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by dmckeon 8y ago
Not to make light of railyard hazards, but: > the union had more than 30 railroad employees take photos of their workplace in an effort to demonstrate the hazards firemen could help navigate around. suggests that the presumably union wor
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Credit card users in the EU have a different situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee > ... interchange fees are typically a flat fee plus a percentage of the total purchase price (including taxes).
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The Trinity device was on a tower, so perhaps more like an air-burst than a ground-level event. edit: 100-foot (30 m) tower
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The proposed chemical mechanism sounds similar to the pattern that led to SSRIs - selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors - in that the brain normally has a balance of counter-acting chemicals, but problems arise when the balance or counte
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by dmckeon 8y ago
One approach to coping with quantum is to run 2 (or more) Firefox profiles, one for the old, or ESR, or pre-quantum executable; and the other for Quantum: /usr/bin/firefox53 -P esr /usr/bin/firefox -P quantum
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by dmckeon 8y ago
Summary of some answers, with my thanks to respondents. 1) US states issue & register marriage licenses. Chaplains could officiate, but would usually expect both parties to be present. 2) Benefits to uniformed services & thus taxpa
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I would have thought more likely to be making progress in additional training, remaining a stable member of the forces, and climbing the rank ladder, and less likely to be out getting into trouble of some kind (no, not every unmarried serv
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1) Doesn't the US military have chaplains who could perform marriages? Why don't they? 2) What additional value does a married service member provide to the taxpayer that is worth an additional $40/day over what an unmarrie
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PR stunt for delivery-by-drone companies: deliver symbolic vaccines to Nome, Alaska, and get video of the competing Iditarod teams along the way. Be sure to keep both batteries & vaccines warm.
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That Fleet Street was once an open sewer explains so very much about the state of newspapers in the UK. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Fleet
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All else aside, the UI/UX issues here are heart-wrenching. The captain preferred a graphic representation, even though it was 6 to 12 hours out of date, over a more current text-based report/forecast. On two occasions, warnings o
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by dmckeon 8y ago
Count the overpasses on I-5 when you plan to widen it. I think that when self-driving cars become typical (say, >50% of freeway traffic) that alternating 2 & 3 lanes and exploiting them with platoons of SDCs may become feasible.
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> Researchers have begun experimenting with using emergency contacts gathered from medical records to build family trees that can be used to study the heritability of hundreds of different attributes, and possibly advance research into d
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Will You Be My Emergency Contact?’ Takes on a Whole New Meaning(nytimes.com)
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I may have put words in the Grimms' mouths here, either from translation or conflation with other sources. Thank you both for the German formulas - there are examples from many languages at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by dmckeon 8y ago
You might want to google feline toxoplasmosis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Parasitology
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Would putting a vertical axis flywheel in a deep basement containment be a good start? Cap with rebar & concrete, or steel like a liquid storage tank - depends on wheel material and failure modes?
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For the non-Disney versions, try: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Grimms-Fairy-Tales/dp/039470... Spoiler & trigger alert - the princess discovers the true nature of the Frog Prince not with a kiss, but by fli
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by dmckeon 8y ago
Discussion at dupe post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17061411
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For anyone with family members at risk, detectors for CO and smoke with 10-year batteries can be had for $40 USD. More information is available from: https://sdinspect.com/health-and-safety/new-law-regarding-ca...
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by dmckeon 8y ago
So: DNS, NNTP, IMAP, RSS? Xor, <whoosh>, as the joke flies over my head.
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by dmckeon 8y ago
This could be a useful variation on a trick for tracking leakage of documents: distribute N paper "copies" of a document to a pool of suspected leakers, each "copy" with tracking data embedded, and when leaks occur, matc
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Many US states require drivers to move over, leaving an empty lane next to emergency workers. Specific state laws vary for law enforcement, fire and emergency medical, highway workers, tow truck operators, and disabled vehicles, but while
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For cats, consider that anyone who stores grain may be very happy to have a few "barn" cats -- not pets, nearly feral -- to hunt small rodents who would otherwise be eating grain, or spoiling it with excreta. I can recommend &quot
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Naming by others in one's social context is described for 5 people in TFA's 3rd paragraph, but the author treats that as self naming. If people call you something, and you answer to it, are you a sovereign defining your own na
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I wonder if the transition from human-driven vehicles to self-driving will bring a resurgence of traffic circles in the US as an intersection that can readily support any mixture of self-driven and human-driven.
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Try 212-244-9392 - Chinese consulate in New York, spoofed, of course. http://newyork.china-consulate.org/eng/lqfw/lsbhyxz/t1486921...
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by dmckeon 9y ago
This was happening in SF in November, 2017. https://sanfranciscopolice.org/article/sfpd-issues-warning-t... Does anyone else find it troubling that scammers and spammers using spoofed calling numbers are doing to the v
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Paper title: Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks: The effects of social recommendations on network diversity https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3178876.3186140
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How social networking sites may discriminate against women(phys.org)
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