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Rats Are Taking over New York City(nytimes.com)
1 points by jdpedrie 7y ago|0 comments
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by jdpedrie 7y ago
Clear site cookies and local storage, or open in private session.
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by jdpedrie 7y ago
The corner auto parts shop stocked almost every part I needed to work on a 1982 F-150.
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by jdpedrie 7y ago
Pick your poison. I live in a state with strong term limits on the state legislature (MI), and it has huge problems too. The large turnover means a dearth of institutional experience. So much of legislative power depends on the few legislat
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by jdpedrie 7y ago
Speaking as a partisan of Detroit, who has never heard an ICP song, I must intervene to mention that Faygo is never “soda”. It’s “pop”, thank you very much.
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
The hyphenation is probably the result of an editor determined to adhere precisely to The Atlantic's style guide.
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
> But was it worth $12k for less than 40 hours of total work? I don't think so. First, I agree that the fees charged are exorbitant. However, for many smaller realtors, they may not have much inventory at any given time. So, just li
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The fun and frustration of a Tesla Model 3 owner(detroitnews.com)
2 points by jdpedrie 8y ago|0 comments
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
> If you invest $50.000 in a car you may have an incentive to not use a low quality battery pack for example. And if you have a phone which is worth the investment, you'll likely pay more for the better replacement part. Maybe take
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
I don’t have a lot to say, other than I love this book. It’s difficult to articulate why. But I make a point to read it every couple of years, and I recommend it often to others. It’s funny and sad and contains some beautiful reflections on
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
There are many local (and at least one national) papers using this exact same site. Both the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press (my local papers) use it, along with USA Today. It's maddening.
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
PHP's package manager makes it really easy to pull in components a la carte. Similar to OP, I rarely use a large framework like Symfony or Laravel. I have a base application I wrote which I like, and I layer components I trust and whos
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
Rapid economic growth and massive technological advancement is also a relatively new thing. Wonder if that's coincidental?
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
"Deep Fakes" in general seem to be already covered by existing libel laws, though that has some problems. Libel is generally a civil matter, and is extremely difficult to prosecute. There is precedent, even in the US, for criminal
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
This seems like a bit of CYA on the part of the drafters for the inevitable court challenge. "We did consider the constitutional issues, we promise!" Without specifics, that line is meaningless. edit: This speaks to a larger probl
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
It doesn't take much more than a google search to find substantiation for the claim. https://www.politifact.com/global-news/statements/2016/mar/2...
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
Globalization in the manner it has happened has lately struck me as akin to drinking from a firehose. While it's led to an increased standard of living (in the form of wages in the third world and lowered prices in the first), the spee
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
As a layman (though I worked in the mortgage industry, it was as a software developer fairly distant from underwriting), I've long considered it an unfortunate development that manual underwriting had fallen by the wayside. Now, as a s
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
"Monopoly" literally means there is only one player in the market, or that one player has a hugely dominant position. If the suggested "Cartel" doesn't work, there's also "Oligopoly"[0] [0] https:&#x
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
There is no contradiction in wanting a small federal government and being in favor of local governments making rules to better the daily life of citizens, or accomplish any other goal. It’s well in line with the concept of subsidiarity, a h
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
Brave is built on Chromium[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
I think this is an insightful point. Lawyers are largely trained in reading and applying precedent. That said, one would think a responsible company would have received best and worst case guidance from a team of attorneys who could have ea
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
Rome at the end of the Republic may have technically been republican (if oligarchic republicanism counts), but it was neither democratic nor liberal. Liberalism didn’t exist in name or form for another 1800 years. One must be extremely care
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
Site's down for me. Archive link: http://archive.is/w4oWL
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
I just finished reading American Caesar[0], a great biography of Douglas MacArthur. I highly recommend it as the story of a fascinating and brilliant man who is too little remembered today. I especially enjoyed and respected MacArthur'
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
I live outside of Detroit. All your points and criticisms are valid. When I visit the coasts, I often tell people who ask that it was nice to spend some time in a "real" city. The true "big city" core of Detroit is quite
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
> denounces escalation > escalates further.
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
Oh man, JotForm is O.G. SAAS for me. I used to use it all the time back around 2011. Thanks for making my work back then so much less tedious!
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
> At the same time, if you look at Sears's peers, most of them are still alive and kicking, if not thriving. E.g. Target, Wal-Mart, Macy's, Kohl's, JC Penney, Best Buy etc. That seems like confirmation bias to me. I could
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by jdpedrie 8y ago
That's a bad comparison. Generally, shrinking the size of a packaged good is a way to compensate for inflation without sticker shock, a huge problem in a very price-sensitive market like groceries. The chief the government measures inf

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