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by keeganjw 8y ago
As a Vermonter, I really don't get all the hype around this. The program has gotten way more attention than it probably deserves. It's a limited program in a small state. The logic of it is bizarre. We're trying to bring in m
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by keeganjw 8y ago
What a crazy time when the first thing people wanted to do when they reached the moon was blow it up. I wonder, with the mass of the moon being so much less than Earth's, would the explosion have altered it's orbit?
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For the first time, a major US utility has committed to 100% clean energy(vox.com)
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by keeganjw 8y ago
If my understanding it correct, I'm pretty sure it means the yields of short-term investments are better than long-term investments with the implication that investors feel like the economy is fine now but won't be in the not to d
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Sure, Americans are buying fewer sedans but they're definitely buy way fewer American sedans. Domestics ones just haven't been as good as imports for a long long time. Why buy a Chevy Cruze when Toyota Corollas and Honda Civics ex
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by keeganjw 8y ago
The Montreal spice bagels here are very good! It's the perfect weekend morning spot located in an old warehouse that has a vintage furniture store on one side and a used record/book store on the other. After I'm finished with
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by keeganjw 8y ago
If you want to learn about an ancient solution to the opposite problem, air conditioning, I recommend this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Interestingly enough, my medium-sized city made its main retail street pedestrian-only in the 80s and it is booming. There's no way they'd ever allow cars on it again. People love it. Our downtown is fairly dense and has three uni
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Thanks! This worked great for me and it brought back the https:// part as well.
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by keeganjw 8y ago
You got !g for google, !gi for images, !gm for maps, !gt for translate, !gn for news, !gv or !yt for video, heck even !gf for flights. It helps you go straight to what you want.
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Privacy is cool and all but this is the main reason I use DDG. I use the ! constantly. It makes search so much faster and enjoyable. I can go straight to what I want.
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by keeganjw 8y ago
This is definitely a great way to get people to recycle but I think the problem here is that because recycling companies can't send plastics and paper to China they don't have anywhere to sell the recycling to be reused. Not enoug
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by keeganjw 8y ago
I was just listening to the La Sagrada Familia episode of 99% Invisible last night where the talk about this exact thing. It's a really good episode if you want more insight into this.
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by keeganjw 8y ago
"Under proper conditions" being the key words here.
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by keeganjw 8y ago
This reminds me of the recent op-ed where the guy suggested replacing libraries with Amazon. Just a really dumb idea that is needlessly protectionist.
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by keeganjw 8y ago
I don't think these two things have to be mutually exclusive. Much of the retirement savings people do have is invested in the stock market. I created tons of wealth for Americans, it's just not distributed fairly. I'd like t
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by keeganjw 8y ago
I'm not super convinced that the economic hardships many Americans experience is mainly because of what major they chose in college. I would think a larger factor is that many people can't afford a degree at all. Most Americans ne
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Napoleon’s Hat, Dropped at Waterloo, Is Picked Up at Auction for $400,000(nytimes.com)
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by keeganjw 8y ago
I have municipal telecom where I live in Vermont and it waaaaay faster and cheaper than the competition. It makes Comcast look like a joke. Hopefully, Boulder will have a similar outcome.
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by keeganjw 8y ago
This is a really good article but yikes, yikes, yikes. Not good news.
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by keeganjw 8y ago
Only in America should be playing in the background of this article.
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Britain fights with EU for access to new sat-nav system it helped build(bbc.com)
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by keeganjw 9y ago
I've been using ShellExView to get rid of annoying, useless context menus for years. Great stuff!
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by keeganjw 9y ago
I remember when I first started learning German, I thought it was useless. But after getting used to it, when I switched back to English, I was like where are all the nouns? Why is everything lowercase? It's all about what you get used
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StarCraft as We Know It Exists Because of a Terrible Game's Demo(kotaku.com)
2 points by keeganjw 9y ago|0 comments
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Four Years After Declaring War on Pollution, China Is Winning(nytimes.com)
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You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes(bloomberg.com)
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by keeganjw 9y ago
I'm American and I remember doing these in school. If people from other countries could weigh in here, is this common where you're from? Even though school shootings are far less common in most places, do you still have the drills
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Germany considers free public transport in fight to banish air pollution(thelocal.de)
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What Kids Are Really Learning About Slavery(theatlantic.com)
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