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by bigpicture 8y ago
Prevailing winds bring relatively clean air to most any city east of the Mississippi River especially in the winter time. Without nearby mountains, temperature inversions are pretty rare. In late summer, air quality drops quite a bit as th
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by bigpicture 8y ago
I'm salaried, but it sure bought me a lot of goodwill.
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by bigpicture 8y ago
A few years ago I had to update some FORTRAN code written in the 1980s that did bond valuations and some other financial stuff. It hadn't been touched since it was written and was now running out of space because the number of bonds k
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by bigpicture 8y ago
The longer I work in this industry, the more I am coming to believe that waterfall is nothing more than a strawman set up to make development process X look like the Holy Grail. Has anyone seen it in real life - in the pure form? I once wor
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> 2x4s spaced every 16 inches is plenty robust The current recommendation is 2x6 exterior framing with 24 inch spacing. This results in a durable and energy efficient home. https://www.apawood.org/data/sites/1&
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> It's truly a shame that so much money is poured into such utterly wasteful possessions When the yachts are idle, which is the majority of the time, they are typically plugged into shore power and are thus just consuming electricit
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by bigpicture 8y ago
This was a nice little review so I went to my local library website to reserve and found that they have two copies of this book published in 1967 from the Harvard University Press. The review's affiliate link to Amazon shows that this
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> The crazy thing about this article is that it presents Chicago's solution (make the combined sewer bigger) Except that Chicago's publicly stated position is that the Deep Tunnel system is not the solution. This is not a new
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by bigpicture 8y ago
The S&P 500 publishes changes to the index in advance of the changes taking place, so all of the affected stocks have prices that reflect the change at the time of the change. Most tracking indexes, especially the ones Vanguard uses, do
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by bigpicture 8y ago
Not being familiar with the term XNU, I did a little clicking around and hopefully I understand a bit better: This file is evidence that Apple has been running iOS/MacOS on the Raspberry Pi 3?
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by bigpicture 8y ago
The next thing I want Apple to do: If an app will request location services, it must: 1. Have a specific publicly available URL that contains all "location data" terms, conditions, and privacy information. 2. Monitor that URL an
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> Yes and parking in the loop is blissfully expensive, encouraging suburbanites to take the train in. At least they have the option of using a functioning train system! You can see the locations in which street parking is meter-based and
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> I understand that Apple does everything in its power to make the life of developers miserable All XCode projects are automatically code signed on every build. If you have a developer membership with Apple, it uses a certificate issued
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> his Chicago tower hotel; Coincidence? The lawyer that handles tax matters for this property had his office raided by the FBI today: https://cltv.com/2018/11/29/federal-agents-raid-office-of-po...
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by bigpicture 8y ago
In my area, it is very common for parents of boys that will be "young" when starting kindergarten to hold them back a year. They call it redshirting (a reference to US college athletics). Our local school district prohibits the p
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> Here in Spain, everyone born in the same year goes to the same class, is it different in USA? So Spain has a cut date of 1 Jan while the USA is 1 Sept. The overall effect is exactly the same: When a school term begins, some of the st
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by bigpicture 8y ago
My local elementary school has 3 classrooms per grade. If we broke the year into quarters and made each student attend 3 out of 4 quarters, what you'd end up with is more efficient use of school facilities making up for a slightly hig
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> So, why do it? Should a razor thin majority in a public vote 2 years ago decide the UK's policy forever? Why do it? That question ceased being relevant a long time ago, when the process was irreversibly started. The linked artic
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> Steel is the best frame material for 95% of people due to its durability. Quality steel frames (not Schwinn travellers) are quite light. I have a bike made with True Temper OX Platinum steel and it is my favorite bike by far. It is a
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> Frank Lloyd Wright was around 67 years old when Falling Water was built As a teenager in rural Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright worked for a graduate of MIT school of architecture and then went to Madison to work for a civil engineering p
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by bigpicture 8y ago
Wow, this is the 2nd time in two weeks that something has appeared on my probability homework and then made the front page of HN almost immediately. Coincidence? Who else is taking Stat 110?
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by bigpicture 8y ago
Advertising in general may work, but any particular ad may or may not work.
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> Sure, big old U.S. Steel is behind the times, but that's true for any industry. U.S. Steel operates integrated mills, which make steel from raw materials. "Mini-mills" make steel using electric arc blast furnaces to re
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> Don’t underestimate AMD’s ability to shoot itself in the foot. Every single consumer-targeted Intel chip has integrated graphics capable of displaying a 4k movie on the screen/tv without so much as breaking a sweat. AMD has exact
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> highest-earning first year teachers only earned $39,259 Appendix A [1] contains the salary schedule for Chicago Public Schools, which shows that in the current school year a first-year teacher ("step 1") with a bachelor'
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by bigpicture 8y ago
I vote in Chicago, and our electronic voting machines print a paper receipt. The process is as follows: 1) Write your name and address on a piece of paper. 2) Hand it to the worker, who looks you up on the computer. 3) The worker writes yo
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by bigpicture 8y ago
> This means that they can "financially engineer" quarters Sure, look at their balance sheet from the 8-k filing. How many quarters in a row showing a $1.2 billion increase in accounts payable will their suppliers tolerate?
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by bigpicture 8y ago
They exist, here is an example: https://mhubchicago.com/page/equipment-and-resources
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by bigpicture 8y ago
That's a good point
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by bigpicture 8y ago
Right, surely these states have some sort of standard that must be met for graduation even if it is not passing some exam.

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