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Photographer Looks for Common Ground over 'The Gun' in Portrait Series(npr.org)
1 points by nwatson 7y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 7y ago
In Winston-Salem, NC where I now live, the prototype for the Empire State Building, i.e., the R. J. R. Reynolds Building [1] now has a Kimpton Hotel on the bottom 6 floors [2], and apartments on the 11 floors above [3]. There may be some w
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Legal Update and Getting a Bike Camera for Peace of Mind(sf.streetsblog.org)
5 points by nwatson 7y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 7y ago
Neither halal-approved meat nor kosher-approved lemonade fundamentally change the taste and appearance the consumed product. The only costs to providing those options are an extra non-governmental "tax" in how the food is process
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by nwatson 7y ago
>> (even airplanes had, absurdly, a smoking section) Even more absurd, when growing up in Brazil, the smoking section on the airline VASP (Viação Aérea São Paulo S/A) was the entire left side of the plane, i.e., to the left of th
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by nwatson 7y ago
Kinda like the Mexico-Canada dual-citizen Mennonite drug-smuggler Mafia: https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/m/episodes/2016-2017/the-mennonite-...
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by nwatson 7y ago
... that happens to be a man-made curated garden of sorts [1]. [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untou...
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The problem of mindfulness – loaded with troubling assumptions of self/cosmos(aeon.co)
4 points by nwatson 7y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 7y ago
Aahhh, this is the Brazilian football/soccer player naming phenomenon [1] : Zico, Ronaldinho, Sócrates, Pelé, Ronaldo, Edú, Falcão ... ( A Zico free kick in particular was such a joy to watch. ) [1] https://slate.com/n
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The Water Wars of Arizona (2018)(nytimes.com)
52 points by nwatson 7y ago|44 comments
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Franky Zapata Falls in English Channel Crossing on High-Speed Hoverboard(npr.org)
1 points by nwatson 7y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 7y ago
Working now.
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by nwatson 7y ago
ATM will let patrons buy/sell Bitcoin ... a half mile from my house. ( I wish I still had my 325 Bitcoin that I sold at a decent profit to order a Butterfly Labs Monarch Bitcoin miner. I even plunked down additional cash for a second
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Sheetz Store in Winston-Salem (NC) Testing Bitcoin ATM(wxii12.com)
2 points by nwatson 7y ago|2 comments
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by nwatson 7y ago
In the meantime, Icelandickers themselves trashing their ecosystem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAubG28uODM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uba84Q6qwKM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm
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Aviation Accidents: Tag “Windshear”(aviation-accidents.net)
1 points by nwatson 7y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 7y ago
Wind shear is an extreme form of turbulence, here are some sample accidents: http://www.aviation-accidents.net/tag/windshear/
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by nwatson 7y ago
I have extended family (two brothers, two nieces, one niece's husband, one nephew) all into Salesforce.com/SFDC development. Four of them successfully ran a SFDC consulting business for several years with many good clients and lot
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by nwatson 7y ago
You'll find most U.S. urban areas are just as connected as San Francisco. SF NIMBY mindset prevents infrastructure improvements required to improve connectivity.
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by nwatson 7y ago
Even the Amazon Rain Forest is a human creation: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untou...
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by nwatson 7y ago
Restrictions to use of public information is routine in the U.S. as well, e.g. there are public record archives where the public is allowed to review content but not allowed to use photographs, scanners, or even writing utensils with paper
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by nwatson 7y ago
Future people will use the frozen as a resource. I would buy a 2139-October call option on 100-frozen-hopefuls ... that's when I estimate techniques for revival will be viable and when legal hurdles to mass exploitation will be overco
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by nwatson 7y ago
Also, frozen oblivion is better than being brought back by those who will not honor your motivations for being frozen. If it's possible to be brought back, organ-harvesting, post-cryo-slavery, medical-experiment-subject are the likely
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by nwatson 7y ago
Is the subject of the story still alive, or did officials sample his tissue/DNA at death? If so it may now be possible to track down his mother in Glasgow ... a Scottish nurse (?) working in pre-revolution Iran, I imagine, wouldn&#x27
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by nwatson 7y ago
Jetbrains, makers of IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm, have a DSL-creator tool called MPS [0]. It looks interesting, lets you include language and "non-textual" elements including "math notations, diagrams, and forms." I&#x27
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by nwatson 7y ago
No HATEOAS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS I don't think full-on HATEOAS is practical, and blog ( https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/06/03/why-i-hate-hateoas/ ) says it
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by nwatson 7y ago
A few things ... the word 'Crunchr' is real hard to make out when overlayed on the image of the person mid-pushup ... in that same-but-too-small font is your company name 'Tona' or 'Tonu'? ... the busy graphics
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by nwatson 7y ago
> The BASH man page is .. improving? When I had to start dealing with bash a lot about 5 years ago I consulted "Greg's Bash Wiki" at https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide and it pretty comprehensively trea
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by nwatson 7y ago
Sounds more like The Fifth Element. (EDIT: BTW, that was a great categorization of a movie sub-genre!)
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by nwatson 7y ago
PyCharm.

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