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by pilom 8y ago
What's your solution to parks like Zion that because of geographic constraints, only has 420 parking spaces but more than 2 million visitors per year? That is already 13 people per parking space per day (obviously much worse on weekend
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by pilom 8y ago
Are you and your cannabis using friends white? Colorado actually tracks these numbers and has found for years since legalization that about 50% of "street" level sales are illegal and 50% go through dispensaries. Minorities are si
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by pilom 8y ago
I made a Myst linking book like this https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/myst-linking-book but it was way easier to do with a smartphone.
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by pilom 8y ago
Vietnamese people fleeing their country for helping the US in the Vietnam war: immediately brought to the US in helicopters and aircraft carriers and given refugee status. Iraqi people fleeing Iraq because they helped us: forced to stay in
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by pilom 8y ago
Starting for 2018 taxes, the standard deduction was doubled to $12,000 for a single filer and $24,000 for a married couple. Combine that with no longer being able to deduct state income taxes and there will be fewer people than ever actuall
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by pilom 8y ago
Cliff Palace (the oldest one listed for Colorado) certainly isn't "intact". It's definitely a ruin.
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by pilom 8y ago
"A person from the United States of America thinks something 100 years old is old. A person from the UK thinks 100 miles is a long way away"
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by pilom 8y ago
Seriously? He gets this worked up explaining the difference between "the water is pulled out at the earth moon line" and "the water is pushed from the poles towards the earth moon line"? The net effect is identical.
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by pilom 8y ago
31, married, been working 100% remote with a 100% remote team for 5 years. My wife works outside the home but we took 2 years when she was between jobs to drive around the Western US in an RV ( https://therecklesschoice.com ). Ove
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by pilom 8y ago
The issue is that people are moving into land that wasn't used for irrigated farm land. If we in-fill to 2x the population density, there isn't any farmland to de-water. And most farmland in the southwest is just grazing land that
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by pilom 8y ago
Assuming 1) a trip is about 10,000 miles in distance, 2) acceleration is constant and speeding up for 15 minutes and slowing down for 15 minutes, they are looking at (very roughly) 0.4g of additional acceleration i.e. you would feel 1.4 tim
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by pilom 8y ago
We already have domed cities in Antarctica that test the psychological impact of living in desolate wastelands. It is in fact so desolate there that we can't physically access those places for months at a time and rockets wont change t
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by pilom 8y ago
Don't worry, you aren't allowed to repair your tesla vehicle anyway.
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Ask HN: Why does my company need to enable IPv6?
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by pilom 8y ago
One of the best features of using Google Fi as my cell provider is that I can still use Google Talk. Still works amazingly well and I can send text messages directly from Gmail or from my android phone. I love it.
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by pilom 8y ago
If you'd like to read more about this, I recommend John Wesley Powell's biography: "Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West" https://amzn.to/2H2v7oZ
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by pilom 8y ago
I think they meant what if your body is lost at sea, or blown up, or burned in a fire, etc.
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by pilom 8y ago
We've modified adult cells of Huntingtons patients [0] but I can't find any reports outside of hackerspaces of performing it on full human adults. [0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/researchers-use-crispr-to-edi..
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by pilom 8y ago
CRISPR. The ability to edit DNA in living animals (especially in the germ line) will cure genetic diseases, make us live longer, and increase our ability to feed the third world.
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by pilom 9y ago
You can always take the test from 23andMe and then take your data to https://www.promethease.com/ . That's what I did and it told my my apoE status. They will tell you all the things that 23andMe is not legally allowed
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by pilom 9y ago
Sign up for the frequent renter program and it fixes all of these problems. When I rent with Budget with their FasTracks program, I either just pick the car I want off the lot and they bill appropriately when I leave the lot, or if I'v
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by pilom 9y ago
If housing prices don't go up, landlords make profits from rents rather than appreciation. Currently in SF, if housing wasn't appreciating, landlords would demand a greater percentage of the purchase price from renters, or house v
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by pilom 9y ago
The stats I've seen are somewhere around 85% of right handed people will tie a granny-knot one way and ~85% of left handed people will tie it the other way (assuming you know where they were standing, i.e. what their starting orientati
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by pilom 9y ago
I went looking for youtube videos showing the current status of the game and unfortunately most of them are from when the 2014 models were released. You need to dive into the forums for the most recent models (they are supposedly in the pro
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by pilom 9y ago
Check out Freespace Open http://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/Source_Code_Project_ind... . The engine for Freespace and Freespace 2 was open sourced and has been under continuous development for ~20 years. They've
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by pilom 9y ago
I learned about it in a Decision Analysis course and had a completely different point driven home. This wasn't bad code. It was code that was correctly written to a very well defined requirement ("System shall be operational for a
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by pilom 9y ago
Second vote for the Schwalbe Marathons. I got fed up with fixing a flat once a month when I lived in Pittsburgh and biked everywhere. Replaced my tires with Marathons and had to replace the tires for wear after a couple thousand miles befor
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by pilom 9y ago
My understanding is that 50-60VDC is approximately the voltage at which electricity will arc through a person's chest (i.e. pass through their heart) if they hold a wire in each hand. That makes it unsafe to handle without special insu
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by pilom 9y ago
One of the things I love about Google Fi is that I'm still allowed to effectively use Google Talk and SMS still works in Hangouts on my phone. I can do all messaging from the hangouts app with people over SMS or if they use hangouts, t
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by pilom 9y ago
The stream cut out before they were able to report on the main engine recovery. Anyone have more info?

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