Faces Jail for Recording Daughter’s Bullies(usnews.com)
6 points by curtis 9y ago|1 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
I've long wondered if it would make sense to have a separate agree/disagree vote for each comment separate from the comment's normal upvote/downvote count. The totals for agree and disagree would be shown on the comment
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Sticking two elevators in one shaft can move 40 percent more passengers(wired.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Half Your Brain Is Alert the First Night in a New Place(npr.org)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
> Nobody will talk with me. They're not singling you out. Seattle people don't talk to random strangers on the street or transit unless there's an actual reason. This aspect of the city is well known: https:/&#x2
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In 1770, the Sky Over East Asia Turned Crimson Red for Nine Days(slate.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
> People say, well you don't have "relevant" experience. I'm not sure they'll even say that. A lot of the time they won't bother to talk to you at all.
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Chilehaus: an exceptional example of 1920s Brick Expressionism architecture(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
> ... with these massive, incredible 1.5 pound burritos... This is the "Mission-style Burrito" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_burrito ). I first encountered them in San Francisco in 1997, where I
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by curtis 9y ago
My knees were touching the back of the seat in front of me. Regardless of the actual seat pitch, I don't think I could take it any smaller. But maybe I'm already out. My next flight is booked on JetBlue even though it probably c
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by curtis 9y ago
My most recent flight was on a United 737-900 with 38 or 39 rows. The seat pitch can't have been more than 30 inches, and might have been 29. It was as cramped as I have ever seen on a 737. But the thing that really pissed me off wa
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The Hottest Human Alive: Nuclear Accident Survivor Harold McCluskey (1984)(people.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Mammals Literally Came Out of the Dark Once the Dinos Were Gone(gizmodo.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Leaning Tower of Nevyansk(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
860.
High Arctic relocation(en.wikipedia.org)
68 points by curtis 9y ago|7 comments
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After a Radiation Accident, Harold McCluskey Is the Hottest Human Alive (1984)(people.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Red River Floodway (Winnipeg, Canada)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Rare Minoan sealstone in the treasure-laden tomb of a Bronze Age Greek warrior(phys.org)
156 points by curtis 9y ago|46 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
You don't even need a complete asteroid. You only need a few hundred or maybe a few thousand tons of shielding material. You could get that from any nearby (relatively speaking) asteroid-like body with a reasonable delta-v and a surf
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by curtis 9y ago
I love just about every one of Robert A. Heinlein's juvenile science fiction novels [1] and still love them as an adult. When I was a teenager, Time for the Stars [2] was probably my favorite, but as an adult, I've come to appr
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Why Did Male Mammoths Get Stuck in Traps More Often Than Female Mammoths?(gizmodo.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Is it possible to implement bitwise operators using integer arithmetic?(stackoverflow.com)
3 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
In the United States, the concept of "ID card" is virtually synonymous with "Drivers License". Surprisingly to many Americans, many other Americans do not have a Drivers License. These people are disproportionately mor
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California Wildfires Burned Irreplaceable Documents on Silicon Valley History(pressdemocrat.com)
237 points by curtis 9y ago|97 comments
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Kotlin Features I miss most in Java(blog.simon-wirtz.de)
147 points by curtis 9y ago|131 comments

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