brianherbert

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by brianherbert 10mo ago
These "savings cards" have a maximum annual benefit applied to them so for those on insurance that do not cover those expensive medications or who are self-paying use up the benefits before year end and do in fact eventually pay f
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by brianherbert 3y ago
I fit this category perfectly when I was staying in Korea over 10 years ago. I ended up being there on a tourist visa on and off for a few years. I never had any trouble as a white foreigner but did have a hard time making Korean friends, o
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by brianherbert 3y ago
This intrigued me so I found an article describing this idea: https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2022/05/02/gravity-...
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by brianherbert 4y ago
Same here, no peanut allergies on both sides of our family but one of our daughters has a peanut allergy. We are the same mix.
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by brianherbert 5y ago
It looks like you can provide a seed based on the readme in the github repo. This would produce the same fish every time.
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by brianherbert 6y ago
This is great. My wife and I spent many hours looking for names that work in both of our native languages / cultures that weren't super common and having a starting point would have been nice.
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by brianherbert 8y ago
The repo owner runs the website sponsoring the list.
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by brianherbert 8y ago
FWIW, Google Fiber is actively being rolled out here in Louisville.
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by brianherbert 8y ago
I took Larium (Mefloquine) for about 7 months while in the US Peace Corps. I had incredibly vivid dreams, all of which I would remember and I also developed depression that went away as soon as I switched off the drug. No good. I ended up w
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by brianherbert 8y ago
You can get some smaller ones at Adafruit which are good for tinkering. I have the PaPiRus Zero which was easy to add to a Raspi Zero and comes with lots of example code.
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by brianherbert 10y ago
In Korea, the US is paid about $1 billion which is approaching half of the burden to the US.
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by brianherbert 10y ago
http://990finder.foundationcenter.org - Look up most nonprofits I encounter
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by brianherbert 11y ago
REMOTE - FULL TIME - Intermediate & Senior Web Developer - Ushahidi http://www.ushahidi.com/jobs/ Looking for someone who can be a senior developer on our core platform team, be a mentor and inspiration to the othe
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by brianherbert 13y ago
Kentucky used to have Amtrak, the Kentucky Cardinal. It went from Louisville to Chicago and took what felt like 12 hours although not sure I'm remembering that correctly. It was only $30. I had high hopes for that route, that it would
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by brianherbert 13y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention the fact that this was successfully crowdfunded to the tune of almost $100,000 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/207474036/iconic-advanc...
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by brianherbert 13y ago
Maybe they are trying to connect with the expat community.
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by brianherbert 13y ago
Funny, terrorism didn't even make the list ;)
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by brianherbert 13y ago
My company is 22 people. I think we're out of luck.
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by brianherbert 13y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. I was anticipating this game but after all of the issues, I never even thought twice about passing on it.
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by brianherbert 13y ago
It's a good thing gasoline doesn't catch fire otherwise we would all be in trouble.
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by brianherbert 13y ago
Hackathons are events where ideas are born and are quickly laid to rest. I'm glad there's some encouragement to work on existing projects, especially on projects that have a civic focus.
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by brianherbert 13y ago
I'm going through the whole green card "papers" process now with my wife. Compared to almost every other country, the amount of time and effort it takes to even bring family over is incredibly long and arduous. All that makes
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by brianherbert 13y ago
I know this is a different situation but... I completed half of an MBA program in the classroom (1+ yrs), then moved out of state and had to switch to an online program at another university, both of which were AACSB accredited. I must say,
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by brianherbert 13y ago
There's no tipping in South Korea (and many other places). You will get excellent service, if not better. Nobody leaves a restaurant or cafe feeling confused and staff never feels cheated. Taxi drivers still get you to your destination
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by brianherbert 13y ago
I'm curious, are there any plans to work with local providers? It would be a shame for African telcoms lose out to Google.
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by brianherbert 13y ago
It might be interesting to see this mashed up on top of http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=13&lat=37.75187&lo... which has some good data for a lot of cities.