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by zecho 14y ago
It is a legitimate question, though, with an answer that is yes you can, in theory, but no large markets currently support it, and the ones that do don't allow naked shorts. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, two that allow shorting look
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by zecho 14y ago
Out of curiosity, I started looking at what a three-months salary engagement ring would look like if I proposed to my wife today. Man am I lucky I got married right at the end of college and we purchased the engagement ring and wedding band
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by zecho 14y ago
The wiki entry you posted mentions this, but it is interesting and related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch
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by zecho 14y ago
> Under this scenario, I don't see why anyone would develop new plants. Prior to privatization, many universities in ag states developed seed for the public domain and farmers passed seed down from generation of farmer to the next, sele
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by zecho 14y ago
Oh so that explains why it's the top comment on an otherwise benign post. He's a pretty major hacker, whatever that means, so people just upvote him because of that?
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by zecho 14y ago
I have worked in or around news organizations for about a decade. A few years ago, during a major flood event, we tried out drones, specifically a pair of Parrot ARs. These were great for use in a large stadium, where could get a bird's eye
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by zecho 14y ago
I doubt that you're the one in danger when you're driving.
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by zecho 14y ago
As a cyclist, I get pissed at every driver parking in the bike lane, speeding down the street, blowing through red lights, taking multiple lanes, etc. Bad drivers isn't exclusive to cyclists. I think you just notice the bad cyclists because
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by zecho 14y ago
Yeah, this drives me nuts. I can easily pace 20-23mph on a bicycle for quite some time in a 25mph speed zone. The problem is most of the vehicles on that road are traveling 40.
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by zecho 14y ago
Dooring is a huge fear of mine as a cyclist, as is getting sideswiped by a right-turning vehicle while I'm crossing an intersection. Also, sometimes I need to turn left, and that means merging into the auto lanes. Personally, I prefer most
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by zecho 14y ago
Part of me thinks this was another viral Crispin Porter + Bogusky advertisement.
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by zecho 14y ago
Thank you so much for saying this. One of the main reason I contribute to projects on Kickstarter is that I KNOW the big studios/publishers/whatever are consolidating. They're racing to produce the things with the biggest mass appeal. Somet
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by zecho 14y ago
Spring training begins in a few days. It was a light jab at the NFL--in the middle of the power outage--that the MLB season is starting soon.
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by zecho 14y ago
I get your point, but a legal opinion from the Department of Justice is not the same as a "program." Set the hyperbole aside and realize that laws are always in flux, and that the courts largely define things like "unreasonable search," etc
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by zecho 14y ago
MLB had a good tweet during the blackout: https://twitter.com/MLB/status/298247417462140928
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by zecho 14y ago
Investors would very much like to know how their $4 million dollar per episode investment is panning out.
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by zecho 14y ago
There are quite a few ways to answer your question, so I'll do my best to address all of them that come to mind. First, why does anyone need to know anything? There's a favorite passage of mine in Walden about news being gossip, and those t
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by zecho 14y ago
You potentially drive prices down, too, by exploiting cost of living outside your location. There are plenty of good programmers living in relatively cheap places (Like the Midwest, for example). Pay someone in Minneapolis $10-15k less per
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by zecho 14y ago
When people say "stole the election" I think that's shorthand for "Bush won on a technicality." Bush v. Gore lead to an agreement from the court that Florida badly fucked up certification, but because of Title 3, the fuck up would have to s
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by zecho 14y ago
In the east, there's a ton of tech. Microsoft's second largest campus is in Fargo, and with that comes a lot of satellite companies (vendors, consultancies, etc). There's also nano tech and a ton of biotech here. UND in Grand Forks is well-
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by zecho 14y ago
It depends on where you are in western ND. Ranching is a big industry there. Much of the alfalfa and oats are grown to sustain the ranching. The "farms" as you'd more traditionally think of them are more to the central and eastern portion o
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by zecho 14y ago
The issue is primarily that mineral rights were sold years ago to acquire the natural gas and coal in the region. We always knew there was oil in Bakken (never this much, though) but couldn't extract it until fracking came along. The proble
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by zecho 14y ago
We have plenty of use for it, but nowhere to put the abundance. Natural gas might as well be free in ND. Half a million homes is all of ND. For reference, I have a 104-year-old, drafty as hell ~2200 square foot home in Fargo, where I pay ab
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by zecho 14y ago
The pay at McDonald's in Williston is around $18/hour starting. Kids keep leaving for the fields, though, because if they have a skill, they can make twice as much. It's not without problems, though. Public school teachers in Dickinson are
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by zecho 14y ago
Half a million homes is pretty much all of North Dakota, where heating bills in BRUTAL winters have been driven to insane lows because of the abundance of natural gas. We'd need to export it, and we don't have the infrastructure, and that's
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by zecho 14y ago
No. Mineral rights were likely sold off long ago for gas and coal, which have always been known to be out in western ND. It's the oil people haven't been able to get at until fracking.
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by zecho 14y ago
It's less of a shortage of women as it is a sudden abundance of men, but the point still stands regarding the ratios.
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by zecho 14y ago
> This time it's corn folks versus oil folks. Ugh. I'm from North Dakota. That's cattle country out there, primarily, with soy, wheat and canola as the main crops. City folk don't know their head from their ass on a farm. Anyway. If we
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by zecho 14y ago
I forget exactly which postmortem article I read it in, but this was actually a problem solved between the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns. The 2008 technology, while still successful, was still too diffuse for top managers at the 2012 campai
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by zecho 14y ago
Sure. I guess that's what I was trying to say in a snarky way. I just don't understand the anti-education mentality here at HN when it comes to this specific degree.

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