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smanatstpete
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smanatstpete
6y ago
I work with many engineers who became blind in a variety of ways. If you provide your email address, I can introduce you to them. Here is my temporary email (docesar172 at lagsixtome dot com) if you do not want your contact to be published.
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9y ago
"Information tends to grow exponentially overtime. " Maybe true. However, the opportunity cost of playing the waiting game also tends to follow a similar path.
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9y ago
>The upper-middle and upper classes are the only groups that invest in property and stocks at any non-negligible amount. Not true. A lot of blue collar workers have 401k plans which invest actively in the stock market.
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9y ago
A small correction: He said he was approaching 33.
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9y ago
Beautiful piece of software. UI is simple and intuitive. You guys will go places.
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9y ago
And I bet any real system would accommodate for the exceptions you mention. However, it makes for a very poor presentation. The presentation here is a marketing device, not a product spec.
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9y ago
Absolutely that is how it is marketed. When you visit a sick relative, it often tradition to bring something to them. Often, people will show up with Horlicks or Complan bottles. It is fortified with vitamins so people conflate Horlicks
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10y ago
Are you sure you are commenting on the correct article?
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10y ago
It works well with dishes dealing with tough cuts of meat, soups and bean based dishes. Yes, you cannot check the progress. But that has been the nature of any pressure based cooking. They key benefit in electric pressure cooking imo is
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10y ago
I would not even categorize the cooking time to be lower for many dishes (Because you will need the pressure to vent slowly for 20 mins unless you manually vent it). It is more of once things are inside the pot, you do not have to tend to
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10y ago
1 I have seen the steam escape for the lid to lock, but I would not categorize that as a noisy escape. But my perception may have been colored by my previous experiences. 2. True. But the difference when I bought it was around 25 dollars,
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10y ago
Maybe I was cooking them too long. I used to have a $90 cooker (I think it was T-Fal), but I could never get it to cook correctly. With Instant pot, the cooking time does not seem to matter. Same thing with venting. I could never get it
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10y ago
Three things Instant Pot does that my older non-electric pressure cookers could not do: 1. Preserve the shape of the food being cooked. The older non-electric cooker would mush all the garbanzo beans or vegetables into a mash. When I cook
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11y ago
I think Retric meant Economically, gifted students...
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11y ago
This is very similar to Arwi when the Arab moors migrated to Tamil Nadu and Sri lanka. They wrote Tamil in Arabic script. It still gets taught at mosques in Tamil Nadu though no uses it any more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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11y ago
You are correct in your analysis. ISIS's main recruitment source is the social media. So, if the US defense can get ISIS to use less social media, it is a net win.
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12y ago
Interesting read and captivatingly well-written. OT question: How long does it take you to write such pieces? I am trying to better myself in expressing written opinion and looking at these examples I am feeling more intimidated than enc
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12y ago
Try having your team read these books: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Solid-Code-Microsoft-Programmi... http://www.amazon.com/Practice-Programming-Addison-Wesley-Pr... http://www.amazon.com/C
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12y ago
As per Moh, Zhang never asked Moh for letters of recommendation (I find that hard to believe. Zhang would not mention it if he had not asked Moh for help). http://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf
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12y ago
This is true in the Tampa area too. My Lyft driver said he was using both to increase the chances of getting a request. He also said that he got more requests with Uber.I suspect this is true in smaller cities where neither Uber nor Lyft h