larubbio

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by larubbio 10y ago
Although the food pyramid as originally designed was modified at the request of food industry lobbyists out of fear it would hurt sales. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/invented-foo...
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Drone footage inside the SR 99 (Seattle) tunnel(wsdot.wa.gov)
3 points by larubbio 10y ago|0 comments
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by larubbio 10y ago
The article discusses this. Basically you take the current set of services, and by removing the means testing and eliminating all the separate departments that facilitate them you save money and repurpose it towards this single program.
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Obama Urges Opening Cable TV Boxes to Competition(npr.org)
1 points by larubbio 10y ago|0 comments
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by larubbio 11y ago
Just to be clear, the article you link to, in the very first paragraph says "It’s too soon to tell for sure" which is much less certain than when you say "has caused a massive loss of jobs"
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by larubbio 11y ago
Any article that talks about automating what are currently manual tasks I find interesting, but this article had a quote that stuck out to me. "Workers are really cheaper than machines," Stull says. "Machines have to be maint
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World's Largest Meatpacking Firm Wants to Test Out Robot Butchers(npr.org)
4 points by larubbio 11y ago|1 comments
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How a Folding Electric Vehicle Went from Car of the Future to 'Obsolete'(npr.org)
1 points by larubbio 11y ago|0 comments
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by larubbio 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhEHNey37Q The above video is a short demonstration of one such amphibian
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by larubbio 11y ago
This move really saddens me. When I left Netscape to work at Amazon one of the things that I was excited about was a quote from Jeff. "Focus on the customer, not competition." It seems they hve forgotten that. I found it frustr
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Why Nonstop Travel in Personal Pods Has yet to Take Off(npr.org)
62 points by larubbio 11y ago|75 comments
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by larubbio 11y ago
I just wanted to post this since it reminded me of the book "Aramis, or the Love of Technology" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramis,_or_the_Love_of_Technol... ) which I thought was an interesting story of la
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Why Nonstop Travel in Personal Pods Has yet to Take Off(npr.org)
4 points by larubbio 11y ago|1 comments
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by larubbio 11y ago
There are a lot of free resources about meditation online. You can search on youtube for dharma talks or guided meditations. A lot of monks publish free resources online as well: A pdf on the basic method of meditation from Ajahn Brahm: h
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Amazon’s potty problem: Too many dudes, not enough toilets(geekwire.com)
8 points by larubbio 11y ago|1 comments
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by larubbio 11y ago
It also protects against your wife getting out of the car with the key in her purse while you drive back home after dropping her off.
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In surprise FCC filing, Sprint endorses net neutrality(gigaom.com)
331 points by larubbio 12y ago|65 comments
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by larubbio 12y ago
The steel casing was in the survey provided to the contractor as part of the contract documents. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022757238_berthapipe...
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Key to Securing Online Accounts May Be Just a Squiggle Away(npr.org)
1 points by larubbio 12y ago|0 comments
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by larubbio 12y ago
After reading this[1] xkcd post about the ROV he built, I've wanted to try and build a similar one when my son is old enough. Then after seeing the Oculus + drone video I wanted to add that in as well and go "diving" in Puge
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by larubbio 12y ago
Seattle Transit Blog had a post that touched on that topic. (which I can't find) I think the reason to not do that is that the tunnel is too deep so you would not have stations downtown since the cost of each station is more then a tra
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The Little Spacecraft That Couldn't(npr.org)
5 points by larubbio 12y ago|0 comments
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Comic Sans Criminal(comicsanscriminal.com)
10 points by larubbio 12y ago|6 comments
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by larubbio 12y ago
Is the early example in the document correct? Using an input string of abc123 he claims [a-z]+\d+ will match the entire string (which I agree with). He then says that [a-z]+?\d+? will only match abc1. Wouldn't it fail since the non-g
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by larubbio 12y ago
xkcd had a comment showing relative depth of the oceans and lakes. The kola borehole was also on there. https://xkcd.com/1040/
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by larubbio 12y ago
But now that you know that pothole is there you avoid it your next time passing. I assume an autonomous car would have a similar memory about road conditions. I also imagine the cars could share that information among themselves so instea
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Cloak VPN(getcloak.com)
1 points by larubbio 13y ago|0 comments
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by larubbio 13y ago
From the name I thought this was Cloak the VPN tool. https://www.getcloak.com/ I'm surprise the app store allows two apps to be named so similarly.
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by larubbio 13y ago
Agreed. That and blank lines between the if blocks to visually separate the code blocks as well.
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by larubbio 13y ago
A friend pinged me over IM to ask if it was down. I hadn't noticed since I've been using the Gmail Offline chrome app. (Which I really wish they'd merge with the main gmail app)

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