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by steveax 9y ago
I don’t remember how widespread this was, but in many circles, the 1998 bill was referred to as Mickey Mouse Protection Act.
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by steveax 9y ago
“Industrial Tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not disc
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by steveax 9y ago
If you wanted to reduce the crowds on Everest, you’d ban guided climbs, not solo climbs. Solo climbing big mountains is rarified territory that attracts relatively few participants.
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by steveax 9y ago
WRT antitrust, what’s generally regulated these days is nothing, nada, zilch.
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by steveax 9y ago
“You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store”
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by steveax 9y ago
Surely then the company could explain this reason. More trustworthy? Something else? This would give the employee the option of trying to improve that aspect their performance. I’m not saying this is easy, or without pitfalls, but the bigge
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by steveax 9y ago
The ASCA is doing great work on a shoestring budget replacing timebombs.
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by steveax 9y ago
Roger Brown is a solid human. Replacing old fixed gear is mostly a thankless task, but Roger just keeps fixing things. https://web.stanford.edu/~clint/rep/08614.htm
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by steveax 9y ago
I’m reminded of this from Einstein: “The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
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by steveax 9y ago
I believe it is present in both the original distillate and also is leached from barrels. Some info here on the leaching from barrels: AGING OF WHISKEY SPIRITS IN BARRELS OF NON-TRADITIONAL VOLUME http://etd.lib.msu.edu/isla
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by steveax 9y ago
And then returns to two lanes, rinse, repeat. Not sure how you think widening Tacoma would happen. You'd need to tear down most houses and businesses that line the street. I live in Sellwood, trust me, the bridge is not the bottlenec
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by steveax 9y ago
You're seeing both the old span (moved North from its original location) and the new bridge under construction in that photo. Once the new bridge was finished, the old span was torn down. More photos here: http://www.sellwoo
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by steveax 9y ago
The bike and pedestrian improvements are huge. The old bridge had no shoulders (death trap to ride) and one ~3' sidewalk on the North side that was shared between pedestrians and bikes heading West and East. Edit to add photo... You ca
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by steveax 9y ago
Tacoma street East of the bridge wasn't gonna get any wider no matter how many lanes wide they made the bridge (which is mostly one lane each way). It would make no sense to widen the bridge beyond the width of Tacoma.
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by steveax 9y ago
Yep, the 80%-90% level is pretty easily met by doing those along with using the native controls (buttons, links, etc.) properly. When your designers hand you a custom interactive widget, you can add a good chunk (50%-100% extra effort) to y
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by steveax 9y ago
NVDA [1] and VoiceOver (iOS and MacOS) are free. [1]: https://www.nvaccess.org
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by steveax 9y ago
You'll want to retire that rope, but nope, I've had a couple of high fall factor falls with no ill effects. A true fall factor 2 fall is impossible to achieve in a real setting (knot, etc.), but I've taken a prob 1.6 or so.
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by steveax 9y ago
I had a similar experience when I was taking Aikido classes, dropped my motorcycle, (high-sided over the tank/bars) and instinctively tucked my head and rolled. I had a backpack on with schoolbooks in it and rolled back up to my feet,
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by steveax 9y ago
Bob Cratchit fingerless gloves FTW :-) Seriously though, I live without AC at home (Portland, OR, so not a real hardship) and often wear a cap and vest during the winter. I kinda like having more connection to the outside temperature.
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by steveax 9y ago
They're pretty stable, with the high alcohol content they don't really need to be refrigerated, but doing so will extend their life.
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by steveax 9y ago
Be careful with cinchona bark, it can be toxic (quinine and other alkaloids).
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by steveax 9y ago
I believe this article from David Pogue is the one: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/david-pogue-on-iphone-voiceov...
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by steveax 9y ago
Naw, it's actually pretty cheap, with a great ROI http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/06/144737864/forge...
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by steveax 9y ago
I worked for myself for about a decade (web dev) and always considered getting 6 billable hours in a good day.
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by steveax 10y ago
They are, to some extent at least, depending on what browsers you need to support. You have to set *-appearance: none and build the styles back up.
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by steveax 10y ago
What would you expect from a library that encourages people to use any tag for a button?
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by steveax 10y ago
If you're for instance relying on handlebars to escape displayed content from user input properly and your version has a vulnerability...
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by steveax 10y ago
> Downtown LA to Santa Monica at 9am That's against traffic. What does Santa Monica to Downtown LA at 9am take? A big problem in LA is that many people drive much longer distances than that, 30, 50, 70 miles one way in their commute
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by steveax 10y ago
Civil disobedience implies actions in the open and being willing to suffer the consequences of your actions. If Uber had made a public statement that they were instituting a policy to refuse service to city and law enforcement officials and
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by steveax 10y ago
See also: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/02/ny-fed-household-d... (For some more analysis)

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