MS90

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by MS90 7mo ago
I've noticed that there seems to be big inconsistencies from location to location, at least around me. One Best Buy never has anything on the shelves, doesn't have much of their higher-end stuff at all, and constantly looks like t
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by MS90 4y ago
Yes, early cars had to be started with a crank handle that stuck out of the front of the grill, similar to how early propeller engines had to be hand-spun to get going. Apparently if you didn't crank it quite hard enough the handle cou
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by MS90 4y ago
It also has a disadvantage in that it's extremely porous and allows water to seep through it, which expands and contracts with temperature changes and causes the limestone to crack. There's areas around town where roads have been
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by MS90 4y ago
It might not be 'that hard' to excavate limestone, but an additional 21,000 dollars added to the cost along with 14x longer work time is not an insignificant difference. East Austin doesn't have them because of the unstable c
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by MS90 4y ago
There's also the fact that there's only about six inches of dirt here, dig any deeper than that and you hit solid limestone. That's why none of the houses here have basements.
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by MS90 5y ago
That would make sense, IIRC our brains use something around 20% of our caloric intake just at “idle” so it’d make sense to me that they consume more energy when we push them harder.
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by MS90 5y ago
There’s a significant difference in the amount of force on a car tire vs the amount of force on a plane tire while it’s landing. But it’s undoubtedly designed for.
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by MS90 5y ago
I was more thinking about smaller GA planes, but it’s probably a similar situation. They’re designed to slam into the ground with a plane on top of them over and over again, so they’re probably more than strong enough.
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by MS90 5y ago
It does seem to be the same sentence worded slightly different. I’m curious to what the actual distinction is as well.
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by MS90 5y ago
That’s interesting, I would’ve been concerned about what happens to the tires when a plane taking off/landing hits those tracks, but I guess it isn’t an issue.
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by MS90 7y ago
You'd honestly probably have a better time, unless there was something you specifically wanted to see at SXSW. So many people come into town for it that getting anywhere in the city becomes a nightmare.
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by MS90 7y ago
For the modern SXSW experience, just go to the local supermarket when it's ultra busy and the parking lot is full. Park your car among the rest and just sit in it.
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by MS90 7y ago
It's not even about a super fancy phone either, it's the bargain bin version of the iPhone.
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by MS90 7y ago
I'm not sure this one is overshadowed, maybe by dentists. But Orthodontists are doctors (DDS or DMD) and those are generally pretty well paying types of careers.
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by MS90 7y ago
Looks like it's only happened once, 22.61% on Oct 19, 1987. Even the 1929 crash wasn't that much, though it did drop about 24.5% over two days, Oct 28 and 29, 1929. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_larges
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by MS90 7y ago
I remember watching the Discovery channel series BUD/S 234 about SEAL training, it stuck out to me that during their swimming test where they're required to swim an entire lap of the pool underwater that the first thing they'
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by MS90 7y ago
It could possibly be from oxygen deprivation, especially if they passed out, but without knowing the specifics of the case (did they inhale water/did they go unconscious) it's hard to say for sure.
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by MS90 7y ago
There was a video my fireman friend showed me a while back of two men drowning near a drainage pipe. There was a chunk of floating hardwood or something that they wanted for some reason, but neither could swim (I know, brilliant). The only
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by MS90 7y ago
I'll admit that I was not expecting to see an Orangutan when I clicked that link. I'm amused by the thought of an Orangutan escaping its enclosure only to take a leisurely stroll around the zoo, look at the other animals, maybe st
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by MS90 7y ago
Forget a scalpel, that's like coming out of surgery and finding that the doctors somehow left the rolling stand thing for IV bags inside you.
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by MS90 7y ago
Maybe they're making the assumption that people doing super heavy load stuff like that would more more likely be using a dedicated desktop workstation rather than a laptop.
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by MS90 7y ago
I've never had an NVIDIA driver with it on by default. I've run two different computers with NVIDIA GPU's through a TV and had to manually scale the picture on both of them when I couldn't get the TV's auto scaling
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by MS90 7y ago
I appreciate the proper usage of Texas with a dollar sign in front of it. I'm still waiting for someone to correctly use a threeve, though.
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by MS90 7y ago
It is interesting (I don't know if that's the right word, but I can't think of another) to see how podcasts have become such a target for advertising. I remember when I first listened to podcasts in like 2008 I'd pretty
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by MS90 7y ago
I'm not sure if I'd be able to resist asking the presenter how they got data from 4000 years before the beginning of recorded history if I was presented with a slide like that.
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by MS90 7y ago
They'd had some border skirmishes before WWII even started, with tens of thousands of casualties on each side. The 1941 neutrality pact was a result of a combined Soviet/Mongolian force defeating and removing the Japanese from Mon
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by MS90 7y ago
The context was reproduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oijEsqT2QKQ "You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will breed?" "No, I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a
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by MS90 7y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6138768/ https://www.pnas.org/content/115/37/9193 https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/07-08/smog
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by MS90 7y ago
I do not. I've been emailing back and forth with the USDA folks and none of us have been able to find any reference to the seeds outside of the Atlas Obscura article. The only special thing I can find information on Bean taking up was
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by MS90 7y ago
One correction, Al Bean took the seeds to the moon, not around them. I can forgive Atlas Obscura for it, however, since the USDA page(1) has it wrong as well...which severely irks me as it's a government website. It says "carried

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