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by portlander12345 9y ago
Ok, what if you do mind IEMs?
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by portlander12345 10y ago
They wouldn't dare.
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by portlander12345 10y ago
The case law on this is interesting. When driver licensing was challenged in the early 20th century, the courts ruled that motorcars are so dangerous to the public that the state would be justified in banning them entirely; and that therefo
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by portlander12345 10y ago
> Merlin Sheldrake Nominative determinism.
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by portlander12345 10y ago
I think you'll find that billions of people get around without cars just fine.
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by portlander12345 10y ago
Although technically Russia and Norway share a land border, you would have to drive thousands of miles through extremely remote arctic areas, where the major routes are single-lane roads and the nearest settlements may be hours apart. If on
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by portlander12345 11y ago
Had Mick left or was the author openly slagging on one of his colleagues?
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by portlander12345 11y ago
Over 100,000 paddlings per year on the books in public schools.
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by portlander12345 11y ago
I once got a leak about a future iTunes release through a reply on Radar.
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by portlander12345 11y ago
My bet is that the engineering teacher is the sole adult geek in this environment and is used to those around him acting this way. I feel for him. There's a personality that's overwhelmingly common in schools, that seeks conformit
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by portlander12345 12y ago
A brief note: my partner's life was changed by access to Medicare. She has a common genetic condition that, had it continued to go untreated, would have left her crippled, unable to work, and in chronic pain within just a few more year
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by portlander12345 12y ago
I would enjoy the hands-free unit conversions and timers when cooking.
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by portlander12345 12y ago
So a tuition-free Masters in Mathematics in Germany sounds pretty intriguing. Has anyone here studied in the German system as an expat? What was your experience? Is it feasible?
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by portlander12345 12y ago
So if you're driving along that narrow mountain road at 55mph, what happens when around the next curve there is a cyclist?
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by portlander12345 12y ago
It's true that the writing style here is a little grandiose. However, the vociferous rejection without understanding of new ideas exemplifies the crushing small-mindedness of HN. The author has schizophrenia? Really? It reads like time
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by portlander12345 12y ago
So clearly, it's the Axiom of Infinity where things really go wrong.
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by portlander12345 12y ago
The thing that Gates finds surprising is that ephemeralization results in more resource consumption, not less.
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by portlander12345 12y ago
And if for some reason he doesn't wish to partake of the joy of bicycling, he can at least get a LEV.
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by portlander12345 12y ago
I got on their extremely raunchy, six-email-a-day mailing list without my consent and couldn't get off. Fuck them.
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by portlander12345 12y ago
Is it just me, or has Wired completely failed to load on Mobile Safari for months?
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by portlander12345 13y ago
Peruse vpri.org if you want to see what Kay has been up to lately.
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by portlander12345 14y ago
Sounds like a typical Gemfile.
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by portlander12345 14y ago
Of course, a really industrial-strength FizzBuzz would be in an SVN repo.
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by portlander12345 14y ago
The Macintosh C Programming Primer. It was fantastic: I highly recommend it if, by some strange chance, you have occasion to program System 7.
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by portlander12345 14y ago
If I thought they meant it. But I actually think it's just an aggressive thrashing about on having their sacred beliefs threatened. The closed epistemic system of that crowd shows defense signs similar to those of Christianity.
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by portlander12345 14y ago
For the company he keeps. Comment on that blog enough and pretty soon a regular will threaten to come to your house and beat you up. This has happened to me twice and I've seen it happen to others; multiple perps, regulars and seemingly fri
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by portlander12345 15y ago
Why are even lousy cheap cheese pizza slices $2.50 in Portland?