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by jld 6y ago
I believe it was Thomas J Flip, in 1911.
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by jld 6y ago
Leatherman multitools are named after the inventor, Timothy S. Leatherman.
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by jld 6y ago
I was just talking to a friend about how 1 part water plus 1 part ethanol becomes 1.92 parts solution. This raised a question for me that I have yet to research/answer. Maybe one of you knows... if the above solution is 50% ABV, what h
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by jld 6y ago
Make the officers buy it personally. Have cities pay officers 110% of the base rate, such that officers with clean records get a bonus based on it. Those whose rates go up will pay the difference or leave the force. BTW, I hate that America
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by jld 6y ago
As a mid-career software engineer who would be interested in getting into the "geospatial industry", A) What technologies should I learn to allow me to get my foot into the industry? I have historically focused on being a UX focus
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by jld 6y ago
The traditional understanding of monopolies does not seem so useful in this case. We live a world where there are two walled gardens that control everything you do. They are both lovely and nice, and you can choose which you pick, but in bo
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by jld 6y ago
It's like having only two grocery stores in town, and your kitchen is only able to cook food from one or the other.
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by jld 6y ago
Once in India I took a taxi to the train station. I paid the driver and went inside to catch my train. Ten minutes later while waiting in the station, the cab driver found me and made me replace a bill that he claimed I had given him that h
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by jld 6y ago
I got a letter yesterday informing me I made an unemployment claim. Bummer.
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by jld 6y ago
It sounds like these companies have to account and compensate employees for the risk they're asking them to take. Long term health impacts, the risk of infecting loved ones at home, the risks of incurring thousands of dollars of uncove
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by jld 6y ago
Given there is a question in the Amateur Extra exam question pool about how VECs can properly conduct a remote exam, I'm surprised this isn't more widespread.
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by jld 6y ago
Is there any ethical and easy way to keep cats out of my yard? I live in an suburban single family neighborhood where the houses are close together. (5000sq lots) There are 3 or 4 different solitary cats I see slinking through my yard from
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by jld 7y ago
Historically professors have tenure (admittedly less so now, I believe), so how they score on evaluations has no real bearing on them keeping their jobs. I had a professor who was a terrible lecturer, and he knew his student evaluations wer
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by jld 7y ago
When I bought Sonos speakers for much of my house in 2012-2014 it was selling itself as an alternative to hifi equipment that lasts decades. In retrospect my expectation that Sonos would be longer lived than that was short sighted, I should
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by jld 7y ago
An internet connection isn’t required for the Nest thermostat to operate the furnace either. I can appreciate not wanting to allow Google the opportunity to brick your thermostat (and hence your furnance) through some kind of software issue
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by jld 7y ago
Is there a way to make DDG Lite chrome's default search engine? Chrome seems to let me create non-default search engines, set the full DDG as the default, but not set lite as the default.
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by jld 7y ago
They are the operator and majority shareholder, and have agreed to purchase the rest of the shares from Comcast by 2024. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/media/disney-buys-comcast-hul... .
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by jld 7y ago
Disney also operates Hulu.
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by jld 7y ago
Major League Soccer is going through this problem now. They prohibit political displays in stadium but are now in the business of deciding whether signs that say things like "anti-racist" or "anti-fascist" or "end g
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by jld 7y ago
Say a company sells 10% of itself to an investor for $10M, with a 2x preference. If the company sells for $100M, the investor gets $20M off the top. My question: Does the investor still own 10% of the shares, and will they recoup $8M of the
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by jld 7y ago
It used to be that the "profit" from advertisement paid for journalists to write stories that would get you to look at them. Now the profit from ads largely goes to engineers to build products for the web, (and shareholders of tec
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by jld 7y ago
While Seattle still has a ton of work to do, is much more progressive on these issues than they Bay Area, and it’s getting better, not worse.
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by jld 7y ago
See also: Burke Gilman Missing Link, an extension to fill a 1.4 mile gap in Seattle's most popular bike trail, halted very much the same way by a concrete company who has used environmental laws to argue that its business would be impa
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by jld 7y ago
City governments are run by the people who show up. Start showing up, and you can change your city too.
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by jld 7y ago
He flew too close to the valuation sun.
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by jld 7y ago
Having a first child can be an incredibly stressful and confusing time. I think the best preparation is to have a solid support network ready to support you and your family while you adjust to your new life. In my city, there is a nonprofit
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by jld 7y ago
Hi Matthias! Big fan of your videos. I hope your tendinitis improves and you can make it back into the shop soon to make more power tools out of old furniture other people have thrown out. Cheers!
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by jld 7y ago
I was Flash developer from 2006-2010. Flash used ActionScript which is/was based on the ECMAScript standard. Since then, I develop primarily in Javascript, based on the ECMAScript standard. Looking back, I don't even think anyone
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by jld 7y ago
It's still available. https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-watch/apple-watch?option.watc...
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by jld 7y ago
Here's one in Leavenworth, WA, a town where they have a Bavarian themed design requirements. https://goo.gl/maps/LaCgUjQLbMX3nGuv5 The McDonalds is a bit subdued, the Starbucks is perhaps a better example. https:

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