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by whyenot 11y ago
On the peninsula (Purissima Hills Water District) we pay about €1.49/kL for the same Hetch Hetchy water. The quality of San Francisco's water is pretty amazing. At home I measure a total dissolved solids of <35 ppm. Compare to
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by whyenot 11y ago
Prison is where many (most?) psychiatric patents get "treatment" these days.
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by whyenot 11y ago
from your linked article: Some elements of the accord would be voluntary, while others would be legally binding. That hybrid structure was specifically intended to ensure the support of the United States: An accord that would have required
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by whyenot 11y ago
That is because foothill expressway was a railroad line until the early 1960s(?). You can still see the old train station in downtown los altos (it's now a high end French bakery).
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by whyenot 11y ago
Just to keep things in perspective, the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands are 0.000721013% of the world population. if the Paris accomplishes anything positive at all, the impact would likely be larger than saving the Marshall Islands.
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by whyenot 11y ago
I realize for many people this is not going to be an option, but what has worked for me is to do more work "offline." Write drafts with pen and paper, instead of composing on a screen, if I have something I want to read, I print i
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Laws Struggle to Keep Up as Hoverboards’ Popularity Soars(nytimes.com)
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by whyenot 11y ago
I have tried using Sugru to fix my Mac charger. It only worked as a temporary fix for me. I think the problem is that Sugru is not elastic enough and tends to crack when it bends.
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by whyenot 11y ago
How about producing a charger with more robust wiring? The power brick for my Thinkpad X200 is now more than 6 years old. It has been treated very roughly, but has thicker wires, robust strain relief, and has never failed. In the same amoun
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by whyenot 11y ago
The charger wire in my Apple charger shorted out a few months ago, in the process melting part of the plastic housing which dripped on to my bed spread. If I hadn't been sitting nearby and noticed, it could have easily started a fire.
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by whyenot 11y ago
If you somehow manage to accidentally eat a rose (the plant in the article), I'd be far more concerned about the large thorns than the electronics.
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Why No One Can Design a Better Speculum (2014)(theatlantic.com)
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by whyenot 11y ago
The best thing about the eTrex is that it has a much more accurate GPS than in a phone, at least an iPhone. The worst things about the eTrex are it's utter crap screen, how bulky it is, how expensive it is (they start at $250), the fac
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by whyenot 11y ago
Technically until the "forthcoming" paper by Jonathan Way is published, and designated type specimens exist, it isn't clear what it is -- certainly not a new species or subspecies right now.
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by whyenot 11y ago
What do "Apple's lowest earning American workers" make? edit: About $25k a year, with benefits according to the NY Times[1]. That would be about $13 an hour, although the NYT also quotes an employee making $11.25 an hour. ht
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by whyenot 11y ago
I will never fully forgive the nurse who informed me in 1998 that I had AIDS and that I needed set up a living will and get my affairs in order before I began experiencing "cognitive decline." It turned out I didn't have AIDS
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by whyenot 11y ago
> There is absolutely no way to get the same density in an automobile. How about a double-decker bus? Busses also have the added benefit that they are safer, and since you don't have to pay attention to the road, you can read, croch
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by whyenot 11y ago
> My only question is: If users can block ads should content creators not be able to detect that and not serve the request? Yes, of course, but how are you going to do that, and is the end result going to be what you want? It seems to me
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by whyenot 11y ago
I don't trust Facebook. At one point I even deleted my account. But, FB has allowed me to get back in contact with friends I made in college and at my first job (in Panama). The reward to me has been tremendous. It has meant so much to
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by whyenot 11y ago
The relationship between subsidence and groundwater pumping was actually discovered in the Santa Clara Valley in the 1940s. As a result, percolation ponds were built in the 1960s to recharge local aquifers and ground water pumping by the Sa
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by whyenot 11y ago
> The advantage of California agriculture is that you can grow crops outside year round. It's a little more complicated than that. When it comes to produce, I think you are right being able to grow year round is a huge advantage. Bu
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by whyenot 11y ago
There are two problems that I have with this romantic view of DDT: 1. Mosquitoes become resistant to DDT over time, as is the case with most pesticides. 2. DDT might possibly be "cost effective" when considering direct costs, When
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by whyenot 11y ago
It's the standard dating scheme used in archaeology and some areas of geology for material that is carbon dated. As mentioned on the wikipedia page that OP linked to, "present" is actually a standard date: January 1, 1950; ch
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by whyenot 11y ago
"most likely" In other words, there is a good chance you are wrong.
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by whyenot 11y ago
They can't "simply prohibit it." National Forests by law are managed for multiple uses including resource extraction. The USFS faces a very large downside because reviewing a permit like this would trigger an environmental im
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by whyenot 11y ago
As the article mentions, the USFS is underfunded and understaffed. As a result, (and as is also the case with USFWS and NMFS), permit related matters are often "triaged" with items having a low percieved environmental impact (or p
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by whyenot 11y ago
Difference of scale? Ok, I agree with you there, but characterizing the risk as "a couple dented fenders" is intellectually dishonest. A high speed accident on an interstate could easily involve serious, even fatal injuries.
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A quick puzzle to test your problem solving (confirmation bias)(nytimes.com)
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by whyenot 11y ago
I used PadMapper. It was fantastic, the user interface was so much better than CL. ...but its scraping of CL postings was risky and morally wrong. The "fuck the rules" approach has worked for Uber and AirBNB, but it's not goi
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by whyenot 11y ago
> If you want a PhD and they require publications, you publish where there is a tradition of publishing or it doesn't count. Most PhD programs require a single publication. It's called a dissertation . Sometimes individual cha

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