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by dmckeon 13y ago
The California fast-vs-passing lane pattern also emerges due to two things that California requires that other US states tend not to require: semi-trucks must go slower and keep right. From the handbook cited above, or see also signage on m
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by dmckeon 13y ago
isn't it about time for a New Drug to Panic over? Here you are, a new X/MDMA, just in time for the end of Q3: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/28/us-usa-drugs-molly... More seriously, I
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by dmckeon 13y ago
1) A mismatch between the "2 bedroom" metric and the actual mix of occupied dwelling spaces. 2) Marginal demand - current supply and demand has more effect on currently available properties than on previously existing leases. If
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by dmckeon 13y ago
While the desert dump/evolution in action approach may seem appealing to some, recent experience in the Bay Area suggests that any metal of any possible value - the fence, signs, and any reclaimable parts of the waste - drums or other
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by dmckeon 13y ago
It is an interesting challenge for a PV-curious homeowner - if efficiency is increasing, and capital costs are dropping, and assuming that rooftop cells might eventually need replacing - it is better to cover one's roof all at once wi
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by dmckeon 13y ago
With various sponsors since 2005, mostly recently (and vocally) Google Ideas. It would be interesting to see how entities might draft replacement constitutions differently with access a resource like this.
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Constitute - The World's Constitutions to Read, Search and Compare(constituteproject.org)
2 points by dmckeon 13y ago|1 comments
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by dmckeon 13y ago
I would not describe the ~40% of acetaminophen overdoses in the US that are attempted suicides as "accidental". http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hep.20948/pdf
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by dmckeon 13y ago
The technical and popular terms are at odds, and currently tend to reflect whichever element the user wishes to stress: UAV - Uninhabited Air Vehicle - no "man in the can" UAV - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - same RPV - Remotely Pilote
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Recall a recent hack/heist re ATM withdrawal limits: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2418841,00.asp "The elimination of withdrawal limits enables the participants to withdraw literally unlimited amounts
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Opportunity - segment the market: keep restaurant as is, organize a self-supporting social club for the coffee drinkers & card players nearby, upstairs, or next door, serve coffee, take-out pastries, etc. to club-goers. Details, regula
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Perhaps they thought that explaining discussion threading (by Msg-ID & References) would be too difficult?
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by dmckeon 13y ago
A followup to "We Post Nothing About Our Daughter Online" which serve as an example of a corollary to the Streisand effect, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect thus: challenging a wide public audie
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by dmckeon 13y ago
This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but cd/tar should likely be joined with && - in other words, in what directory do you want tar to (not) run if cd fails? So consider: % (cd /foo && tar cpf - .) | ssh ba
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by dmckeon 13y ago
For the more stylish, white-collar, french-cuffed arrestee (or perhaps kidnap victim): http://www.sparrowslockpicks.com/product_p/link.htm
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by dmckeon 13y ago
From that link: "Students at for-profits account for nearly half of all student loan defaults but only about 12% of post- secondary students," In other words, not so much "half of all defaults" but "at 4 times the
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by dmckeon 13y ago
It's complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarFire_%28navigation_system%...
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by dmckeon 13y ago
A different perspective on a recurring topic. While the title suggests intent, I tend to think that the effect is simply more market-driven than intentional.
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Facebook and Google Are Gentrifying San Francisco Neighborhoods(psmag.com)
1 points by dmckeon 13y ago|1 comments
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by dmckeon 13y ago
OP may want to partner with lodging sites - road-weary travelers may not know where they will want to spend the night until late in the day, and the less expensive motel choices are often in smaller towns on their route, so a "search a
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by dmckeon 13y ago
For most practical purposes, use of a tourniquet implies a choice between death of patient and loss of limb. Part of the emphasis on this choice in first-aid classes is to keep people from over-using tourniquets for injuries which do not po
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by dmckeon 13y ago
In the partial presence of rent controls, and in a market where demand is high and supply low, 'average of rents currently being paid' != 'average of rents for currently available rentals'.
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by dmckeon 13y ago
The C column comes from the rotary dial pattern - but only VI-C mimics the counter-clockwise number layout of the rotary dial (the dial was pulled clockwise and rotated counter-clockwise to make the on/off-hook clicks to dial.) Were t
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by dmckeon 13y ago
23:59 as the default format for times, for clarity, and the rest of the world. Show both formats for departures.
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Car dealerships are often 100% locally owned/operated.
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by dmckeon 13y ago
I use an AeroPress when car-camping, and often show it to other campers if they complain about the difficulty of making decent coffee in the field. A surprising number (1/3..1/2) glance at it and ask: "How do you make coffee
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Wonderful idea, but drop "for old people" and replace it with something less like an elevator pitch, and more like appealing marketing: 'reduced risk' or 'anti-scam'. And then market it to people who are eithe
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by dmckeon 13y ago
People tend to think of education in America as a big vegetable garden, where every sprout can grow to its full potential and find its best utility on maturity. It is more like a lumber mill that produces uniform boards, some with more knot
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by dmckeon 13y ago
People willing to exploit insecure sites may be able to scan faster - legality is a different issue. http://census2012.sourceforge.net/paper.html Starting with one device and assuming a scan speed of ten IP addresses per s
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Fedora seems to cling to the optical media model, where everything low-level is packaged as a CD or DVD image - installs, spins, and so forth. Bloat tends to accumulate to fill up to media sizes, and it is as if USB drives and networks did

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