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by sageabilly 11y ago
What kinds of transactions are you doing? Friendly ones between people you know, selling stuff on CL, eCommerce? I'm curious.
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Is PayPal still around simply because, as one of the earliest and one of the biggest payment facilitators on the Internet, it's become ubiquitous enough to not have to worry about being displaced? I cannot for the life of me understand
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Shattering the World Record for Fracking Earthquakes Is an Disconcerting Honor(bcogc.ca)
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Lots of writers [0] do their first draft with pen and paper. There are studies[1] that show that using pen and paper to take notes boost memory and the ability to recall information, so of course a writer doing the first draft of a long nov
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by sageabilly 11y ago
No but you see, the Japanese sleep on the floor and they're all really really smart, so if my family sleeps on the floor instead of in a typical Western bed then we'll all be smarter like the Japanese. Plus their civilization is
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In the Flesh: The Embedded Dangers of Untested Stem Cell Cosmetics (2012)(scientificamerican.com)
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Meet the Lawyer Challenging the Food-Delivery Industry(eater.com)
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T.S.A. Moves Closer to Rejecting Some State Driver’s Licenses for Travel(nytimes.com)
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Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties(billboard.com)
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Eventually, you're going to run out of trades to learn, and/or jobs in those trades.
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Looks like originally written by Jeremiah Dillon for Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-time-management_5...
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Beyond the Pill: Data Is the New Drug(recode.net)
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by sageabilly 11y ago
That is an incredible read. I'd imagine that a lot of what an astronaut needs is nerves of steel when something goes wrong. I can't imagine what it was like in Apollo 13 knowing that something had gone stupendously wrong and if yo
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A Manager at Google Wrote the Perfect Email on Time Management(thehustle.co)
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Well, do keep in mind the origins of the Metro itself- I've talked with older residents in DC who remember when Metro was being built people were terrified it'd bring the problems of the inner city out to the suburbs; remember t
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Living in the DC metro area I see two big issues with Metro service: 1- there are four different jurisdictions (VA, MD, DC, and the Feds) all trying to agree on every little thing and all trying to get their piece of the pie, and 2- people
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The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse and How We Got It Wrong(motherboard.vice.com)
64 points by sageabilly 11y ago|27 comments
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by sageabilly 11y ago
They're super small and don't get caught up in wastewater treatment filters so then they enter into local watersheds. There, they get ingested by the critters at the bottom of the foodchain and enter into the foodchain that way.
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The Guardians of London's Black Cab 'Knowledge'(motherboard.vice.com)
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by sageabilly 11y ago
So Chairman Pötsch said "All of this was caused by a desire to expand diesel sales in the US, a desire that wasn't matched with sufficient time or budget to develop engines that fully complied with the tough NOx emissions regulat
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Ada Lovelace and the Impossible Expectations We Have of Women in STEM(motherboard.vice.com)
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Pirate Hackers Can Easily Spy on Ships Through Insecure 'Black Boxes'(motherboard.vice.com)
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by sageabilly 11y ago
FWIW, I've been married 12 years with no kids and your response to this comment was absolutely spot-on and the response I wanted to make when I first read it. You said it much more eloquently than I would have.
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What Happens If Someone Uses This DIY Gene Hacking Kit to Make Mutant Bacteria?(motherboard.vice.com)
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This is awesome and I had not seen this article! Thanks!
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I haven't, actually, because I assumed it was just a gimmick. And honestly, it IS a gimmick, allowing Starbucks to offer fancy "boutique" coffee at multiple locations at the press of a button instead of emphasizing barista
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Sweet Maria's has a great getting started write up, as well as selling green beans and coffee roasting equipment: https://www.sweetmarias.com/
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Boutique coffee is all about nuance- it's like Scotch, or bourbon, or tobacco. You get this particular sack of beans from this tiny coffee producer in the middle of nowhere and you've roasted 5lbs of it just so and you then gr
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Heads up- there's some NSFW pictures of an anthropomorphized pig statue on the page so be forewarned.
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Good point, here's the Gizmodo article about it: http://gizmodo.com/court-rules-that-breaking-your-employers-... In short: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an opinion rejecting the gove

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