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by joncrane 5y ago
They specifically talk about "left handed" rotation for a kickflip and a heelflip being right handed. However for a goofy skater, the opposite is true.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole beginning of the article implies that the skateboarder is "regular" in terms of foot placement, meaning the right foot is on the tail and the left foot is at the front. The fact that eac
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>They're by far the animal that kills the most humans Do you have a source for that?
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Lately more and more of my accounts aren't accepting GV as a phone number linked with the account. Recent memory: 7-11 app and eBay both made me use a number that's associated with an actual SIM card.
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Sometimes people want to match with someone in the town they're visiting (or moving to) soon. Other times, people in poorer countries are trying to match with people in richer countries. Think of Tinder as acting as a broker in a situ
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by joncrane 5y ago
For those like me who had to jog their memory about the Covington kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2019_Lincoln_Memorial_...
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Only the eventual outcome of this was not an accident. Another train caught up with this runaway train, coupled to it, attached the air brake hoses, and applied the brakes. This slowed the train to a crawl. Then an engineer was able to jum
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That is an amazing video. Thank you.
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Splunk Proserve ABSOLUTELY does this (they have a few superstars they spread thinner than a WW2 kid spreads butter). They get in at the beginning, hand the project over to less experienced people, then parachute in only after the project h
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by joncrane 5y ago
Here are a couple of explanations which flesh out the concept for beginners. https://twitter.com/ellenkorbes/status/1410796865126346755 and further elaborated here: https://twitter.com/TartanLlama&
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by joncrane 5y ago
Sometimes the cost of trying to avoid that type of misallocation of resources costs more than simply paying for it. The classic example is drug testing welfare recipients which was proven to cost more than just giving it out. Sometimes you
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by joncrane 5y ago
What does BoA stand to gain from increased inflation expectations?
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Perhaps because it's not as profitable as many other business models?
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Someone told me a long time ago that this arrangement was due to employment agreements with the so-called "meter maids." They originally wanted to fully automate it, but they didn't want to un-employ their fleet of meter rea
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by joncrane 5y ago
The wikipedia article says he died at age 50/51. He did the fast at age 27. What happened after the fast? What killed him?
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In CR, electricity is comparatively very expensive. In the US we think nothing of leaving lights on when we go out or go to bed. In CR it's considered extremely taboo to leave lights or fans on unnecessarily.
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Space/time tourists getting a front row seat to the demise of a civilization? You know those historical river boat cruises you can take in Europe where it's all tied into history lessons? Imagine that but for more advanced civiliz
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by joncrane 5y ago
Is there a certain recommended time of day to take these supplements? Like at night so your blood levels of Mg rise to help you calm down?
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Does timing of the dose matter? Meaning do you take the supplements right before bed, in the morning, etc?
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I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, but I do wonder about the idea that by making the power source impossible to remove, the phone can be a surveillance device even when the user thinks it's powered off. I wonder what the minds
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by joncrane 5y ago
Is this some kind of translation? The verbiage uses gender in unusual ways.
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First the algorithmic timeline (and the dark pattern where if you switch to chronological it automatically switches back after time) Straight out of FB's playbook, I see.
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I literally JUST donated the last of the textbooks I was keeping around. I looked up the prices on Amazon and some of these textbooks are still worth a lot of money (or at least offered for sale for a lot of money). This means I can docum
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I don't use Instagram much but I do follow Tony on there. He is basically my dream life. He's anonymous enough to go about his daily life mostly unrecognized, yet a multi-millionaire (I think he's 8 figures), has a sunset&#
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by joncrane 5y ago
the 30 includes federal holidays so it works out to about 20 in practice.
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Anyone else find it kind of convenient that the town ended up paying for the upgrade to the telephone poles, which was the prerequisite for private companies to expand into the town, and then all of a sudden ran out of steam, setting up the
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by joncrane 5y ago
Benefits have indeed gotten worse on average in my experience, and here are two hard examples. Leave and healthcare. Leave: It used to be that most companies had a formula for accruing leave, and that vacation and sick were separate bucke
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Isn't there a saying along the lines of "infrastructure is cheaper than developers?" I've mostly seen it in a cloud computing context, meaning it's cheaper to pay for more/larger servers than it is to pay devel
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...and practical Nuclear Fusion is only 10 years away! /s
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Ironically, you are helping Facebook when you do this. Their algorithms get tuned by users saying they don't want certain ads. This is why I stopped doing this on Instagram.

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