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Yeah, garages is one idea, but that's a land use matter of importance re: need for residential development. Garages have been proposed, but difficult to squeeze in among the competing needs. Sometimes the conflicts are just hard to r
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That's not quite the issue. Public parking garages have been proposed but getting them sited has been difficult. One reason is competition from developers of apartments, who want to use the space for residences. Rather a dilemma to
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I think you're right. I my observation (though not in SF) the top 2 sources of dispute are 1.) parking, and 2.) dogs. Not infrequently, there's a correlation between offensive parking and promoting bad dog behavior. Of course it
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I thought of that too, but the expense of operation is very likely not worth it to the producers. The low level of plastic contamination would not seem likely to produce health hazards.
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Not an expert on the technique, but if it's possible to "edit" a gene, how would the altered gene be propagated to billions of neurons (assuming that's where the gene has effect)? The idea of modifying the gene in situ
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I've been using Vultr for a couple of years and have been satisfied with the service. I initially went with Vultr because at the time it was one of few providers that offered FreeBSD and the lowest cost. In contrast to comments in th
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That is a nice addition that should be used more often. On this site the abbreviations were common, but many articles use obscure, domain-specific, or non-standard abbreviations, where the full name "tool-tips" would be extremely
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Very interesting! Thanks for the ref. I wrote about my own efforts along these lines, using Lisp lists is certainly a natural, logical starting point. There are a number of parallel systems in Scheme which I used in prior applications. I
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Interesting. Despite the many approaches to writing HTML more are invented all the time. Currently I'm working on yet another way. My idea follows the Lisp tradition based on its hierarchical list structures. It's surprisingly
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It's true, determining a) what's required to prevent deficiency and b) what's optimum for health are subject to interpretation of available (and often incomplete) data, hence lots of controversy. I'm familiar with th
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Sure, quite a few--vitamins, essential amino acids, essential fats are well-known. The body uses these as "raw ingredients" to produce a huge range of necessary compounds.
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Yes, it's sure hard to beat the sensory and esthetic experience of putting pencil to paper. No digital method can come close to it. OTOH drawing on the computer has a whole new set of features to offer that are completely novel and ca
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Yeah, Wacom tablets were/are great and terrible at the same time. I've used them on and off for a long time, and they really are great for drawing, but there's a learning curve to be sure. Actually I liked the older Wacoms
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Plant nutrients are minerals, primarily nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, in the base form of inorganic compounds or salts. When a plant dies it decomposes and the minerals are released and "recycled". Certainly that's ho
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> "... but rather how the camera works. Digital cameras have so much distracting/confusing crap on them." One thing I always miss about the film days is the utter simplicity of film equipment vs. digital. Traveling was so
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> "I think film will be very niche." Yes silver-based photography will be niche, no doubt it already is. I'd emphasize that doesn't mean it's going to disappear, or cease to be a legitimate art form in its own r
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As one who has been a photographer for 50 years I have a great appreciation for the technologies involved. Digital imaging has advantages to be sure, but I think it's best to think of film vs. digital as two distinct media with only s
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The "correcter" is a worthy effort, and it needs to start somewhere. It shows the magnitude of the task considering that missing articles are not the most crucial grammatical issues in on-line discourse. The meaning of a phrase
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Could be, but if that were true I would expect we would have seen a lot of publicity about such hacked info. Surely there's been no shortage of interest in finding "dirt" on Trump, his businesses, family, etc. The nasty pol
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AFAIK Trump hasn't used Twitter for anything but brief public statements and comments on the current (and usually minor) issues at hand. Basically just gets around editorial slants of news media to address his huge following. Reasonab
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I definitely concur re: Spinoza whose work is still controversial and fundamental to what is regarded as "modern" thought. HN readers are likely to appreciate the logic of his work in its geometric proof form, though a number of
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The effects of abruptly stopping SSRI (and later on SNRI) medications have been well-known since the 1980's. It's considered related to the widespread if individually variable distribution of serotonin receptors in the body. Havi
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That sounds like it would have been very interesting! Back in the 70's it wasn't an uncommon "hobby project" to build a very simple "CPU" using TTL parts. While the computational utility was obviously limited
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Not a new terminology. Lisp uses "nil", which is '(), the empty list. Objective-C uses nil as a null pointer to which messages may be sent. Probably others too that I can't remember now. Many languages use "null&qu
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Uploading images via WiFi has been a common feature of pro cameras for a couple of years. I've used this capability at times but it's limited in terms of the amount and rate of data that can be transferred this way. In a controll
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According to Netcraft [0] there are currently 171,432,273 active websites. However there were 1,436,724,046 host names on the net. A total of 6,225,374 web-facing computers was reported. Interestingly the number of active sites hasn
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This is a great topic and an informative article. As a probable exception to the rule, I'm an "older" individual with decent computer skills. No doubt it's attributable to managing and programming computers out of neces
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I'd like to see a closeup of the Portland area too. I live in Portland and while there's been a tremendous growth in the community over the last 10-20 years, Oregon has the concept of "urban growth boundaries" to preser
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A significant subset of people in the US insist the federal government has overstepped its powers, using "interstate commerce" to inappropriately expand federal authority. With the forthcoming change of federal government, in the
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This is a very interesting and well-written article. The subject of particular importance to me for a couple reasons. One is professional. I ran an obesity treatment clinic for several years but it's a clinically important area of pr

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