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by kbutler 9y ago
Where do you live? I've been bitten by mosquitoes in tropical, temperate, and near-polar zones, and at low, high, and mid elevation, in forests, deserts, jungles, and grasslands. And in cities, too, though maybe that's where they
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by kbutler 9y ago
The review mentioned it did, but I don't understand why they have a virtual room. Why not just display the video at full resolution? Why do I have to have my head and face oriented toward a virtual screen? Why would I want to look dow
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by kbutler 9y ago
Native speaker here. Either-or does imply exclusive-or, but it is often used less formally, so you will sometimes see it made explicit as "either x or y, but not both."
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by kbutler 9y ago
I think the "antagonistic" is the lack of visual "affordances" - indications of what an action will do. Like door handles that give no indication of whether to "pull" or "push". I'd say at most
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by kbutler 9y ago
I agree that T-Mobile is having an outsized, positive effect on the market. I just was disappointed to find they weren't gaining on the big 2 as fast as I thought they were, and are instead continuing to lose ground. This makes me wond
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by kbutler 9y ago
I thought this, but for the last several years, it looks like Verizon and at&t have both grown faster than T-Mobile. E.g., https://www.statista.com/statistics/283507/subscribers-to-to...
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by kbutler 9y ago
The physical line of flotsam is not the legal "mean high tide line". "In most states, all land below the mean high tide line belongs to the state and citizens have the right to unrestricted access to that land. Intuition woul
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by kbutler 9y ago
Rayiner asserts it is "the agency" that is forcing opening, but it is not (or had not been). The opinion at page 50 of the PDF is in the case "SURFRIDER FOUNDATION v. MARTINS BEACH 1, LLC et al." - It's a concerned
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by kbutler 9y ago
No, that's the order of the trial court saying he has to open the gate (and the appeals court affirming that ruling). The court is saying, "There is an established process to administer the law - you can't unilaterally decide
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by kbutler 9y ago
And the county regulations do allow him to do that, if he chooses, but he doesn’t want to - he closed the gate and wants to keep it closed. That isn’t legal, as determined by the trial court, the appeals court, and the CA Supreme Court.
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by kbutler 9y ago
Any documents from the county to that effect? I didn’t find anything that said the county wouldn’t let him just open the access. I found lots of references that said people used to have reasonable to access the beach, but he bought the prop
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by kbutler 9y ago
Why should there be any limitation on hours, or any fee for access? It’s a public easement to allow access to public property, and it predates his ownership by decades. And night time visits to the beach are awesome. He bought an asset, and
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Monkey cannot have copyright on selfie photograph [pdf](cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov)
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by kbutler 9y ago
This seems to ignore confounding factors: - divorce/single head-of-household rate. Over 75 probably has a much higher marriage rate than younger. If you divide that wealth into two households, how does it look? - shift to private owner
825.
by kbutler 9y ago
Pre-check-level security can move more people through faster, though, so if everyone does it, it will still reduce overall/average wasted time.
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by kbutler 9y ago
TSA pre-check makes a big difference - almost like flying before, except you get to walk past all those other lines. I didn't want to explicitly support the TSA, so I went with "Global Entry" - same benefits and more, and com
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by kbutler 9y ago
To be fair, judah said "going to Apple.com and clicking Mac shows me the base model for $4999.00" Doing what he said takes me to: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac-pro On which the only comput
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by kbutler 9y ago
Did you re-design the UI, or just re-implement the same UI as native widgets?
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by kbutler 9y ago
bdcravens said "if you know you need work done, it is cost effective over paying full price" and eloff tried to contradict by saying it's rubbish unless you know you need more than average. Agreed, dental insurance tends to b
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by kbutler 9y ago
Dental insurance actually tends to have high "co-insurance" amounts (e.g., you pay half the cost of the crown), so consumers feel the price pressure.
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by kbutler 9y ago
"I just think we need to stop trying to merge self driving cars into a road system designed for human operators. Moreover, we should not be "beta testing" our self driving cars on roads with human operators." Sounds like
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by kbutler 9y ago
> "I am not really sure if development of SDVs is really that important" For the 1.3 million people and their loved ones and to 20-50 million injured EVERY YEAR, yeah, it's really that important. Is it ready today? No. We
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by kbutler 9y ago
No, but every year we delay replacing human drivers with something much safer, we incur huge distributed costs. It is thus very important.
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by kbutler 9y ago
These will take a lane from regular traffic and give it to rich people who buy an expensive car. It also will not ensure exclusion of manual vehicles, so it won't create the exclusion necessary for the predictable driving environment.
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by kbutler 9y ago
"Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled. " And $879B in USA per year.
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by kbutler 9y ago
How about all those martyred by prolonging our current manual driving system for the years band decades it will take to roll out separate infrastructure for vehicles no one owns because they can't drive them anywhere? I think we need t
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by kbutler 9y ago
If you decline the job with your current company in your region, what is your best alternative? What is the employer's best alternative? That determines the limits to what you will accept and that they will offer. (Economists call thi
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by kbutler 9y ago
The hypothesis was that the correspondence of visual perception with tactile perception is learned, not innate. That's a perfectly valid scientific hypothesis, and turns out to be testable and correct. Science, from Google: the intelle
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by kbutler 9y ago
Locke and Molyneux had a hypothesis: "Not. For, though he has obtained the experience of how a globe, how a cube affects his touch, yet he has not yet obtained the experience, that what affects his touch so or so, must affect his sight
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by kbutler 9y ago
Yes, Tab. Exactly. Which other diet sodas were identified as having "germs that love diet soda"? The studies show effects for trehalose and saccharine. No diet soda contains trehalose, only Tab contains saccharine. Any effect from

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