stevep001

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by stevep001 3y ago
I'd be a buyer if you had an indoor unit with a radon sensor.
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by stevep001 6y ago
It only takes about 30 seconds to show that the BH site is anything but dogmatic. For example, check out the Hedgefundie thread on risk parity investing using leveraged ETFs (now at 9000 posts): https://www.bogleheads.org/f
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by stevep001 8y ago
Funny you should mention this, because I put a Unifi system in at home and just checked -- haven't been in it in 6 months.
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by stevep001 8y ago
Minneapolis and St Paul separated their sewers. Took 55 years and $330 million investment. http://www.minneapolismn.gov/publicworks/stormwater/cso/cso_... https://metrocouncil.org/News-Events&
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by stevep001 8y ago
Might be true for the university as a whole, but many of the colleges at Minnesota are quite selective. The College of Science and Engineering is one example, accepting 1177 out of 14,000 applications for 2017.
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by stevep001 8y ago
Brighter = Fn + Del Dimmer = Fn + Backspace
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by stevep001 8y ago
That's great, until your service scales to the point where it's not possible to simulate prod in test.
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by stevep001 8y ago
I'm sorry, but an article claiming to trace the history of supercomputers that doesn't even mention the CDC 6600 can't be taken seriously.
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by stevep001 8y ago
After a certain point, family size is negatively correlated with income. http://m.startribune.com/minnecensus-family-size-and-its-rel...
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by stevep001 8y ago
If you’re interested in cost benefit analysis of large public projects, Megaprojects and Risk is a must-read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaprojects_and_Risk
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by stevep001 8y ago
FWIW I do the same on Windows. Not usable without that change.
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by stevep001 9y ago
1. Aircraft use 100% power in situations other than takeoff, so it's hard to see how you could lower peak power/use smaller engines just by eliminating takeoff. 2. Typical aircraft takeoff roll is under 30 seconds, and most aircr
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by stevep001 9y ago
You must now know about Powershell. For example, scheduled tasks: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2015/01/...
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by stevep001 10y ago
I ended up with a ThinkPad X1 Carbon gen 2 -- it has a five row physical keyboard, with the top row as a virtual keyboard. It was constantly registering touches on the top row when I didn't want them. With a laptop, I commonly rest my
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by stevep001 10y ago
A better title would be "Ad supported site: Not enough Americans are clicking on our savings account ads."
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by stevep001 10y ago
"this is about local, city-maintained streets. Unless you live directly on a state or federal highway, those gas taxes, state sales taxes, and income taxes do not go towards the street you live one." This statement in the article
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by stevep001 10y ago
Or by applying maintenance at the right time to keep streets in good condition -- see, for example, the chart here: https://www.bloomingtonmn.gov/sites/default/files/media/PMP-... If you're curious
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by stevep001 10y ago
City policies on this vary so much that it's impossible to generalize. That said, newer cities often end up forgetting that they need to pay for street reconstruction. The original cost of the street is usually included in the initia
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by stevep001 11y ago
+1 I ran my own email server for probably 20 years, starting with UUCP over USR Couriers. It got more and more difficult to keep things running, and I had better things to do with my time.