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by pitaa 5y ago
Art Bell was one of a kind. Out there, but a mostly harmless lovable breed of crazy.
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by pitaa 5y ago
> The customers will tell Amazon they never received the items. Amazon will replace them free. Why does this remind me of that old Firefly episode where they steal the medicine from the Alliance hospital. They justify that "the Alli
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by pitaa 5y ago
I still see getting your viewers over to patreon being the most difficult part. No matter how many times you plug a patreon in your YouTube videos, only a small percent of viewers are going to follow the link.
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by pitaa 5y ago
I can't wait for more cheap movies while they burn through more venture capital!
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by pitaa 5y ago
> Perhaps for people who don't have a "hack the world!" mindset, it does appear as genius I suppose. I think this is it. I've realized that as an engineer, I look at the local environment around me as a construct. If
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by pitaa 5y ago
> I doubt the canal can or does charge ships based on their overall itinerary You'd be wrong there! They actually have a rebate system[0] based on a number of factors including origin and destination. Basically, they try to make it
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by pitaa 6y ago
> the belt is industrial nylon (not plastic) Last I checked, nylon was still a thermoplastic.
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by pitaa 6y ago
> does Hyundai make more than automobiles? Much more. "It is the second largest South Korean chaebol or conglomerate, after Samsung Group, related to other Hyundai-name industries following a specialized development split and restru
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by pitaa 6y ago
> It would imply that lifting the wheel after you've stopped releases that amount of energy (it seems to do so). Notice, however, that the springs are actually missing when they show this in the video! Couple that with the fact that
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by pitaa 6y ago
I concur, and this smells of bullshit. Unfortunately they don't show inside their magic box, so I can't see whats happening on the inside. I did notice that the springs were completely missing on one of their demos in the video th
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by pitaa 6y ago
So I've had some limited involvement university fee structures and their health clinics. I actually had a conversation with the director of one about these plans. He explained: * The university already has the clinic that is funded by
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by pitaa 6y ago
Plus, by having a bug bounty program, it indicates that they're going to be reasonable and accepting of outside bug reports. In the absence of such a program, one can't be sure that a bug report isn't going to result in angry
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by pitaa 8y ago
I don't remember where I first heard it, but I've always remembered the adage that if someone personally announces their resignation, it was likely their idea. If the company announces their resignation, they were likely forced ou
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by pitaa 8y ago
Yes, NCEES (the body that administers the Engineering licensing exams nationwide in the US) is discontinuing their Software Engineering exam next year because only ~80 people have taken it since it was created in 2013. I think the biggest p
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by pitaa 8y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I've had the same thing happen multiple times, also at a certain "major nationwide pharmacy." Interestingly, the smaller/more local pharmacies have never done this.
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by pitaa 8y ago
Unfortunately that article reads like a press release from "Renewlogy" and doesn't seem to have a complete basis in reality. In reality at present the area is facing a $900,000 increase in recycling costs largely because chin
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by pitaa 8y ago
How does anyone think it's a good idea to take out $1M in loans for an education? Yes, tuition costs are ridicules and in general students have no control over them. In general, I feel like students are taken advantage of. HOWEVER, stu
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by pitaa 8y ago
> advertisers should stop allowing online outrage to dictate where they advertise I agree, but good luck convincing the Tide executives that its okay for their ad to play before a video of a KKK rally. Furthermore, how do you even create
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by pitaa 9y ago
The real question here is what colleges are admitting kids that can't read or write? Is affirmative action really so strong that these colleges accepted every kid from a HS where the average SAT score is in the 16th percentile? Or did
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by pitaa 9y ago
Some classes don't accept paper homework these days, everything is completed online- The textbook publishers have started selling access codes to online homework websites. So s physics professor might decide to use "MasteringPhysi
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by pitaa 9y ago
Accessing the material is becoming less and less of a problem, for all the reasons already stated - piracy, international editions, OER, etc. The real issue is that the textbook publishers know this and are pushing more and more access code
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by pitaa 9y ago
Tom Scott made a good video talking about this tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCLaeBAkFAY
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by pitaa 9y ago
Unfortunately the zip code level is not always precise enough to determine local tax rates, but your point stands that it isn't usually overly difficult to find the tax rates for a particular shipping address. I remember a few years ba
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by pitaa 9y ago
My "guess" has always been a bad taco truck (or the like). Something that maybe the locals are used to, but makes the Americans ill.
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by pitaa 9y ago
While sort of true, I've never seen any sort of tradeshow where the power is metered. Typically you just pay a flat rate for the number/size of hookups you need.
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by pitaa 9y ago
> nobody knows how many pants LL Bean is shipping to my zip code on December 4. While making predictions of that resolution are not realistic, in general I would imagine that the shipping carriers are in a better position to estimate del
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by pitaa 9y ago
I would bet there's more to it than just wanting "recognizable" trucks for residential deliveries. Using a box truck is less efficient because they don't typically have access to the box from the cab, so the driver has t
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by pitaa 9y ago
Agreed. I have effectively quit Facebook: I log on once a year to reconnect with people I never talk to anymore, and subsequently remember exactly why it is that I never talk to them anymore!
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by pitaa 9y ago
This surprised me. I thought the term "Comic-Con" was sufficiently genericized that the trademark would be unenforceable. While I'm familiar with comic con, I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you that the only &
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Jury Finds Salt Lake Comic Con Violated San Diego Comic Con's Trademark(deseretnews.com)
1 points by pitaa 9y ago|1 comments

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