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The Barriers Stopping Poor People from Moving to Better Jobs(theatlantic.com)
4 points by jonah 9y ago|0 comments
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by jonah 9y ago
A few years ago I decided I wanted a very specific car (only 17 were ever sold in the US with the particular specs I was looking for) and the usual manual methods of searching every single car and classifieds site were too time consuming. I
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by jonah 9y ago
Other possible services include https://uptimerobot.com/ and https://www.pingdom.com/ Just set it to check for the presence of a word on the page, etc.
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by jonah 9y ago
First Aid/CPR are definitely good skills to have! On the medical side, EMT might be the next level certification for you to get. (Here it's one semester at a community college with night/weekend options also available.) The t
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> I wish there were more opportunities to gain those kinds of experiences and the camaraderie without having to do things you are morally opposed to. I recently joined my local Search and Rescue team. The opportunity popped up at just th
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by jonah 9y ago
I had to look it up to see if you were serious or not. There does happen to be a brewpub by that name in Nottingham though. http://www.castlerockbrewery.co.uk/pubs/bread-and-bitter/
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by jonah 9y ago
My parents had dial up until about 2 years ago. On a good day, they'd get 28.8, but typically it was more like 14.4 kbps! When it rained and water got in the phone lines, they got nothing at all. And yes, they'd try to get the pho
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by jonah 9y ago
Not in rural situations like that, the line length limits are pretty harsh on DSL.
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by jonah 9y ago
We had friends of friends growing up who used a 900 megahertz cordless phone with homemade directional antennas on the handset and base station to get phone service across the valley!
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by jonah 9y ago
Consider using f.lux (or a copycat on Linux) to dim and match the color temperature of your lamplight in the evening.
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Rent Is Affordable to Low-Wage Workers in Exactly 12 U.S. Counties(citylab.com)
3 points by jonah 9y ago|0 comments
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Patio11 says that US-based software employers should also look into the Domestic Production Activities Deduction: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/879238827612684288
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by jonah 9y ago
"All you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go. If you don’t say anything, the car will look at your calendar and take you there as the assumed destination or just home if nothing is on the calendar." -- that&#x2
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by jonah 9y ago
If you like Turkish Delight, you might want to try Gaz - a type of Persian Nougat - as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaz_(candy) (Along with reading C.S. Lewis, we got to try and enjoy Turkish Delight and Gaz as
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by jonah 9y ago
There used to be a company called EarthShell which made biodegradable food packaging and other containers out of limestone and other stuff. It went public in 1998[0], filed for bankruptcy protection a decade ago[1], and their twitter accoun
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by jonah 9y ago
There's a pretty interesting natural rock dam[1] that holds Garibaldi Lake[2] in. It's just a loose pile of rocks and has the potential of collapse[3] which would release the entire lake down the valley. [1] https://en.
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by jonah 9y ago
We had two high-profile paragliding deaths over the past year in my area. One, a seasoned pro who'd flown (and instructed) here for decades apparently took a risky line (if you don't have enough altitude or updrafts to make it ove
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by jonah 9y ago
In the Outside article up thread, Tommy Caldwell who free climbed the route with Alex a couple weeks ago mentions loose rock as scaring him: "I went to Yosemite last week over the Memorial Day holiday and we did a practice lap on the F
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by jonah 9y ago
Luck only lasts so long. You don't last long at sports like this if you aren't cautious and well-trained, that's for sure. I'll offer a counter anecdote to yours: I was talking to a guy this weekend who had been a seriou
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One of the most striking quotes for me was: "Alex once told me that he had never fallen completely unexpectedly—meaning without at least some prior inclination that it could happen. When I told him that I had unexpectedly fallen at lea
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by jonah 9y ago
Shave your armpits. No, seriously, no hair means less surface area for bacteria to grow on.
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Income inequity gets SF rethinking fines, fees(sfchronicle.com)
1 points by jonah 9y ago|0 comments
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by jonah 10y ago
That is true.
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See the blog linked in the GP's profile.
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I can tell you for a fact though that at least some of the senior Engineers who developed Picasa are still at Google.
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New Night Lights Maps Open Up Possible Real-Time Applications – NASA(nasa.gov)
3 points by jonah 10y ago|0 comments
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Be sure to check out the helicopter they're using, a Kaman M-MAX. It had dual counter-rotating rotors and not tailrotor. It's also basically designed specifically for this kind of lifting/hauling job with a very narrow cockpi
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by jonah 10y ago
Absolutely. These campaigns are all the products of Agriculture Marketing Boards[1] and are generally state-based. They're cooperative marketing agencies which growers and producers belong to to collectively promote their generic produ
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by jonah 10y ago
Adam Savage did a few Tested videos on some of the costumes and props which you may be interested in watching. (Either before or after you've seen the film if you care about that kind of thing.) Adam Savage Behind the Scenes of Ghost i
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by jonah 10y ago
If you want to see some impressive snow[1] in the US, visit Crater Lake National Park in Southern Oregon during the winter. Last time I was there, the snow cuts looked just like these (though not quite as tall.) "The average snowfall a

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