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by justinph 8y ago
The security industrial complex constructed after the wake of 9/11 certainly contributes to this, in addition to the preexisting military industrial complex.
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by justinph 8y ago
Personal experience. And this article explains: https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Issues/2009/Jun/2009137...
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by justinph 8y ago
New York is also aggressive about collecting taxes from remote employees. If you work for a NY-based company, but live in another state, you most likely have to pay NYS income taxes. Depending on how your _actual_ home state deals with thin
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by justinph 8y ago
The Minnesota Attorney general did: http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-attorney-general-sues-c...
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by justinph 8y ago
Aside from the density issue which others mention, self driving cars are un-proven technology. I get that a lot of smart people are working on them, but it's one thing to test a fleet of even a few hundred cars, but another entirely to
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by justinph 8y ago
Glad to see they're bringing Ektachrome back. Years ago, I took a photography class that was B&W, except for the week we did color with Ektachrome. The instructor selected a few slides from everyone and we watched it together. It w
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by justinph 8y ago
For many publishers (I work for one), AMP pages aren't any faster than their pages from a cold start. The advantage AMP has is that it doesn't load from a cold start; most visitors to AMP pages come from search where google starts
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by justinph 8y ago
I have come to appreciate the new keyboard, primarily because the keys feel more stable under fingers than the older keyboards. The shorter travel doesn't bother me, though the additional noise is slightly annoying and the arrow key la
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by justinph 8y ago
Is that supposed to show improvement or something? I think that's pathetic. The equivalent sedan of today, Fusion Hybrid, gets 45 mpg, a ~50% improvement from 2000. Meanwhile the F-150 has eked out a 20% improvement because of fundamen
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by justinph 8y ago
Makes me kind of regret deleting my account when they got sold to Verizon as part of the Yahoo! deal.
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by justinph 9y ago
This book is amazing and totally blew my mind. I also suggest the follow-up, 1493.
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by justinph 9y ago
The article states the power comes from hydro, not coal.
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by justinph 9y ago
I don't have time to watch all these now, but I just want to say how awesome Jen Simmons is and how great it is that Mozilla employs her to make stuff like this, and evangelize things like the CSS grid. Kudos!
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by justinph 9y ago
Lots of talk and no code or proposals, in so far as I can tell. The thing that makes the web slow isn't web standards, but too many ads and too much tracking code. If only there were a company that controlled a lot of the ads and track
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by justinph 9y ago
This is pretty easy to do with a cloud function. I was a little apprehensive at first, but have been using it across many buckets and haven't seen any issues. Here's a version of the script I'm using: https://gist.
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by justinph 9y ago
Disappointed with the content of the article; it does not cite an examples of the engineering that was involved, just the challenges and the end result. Missing the whole point, IMHO.
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Analyzing my Twitter followers with Datasette(simonwillison.net)
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by justinph 9y ago
I grew up collecting these from the Milwaukee County Zoo. I never realized they were a somewhat regional thing. Neato!
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by justinph 9y ago
How would that going to work? The article says they're setting up a nonprofit company. Can't spin that off and sell it.
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by justinph 9y ago
Old clothes that are made from natural materials like wool, cotton, and linen can be composted. The trouble is that many times the thread and accessories (buttons, zippers) in the clothes are not natural and the compost needs to be sifted t
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by justinph 9y ago
Ended up getting the FMT.
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by justinph 9y ago
WOW! I had c. diff (it sucked, a lot) and this really fills in some gaps for me. Before my gut was destroyed by c. diff, I used to eat more ice cream, no doubt containing this sugar. Obviously I can't say for certain, but I can see ho
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by justinph 9y ago
Yes. Stay away. I downgraded my mac back to Sierra from High Sierra and don't regret it at all.
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by justinph 9y ago
Doesn't make a lot of practical sense. * Sewer & water can be done in a piecemeal fashion, whereas fiber requires complicated & precise connections to make work. Not to mention, needs connection to the electrical grid. * Sewer
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by justinph 9y ago
You can put all the speed limit signs you want on that street, but it doesn't change the fact that the road is too wide and straight and people will go the speed they feel comfortable at, regardless of the signs. That street needs to b
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by justinph 9y ago
This is known as a beg button. As in, pedestrians unquestionably have the right of way, but since our cities are so overtly auto-oriented, we make the pedestrians beg for their rights by pushing a button. These are emblematic of the spectac
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by justinph 9y ago
Strong Towns has far from a contrarian view. Perhaps to civil & traffic engineers, but to urban planners, it is well known the detrimental effects streets can have on cities.
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by justinph 9y ago
This doesn't seem very innovative to me. Insurance companies are already taking this into account. I recently purchased a new vehicle (Subaru) with active safety features (EyeSight). The insurance is the least I've ever paid, by a
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by justinph 9y ago
I've just done something like this recently and it's not as easy as you might think. It is easy to make a thing happen quickly with a few lines of code, but making it reliable and repeatable is much more time consuming. This looks
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by justinph 9y ago
It is almost as if the US has been promoting unsustainable development and poor land use for decades and it is starting to bite cities and states in the ass.

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