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by dmckeon 8y ago
> Saturday, and there will be twice as many customers
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by dmckeon 8y ago
Try the US Postal Inspectors: https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/ It may be too old or too small a case for them, but video evidence may help.
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I would think that IR sensors would be a natural choice, more for ‘lost child’ or ‘injured hiker’ than for the simpler ‘lost hiker’ scenario. One of the SAR challenges for lost children is that they might too frightened to leap up and wa
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> Total bill: $48,329, including $848 for the time Winston spent with her doctor. > Winston's health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, paid Stanford a negotiated rate of $11,376.47. > Stanford billed Winston $3,103.73 as her 20 perc
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Different SS, often styled as USSS: https://www.secretservice.gov/
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Here’s a resource for research - questions like yours come up about twice a week. NAS/NVR & wired/PoE are the typical suggestions. edit: also, BlueIris software for an NVR https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNe
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In California, the person registering is the check, since they are completing the form under penalty of perjury. See Section 2111 here: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xh... In the days befo
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by dmckeon 8y ago
Mirror usage in the US was that of the image you reference, and only recently has started to shift. Here is a comparison of the newer (in the US) and older versions: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/how-to-adjust-
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by dmckeon 8y ago
If one is in the area of St. Malo, and has an interest in alternative energy, this is worth a trip: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rance_Tidal_Power_Station Reversible turbines generate on tidal flows both in & o
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> t also has this eco game thing, where you earn “points” when you drive efficiently, and it penalizes you for driving inefficiently (hard acceleration, braking instead of coasting, inconsistent speed). This “game” has transformed the wa
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Recent preferences are for clean dry bare hands for old books: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_890...
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by dmckeon 8y ago
Intermodal are built to stack 9 units high. I’m looking for a containerization system to replace manual hook-and-drop of box trailers with an automatable load, lock, and drive away process that has a lower tare weight penalty than intermod
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If the “Autonomous Truck Port” model becomes popular, I wonder if we will see a highway-oriented version of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_container with a lower tare weight but the same twist-locks and
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by dmckeon 8y ago
and the impact of electronic logbooks - drivers who could have driven an extra hour on Monday and an hour less on Tuesday now have to match their route and good stopping places with the DOT hours structure, or face penalties for violations.
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Did BPS consider applying the changes to only one or a few high schools and their feeder schools? Perhaps the realities of distribution of students among schools in Boston not allow doing such a beta test?
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Agree with keeping the “walk” in sidewalk, excepting wheelchairs & similar mobility solutions for differently-abled folks, but with everything with wheels that can travel faster than a walking pace (say, 5 mph) having the opportunity
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Those raising corn and (soy)beans are at one end of the grain commodities market, and can hedge against the crops they have raised and stored for future delivery. This is why TV and radio stations in the breadbasket states air daily crop p
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by dmckeon 8y ago
tl;dr When the North British Station Hotel opened in 1902, the railway company wanted to give passengers 3 extra minutes to catch their trains. Related: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/27000/why-does-e
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by dmckeon 8y ago
This looks like a UI/UX problem: > The errors, which were discovered more than a month ago, happened when DMV employees did not clear their computer screens between customer appointments. That caused some voter information from the
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More than 23,000 Californians were registered to vote incorrectly by state DMV(latimes.com)
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Autonomous helicopter (AH) - likely, in time. Law enforcement & traffic reporting with AH, a natural early application. AH taxi services, sure eventually. AH for LEO or EMS response to accident scenes or other helo-accessible locatio
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by dmckeon 8y ago
If the pavement below your feet is red, move off of it. Pretend it is hot lava, or stained red with the spilled blood of other naive visitors, if that helps. :-) I recall red pavement from Hamburg, as well - is it a pattern/standard on
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> while hoping there isn't another Deepwater Horizon. At least install an effective blow-out protector.
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People in the USA tend to think that the country has only one set of laws, but in addition to 49 states with generally similar civil and criminal law, we also have Louisiana, with a system of law which descends from the Napoleonic Code, an
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Perhaps the lechuguilla plant? http://www.saguaro-juniper.com/i_and_i/agavesNyuccas/agavesN...
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Check out a lower bandwidth approach: https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...
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It looks like a mount is attached to the bottom bracket, perhaps by a bike shop if the owner is inexperienced with that sort of work, then the cargo bike can easily be attached to and detached from the mount. There are more videos, one of
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The interesting challenges will come when trying to explain to a jury just why any sufficiently esoteric algorithm (AI, ML, DL) choose an action (surgery vs. “watchful waiting”, braking vs. “lane following”, buy vs. sell, etc.) that was t
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Written, mostly, but spoken, not so much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
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Good point. To be more explicit, I'd like to see credit cards with good fraud protection for card-holders, no rewards/points systems, far lower & competitive merchant fees, and minimal fees to card-holders, other than inte

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