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by quasse 7y ago
Yellowstone is truly the worst for this. It's an extremely fragile natural wonder populated by some of the most disrespectful tourists the world can offer. I actually cannot conceive of how the park rangers there manage to keep their c
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by quasse 7y ago
Louisiana is #5 in the nation on the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (despite being 31st in the nation by size). Related reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley
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by quasse 7y ago
It's really weird how, if there's one thing that a large majority of Americans seem to hate , it's forcing companies to take responsibility for negative externalities that they create by profiting off of something. There see
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by quasse 7y ago
Well you can't expect someone to displace the third dining room with a workshop can you?
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by quasse 7y ago
This is something I think about as well. In my Midwestern city, some neighborhoods seem to be 60%+ landlord owned and always increasing. For every home sale to a young couple or first time owner it seems like another house is purchased in c
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by quasse 7y ago
My G4 Plus has been a tank. It survived a motorcycle trip through the Yukon mounted to the bars of my bike without any more protection from the elements than my windscreen. I unlocked the bootloader but then never installed a ROM because th
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by quasse 8y ago
Yeah, it's a pretty crazy world where a game developer pushing an update to a game on Xbox live seems to have a harsher approval process to go through than an automaker pushing OTA updates that literally drive cars.
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by quasse 8y ago
I quit cold turkey because of sleep problem I was having and stayed off it for about a month while I was isolating possible causes. I don't really think cold turkey vs gradual cutoff would have made a difference for me. The biggest thi
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by quasse 8y ago
Good find. I did some more research on John DeFrancis and found his writings on the topic. Pg 32 discusses the "love letter" being part of a semi-ritualized party game. [1] [1] Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Syste
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by quasse 8y ago
The act of unboxing a prototype PCB for the first time, soldering all the components up by hand at the hot air station and then switching it on for the first time (and cringing in anticipation of magic smoke or expensive bangs) is one of my
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by quasse 8y ago
The Adobe Cloud suite certainly is. It took me nearly an hour and a half on customer support to cancel my subscription after it autorenewed without my consent. They tried to charge me a full year of service as an early termination fee , as
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by quasse 8y ago
I've found it hard to find out who was responsible for PLRA, but what I do know is that it seemed to enjoy wide congressional support, received little scrutiny, was signed into law by Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden was one of the only sen
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by quasse 8y ago
For those who have only read the parent blogpost, I would suggest reading at least the first page of this thread. There certainly seems to be another side to this story. The author seems to take any input or effort from others to improve hi
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by quasse 8y ago
North American cars generally use 315 MHz for the key fobs AFAIK, seems like a hobbyist with an SDR + directional antenna could help clear this one up.
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by quasse 8y ago
This is an oft trotted out saying that completely lacks any substance and serves as a distraction to keep people from recognizing how much more some politicians are working against their personal interest than others. WI (the topic of this
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by quasse 8y ago
Baldwin is a blessing to WI but you can't give the voters too much credit. They chose Ron Johnson over Russ Feingold twice .
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by quasse 8y ago
I was going to say, they didn't exactly buy the land on the open market... I feel really bad for the people who lost homes so that the WI Republican party could pull this publicity stunt. It's hard to even fathom
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by quasse 8y ago
Wow, that is so astonishingly scummy [1] [1] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/nov...
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by quasse 8y ago
One problem I have with this is that tons of people like to push the "GitHub is my resume" thing, but 75% of the time they have 25+ "forked" copies of major open source projects with maybe one or two extra commits on top
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by quasse 8y ago
Yeah, I've seen some real horror stories about bad interview processes in the past, but this seems more like the guy outing himself as a defensive and impulsive person who immediately shuts down when he doesn't "know" so
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by quasse 8y ago
They arrested two people that they later admitted had nothing to do with the event in question. [1] What counterpoint are you making here? [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-46709353
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by quasse 8y ago
That makes it sound like a marketing / consumer optics problem then, not an engineering one. When I was a kid my dad drove and older classic car daily, and for any trip longer than ~300 miles he would just get a rental and put the mile
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by quasse 8y ago
It's disappointing coming from the man who campaigned on the promise "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution."
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by quasse 8y ago
The US in particular has developed a culture that says it's not only unacceptable to point out the negative externalities created by a business, but downright unpatriotic.
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by quasse 8y ago
That just seems like choosing the worst of both theoretical worlds you described. The local gov't still has final control over your infrastructure but you also have private industry skimming profits off something you already paid for w
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by quasse 8y ago
I hear this argument all the time, but I don't really see it. What value is the ISP providing here? They sell you service on physical infrastructure that you the taxpayer already paid for? Peering? It seems like it would be much more e
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by quasse 8y ago
That or the Dell Precision 5520 or 5530. Just got one this week and it's so nice to have a 0.75" thick laptop that still has space for 32GB of RAM, two hard drives, discrete graphics and a Xeon processor. Not to mention the very n
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by quasse 8y ago
Someone should do the same for MUMPS[1] if some Epic employee hasn't already done so. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
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by quasse 8y ago
This was definitely still happening as late as 2011, I had a friend who spent two weeks basically nodding off because of the amount of opioids they were given after a routine wisdom tooth removal.
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by quasse 8y ago
Unfortunately those extremely small areas do not exist in a vacuum and and connected to the rest of the state by things like watersheds, especially when we're talking about timescales like decades.

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