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by jbuzbee 10y ago
This dual-system is one of the things that drives me crazy when in the UK. Oftentimes you get a sink with two separate taps, one hot one cold. So if you want to rinse your hands with warm water, you turn them both on and quickly move your h
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Regarding federal payroll taxes, i.e. Social Security and Medicare, it's not accurate to lump these in with other taxes as they are basically forced-savings. And due to their progressive nature, low-income individuals will get more out
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Cough. According to Wikipedia[1] - "Nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize closed just 11 days after Obama took office." That must have been a busy 11 days doing diplomacy... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
I'm really, really impressed with the amount of work that goes into making these tubes and can understand why he's selling them for around $150, but what I don't get is how he can compete with the nixie tubes that go for unde
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Seems a bit condescending to put Jewelry in quotes when the study the article talks about is specifically saying that Neanderthals did create jewelry.
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Agreed - The arrogance in the article really turned me off to what might have been some valid points. I read it as: "You simpletons don't have a clue. I know the answer to all the problems". This guy is probably a real "
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
It's not that easy. What if the MPAA, Playboy, etc. send file filenames to Google and say "It's illegal to link to this file and if you do so, you are willingly and intentionally violating our copyright" Is that really w
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Techdirt has a good writeup on the new ruling. One of the good points made on Techdirt, is regarding search engines which are obviously for-profit. How in the world would Google keep from linking to material which is violating someone'
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Does anyone else remember using a hard-copy terminal? It's hard to even think about how I would edit, compile, debug and run programs where everything you typed or was echoed back, including passwords, was printed out on a paper roll.
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
"The Market Can Remain Irrational Longer Than You Can Remain Solvent" Attributed to economist John Maynard Keynes: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Strangely enough, I live in the Willow Creek neighborhood you selected. For me, living on the opposite side, it would be just over a two mile walk. And for the most part, it's a very pleasant walk through a park-like development of ma
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
If you're in Kansas City, the wreck museum is a great place to visit. The amount of goods retrieved from the wreck of the Great White Arabia is just astounding and serves as a window into the trading goods of the early American frontie
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
In 2000, George Gilder wrote "Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World" http://www.amazon.com/TELECOSM-Infinite-Bandwidth-Revolution... One blurb from the book that stuck with me was the notio
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Yep. That's the first thing I though of when I started reading this article. Twenty years ago? Wow. Time flies. And while I enjoyed this Arstechnica article, I quickly came to the conclusion that Stephenson is a better writer. Dormon d
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
I used Field Trip for a while and really liked it when walking around in an unfamiliar city. As you say, as you went along, it would point out interesting facts, landmarks, etc. Then I noticed that its focus seem to change to "You&#x27
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
The equation is pretty direct. When the cost of an employee is greater than the value the employee brings to the organization, something has to change or else the organization goes out of business. I'm not familiar with Sheetz and Wawa
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
I recently saw these at several fast-food outlets in New Zealand and Australia. Worked fine and there was less chance of a screwed up order. As the article says, this is a direct consequence of raising the minimum wage higher than the marke
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
The class-action lawyers must be salivating over "tens of thousands of corrected blood-test reports"
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
No Union protects employees no matter how bad they are. Uh, not quite. How about union-represented employees who kill people? We continuously read how Police department unions defend cops who kill unarmed citizens: http://www
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
It's a bit stale, but I've used Eastwood in the past as an open source substitute for Google Charts http://www.jfree.org/eastwood/
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
But of course, San Francisco is hardly a good representative of the state. What happens when the Dairy Queen in Fresno is required to pay the local teenagers $15 an hour, or around $30K a year, to sell ice-cream cones? My guess is that ther
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Dan Lyons sure gets around. In another life, he was an early and vocal supporter of SCO in their lawsuits against Linux. At least in the end he finally came around and admitted that he'd been "Snowed By SCO" http:/&#x2F
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
> When was the last time you bought something made in Saudi Arabia? My family and I vacationed on Saudi Arabia back in 2000. We looked and looked for locally made items as souvenirs of our trip. Everything was imported. There was zero lo
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Uh, "ever"? How about when a man murders his girlfriend and her two children and then flees the UK? http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-01-10/ghana-i...
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Photo search is way-cool in Google Photos. Want to see every photo of beer? Search for it. Mountains, cars, places, a named person, animals, etc. I feel the need less and less to meta-tag my photos.
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Reminds me of the "Best Seller" that didn't exist hoax that Jean Shepard (of A Christmas Story) pulled off on the New York Times: http://www.jmarkpowell.com/the-bestseller-book-that-didnt-ex...
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
That's boring. Hopefully he's implemented "Lp0 on fire" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
I had the opposite reaction. I tried to convince myself that I couldn't be recognizing the landscape in the vast area even though I did. I zoomed in and immediately recognized the area of Colorado where I work. I saw the highway I driv
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Reminds me of the story of the "World's largest Beaver Dam" that "can be seen from space". Impressive structure http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canad...
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
While I agree that the police have a history of horrific abuse of asset forfeiture laws, this oft-quoted event doesn't tell the whole story. The 2104 numbers were skewed greatly based on a proper $1.7 Billion forfeiture from Bernie Mad

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