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by joe5150 5y ago
This I think has a lot to do with individual experiences with optometrists. I went to probably half a dozen optometrists since adolescence before I happened to end up with one who actually made it clear there's a degree of subjectivity
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by joe5150 5y ago
that's too bad. it worked well for me, but I never used it regularly.
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by joe5150 5y ago
All Roku devices (and Roku TVs) should be able to route audio through the app to attached or wireless headphones as well. This might work with Share Audio on iPhones so you can have two people listening at once, but I've never tried.
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by joe5150 5y ago
I can see this being the case sometimes, but I don't think it's always true that university libraries want to discourage textbook loans or funnel students to the bookstore. the one I work in, for instance, has staff dedicated to w
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by joe5150 5y ago
It's very common for libraries to waive replacement costs when you bring the items back, assuming they aren't damaged. 42 days to collections is pretty harsh, though. Even credit cards will usually give you at least 3 months. Edit
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by joe5150 5y ago
Library fines are not known to increase rates of item return and in reality are a commonly-cited reason why library users never return at all. A few other points: 1) Libraries replace items all the time for all kinds of reasons, especially
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by joe5150 5y ago
The library will continue to charge patrons replacement costs after 30 days overdue. Not sure about NYPL, but in many libraries, this will be waived when you actually return the item. You would just pay the fine (capped at $5 most places I&
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by joe5150 5y ago
This really doesn't change anything in that regard. A person whose intention it is to rip off their library and never return could do that just as easily before. Libraries budget for shrink and replacement costs, which are still going
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by joe5150 5y ago
Fines alone can tend to cost more to enforce than they produce in revenue. Means-tested waivers would only make that worse.
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by joe5150 5y ago
Fines don't necessarily encourage returns, for one thing.
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by joe5150 5y ago
Good deal. Library fines create more problems than they solve.
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by joe5150 5y ago
In this case, each ConstituentID in the Artworks.json records corresponds to an artist in the Artists.json records. I would cross-reference these two datasets and discard "Artist", "ArtistBio", etc from Artworks.json.
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by joe5150 5y ago
As decoration, sure. I don't think it would really add anything to the information about the datasets on this page.
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by joe5150 5y ago
This is open data/metadata about art, not an attempt to digitize artworks. Also, the descriptions make it pretty clear that several of these institutions have made tens of thousands of digital images of artworks available.
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by joe5150 5y ago
Apple is a US company and this feature is rolling out to US customers in partnership with US law enforcement. I don’t think we have invoke the CCP boogeyman to be worried about this.
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by joe5150 5y ago
agreed. obviously the police should have never been there, but once they were involved, they had the power to prevent this by not, for example, demanding that this man "somehow climb over the fence with his hands up". this is the
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by joe5150 5y ago
Mozilla has taken similar steps to encourage websites to implement HTTPS, and I can't say whether you believe they share Google's evil motivations, but it's a clear trend across browser vendors. Certificates are free now and
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by joe5150 5y ago
I believe the main power generation is hydroelectric, so there is some flow through the turbines at all times.
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by joe5150 5y ago
why would they be motivated to do that?
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by joe5150 6y ago
it's also the case that some groups have become hyper-vigilant about academic "cancellations" in the last several years, which could account for why so many purported incidents have occurred since more attention is being paid
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by joe5150 6y ago
seeing a lot of people in this list "denounced in an open letter", "petitioned for firing" and the like. maybe we have different ideas about what it means to be "cancelled".
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by joe5150 6y ago
exactly. "every language but one dying" is not something that could (much less should) happen all by itself.
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by joe5150 6y ago
what specific efficiencies do we gain by getting rid of all the world’s languages? things seem to be mostly working in global commerce despite language barriers, or at least what problems we do have don’t really seem to be caused by languag
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by joe5150 6y ago
This is super neat! Off-topic complaint about the text: "Some nickel-loving species like Alyssum murale, native to Italy, can take up to 30,000 micrograms of nickel per 1g dried leaf." 30,000 micrograms, also known as 30 milligram
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by joe5150 6y ago
interesting!
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by joe5150 6y ago
had an experience this spring with picking up Thai food from a Chinese restaurant which is also home to: - Chinese Yum! Yum! - Szechwings - Kuri Sashimi Bowls - Send Noods Pho - Veggie Stir Fry House - Sushi Sendai - Panang
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by joe5150 6y ago
I have a lot of junk in my kitchen drawers (admittedly a personal problem) and will opt for measuring directly from the bag into the bowl on a scale over digging around for that quarter cup every time.
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by joe5150 6y ago
a monumental discovery in Mexico was also recently made possible with non-invasive technology (excavation is now underway, though). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/largest-and-oldest...
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by joe5150 6y ago
agriculture lobbying is a $140 million industry[1]. public art and infrastructure might be nominal priorities for a presidential candidate, but these decisions are generally going to be made by representatives in Congress, so whether or not

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