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by yardie 4y ago
> your future determined by one test. There is nothing stopping you from taking the SATs multiple times. It's encouraged because you most likely will go up a few points the 2nd pass. I've taken it twice myself, 3 times if you i
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by yardie 4y ago
I used to work near Old Street Station and sadly, I missed these events after moving back to the US.
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by yardie 4y ago
Homes in South Florida are built using concrete blocks. This makes the homes sturdier but also a lote more expensive.
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by yardie 4y ago
Not sure about Florida but Miami, Broward, and Palm Beach building codes are notoriously tough due to Hurricane Andrew. Houses, since the 90s, have to adhere to much tougher wind standards than you would find in most of the US. I feel the D
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by yardie 4y ago
The bar is so low right now, trust me, they are light years ahead of most of the rest of the world.
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by yardie 4y ago
The Paris sanisettes were controversial when they went up. Using the same damn arguments against them. Everyone cares so much about what the homeless and drug users might do and care very little about the millions of others who also use the
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by yardie 4y ago
I would hope not, considering many major cities are serviced by multiple major airports. NYC - JFK LGA EGW PARIS - CDG ORY London - LGW LHR Tokyo - NRT HND SF - SFO SJC If someone starts refering to a city by the airport code I'd be co
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by yardie 4y ago
Paris has over 400 public toilets, called sanisettes[0], and they work pretty well when they are in service. I doubt they cost ~$1.7m each. [0] https://europeforvisitors.com/paris/articles/paris-public-to...
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by yardie 4y ago
The short, unpopular, possibly illegal answer: Get fucking married (to a US permanent resident or citizen)! This is more common than you think. It was more common than I thought! USCIS is dumpster fire purgatory and any competent, results d
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by yardie 4y ago
I bought my wife an iPad Pro and then a Macbook Air after she complained she couldn't do some things on the iPad. Well, eventually she figured out how to do it on the iPad and the MBA has been collecting dust. I adopted the MBA because
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by yardie 4y ago
No, I think the parent means meth and fentanyl. It's a major problem right now in general throughout the US. It's being under-reported due to COVID but is making a major surge right now. When it affects white Americans it gets rep
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by yardie 4y ago
> Both employer and employee probably share blame for this. Management sets the terms and tone of the workplace and employees provide the labor. If they can only hire drug users and alcoholics with poor work ethic maybe look into why tha
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by yardie 4y ago
The Mac from that era had a built-in hardware debugger. Literally pressing the button on the front of the case dropped you straight into Macsbugs. Something I used extensively to crack software copy protection. If you knew Macsbugs, ResEdit
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by yardie 4y ago
Those were called charge cards [0]. When I was younger I didn't know the difference and thought everything was a credit card. Imagine my surprise when I bought my university books on my AMEX charge card and got a bill for the full amou
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by yardie 4y ago
> reinforcing elements like rebar and tension cables pre-installed inside the forms eventually. Without these you have a weak shell not a liveable structure. Concrete doesn't have tensile strength for shear and compressive loads. I
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by yardie 4y ago
If you want to do only research than be a researcher. Universities and labs hire plenty of them. Professors do research and teach. It's a part of the profession. The requirements of being a professor aren't exactly a secret so the
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by yardie 4y ago
Java has been around since '95. It shouldn't take a language 20 years to get good enough. That's an entire generation of burned programmers who know only of the shitty versions and that is still the majority of the existence
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by yardie 4y ago
Yes, there was a version of Windows that did come unbundled, Windows N <level> that was targeted for EU users to comply with EU antitrust agreements. And there was a browser choice selection during OOTB configuration with the top 4 or
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by yardie 4y ago
> I'm sure you can find some small counter examples, but by and large the US has never had a history of augmenting law enforcement by way of private citizens. We are not a country of snitches. Well not a small counter example, but a
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by yardie 4y ago
This only helps the tool makers. I wrench on Japanese and European cars yet every toolset comes with Metric and SAE sets. It seems to only inflate the parts count without giving you more functionality. The SAE and Metric bits are practicall
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by yardie 4y ago
LOL. I discovered Conrad before I found out about AliExpress. I thought AE was a shitty Conrad with much better pricing but slower delivery.
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by yardie 4y ago
I consider Rice and UT-Austin as two of the best universities in a conservative, red state. But they don't get a lot of respect from coastal elites because they aren't in NYC or SF.
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by yardie 4y ago
Not sure about your state but mine uses paper scantron with a scanner/lockbox. If there is a dispute/recount they verify the paper record against the digital record. The results at each poll site are ready 30-60 minutes after poll
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by yardie 4y ago
There are the ones that would read it and agree with it. The agency could do no wrong. There are those that read it, knew about some or most of it, and really not surprised. You possibly believe in conspiracy theories. And find out a few ma
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by yardie 4y ago
> start my own US based company that "sold" open-source software so that it'd have a US-flagged company That is the business model for Redhat, Ubuntu, SUSE, and other GNU/Linux companies. You can download it for free
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by yardie 4y ago
I've heard of software pipelines and software dependency but this is the first I've ever heard of software supply chain. I don't think the metaphor is apt. Dependencies are fungible you can branch, tag, freeze, lock, etc what
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by yardie 4y ago
Okay but Android phones of that era did support Flash and it was one of the advantages Android had at the time (Motorola Droid era) that they were advertising heavily. The iPhone doesn't support Flash, Android does. Therefore you want
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by yardie 4y ago
The blog posts are warnings about what not to do. People, naturally, when they don't fully understand something or can't grasp the complexity of something want to rebuild. Because writing also helps us understand that is what we a
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by yardie 4y ago
Ahh, almost the exact same thing you'd be served at a Chili's or TGI Fridays.
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by yardie 4y ago
US universities have turned reinvented themselves into pay for play. Students have to shoulder more of the tuition and if you're paying for it you are the customer. And the customer always wants the best ROI.

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