jmadsen

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   by jmadsen 12y ago

   Strange. When I was racing, we never thought about drag, except as a joke. We shave because it helps reduce road rash when you go down on asphalt (slide easier) & easier to keep the wounds clean afterwards.
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   Do We Want Minority Report Policing?(aeon.co)

   3 points by jmadsen 12y ago|0 comments
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   Algae Street Lamps Suck Up C02, but How Exactly? (2012)(earthtechling.com)

   1 points by jmadsen 12y ago|0 comments
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   Can tiny plankton help reverse climate change?(aeon.co)

   40 points by jmadsen 12y ago|23 comments
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   by jmadsen 12y ago

   Sure - and the Dutch have a "history" of slave-trading. The question is the current reality, and is it affecting their content.
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   by jmadsen 12y ago

   I don't believe that's accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding Perhaps you were thinking of Voice of America, or the way it used to be funded 30-40 years ago?
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   by jmadsen 12y ago

   I'm really surprised that I don't see anyone already providing this information. I'm afraid I don't have a lot of time right now, so won't provide links to back up these statement, but others please do: I don't
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   by jmadsen 12y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Remote - Any timezone, Australia/NZ/Japan/Taiwan best Specialize in LAMP web applications & database schema, happy to work as a solo developer or lend a hand to a team. A recognized face in the Laravel &amp
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   by jmadsen 12y ago

   yes, but you don't understand how many miles the avg. person walks in a day who lives in an pedestrian/public transport friendly area. It is far, far more than you think.
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    Very much the "philosophy" of heating here in Japan; heaters for single room, heavy futons on the bed with no heater, kotatsu, foot warmers, etc. Comes from old, leaky wooden houses, but idea is the same. Lot of bad habits here st
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    Archaeologists find grim proof of man's earliest war(haaretz.com)

    1 points by jmadsen 12y ago|0 comments
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    Single Table Inheritence in Laravel(codebyjeff.com)

    2 points by jmadsen 12y ago|0 comments
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    Probably not - because these are grown in "in a sterile, dust-free clean room that once built the brains of high-tech gadgets" Probably cleaner than "normal" produce, with all the pollution it deals with.
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    As someone who pays the weekly food bill, I think that is simply not true (about the costs). A great deal of the vegetables are also grown on small farms here. I think the quality and taste are much better for it, but prices are very high f
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    just an idea I'm playing with - I'm mostly back-end stuff, so interested in thoughts & opinions
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    Decouple Bootstrap from your html(gist.github.com)

    3 points by jmadsen 12y ago|2 comments
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:i-hXFA0...
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    Simple substitution cuts solar cell toxicity(rsc.org)

    1 points by jmadsen 12y ago|0 comments
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    This is the biggest danger we face - the slow deterioration of our privacy to the point where when things like this emerge, a large part of the population's reaction is "why didn't you expect this?" In fact, I would NOT
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    you are paying BOTH - another reason this is an issue. expats pay tax on full amount to host country, plus tax on amount over $92k to US. So the money over $92K is double taxed - making it "pointless" (not completely, obviously) t
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    I wish the title of the article better reflected the real point - explained in the article itself - instead of saying "escape tax rules", with all the implications The fact is, more and more of us with solid middle-class incomes a
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    MIT researchers develop 3D-printed robots that self-assemble when heated(digitaltrends.com)

    2 points by jmadsen 12y ago|0 comments
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    JPL engineer Mike Meacham explains how an inflatable decelerator will help larger spacecraft land on Mars. The device will be tested at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii in June, 2014.
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    We Brake for Mars(youtube.com)

    3 points by jmadsen 12y ago|2 comments
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    thanks for the much better explanation
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    I look at this as javascript developers taking the next natural step and thinking about de-coupling
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    I think people mistook this as a troll, but that's my understanding, yes. Often times an injured person is in the middle of an area where caution is needed when approaching by others; EPs are taught to approach carefully, not run into
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    not everything needs to be monetized :-) I'll look these comments & site over and discuss with friends a bit; obviously, creating a site is the easy part
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    " forum for capable engineers and designers to browse and help solve them would be awesome." That is an awesome idea - it seems like I've seen/heard of something similar, but if not, I'm a web programmer who could b
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    by jmadsen 12y ago

    I think it's more likely that they used it as a flag to go double-check the safety measures. They made huge money from the concerts, nevermind the fans. They weren't looking for out-clauses