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by mullen 11y ago
If they think a recipe for growing mushrooms is bad, then they should not look at the rest of the site.
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by mullen 11y ago
Yes. It is a completely sealed part and is designed to float. Why it is designed that way, I don't know.
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by mullen 11y ago
This is dumb. As others have pointed out, all it does is use peer pressure to decide what the "proper amount" of Paternity Leave is. Netflix is probably such a pressure cooker that when people need to and want to take Paternity Le
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by mullen 11y ago
You know what you call a North Korean with poor OpSec skills? Dead.
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by mullen 11y ago
Yes, but legal fishing can be regulated. We can setup manageable and productive fisheries that not only can sustain populations but also continue to reproduce and be healthy. With illegal fishing, we can't do that.
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by mullen 11y ago
> Illegal fishing is a global business estimated at $10 billion in annual sales, and one that is thriving as improved technology has enabled fishing vessels to plunder the oceans with greater efficiency. Not sound like a First-Worlder, b
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by mullen 11y ago
I just don't understand why Amazon.com stock is so high. Bezos has stated time and time again that he intends for Amazon.com to never make a profit and to never pay a dividend, always folding all of the earnings back into the company f
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by mullen 11y ago
Gone. I quit drinking 10 years ago and everything has gotten 10x better. Sober enough to meet a great women and get married, in better shape, sleep is better, eating is better, work is better and my finances are better. I am at a point with
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by mullen 11y ago
To me, this line sums up the whole discussion: "If a worker is told where to work, what their rate is, and does not control who orders the work (can't make client hire/fire decisions) they are an employee." I have a feel
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by mullen 11y ago
No. As a Californian, it was the appeal of getting all those people off the street and into a warehouse somewhere out in the Desert or on the Coast. Crime in the 90's was pretty bad out here and many people, including myself, had no pr
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by mullen 11y ago
Greece's problems are not IT but political and cultural. They want things from the government but don't want to pay taxes. The Greek populace should have it figured out by now that when a politician promises no taxes and retiremen
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by mullen 11y ago
About 30% of the games are Windows only.
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by mullen 11y ago
This is actually a cost savings. Windows games are much cheaper than their OSX versions and they are available much sooner on Windows than OSX.
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by mullen 11y ago
I expect to see Unit 731 type of stuff but on a smaller scale. There are really shocking things that go on in North Korea right now. Massive prisons to hold political prisoners and their families, executions by all kinds of devices, starvat
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by mullen 11y ago
Nuclear power plants have a safety mode. Airplanes can be landed and turned off. ATC can be turned off after the planes have landed. Hospitals would be tricky because some electronic devices do not a manual labor replacement and I think the
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by mullen 11y ago
>Even now, the center's Bogdan said, the most damaging emissions from big storms travel slowly enough to be detected by sun-watching satellites well before the particles strike Earth. "That gives us [about] 20 hours to determin
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by mullen 11y ago
Agreed. That was basically a poor click bait article missing a lot of really good facts.
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by mullen 11y ago
> There is so much knowledge in religious scriptures. No, there is not. Some guy writing a book 800 years ago, who was not a scientist and who was not even writing on any scientific subject be more accurate that a modern scientist writin
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by mullen 11y ago
> What nefarious purposes can you further by using someone else's DNA? Everything. From the Native American perspective being connected to the land is entire basis of their argument. If you show that the Native Americans of today ar
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by mullen 11y ago
Personally, that is a total game changer for me. I have an app idea, to build a custom house management app for my wife and I. I really don't care to put it on the app store and I don't want to pay $99 for a two person app. Now I
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by mullen 11y ago
Perfect! I live in San Diego, CA, so I can expect my autonomous car soon.
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by mullen 11y ago
Not a good comparison since everything Mao did was about politics not about bettering the lives of anyone else but himself. The Cultural Revolution was his creation and he created it so that he could have a huge mob to attack who he want at
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by mullen 11y ago
I am pretty sure when China started the one-child policy, they knew what would happen. The Chinese are not stupid.
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by mullen 11y ago
> IBM, Intel and Google have contributed far more to computer science than academia ever did, and the Internet would have happened either way. I doubt that. The only way that something like the Internet could have been created is if a &#
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by mullen 11y ago
They fight on the Hubble Telescope which was not lunched until April 24, 1990.
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by mullen 12y ago
Personally, I agree with you but how Dotcom gets there is very important. We cannot tolerate methods that are not only illegal but violate the basic of principals of our legal code and society. Kim Dotcom is as sleazy as it comes but he doe
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by mullen 12y ago
Agreed. At least he is not a follower of Mao, Hitler or Genghis Khan. Then he would be a really awful person.
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by mullen 12y ago
> He claimed he was a communist — a Stalinist, even. He would engage in endless political debates during smoking breaks and drinking sessions. He dreamed of graduate school, an academic career and, one day, even leading a riot. I am real
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by mullen 12y ago
> “Most of our streets don’t have road names so a lot of the addresses end up being very much next to some kind of landmark associated with it, and that’s how we give directions,” Urbina said. “There’s never been good maps generated to b
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by mullen 12y ago
The article makes it clear the guy lived below his means and drove an old car. It's safe to assume he did not have cars, jewelry and mansions. He was also 91, I don't know what he was waiting for, maybe 95 before he cut loose? But

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