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by softgrow 9y ago
Any equivalent book for cats? :) Looking on Amazon, a book, "The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour" looks to be it, anyone read both books? Incidentally, the pricing for the dog book is a bit odd, with the Kindle edition
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by softgrow 9y ago
The supermarket is going to stick with their electronic shelf labels as they are wireless updating, so no need for pulling them off the shelf to run through a printer. There will be other niches though, one mentioned is public transport e-m
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by softgrow 10y ago
The blank building is common globally for its period as they allowed good temperature control and a lot of telecommunications equipment with 12 foot high racks and overhead busbars and cabling. However they're terrible places to inhabi
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by softgrow 10y ago
Picked up by Revk who's been banging on about the ludicrousness of banning encryption for a while now: http://www.revk.uk/2016/10/next-it-will-be-burning-books.htm...
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by softgrow 10y ago
It's about building awareness. I read the title and was expecting to see something actionable like Web Content Accessibility Guidelines https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php which explains and then how to tes
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by softgrow 10y ago
When I see one of these I reminded of Jan Gehl saying they are for reminding people who walk that they must keep asking permission to cross the road (cartoons at http://reviewanew.com/2014/11/17/the-cartoon-ca
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by softgrow 10y ago
Japanese police also stand outside their police box or station with a big stick doing "ritsuban" i.e. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/reference/police... which is I suppose the
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by softgrow 11y ago
Openstreetmap is streets ahead, land use, buildings a lot more useful detail http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/-6.7963/39.2658
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by softgrow 11y ago
Might work for some people but not for me. I'd start worrying I'm not donating enough. With plasma you can donate every two weeks which is pretty often, I only go once every four weeks. However I liked the chocolates that were han
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by softgrow 11y ago
Buses bunch as they move further along the route as a consequence of having a dwell time (the time spent at the stop) that increases as a result of the number of passengers boarding at each stop increases AND having passengers arrive at eac
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by softgrow 12y ago
Can't help wondering why they have the "choose the line" step. An obvious improvement is to have one line and direct passengers from the end of the line to the next available station. Then again, a better solution is to staff
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by softgrow 12y ago
The paper (and subsequent book) is not about abolishing parking. It's about abolishing parking minimums and time based (free) parking. The first removes the dead-weight loss of regulated (over) provision of parking spaces for both reta
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by softgrow 12y ago
No I think the so called paradox was made up, To verify: http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS Select tab "Run a Query Using the FARS Web-Based Encyclopaedia" "Query Fars DATA" which takes you to http:&#x2F
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by softgrow 12y ago
Dear readers, the Montana Speed Limit paradox is made up by an advocacy group with a barrow to push. Remember folks, trust but always verify. To quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Speed_limit#Montana commenti
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by softgrow 12y ago
I went through old emails and I was using it in early February 2003, so not quite 2002. I showed it to a number of people and some said, well, it's interesting but will never take off, others thought it looked really useful. One commen
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by softgrow 12y ago
Pages Jaunes (Yellow Pages France) had street view in March 2002. I used it to work out how to get from the train station to accommodation on arrival. Two problems though on arrival train partial strike so travel agent arranged a car and Pa
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by softgrow 12y ago
The odd thing is that once the automated/autonomous vehicles reach above the 10% level the consensus is (cant find a stellar ref but http://www.usfav.com/publications/TAVI_8-CapacityPinjari.pdf will do for a start
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by softgrow 12y ago
I wonder how they did their market research to arrive at a position where it avoids being detected breaching a limit but doesn't avoid breaching the limit when there is no camera around. It seems a fairly cynical position to adopt to a
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by softgrow 12y ago
It's not hard to find as a book, Amazon Japan has it http://www.amazon.co.jp/新編-英和活用大辞典―英語を書くための38万例-市川-繁治郎/dp/47... There is a look-inside feature that includes a few pages that shows what it is about
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by softgrow 12y ago
The paper is long and I'm not sure where the economic magic happens but to be able to trade waiting time for money is truly a good thing for all. Sometimes I really am in a hurry and am willing to pay for it, other times not, but by no
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by softgrow 12y ago
As Donald Shoup http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/ keeps reminding us, if there are no free spaces in a block, then the parking is under-priced. The city needs to charge more, in that block, at that time, so that spaces are made av
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by softgrow 12y ago
Maybe the prose could be written to assume less knowledge and reduce the amount of other material needed for most people to understand? Alternatively as a user preference the prose could auto-include the meanings of some terms?
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by softgrow 13y ago
The article appears to be lifted from a student newspaper article from May 2013 http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/campus/article_3d41096... A book by the same name by Charles Stangor, University of Maryland an
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by softgrow 14y ago
If you want to try it here is an iTunes link http://www.itunes.com/apps/luma-camera
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by softgrow 14y ago
A useful counter blog about ignoring the perceived dangers of the environment is Lenore Skenanzy blog "Free-range Kids - How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)". http://www.freerangekids.com/ Why wait fo
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by softgrow 14y ago
Spooky. Tried it out and found it's prediction accurate for brands and companies I might use. Which was disappointing in a way, I was hoping I might find something new to try. Instead I'm well, just like me....
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by softgrow 14y ago
Even when health care is free people will still refuse. Former volunteer EMT from Australia read the post expecting the normal straight out refusal. People would refuse treatment, relatives wring hands, but at least you could start talking
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by softgrow 15y ago
Could we use a more reliable source? Thenewspaper.com is anonymous. Try http://www.aclumich.org/issues/privacy-and-technology/2011-0... A bit more believable.