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14,580karma·2,123submissions·February 22, 2010
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I remember them being used as an example of 6-sigma, but it sounds like they were only a paltry 5-sigma. Forbes never certified the dabbawalas as being a six-sigma organization. In fact, I never used…
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I'd like to see someone calculate how much Mercer Island's nimbyism added to Seattle's light rail.
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One of my favorite car reviewers is Doug Demuro. His videos on youtube mostly focus on the 'quirks and features' of the car, AKA all the minutiae you notice a few months into ownership.
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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you…
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Diablo 1 in 4k - https://i.imgur.com/4ResbPc.jpeg
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Marques Brownlee toured one recently - "Ferrari Luce is the Most Controversial Ferrari Ever" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Reu1WS3BhM …
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Seeed studio has a module if you want to make your own - https://www.seeedstudio.com/Embedded-Thermal-Printer-p-1621.... …
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Yep! WA State is the first to ban retailers from using phenol paper starting this year. I'd imagine hobbyists buying thermal printers online are likely to end up with the bad stuff, so I think …
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Most of the alternatives today (including the Costco receipt in my pocket) are labeled "phenol free". As I understand it they use vitamin c or a urea derived compound.
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https://www.ncsl.org/technology-and-communication/automated-... A friend entertained the idea of a startup focused on a social dashcam site, where users can upload clips of bad d…
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Many states already ban the private collection of license plate data.
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Original publication - https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/... …
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It was the image in my mind when I made the bingo joke. Maybe we are living in a simulation.
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It's the free square on the bingo card
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There are some commercially available home security systems that use a version of this tech. - https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/wifi-sensing-motion-detection... As a homeowner, t…
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Reminds me of South Lake Union Transit, though they did not embrace the moniker.
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Reminds me of the managers that use 'lines of code added' as a metric
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Was it crowdsourced? WA state has a crowdfunding law on the books, and the state AG has gone after people that are very late to deliver.
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LEOs should be required to carry malpractice insurance.
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An important lesson in web/blog design - I cannot for the life of me figure out who this author is (using only the website).
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Someone might have to take up the Mr. Floatie mantle - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mr-floatie-r... …
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Moon bears? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eztgcwvfPjM
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These appear to be vinyl wraps.
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r/burningman moop map shame thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/1rtzumg/moop_ma... …
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Miami too. The city is build on porous limestone. No amount of levees, seawalls, or dams will save it.
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IIRC, screwdrivers and prying tools are not considered special. Removal cannot require solvents or heat, but I believe those pull tab glue pads are allowed.