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Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed (2012)(citylab.com)
106 points by curtis 8y ago|132 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
I've been doing something similar, but I've been taking it one step further: Alpine's apk package manager will let you treat a subdirectory as "root" and you can install packages there. Then you can write the root
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by curtis 8y ago
There is a big difference between late and not finished at all. Those are all examples of successful big projects.
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by curtis 8y ago
It seems likely that I am not the only person who can't spell Chuck Palahniuk's last name. Edit: Now that I think about it, it might be more accurate to say that nobody can spell Chuck Palahniuk's last name...
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Sorting algorithms, demonstrated with the help of a color circle(youtube.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|1 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
We haven't had the draft since 1973. What's in question is registration for the draft in case we ever decide we should need it again. I think this is largely a moot point, since we're well into the information age, and id
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Why Do So Many Men Have Red Beards but Not Red Hair? (2015)(motherboard.vice.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
The last paragraph of the article you linked: > So, yeah. The maximum price-per-vehicle for a Chevy Volt is $250,000 per vehicle — right now — if you make all the most pessimistic assumptions and the government hands over all their grant
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Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off the assembly line(cbsnews.com)
252 points by curtis 8y ago|279 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc
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by curtis 8y ago
I've wondered if you could do something similar for keeping birds from landing on flat elevated surfaces. I wasn't thinking stripes though, more like reflective holographic surfaces so the birds couldn't even identify the fl
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I Lost Faith in the Industry, Burned Out, but the Cult of the Tool Saved Me(habr.com)
169 points by curtis 8y ago|72 comments
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Zebras’ stripes discourage biting flies from landing(theatlantic.com)
80 points by curtis 8y ago|52 comments
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Amazon Federal Taxes: How the Company’s Corporate Tax Bill Was $0(vox.com)
13 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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The Bicycle Problem That Nearly Broke Mathematics(nature.com)
8 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
Here's another one: "The Parachute That Saved a Plane", https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/01/amazing... .
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by curtis 8y ago
This BBC article about Atlantic ferry pilots might also be interesting: "The pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic", https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34484972 (HN Discussion at ht
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Cessna 188 Pacific Rescue(en.wikipedia.org)
205 points by curtis 8y ago|60 comments
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The Salish Woolly Dog's Hair Was Used to Weave Clothing and Blankets(thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
28 points by curtis 8y ago|5 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
The Zephyr is using Lithium-Sulfur batteries, which have a better energy-to-weight ratio ("Currently the best Li–S batteries offer specific energies on the order of 500 W·h/kg" according to Wikipedia [1]). These aren't c
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by curtis 8y ago
It's not at all COTS, but the Rutan Voyager [1] spent 9 days in the air on it's round-the-world flight. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager
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A Summary of Key Events in Canada's SNC-PMO-Attorney General Affair(reddit.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Hannibal’s route across the Alps (2016)(theguardian.com)
69 points by curtis 8y ago|15 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
Can we get rid of recruiters altogether? Yeah, I know that's an absurd idea, and I don't know any way we could really do that. But we are always going to have problems if we continue to insist on having non-technical people serve
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Student debt a harsh math lesson for US graduates as wages lag(nola.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Why NYC leaders are so thirsty for Amazon (and maybe you should be)(startupecon.wordpress.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
I wonder if the increase in serious delinquency is being disproportionately driven by loans to for-profit institutions. This article addresses the issue directly: "Student debt a harsh math lesson for US graduates as wages lag" -
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GitHub UI(https.www.google.com.tedunangst.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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SpaceX Dragon Crew Demo-1 Flight to Space Station: What to Expect(space.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Flying squirrels glow pink, thanks to fluorescence(nationalgeographic.com)
35 points by curtis 8y ago|6 comments

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