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Famous chef wants to open a Bay Area restaurant. A gas stove ban may prevent it(sfchronicle.com)
17 points by tafda 3y ago|29 comments
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YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail(news.yahoo.com)
460 points by tafda 3y ago|544 comments
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Parenting: Are We All Secretly Co-Sleeping?(thecut.com)
2 points by tafda 3y ago|0 comments
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by tafda 3y ago
Depends on how you’re trying to use the map, I find the the Niehues style great for finding a path to a lift or a lodge. If you’re trying to get a sense of terrain, the “FATMAP by Strava” 3d map is the best I’ve seen, with notes on off pist
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Turmoil at ‘Chief’ raises the question: is empowering corporate women enough?(nytimes.com)
25 points by tafda 4y ago|52 comments
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New estimate for high-speed rail puts California train $100B in the red(calmatters.org)
31 points by tafda 4y ago|46 comments
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by tafda 4y ago
Highly recommend "Breakthrough on the New Skis" by Lito Tejada-Flores for an explanation that makes sense of what to do on skis. It's not an easy concept to communicate and comprehend, and much more important than any equipme
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by tafda 4y ago
Thank you, this is very helpful for planning international travel! It's annoying when traveling and unaware of a major national holiday, I was in Europe on All Saints Day and had no idea that everything was going to be extra crowded or
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‘Everything should be on the table’: activists close in on Salesforce(ft.com)
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by tafda 4y ago
To be fair, SoundJam MP really whipped the llama’s ass. Apple ruined it after the acquisition.
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by tafda 4y ago
Carson pass (88) is plowed and stays open all winter. It's the road to Kirkwood and connects to South Lake Tahoe via 89. Agree all the other smaller Sierra passes are closed after first significant snowfall. Storm tourism —- another na
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by tafda 4y ago
On the last point, luggage delivery hotel-to-hotel and hotel-to-airport is easy and one of my favorite unique services in Japan! About $15 per bag and then you don't have to carry your bag through the train station. Except on trains th
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by tafda 4y ago
“ Republicans lead among married men (51%-38%), while married women are evenly divided (44% Republican, 44% Democratic). ” https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/04/07/a-deep-dive-... That’s out of mo
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by tafda 4y ago
By the same token, any zoning is a restraint against capturing the full value of land. It is possible the stringent enforcement gets absurd ( see https://www.noozhawk.com/article/institution_ale_can_keep_it... ). On ba
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by tafda 4y ago
Santa Barbara County in California bans billboards, and Santa Barbara city has even stricter sign laws. It’s a relief to be free from the visual pollution billboards create and there are no downsides unless you own a billboard. In a more ur
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Japan to Reopen to Tourists After 2 1/2 Years of Mostly Closed Borders(wsj.com)
19 points by tafda 4y ago|1 comments
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by tafda 4y ago
Tl;dr: any booster shot you receive will be the new one, and anyone age 12+ can book an appointment now.
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CVS, Walgreens are rolling out omicron boosters(sfchronicle.com)
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by tafda 5y ago
Not everyone would call Los Angeles a proper city, but it's dense and there are very few protected left turns. As thrilling as passing against oncoming traffic on a two lane road.
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by tafda 5y ago
Worse than that, SF has tried removing trash cans on a theory they’re and attractive nuisance. An absence of trash cans works in Tokyo, not so much in North America: https://missionlocal.org/2021/03/newsoms-experim
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by tafda 5y ago
Access to water must be why TSMC is building a $12 billion facility in Phoenix — keep the strategic importance of Taiwan up when the Colorado River dries up.
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by tafda 5y ago
Like IMDB, they have solid backing: “ DPReview.com is a wholly-owned, editorially independent subsidiary of Amazon.com.”
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by tafda 5y ago
Here's an article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-tha... >>> In 1952, the Sackler brothers bought a small patent-medicine company, Purdue Frederick, which was base
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Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse(nytimes.com)
7 points by tafda 5y ago|2 comments
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by tafda 5y ago
CAFE standards for automobile gas mileage have been around since 1975. Perhaps less a slippery slope and more the reality that America isn't a libertarian state?
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by tafda 5y ago
Commercial induction wok burners are a solved problem, just slope the edges of the burner to fit a wok: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/15055/countertop-induction-...
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by tafda 5y ago
Civil engineering: The Control of Nature by John McPhee https://www.amazon.com/Control-Nature-John-McPhee/dp/0374522... Stories about debris flows in the California mountains and forcing the Mississippi River to s
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Wait Out the Wild Housing Market(theatlantic.com)
2 points by tafda 5y ago|1 comments
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by tafda 5y ago
Railroads and the need to coordinate with precision across greater distances forced the evolution of managerial practice from single site to something recognizable as today’s practice. “The Visible Hand” by Alfred Chandler is an authoritati
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by tafda 6y ago
You can request color calibrated TIFFs from the Rijksmuseum collection: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/research/image-requests

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