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by dbatten 7y ago
To clarify... in the US, the property owner can be held liable for injury that results _from the property owner's negligence, etc._ even if the injured person was trespassing or committing a crime.
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by dbatten 7y ago
Then you end up insuring your canopies against wind damage... And your cars against the possibility of canopies falling on them. And still insuring your cars against hail in the event that the canopy blows off, or the hail comes down at an
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by dbatten 7y ago
I'm assuming your point is that words get shortened for convenience and that that's OK. That's a fair point. It's also true that language doesn't always evolve in ways that make sense, and I get that. With that bein
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by dbatten 7y ago
Am I the only one who still bristles when people say blog but mean blog post? Or is this generally accepted now?
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by dbatten 7y ago
I constantly tack "-pinterest" on to the end of Google searches...
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by dbatten 7y ago
I showed up at the scene of a (small) plane crash yesterday hoping to go for a hike. Wasn't sure what the fuss was about, so pulled my phone out to check local news. Within seconds, a reporter for a local news channel was tapping on my
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by dbatten 7y ago
Your point is well taken, but OP's complaint is still valid. At the very least, whole milk from your local store is less processed by definition than skim milk from your local store...
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by dbatten 7y ago
IMO, your proposed second option leaves ambiguity as to whether "significant" means "statistically significant" or "materially significant." The original option is clear on that point. However, I would argue th
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by dbatten 7y ago
This is broken for me in both Firefox for Android and Chrome for Windows. Any ideas what might be up?
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by dbatten 7y ago
While your point about per-capita production is well-taken, I don't think the original comment was intending to score ideological points. It simply said the Venezuelan crisis was avoidable and happened due to mis-management, not that C
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by dbatten 7y ago
7.100 times would be written "7,100 times" in the US. Using a cloth bag 7000 times at one grocery store visit per week is 134 years of bag reuse.
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by dbatten 7y ago
Also, your phone manufacturer.
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by dbatten 7y ago
I second this. I had debilitating underarm sweat and continually ruined shirts with pit stains. I switched from antiperspirant to a simple deodorant. I sweat SO much less in the arm pit area and I never sweat through my shirts anymore (unle
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by dbatten 7y ago
Not sure what the millennials angle adds to this article, but they sure do say the word a lot. They're asserting that Beyond Meat's success is driven by millennial ethics on the back of... absolutely no data whatsoever. Who's
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by dbatten 8y ago
Yeah... I've never heard VIBGYOR. I did a double-take because this was supposed to be "easy to remember" and that didn't strike me as such, but then I realized it was just ROY-G-BIV backwards. Is this a cultural thing? E
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by dbatten 8y ago
> Now women have to work just to be able to afford a house on two incomes which previously cost only one. I frequently see people argue that you now have to have two incomes to have a normal middle-class lifestyle, but it doesn't sq
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by dbatten 8y ago
This article talks about newer technologies being "more efficient" in terms of the brine they produce, by which they seem to mean that you get more fresh water with less brine production. How is this possible? Your input has a cer
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by dbatten 8y ago
I don't disagree, but I didn't find this in my capacity as a consumer - I found it in my capacity as an employee of a wireless company that has a relationship with this manufacturer. Since I'm using my real identity on here a
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by dbatten 8y ago
I recently man-in-the-middled a smartphone (I won't mention the manufacturer) for work purposes. It was factory reset, with no apps installed (other than what ships with the phone). Started hitting Facebook APIs within seconds of each
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by dbatten 8y ago
Judging by the quotes around overprescribe, I'm assuming the parent comment is skeptical of the idea that we were over-prescribing. Also, they're likely criticizing the whipsaw fashion in which we allowed drug companies to convinc
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by dbatten 8y ago
Weren't there some expensive wars around that time? I think I'm recalling that correctly. Seriously, though, a fairer point of comparison might be the late '60s and early '70s - right when Boomers were entering adulthood
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by dbatten 8y ago
Let me preface this by saying I don't want to diminish what these guys are doing at all... this is an incredible feat, no matter what. However, I'm genuinely curious, and I'm sure other people are as well: Looking at the map,
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by dbatten 8y ago
Saw your email... thanks! I'll check it out when I get a chance.
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by dbatten 8y ago
https://gist.github.com/daynebatten/3e50f718b43a17a0a13694b4...
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by dbatten 8y ago
The methodology used to determine accuracy involved loading GIS data on all property in a given county. Therefore building a nation-wide accuracy map using that methodology would, by necessity, involve loading all property data nation-wide.
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by dbatten 8y ago
To make a nation-wide accuracy map, you'd need to compile property data from every county (or equivalent) in the nation. Assuming every county publishes it publicly (I'm sure some don't), it would still be a ton of work... Th
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by dbatten 8y ago
In case it helps anybody else - we were recently looking for alternatives to Google Maps for reverse geocoding. We took property data from a local county, ran the centroids of a bunch of randomly selected parcels through 4 different reverse
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by dbatten 8y ago
Is it possible that Ancestry's secret sauce was simply threatening legal action? A couple of years ago, I was trying to get some public records from the University of North Carolina. I submitted a request by email, as their website sai
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by dbatten 8y ago
I appreciated this. I've always disliked fade-outs, in particular because I grew up listening to "oldies" (50s-70s music, don't know if the term has changed in meaning since that time) with my dad, and DJs would often fa
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by dbatten 8y ago
Totally agree about the forecast graph... I honestly wish somebody would rip it off so I can look at it on a site that performs well.

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