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by iaw 6y ago
There's a growing concept of 'mid-rise' woodframe construction as well due to how the codes are written.
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by iaw 6y ago
Note Garriotts trip took place in 2008.
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Ashes of Star Trek’s Scotty, Actor James Doohan, Smuggled Aboard the ISS(vulture.com)
6 points by iaw 6y ago|2 comments
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by iaw 6y ago
> The private schools that are prestigious (i.e. highly selective) have substantial aid making them very cheap for families who earn under a certain amount. Have you attended all of the prestigious institutions while needing financial ai
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by iaw 6y ago
> You cannot convince me they weren’t getting kickbacks from this program. Given all the problems this caused for the opioid epidemic I'm disappointed (but not surprised) such behaviors are still be legal.
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by iaw 6y ago
> and you just missed four weeks of work and need the job to keep the insurance you now need more than ever. Just a note, if you're in the US and a loved one is injured or ill there is the Family Medical Leave Act which should prote
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by iaw 6y ago
> has turned me from a pure free market thinking into a believer in single payer healthcare The current trend in 'free-market economics' is to call captured markets free and then argue for the relatively lax regulation. Most ma
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by iaw 6y ago
> I go to a school infamous for its high price. And truth be told, I don’t think I could advocate going here barring some serious prerequisites. I went to a similar school. The benefits are not granted when you attend the school but aft
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by iaw 6y ago
The distinction between a value-added vs. market-based salary approach is pretty obvious here. It's funny that they're doing market adjustments but then discussing 'fairness', markets are optimal but not fair.
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by iaw 6y ago
This is where the fine print in economics comes in, things will eventually be balanced by the invisible hand but that's only in the long-term. In the short-term an untold amount of human suffering can occur. Economics doesn't sol
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by iaw 6y ago
Math is off it's 0.5 * -65M + 1 * 34M = +1.5M They get the +34M 100% of the time, not 50%, they didn't have to surrender it.
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by iaw 6y ago
My problem with minivans (as opposed to good sports cars) is that they drive like crap. I have never encountered (or heard of) a van that drove well with one exception [1] [1] I remember reading about a volkswagen bus that had been modifie
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by iaw 6y ago
> Both of these acquisitions were reviewed by relevant antitrust regulators at the time. The FTC conducted an in-depth “Second Request” of the Instagram transaction in 2012 before voting unanimously to clear it. The European Commission r
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by iaw 6y ago
I think forums also compete heavily with Haynes. A printed black and white work book isn't as good as pictures and somebody that has done it before to answer questions.
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by iaw 6y ago
The title is pretty misleading with "officially" in there. It should probably be the title of the case right?
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by iaw 6y ago
Just as a not, I've had FedEx deliveries come through after 9PM in the last month. The on-time guarantee is suspended but I'm still impressed with how hard they've been trying (at least in my area).
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by iaw 6y ago
I know R because that's what we used at my first company. I would love to switch to Python/Pandas but I'm comfortable with R and it does everything I need it to with one exception over ten years of heavy use. Python is won
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by iaw 6y ago
I've literally written something similar 4 times in the last month, I hate having to load the temp function to be sure the next line runs. This is such a useful addition.
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by iaw 6y ago
26th in homicide according to wikipedia [0] but what is your point? The 'typical' murder involves people that know each other and has a motive. Loose firearm regulations enable mass shootings [1][2] which are more indiscriminate.
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by iaw 6y ago
2013 rates age adjusted[0], Arizona had a higher per capita death rate at 14.1 vs 7.7 with California. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_Uni...
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by iaw 6y ago
California has the most stringent gun laws but also the a lowest gun violence death rate per capita. More people were allowed to pursue the "life" option in the Declaration of Independence. The first item of unalienable rights ou
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by iaw 6y ago
Part of me wants to think that that would add wear to the mechanism but the other part of me remembers how things were built back then.
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by iaw 6y ago
A more informative way for them to express that range would be -15% to 65% where any negative % is no effect.
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by iaw 6y ago
There is an ample sized cohort of workers that prefer being in an office to working from home for various reasons from them being outgoing and social to their home office environment not being conducive to interactions help them problem sol
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by iaw 6y ago
I have a 2014 Macbook Air that I'm about to replace the battery in. Once that thing goes I really think I'll have to head over to Linux. Mac quality has gone downhill.
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by iaw 6y ago
I've worked at a startup and a very large company that grew from a startup. The former could survive, the latter most definitely would not (or at least not in the highly profitable form it existed).
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by iaw 6y ago
Nope, Iran has every right to behave as it does but that also gives the collection of countries that act in congress together the leeway to label it a 'rogue state'. The center point of this subthread was whether such a label is
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by iaw 6y ago
> "Iran says its nuclear programme is entirely for civil nuclear purposes." There has been no evidence that they've had a nuclear weapons program post 2009. Iran had a 2-3 month breakout period in 2013 [0]. Stockpiling enr
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by iaw 6y ago
> So something it stopped doing over a decade ago makes it a "rogue state?" It was doing it last year after the US unilaterally pulled out of the agreement [0] > Your source actually doesn't outline any concrete Iranian
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by iaw 6y ago
"Rogue state" [0] is actually a defined term that Iran qualifies for because of its efforts to proliferate nuclear weapons. Also, Iran has participated regularly in proxy wars including the one in Yemen with Saudi Arabia [1] so yo

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