obpacheco

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by obpacheco 7y ago
Deaths sure are rare but looking at hawaii.gov shows the level of increase if your interested https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/sharks/shark-incidents/incident-grap...
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by obpacheco 7y ago
I was just parrotting the interview I listened to but after looking into it it's not false to say that shark incidents are definitely increasing in frequency from using information from https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/sharks&#
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by obpacheco 7y ago
I was listening to an interview of Shane Dorian, a well-known big wave surfer from Hawaii. He was remarking on how, when he was growing, when there was a shark attack the locals would go on a shark hunt, killing numerous sharks. Around the
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by obpacheco 7y ago
A common misconception about Michael Phelps is that he has an abnormally long wingspan, while it is about average for his height. Studies show that a wingspan is on average 2.1 inches longer than your height and Phelps is 6'4 and has
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by obpacheco 7y ago
You also see this type of thing happen in long distance swimming. Dr. Julie Bradshaw holds many records for long distance butterfly swimming, including being the first to swim around the island of Manhattan only using butterfly (28 miles).
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by obpacheco 7y ago
You seem to be implying that immigrants aren't rich or well educated, the evidence doesn't bare that out. Middle Eastern immigrants are on average more educated that Americans, Asian immigrants make a much higher median wage than
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by obpacheco 7y ago
Tribalism seems to pop up in all different populations. Fear of changing demographics, fear of others coming into your city/country, fear of change. Definitely a lot of parallels between the logic of this article and the logic that got
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by obpacheco 7y ago
> At the beginning of the current tech boom, it seemed that “old” San Francisco—activists, artists, immigrants—might continue to set the terms of the city, as it grudgingly acclimated to, and resisted, the influx of entrepreneurs and tec
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by obpacheco 8y ago
"DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizatio
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by obpacheco 8y ago
just wondering what subreddits do you subscribe to? I enjoy talking about politics but r/politics is insufferable, I've found r/news to have much better discussions, but it all depends on the post and which type of people a s
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by obpacheco 8y ago
Coming from a public high school in the Bay Area I can totally understand the issue of AP/Honors or advanced math classes having the effect of segregation based on socioeconomic background. It's a tricky subject but I was able to
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by obpacheco 8y ago
I admit a little bit of that is pessimism from what happened at Fukushima from when the plant lost power to run the cooling pumps. from Scientific American > Pushing water past the core means pumps that are generally run by electricity.
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by obpacheco 8y ago
>VAT is tax for consumers, not corporations. at the end of the day does it really matter? It's totally a tax on the corporations ability to do business. If we taxed the companies causing them to increase prices by 10%, the consumer
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by obpacheco 8y ago
I don't know if I would call that a good alternative. How many places on the Earth can you no longer go due to radiation? Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile Island and the list will go on. Also it seams very short sided in terms of plann
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by obpacheco 8y ago
Ya I honestly have no idea of what every individual in their family has achieved but I guess James is up to bat for Tesla, I hope he can make some positive reforms in the work culture as well as keep working to increase the market share of
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by obpacheco 8y ago
They're also brilliant businessmen who have built the most successful news empire in America
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by obpacheco 8y ago
Stop trying to bring gender into it. This isn't about believing a man or believing a women. This is about the presumption of innocense and the need for a preponderence of evidence rather then just an accusation
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by obpacheco 8y ago
That's the craziness of this whole thing, we're dividing America over an accusation that hasn't been able to be substantiated by any other parties. We're confronted with the most basic form of a "he said, she said&q
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by obpacheco 8y ago
i like the way you think
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by obpacheco 8y ago
its not just that google has a search engine, they also own youtube, which plays a huge role into how people are getting their news today, as people watch less and less television.