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by masonic 6y ago
I was shocked today to see a brand new homeless encampment right smack in the middle of the Vallco project directly on Wolfe road, more or less where J.C. Penney had been.
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by masonic 6y ago
There are numerous errors in this ranting, partisan screed. "Republican statewide officers were key players through the 1990s and were active in the legislature into the early 2000s — which accounted for the political paralysis of the
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by masonic 6y ago
"Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?"
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by masonic 6y ago
the crash was due to corrupted input data Bad data shouldn't cause a crash . That's just sloppy.
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by masonic 6y ago
Yet another of this submitter's collection of Amazon affiliate links with no worthwhile content (tag=mostrecommendedbooks-20). A single recommendation is enough to make his lists. How handy.
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by masonic 6y ago
Some states like CA were prepared By what definition of the word was CA "prepared"? There was an improved pandemic infrastructure provided under Schwarzenegger, but that was completely gutted by Brown and left there by New
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by masonic 6y ago
the USSR placed such great faith in science as the saviour of their people and a vindication of their way of life Perhaps you need to read some history. USSR socialist "science" resulted in a horrendously mismanaged econom
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by masonic 6y ago
In the US, check your local cable access channels for the series "Croatian Magazine".
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by masonic 6y ago
Silicon Valley, e.g. Santa Clara County. "Ballot reconciliation", executed perfectly , can only detect multiple ballots by the same registration. I'm talking about an individual registered multiple times in separate precinc
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by masonic 6y ago
There are on average a dozen submits a day that are just lists of affiliate links, most of them even violating the rules of Amazon affiliate agreements. Why aren't the repeat offenders banned? A handful of far more innocuous sites are
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by masonic 6y ago
the claims in the article, which are very specific Hardly. Their entire research for that content in this article is just offhand comments by Apple executives -- the most biased possible source.
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by masonic 6y ago
the article is saying there are tons of qualified Chinese for certain jobs and barely any qualified Americans. The article makes no such case. It merely quotes Apple executives claiming that with no supporting data. Apple has s
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by masonic 6y ago
If they start mating with bats and pangolins, we're really screwed.
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by masonic 6y ago
everyone can only vote once Does your registrar even check that? SV's doesn't even check if a given voter voted both precinct and absentee or if one voted in multiple precincts (e.g. prior and current neighborhood after a
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by masonic 6y ago
"The reason our grant was renewed for five years is because our work is so important in helping prevent pandemics,” Daszak told Science... But in 5+ years of funding, they specifically did not contribute to the prevention of
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by masonic 6y ago
I feel like what's often overlooked is how much so many of these delivery services have lost money If the restaurant is losing money because of predatory behavior by delivery operations, the fact that the delivery company doesn
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by masonic 6y ago
Am I the only one never to use a Facebook app? Yikes. For the few phones that I've owned that had Facebook apps among the non-removeable bloatware, first thing I do after updates is Disable and Force Stop them.
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by masonic 6y ago
Developers are only paying $9K/unit in developer fees, which is less than one third of the known costs for just transportation and general infrastructure (per figures quoted in the article), with nothing towards schools. This i
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by masonic 6y ago
this Johnny Cash song Cash made it popular in the USA, but it was composed by Australian Geoff Mack.
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by masonic 6y ago
on a 1 acre lot Not many of us have all of an acre lot for our homes.
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by masonic 6y ago
Except the state absolutely does check the voter registration rolls to ensure only qualified citizens are on them. They can't. There's no mechanism by which a state can take just a name and verify US citizenship for people
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by masonic 6y ago
The First Amendment itself was inspired by the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen From Wikipedia: "The Declaration was drafted by the Abbé Sieyès and the Marquis de Lafayette, in consultation with Thoma
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by masonic 6y ago
I used Google meet yesterday on a Samsung phone (GS7),and in ~80 minutes almost the entire battery was drained and the phone was too hot to handle. I powered down completely to recharge.
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by masonic 6y ago
Blogspam of https://youtu.be/1LnH6ly2u9E
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by masonic 6y ago
Blogspam of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmbOxY7yBL0
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by masonic 6y ago
NTSC, not NSTC.
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by masonic 6y ago
I was talking about California. CA has no such limitation right now. https://www.coveredca.com/individuals-and-families/getting-c... I don't see any evidence you can start using the insurance without paying fo
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by masonic 6y ago
Obamacare IS Medical (aka Medicaid) No, Obamacare is Covered CA. Medicaid is called MediCal, except persons in the US illegally can get it, too. If you pay out of pocket for your regular doctor... you can get Medical to pay for
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by masonic 6y ago
For ACA, policies, the grace period is forever. Job loss is a "life event" that lets you jump in any time, not just an arbitrary open enrollment window.
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by masonic 6y ago
Various tech companies I don't know of a single SV tech company that employs any janitorial staff directly.

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