mudetroit

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by mudetroit 1y ago
They typically serve four year terms. When any president begins their term the entire board will have been appointed by the previous administration. Now if games were played to make most of the terms expire at the end of the term that'
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by mudetroit 3y ago
Totally agree that it is just something being thrown around to little benefit. That said don't compare catalytic converter materials to what they are talking about in EVs. The quantities needed are orders of magnitude different. The ea
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by mudetroit 4y ago
Bison behave differently than cows do. This is only anectodal, but that's the start of collecting some actual data to back it up. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037576139X?psc=1
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by mudetroit 5y ago
That is incorrect, there isn't a single state in the United States where the highest paid state employee is the governor. They are mostly coaches at state universities, and where they aren't they are upper tier member's of th
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by mudetroit 5y ago
Yeah using German translations is a well known simple strategy to see how your site handles longer word length, because of the language characteristics. It will do a good job of pointing out places where you haven't built in adequate f
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by mudetroit 5y ago
I keep wondering why the US Strategic Command needs a social media presence. Is that just me?
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by mudetroit 6y ago
> Well, that's absolutely false, actually, Zack. There is no way that a customer would not be able to sell a position they hold. We are simply stopping opening of new positions. This is a problematic statement. Because to sell your
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by mudetroit 6y ago
I think you are drastically misunderstanding the Nikola/GM deal. It is absolutely no lose for GM. If somehow Nikola takes off then they are supplying them with batteries and some other expertise they have. If it doesn't then the m
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by mudetroit 6y ago
Free trial is a bit different then what the parent was describing though. Which is paying for a month and turning off auto-renew effectively.
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by mudetroit 6y ago
Speaking as an owner of a small car (Honda Civic), and 3 children in need of car seats (a Slimfit Graco which is a bit wider then the one you listed, but 2 of them are now in boosters which are narrower to begin with.) The problem isn'
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Entropic: A Federated Package Manager(entropic.dev)
4 points by mudetroit 7y ago|0 comments
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My Ted talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair(theguardian.com)
3 points by mudetroit 7y ago|1 comments
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by mudetroit 8y ago
You are really dealing with a confluence of events that are affecting local news outlets of all forms: 1. Increased general interconnected nature of the world. People still care about local events of course, but there is a much greater conc
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by mudetroit 8y ago
Typically speaking, all of the wiring is done in some central location for the building. The phone/electric/cable companies don't want to make individual drops to each unit. They make one drop to the building and then fan out
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by mudetroit 8y ago
It seems like you are misinterpreting the term housing unit. It isn't the number of buildings. A single apartment in a 200 unit building counts as a housing unit. What this number is telling you is just less than 1 in 5 households in t
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by mudetroit 8y ago
redux-observable can give you something rather akin to that type of behavior. It sees each action after it has already been applied to update state. This also separates out the reducer from those side-effects, which you really want anyhowto
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by mudetroit 8y ago
> Microsoft has always been a headache. Recently its been a tiny bit better, but they still are a for-profit company that needs to continue to make a profit. Just want to point out that Github was also a "for-profit" company.
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by mudetroit 9y ago
So, I preface this by saying that I do feel like Slack could have better authentication mechanisms, decoupling the account from the networks. But I do think that some of this is by design as well. I think it is worthwhile to think of each S
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by mudetroit 9y ago
The Electoral college wasn't put in only at the request of the South. A number of smaller states wanted it (Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware); because, they feared political domination by the larger states. Same fundamental reason t
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by mudetroit 9y ago
Lots of design knowledge around vehicles, both from an aesthetic standpoint and in a number of other subsystems. But the bigger point is actually that GM, Ford, and the other major car manufacturers are really giant project management and l
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by mudetroit 10y ago
Funny little Winamp anecdote. We were going to be reinstalling Windows on a box, 17 or so years ago. (Now remembering the days of reinstalling the OS as just a routine action.) anyhow, before we did we decided to see what would happen if we
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by mudetroit 10y ago
He may have chosen to use newer syntax, but the same pattern can be used without computed keys with only a tiny more code: var stateUpdate = {} stateUpdate[event.target.name] = event.target.value; this.setState=(stateUpdate); I d
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by mudetroit 10y ago
> owning a car is a visible blackhole of money All shared vehicles do is distribute that same cost though. The owners of the shared fleets aren't going to no recoup those costs. If anything it simply makes the lost money less visibl
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by mudetroit 10y ago
It does still have a choice. While the election is done the government doesn't change until next year, specifically Jan 20 for the executive branch. On the other hand, it is a pretty standard practice when administrations change over,
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by mudetroit 10y ago
or just more /etc/passwd | less ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by mudetroit 10y ago
Except this had nothing to do with using a VCS system for package distribution, and everything to do with indirection provided by the index.
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by mudetroit 10y ago
I found this one of the more detailed articles about the differences and why one might favor react http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...
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by mudetroit 10y ago
There are some legitimate reasons to use state, and I would argue that an HOC is legitimately one of them. (In fact fundamentally that is what redux's connect function really is)
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by mudetroit 10y ago
High speed rail cannot come close to replacing highways though. It deals with a fraction of the overall traffic that the highway system supports without near the flexibility. This is why even the countries that are making extensive use of h
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by mudetroit 10y ago
They don't say it, but if you watch how they behave that is the reality. The hardest worker won't tay on a pro sports team if they can be replaced by someone more productive, even if that person doesn't work as hard. At the e

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