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by gyc 11mo ago
Sad. I grew up in Champaign-Urbana and remember attending a talk he was giving about Prairienet.
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by gyc 3y ago
Please don't give the EU any more ideas.
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by gyc 4y ago
He paid some ex-con $50k to dig up dirt on the guy.
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by gyc 4y ago
I believe the official term is accessory dwelling unit. You'll have to check your local zoning regulations on the rules and regulations for those. Yes there are companies that specialize in building those.
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by gyc 4y ago
My dad was a EE professor specializing in semiconductor fabrication and he warned me away from a career working at semiconductor labs. He has warned me about every single warning of this post.
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by gyc 5y ago
Whether they represent a liberal district or a conservative district, every legislator in California represents a significant number of constituents who wants their kids to go to Cal.
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by gyc 5y ago
Yeah I got a kick out of watching his videos and seeing him every so often pull out some slightly wilted vegetables to make his dish. Quite the contrast to seeing all the pristine ingredients on TV cooking shows.
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by gyc 5y ago
And, although not a junior, Eric Hansen aka one of the chessbrah also beat Magnus this tournament!
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by gyc 5y ago
A professor of mine once told me about when he was in school he studied a book written by a famous expert in the field and found a bunch of errors. So he wrote back to the author with the error and, after some back and forth correspondence,
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by gyc 5y ago
Beto O’Rourke, former U.S. Congressman, was a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow [1]. [1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-poli...
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by gyc 5y ago
> People roll stop signs all the time Those people are called bad drivers.
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by gyc 5y ago
The Raiders moved mostly due to receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing to build a state of the art stadium in Las Vegas as opposed to playing in the semi-decrepit Oakland coliseum.
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by gyc 5y ago
Did they also study whether total sugar sales rose in the cities next to Seattle? I can imagine that some price sensitive soda drinkers just drove to the nearest store outside of Seattle to buy their sodas.
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by gyc 5y ago
Some commuter rail lines in the U.S. are designed to only cater to commuters. So they may not run any train into downtown at night, or they may stop running well before the shows end at night, so there's no way to use the trains to get
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by gyc 5y ago
20% low income housing (and we're not talking about dirt poor people but people with solid middle class jobs)is hardly giant towers full of low income housing.
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by gyc 5y ago
I live in SF and I'm not aware of there being any lockdowns here in the city either.
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by gyc 5y ago
False: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/30/fac...
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by gyc 5y ago
Interesting... that fur store always seemed so out of place in the North Loop as shiny new apartments and restaurants sprouted up around it.
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by gyc 5y ago
There is some controversy regarding that paper: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/peer-review-of-a-vaers-dump...
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by gyc 5y ago
Sure, a few restaurants I loved have closed, but that seems to mostly be due to covid (e.g. Bachelor's Farmer) or poor management (Butcher & the Boar). If anything restaurants have gotten even better in the last 10 years in the Twi
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by gyc 5y ago
In high school, my school's basketball team went to play a basketball game at my state's high school for the deaf. A really interesting and unique experience.
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by gyc 5y ago
Then you would probably choose to live somewhere else?
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by gyc 5y ago
>1. People (in the US at least) overall consistently choose more land over living somewhere walkable. In a lot of places, the marginal cost of more land is near zero Yeah this pretty much. In some other countries, it's really expens
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by gyc 5y ago
Eh. I suspect besides housing prices, a significant amount of people also move to Texas because of political preferences. Also according to exit polling (as unreliable as it can be, so take it for what it's worth), Beto O'Rourke a
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by gyc 5y ago
> So apparently all schools are amateur at commercialization. UF just has more experience than most. I knew an engineering professor at a large state school with a renowned engineering program and one of his biggest complaints was how in
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by gyc 5y ago
If anything given the cost of high quality ingredients, high end restaurants might even be losing money on food alone, and may depend on alcohol sales to make up the difference.
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by gyc 5y ago
IBM also plays tricks to artificially boosts the number of patents it gets. For example, for a computer-implemented invention, a patent application will generally have a set of claims for the method that a computer performs to implement the
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by gyc 5y ago
Note that the patent bar exam tests you on knowledge of rules and regulations of the patent office and of the Patent Cooperation Treaty that many countries have signed on to. So you won't necessarily learn to draft a patent or how to r
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by gyc 5y ago
Apple is already on the hook for about a billion dollars to VirnetX. That's not a lame excuse at all.
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by gyc 5y ago
It's hard to give really specific advice on this but do you have friends who work in tech who've filed patents? If so, they probably have worked with a patent attorney hired by their company to convert their invention into a paten

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