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Economic development to Brazil’s slums via Wi-Fi and E-commerce(wired.com)
2 points by jbscpa 3y ago|1 comments
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by jbscpa 3y ago
A tech-led initiative to bring economic development to Brazil’s shantytowns starts with a radical idea: Listen to the people who live there.
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by jbscpa 3y ago
"above the floor the wall had 6 washed out grayish colored bars 20-25 cm width" Were the bars vertically oriented or horizontally oriented?
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by jbscpa 3y ago
I am sincerely curious: Where is the OP moving to? What criteria will be (was) used to make the selection?
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by jbscpa 4y ago
“ which is a weird type of liquidity problem” Ah yes. The very definition of “financial accident”
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by jbscpa 4y ago
"If a Pookie detonated a landmine, and it never did, the use of shear bolts meant that wheels would be blown harmlessly away, as would the battery, the 40-litre fuel tank and the rear mounted 1600 cc air-cooled Volkswagen engine. The d
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How to Survive the Worst Tornado in US History(wired.com)
2 points by jbscpa 5y ago|0 comments
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by jbscpa 5y ago
Question: What hardware/software solution have you adopted?
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by jbscpa 5y ago
"...and I own all of the media" This.Yes.This.
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by jbscpa 7y ago
My overly simplified but not entirely irrational way of saying this: To master another language I must learn to speak another...culture.
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by jbscpa 8y ago
The link is broken. But, after a google search I got to the website. Great Site!!. I am trying to add to my knowledge of WWI. The site's tagline is "the most natural and easiest way of learning history" And indeed it does se
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by jbscpa 8y ago
Thank you for that clarification.
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by jbscpa 8y ago
My personal favorite was the 5 1/4 inch floppy disk brand name: Janus The first time I saw one of these laying on my desk with the first letter "J" covered up...well, I could never unsee it.
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by jbscpa 9y ago
"Take This Job and Shove It" A corporate executive is assigned to help improve the efficiency of a small-town brewery in this comedy inspired by the Johnny Paycheck song. When the small town turns out to be his old hometown, howev
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by jbscpa 9y ago
My spouse is a classroom educator. Her school participates in Great Expectations program. http://www.greatexpectations.org/ It is a character development program "that provides teachers and administrators with the ski
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by jbscpa 9y ago
Bernard L. Madoff From Wikipeda "In his plea allocution, Madoff stated he began his Ponzi scheme in 1991. He admitted he had never made any legitimate investments with his clients' money during this time. Instead, he said, he simp
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by jbscpa 10y ago
How much more would you be glad to pay? How much more would you be glad for your employer to pay on your behalf? How do you define "universal coverage"?
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by jbscpa 10y ago
You say: "The problem is what "best" means. In an unregulated environment it would mean what's best for the insurance company, not the patient." No. I don't buy auto insurance on that basis. It is required by
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by jbscpa 10y ago
Tunesmith You say: "It's a race to the bottom in terms of regulation" Consider your assumption that regulation is good. In point of fact pernicious and arbitrary regulation within states brought us as a nation to this desper
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by jbscpa 10y ago
This. Yes. "but why add unnecessarily ignorant asides"
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by jbscpa 10y ago
Hari Seldon and Gaal Dornick as devlopers of Psychohistory would approve. (Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" universe) "Psychohistory is the name of a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, which combin
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by jbscpa 11y ago
Very well said.
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by jbscpa 13y ago
Parkinson was an optimist.
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by jbscpa 13y ago
When I visit with hot-blooded partners ready to set the world on fire I often think of this line from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): Butch Cassidy: [to Sundance] Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace
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by jbscpa 14y ago
I DO have cable TV in the U.S. - Suddenlink I spent 45 minutes online with the Suddenlink support person and got my account setup with username and password ALL SET right? So, with the Suddenlink support person on the phone I login to the N
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by jbscpa 14y ago
Please consider not just cancelling but instead ask for (demand) a refund in full of all charges going back to the very first month. We have got to punish ATT for this gangster type behavior.
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by jbscpa 14y ago
I got one of those text messages in like early February. I ignored it of course and deleted it. On my most recent phone bill I noticed an increase of about $10.00 Sure enough. By ignoring the text message and deleting it I was signed up of
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by jbscpa 16y ago
http://enidnews.com/localnews/x231066283/Advance-Pierre-Food...
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by jbscpa 16y ago
Great work. I keep remembering that in my little community a business that just sold for >$100 million started out making steak fingers and selling them to restaurants. Steak fingers. $100 million. nothing is impossible.
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by jbscpa 16y ago
yea, It is like his website is out of toner.

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