xsmasher

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by xsmasher 5y ago
I live in an area where people dump debris (furniture, construction debris, yard waste) in the public park and on sidewalks every day. I would love to hire security to watch for dumpers and report them to the city's dumping hotline, al
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Because the fuel efficiency on pickup trucks is terrible. You could double your fuel costs by driving a truck all the time.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Some elements, like being fat and going to Berkeley match up; what makes you conclude it is a work of fiction?
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Every app that does background play of youtube videos seems to get shut down shortly after gaining any traction.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Have it chirp every time the owner views the location of the tracker.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
The protagonist in "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" came to look for the buried suitcase; that was based on an urban legend about the real suicide of Takako Konishi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Takak
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by xsmasher 5y ago
> None of these children had been in an 'exceptional' track in public school. But the scholarship kids all excelled and did well academically. This implies that splitting students into slow and exceptional tracks is not based o
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by xsmasher 5y ago
> Mathematics pathways must open mathematics to all students, eliminating option-limiting tracking. A lot of people are down on this idea, but what about the argument that these schools are failing to educate half of their students by tr
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by xsmasher 5y ago
This is the plot to the 1991 film "Class Action."
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by xsmasher 5y ago
"It" refers to this outage. Changing the subject mid-sentence does harm readability.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
You don't understand his point. He states "Each pixel column is a specific point in time." He's saying you can observe when the BACK of the wheel crosses the too-early "camera line" and determine the winner. Un
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Pluto TV has a more "channel surfing" interface - with horror, scifi, comedy channels, along with some more specific ones like MST3k, Star Trek, and Classic Who. It's great for more "ambient / watch anything" T
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Cats can catch a sparrow in mid-flight, though; it may take specialized hardware or software, but not human-level intelligence.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
>anything having to do with equality or equity always invariably ends up with bringing down everyone to the level of the lowest. I challenge that statement. Did that happen when we got rid of separate water fountains and separate entranc
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by xsmasher 5y ago
A lot of people are down on this idea, but what about the argument that these schools are failing to educate half of their students by tracking them into low-expectation classes? If you decide in the 6th grade that a student is not going to
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Segway solved the wrong problem; turns out that being self-balancing wasn't important at all. The real problem was parking/storage at the stops of your trip. The "shared" aspect solves that problem, making them a lot mor
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by xsmasher 6y ago
>George FLoyd threatened to shoot a pregnant woman in the stomach Snopes says it's not true; who (outside of right-wing faxlore) says it is? What's it called when you believe something that matches your bias, even when it isn&#
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by xsmasher 6y ago
I wonder if this is true for all animals - I've heard that dogs have a "slippery" genome where genetic changes are more likely. I also wonder if there is a lower rate of fertility and a lower rate of fetal survival; is there
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by xsmasher 6y ago
"Never" is wrong. Unless you mean never until the seatbelt mandates of the 90's. Or MADD in the 80's. Or the 70's when OSHA reared its ugly head. Or the 50's with anti-litter laws and campaigns. Or prohibition
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by xsmasher 6y ago
In this case it means "allow people to build multi-family housing" and "allow mixing small retail and residential." get rid of the requirement for large lot sizes, and single-family residential-only zoning.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
War zone? The street could use paving but it looks like typical suburban neighborhood to me.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
This may sound the like the economists with the $20 bill, but if waste plastic is an untapped and valuable resource then why aren't other entrepreneurs already in the space? This seems like fun for DIYers and makers, but it can't
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Does it matter if they know you're spoofing, as long as it prevents them from linking two separate sessions together?
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Some type of dead-man's switch would be nice - "send my last location if my battery dies."
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by xsmasher 6y ago
The threat of being dropped from the iOS app store for having offensive content would certainly motivate them.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
How would that apply in this case? They're not paying per bag of trash or anything.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/
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by xsmasher 6y ago
There was a trick in "Four hour work week" - I'm going from memory, might not be accurate - where Ferriss would place eBay listings for nonexistent products and then cancel the auction before it completed; any bidding would i
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by xsmasher 6y ago
The little guy can ride the coattails as long as the behemoth allows it. The behemoth can get "safety" regulations passed that only the behemoth can satisfy- basically pull the ladder behind them.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Do you mean that the neighborhood becomes isolated from other neighborhoods, or that poor people move in, or what?

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