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by ddoran 9y ago
She said "Nunn-McCurdy breach" cf [1]: <The Nunn–McCurdy Amendment> "requires notification to the United States Congress if the cost per unit goes more than 25% beyond what was originally estimated, and calls for the te
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by ddoran 9y ago
> Don't plan to drive anywhere on eclipse day This. I watched a total eclipse in England in 1999 parked up on the side of the road with other cars doing likewise as far as the eye could see in both directions. Traffic was at a stand
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by ddoran 9y ago
My Choc Chip Clif Bar says 10 of its 65grams are protein with approx 10% of daily values of quite a few vitamins #NotADoctor
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by ddoran 10y ago
> discounting welfare issues, you can do what you want with them if you're the owner I'm not sure what you mean when you say "discounting welfare issues". Sure, if you discount the laws that protect dogs, they're
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by ddoran 10y ago
Interesting timing. This article was referred to by a founder of Sir Kensington's ketchup (subsequently condiment) company in an interview on NPR founders series "From Scratch" [1] on Mar 27, 17. He mentioned that this helped
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by ddoran 10y ago
And a small European country like Ireland doesn't get its own Amazon store so they have to rely on Amazon.co.uk, where everything is priced in Sterling (not Euro). Irish customers can't avail of Amazon Prime, shipping times take l
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by ddoran 10y ago
The FAQ says that soldering is required on all projects. Online instruction is given etc.
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by ddoran 10y ago
Did you read the article? The no-bag fare will be equivalent to today's lowest fares. People carrying bags will pay more. This is not a new lower tier. > But those who choose the cheapest fare are unlikely to be making any savings.
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by ddoran 10y ago
This brought to mind the case of Peter Bergmann (an alias). He went to the Northwest of Ireland and took his life by walking into the sea. Before he did so, he made strenuous efforts to ensure his real identity would never be discovered. [c
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by ddoran 10y ago
It's not all positive. Gun makers Smith Wesson [SWHC, -16.13%] and Sturm Ruger [RGR, -14.44%] down massively on the day as Trump supporters won't be rushing out to take arms against a Democrat government they refuse to recognize.
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by ddoran 10y ago
I'd argue in the face of multi-billion dollar marketing and truthiness by Big Food (e.g. creative ways to include sugar on a list of ingredients to distort the volume of its content) , that many adults also "lack the ability to fu
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by ddoran 10y ago
> "The Atlas of Early Printing is an interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century." [ https://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu&
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by ddoran 10y ago
>But 1-on-1 advising doesn’t scale. In the right market, it doesn't have to scale. I know some wealthy people (in NYC) who have dropped a lot of money to get their kids into Ivy League schools. It is a must for those people and I&#x
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by ddoran 10y ago
Competitor Group are being sued in a class action lawsuit [0] by a road race volunteer claiming that volunteers were actually laborers being exploited by the defendant and in breach of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Competitor Group argued f
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by ddoran 10y ago
Time series databases are critical in financial institutions, storing end of day (or much more frequent) marks for example. The advantage of such databases is not just their ability to store temporal data natively, but the built-in function
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by ddoran 10y ago
No matter how much the Apple hardware may catch-up with Garmin etc's capabilities, Apple's closed system is at odds with the data mobility sought by most advanced Garmin/Suunto users that I know e.g. to/from Strava, MapM
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by ddoran 11y ago
He died April 1992 - not quite 25 years ago.
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by ddoran 11y ago
I don't like the announcement and I hate how they've done it. Under the signature on the blog announcement, they've added 13 paragraphs in the HTML source to bury the comments off the page. On OSX Safari and Firefox, I see no