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by dmckeon 14y ago
5. How long does it take to charge given roadside assistance resources? Or will the owner just call AAA for a tow or flat-bed to a charging station? 7. If you leave the car in a garage for 6 months is the battery bricked? What is the dis
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Who owns the IP of the program? (you, your friend, his employer?) Does the program contain anyone else's IP? Do you have a business model to extract revenue from your program? Have you considered selling a service rather than a license -
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Straight line border segments for nations seem to correlate well with borders determined by treaties between colonial powers. Dragging all the red outlines to the equator was a big help. Initial placement of red outlines in oceans might mak
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by dmckeon 14y ago
"GPS-equipped free-range cows that can be nudged back within virtual bounds by ear-mounted stimulus-delivery devices" The developer is working in the northern Chihuahuan desert, where the bearing capacity of livestock rangeland can be expre
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Did you see the light turn yellow? How long does this light stay yellow? Is this the first of a sequence of timed lights? Is the intersection photo-enforced? Can you enter the intersection before the light turns red? Will spe
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by dmckeon 14y ago
I read this as: 18% of 110 is 20. If they started with 4 and hired 18, that would be a "four and half times" increase (perhaps modulo replacement or non-FTE hires). In any case, good for Etsy for investing in training rather than just spen
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Not a Cal student, but Cal & the UC have a number of pages about copyright, including: http://ipira.berkeley.edu/uc-copyright-policy IV C. Student Work A student work is a work produced by a registered student without the use of Univ
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Here's a first-person response from the person who posted the receipt and was fired: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/01/fired-ap...
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by dmckeon 14y ago
The url for all 6 pages of the article in one is: http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-12-16/news/the-worst-run-big-ci...
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Here's a more detailed description: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-18-kde.html
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by dmckeon 14y ago
FTA: Condon continues, “most individuals have no idea this is happening. Any post made by Facebook on your behalf is completely invisible to you, and only shows up in your friends’ & family’s news feed.” That choice and the responses
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Based on this article and those about the failure the Romney campaign's get-out-the-vote tool, "Orca" [0] my reaction is that one campaign built usable tech over time, and the other tried to purchase it on deadline. One system was diverse
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Here you go: contest: https://www.facebook.com/pages/CDC-Flu-App-Challenge/1463487... app: https://www.facebook.com/helpremedies/app_177924539013408 The app seems to have gotten a lot of coverage in popular media. I haven't used it, so
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Simple (& naïve - NAL) fix: Equal budgets for more equal justice. If assets are frozen, require the prosecution to estimate what they will spend prosecuting the case and to unfreeze assets of the defendants' choice at least equal to the
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Car commute routes often have more-or-less parallel routes better suited for bicycling. If you are pedaling on the same route you would drive on, it is likely to be well worth spending some time trying to find a more suitable route. I wou
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by dmckeon 14y ago
In a bash session (bash 2.05 or later): $ hash | sort -nr | less shows usage counts and full paths of executed commands.
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by dmckeon 14y ago
If the engine has adaptive ignition (retards spark in response to pinging/detonation) then using lower octane fuel in a higher-compression engine may not result in engine damage - just less power. OTOH, using higher octane than the manual /
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Easy access to a high-risk environment is a significant element of this story. Two lift trips to an expert ski area run is a low barrier, several hours of hiking/showshoeing to a backcountry run is a much higher barrier. When only two lift
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by dmckeon 14y ago
How about formatting the ternary thusly: value = test ? (some_value * multiple) : false_value;
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Perhaps it is a politically-correct version of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_fire_drill which includes the substitution of mere activity (all hands on deck & running around) in place of the desired results.
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Also note that the Panama Canal system is set to expand by 2015, and that US East-coast ports are already expanding their cargo capacity in expectation of more & bigger container ships, routing Pacific->Panama->East rather than
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Well, that's quite a wall of text. If you want to make it more persuasive, you might want to break it up into linked pieces: professions and professionalism corporations ethics competence exams Re the fishing boat oper
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by dmckeon 14y ago
On-line voting is not impossible, but people tend to see the "I marked my ballot" part and ignore the rest of the voting ecosystem. Registering voters implies maintaining a registration DB, and handling moves, deaths, changes of name, chang
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Wave damage from arriving wave(s) occurs approximately along the line of the (sea or lake) shore, with focusing by any underwater landforms, but when water on or above land begins to flow back down to the shore, its free flow is moderated b
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Turns out there is a crowd-sourced alternative with a thriving community: http://www.findagrave.com/ "Search 88 million grave records"
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Not my politics nor bigotry, thank you. I'm just thankful that some entity came up with a generally usable standard, rather than 20+ competitors in the software market all rolling their own incompatible or non-exportable data store. I ha
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by dmckeon 14y ago
> A bit like facebook for the dead :-/ How long until Google announces "Street View for Cemeteries"? Start with whatever paper or digital records are available for each cemetery, then scan each area of the cemetery, with multi-s
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by dmckeon 14y ago
That the microfilming was accomplished is invaluable - and I understand that the typical offer to various records-keepers from the LDS family history folks was: "We'll pay to microfilm your records, you get a copy to keep, and the LDS gets
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by dmckeon 14y ago
US and UK court idioms vary widely - a US defendant would be "on trial" while a UK accused would be "in the dock" Any witness would "on the stand" including a defendant who is called as a witness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_sta
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by dmckeon 14y ago
If you have lower back issues, each speed bump is painful, no matter how slow you cross it. Also, barriers can make a neighbourhood arms race - street A gets speed bumps; traffic diverts to B & C, who get roundabouts; traffic diverts t

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