hudibras

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by hudibras 7y ago
So he said.
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by hudibras 7y ago
>It sounds like 7-11 corporate for JP is uncompromising to a fault and unwilling to meet owners halfway. The "meeting owners halfway" part is called a contract. Presumably, staying open 24 hours is part of that contract.
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by hudibras 7y ago
It's not; he's lying.
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by hudibras 7y ago
> Never seen a combini owner that was poor or having a hard time to make ends meet. Agree 100%. I never believe anything that a business owner says in the news.
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by hudibras 7y ago
Mauritius has made it clear to the US that they do not intend to change the status of the base in any way. It will simply be on a Mauritian island instead of a UK island.
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by hudibras 7y ago
The whole time I'm reading the article, I'm thinking "Jesus, that sounds dangerous...Oh, my! Now that sounds really dangerous...It's amazing that nobody died doing this..." and then I get to the last page.
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by hudibras 8y ago
The link is a story from this week about how this guy dodged paying $1.2 billion in personal income taxes to the IRS.
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by hudibras 8y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens...
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by hudibras 8y ago
Now you're just pulling my leg... Here's a recent article that I found that describes the sleeping cars in detail: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/trai...
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by hudibras 8y ago
According to the first paragraph in the article, it costs $1,089.
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by hudibras 8y ago
That's the entire point of the article.
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by hudibras 8y ago
The article does mention several times that people should shower before using the pool, in addition to not urinating in the water.
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by hudibras 8y ago
If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress that year. D.C. will be first in line, then Puerto Rico.
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by hudibras 8y ago
AFRICOM headquarters will remain in Germany indefinitely. In addition to the infrastructure problems in Africa (for instance, there are vast areas of the continent, including entire countries, where routine travel is prohibited due to lack
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by hudibras 8y ago
True, but I'm pretty sure he's not going to tell us about the "secret sauce," especially since he's sold the company.
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The Mysterious Case of Mme. Calment(lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
1 points by hudibras 8y ago|0 comments
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by hudibras 8y ago
I'm trying not to get too worked up about it, but it's insane that they picked the Satellit 650 for the "Hall of Fame" instead of the Sony 7600 series, a revolutionary radio that was truly portable (615 grams) with great
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by hudibras 8y ago
oops...
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by hudibras 8y ago
This video was the first time I heard of Mark Rober, and it was a pretty mean hatchet job towards that Indian kid who was obviously just joking around. Dr. Disillusion had a much more respectfully takedown of the same video where he gave pr
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by hudibras 8y ago
>Dutch millionaires willing to respond to researchers’ questions The researchers didn't tell them what the questions were about ahead of time.
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by hudibras 8y ago
Back then, someone flipping through your photos would say, "Ah, you used Kodachrome! Looks nice!" but if you had the same look on a printed photo today, they'd instead ask, "Why did you use a filter on this?" I gues
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by hudibras 8y ago
Although he cited his own work many times, he didn't cite papers which were copies of the submitted paper.
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by hudibras 8y ago
Here's a blog from somebody who built a new house in Tokyo; you might find it interesting.[0] [0] http://lundman.net/wiki/index.php/Tokyo_house
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by hudibras 8y ago
A couple reasons that don't get much attention are that a.) newly-constructed houses are relatively cheap and b.) mortgage rates are very good. A normal, custom-built house in the suburbs of Tokyo can be constructed for somewhere betwe
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by hudibras 8y ago
No, not passenger trains. Freight trains.
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by hudibras 8y ago
It's for driver visibility.
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by hudibras 8y ago
People take potshots at trains in the Midwest and West all the time. Bored teenagers with .22 rifles, mostly.
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by hudibras 8y ago
As it clearly said in the article, the Housing Authority incorrectly and probably misleadingly asserted that only 92 of their 325 developments contained lead, and therefore avoided doing the mandatory lead inspections in those buildings.
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by hudibras 8y ago
Using an attributed quotation is not the same as plagiarization.
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by hudibras 8y ago
>[1] Most misheard lyric from "Blinded by the Light" by Bruce Springsteen Actually...it's the Manfred Mann [0] cover of the song that contains the lyrics in question; Springsteen's original version [1] uses slightly d

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