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by wnissen 9y ago
Plastic bags hold about 20-30 pounds, how much milk are we talking?
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For producing "normal" English with longer words it was invaluable. It also handled multiple languages with ease compared to the default iOS keyboard. But I could tell the last few years that they weren't really maintaining i
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Dang. It seemed like a great thing, never became available in my neighborhood. I know there are informal unpermitted food sellers all over the place, but this seemed like a nice balance between getting ceviche from a random person off Faceb
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by wnissen 9y ago
Apologies for replying to my own comment, but apparently they are including the "imputed rent" in the calculation. That is, the amount of rent you would have paid if you didn't own the home. The thing is, you have to live som
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by wnissen 9y ago
How does this all square with the Case-Schiller home price index, which showed something like a 1% real rate of return (i.e., just barely above inflation) for properties over time. As I understand it their data is based on comparable house
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That's a remarkably accurate description of events. It's the "Springtime for Hitler" of funds. Because the fund is so bad there is no one left to hold you to account. The incredible thing is that they could have kept it
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by wnissen 9y ago
The idea that I would have to locate and press a graphical button to turn up the fan is pretty much a nightmare. I can do it without looking now. Even a quality voice-recognition interface would be lousy.
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by wnissen 9y ago
Your brain is really, really good at filling in blind spots. There is a big one where your optic nerve connects to the back of your eye, you can even see it yourself. http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/bli
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by wnissen 9y ago
Do you have any insight into why, when they were looking at men vs. two types of women, 88% of the blood donors were men? Seems like you would want at least 50% women.
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by wnissen 9y ago
What's even more interesting is to see how much code is needed in the GNU true. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/true... 4 includes, 3 ifdefs or define blocks, the whole thing
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by wnissen 9y ago
Does yours have an "airplane mode"? You can get an SD card instead of using the cellular.
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Unbeatable.
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Thanks for pitching in. Can you talk about the "active map"? Who hosted it, who was able to add or remove a report, etc.?
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I'm donating my 38th pint / 17th liter of blood this Friday. I phone banked during the election, participate in two local community organizations, etc. So I'm going to have to ask that you take it on good faith that I believ
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by wnissen 9y ago
There are 3.5 million people working full-time for the US Department of Defense (including contractors but not the reserves). Wouldn't it make sense to train a few thousand of them to make sure there is efficient dispatch of rescues? I
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by wnissen 9y ago
Why don't we have people doing this dispatch professionally? What are FEMA and the Red Cross doing if not helping coordinate emergency response when the normal channels are overwhelmed? Don't get me wrong, this person, and all th
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by wnissen 9y ago
Bourgeois is mediocre in taste but requires a certain level of resources. Premium mediocre adds two components: striving but failing to achieve that level of resources, and awareness that one is aspiring to it.
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The overall drop was from 66% of the population to 63% in the last 15 years. But really the drop was from 2007-2014. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300061 Basically an entire major metro area of people who would
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by wnissen 9y ago
Several months after Apple Maps became the default, something like 2/3rds of all users switched away from Google Maps. It's hard for me to believe, since the Apple Maps are more attractive but still less useful, but those are the
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by wnissen 9y ago
Wow, I got it right to a percentage point? I didn't realize it was 40-44, so maybe it moves teensy bit with IVF past 44. Thanks a lot for the cite.
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by wnissen 9y ago
The chart says "Note: Inflation-adjusted annual average growth using income after taxes, transfers and non-cash benefits." Does that include employer-paid health insurance? I assume that is part of what is meant by "non-cash
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by wnissen 9y ago
85% of women have children at some point in their lives. This is just a fact. You may know that you're not having kids, but the vast, vast majority of people don't make that choice.
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But a length in bytes is even better than human-readable: it's a graph (technically a histogram), so it can be scanned, which is even faster than reading. It's far faster to identify the smallest or largest file in a directory wit
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Currently many Bay Area cities, including ones that are a solid 90 minute drive, have median household incomes in the 75-$125K range. But the payment on a median house is 100% or more of that income. The situation is not yet literally Dicke
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I am amazed at the scale of the RV housing in industrial areas of Oakland. I walked several miles yesterday in southeast Oakland and saw up to five RVs on a block, obviously housing. As the article says, this is not a question of a few very
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If the Paris accord were in fact a treaty, we would not have been able to withdraw, but treaties require a two-thirds vote in the Senate to be ratified as law. This has been essentially been impossible to achieve in modern times. Even cruci
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Don't feel bad, there are literally only 1 dozen sites that it works on, and so you probably don't care about it right now anyway.
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The subsidy is enormous compared to the cost of other housing programs, and it almost all goes to well-off or rich people. So, no, your TLDR is not accurate, as it points to homeownership as an important wealth-building mechasism for those
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Some places have city or county income tax, usually a few percent.
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The intersection of two NURBS (Non-uniform Rational B-Spline) surfaces has a degree into the hundreds. Those are the surface types used in virtually all CAD modelers. For that reason the intersection is not calculated exactly but approximat

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