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In Portugal, I’ve see them use speed activated red lights. If you’re going too fast, an arbitrary red light will be triggered on your route. It’s quicker not to speed, than to wait…

It's happened twice this week. All of our ad sets were turned off (activity history says that it's 'Facebook'), and now all of our campaigns are back in the learning phase for the …

Shout out to one of the greatest documentaries of all time: PBS's 'Ferrets - The Pursuit of Excellence'. It is ever bit as funny 'Best in Show'... but the characters are real. The …

Nearly 8 years later, and I still wish to use this feature multiple times a day. No replacement ever came. Anyone know why it was removed? Context: https://www.techadvisory.org/201…

I think there's a difference between happiness and fulfillment. Parenthood unlocks a new level of feelings I never experienced before. I cannot accurately describe the joy that fat…

Does anyone have better ideas than tshirts, hoodies or Patagonia jackets?

I learned to do this 5 years ago as part of a wilderness survival program. I was highly skeptical at first, but it was much easier in reality. I believe the practice is banned in m…

Going to echo this one. Plus the following two books: 1/ Richest man in Babylon 2/ Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Both written for the simplest of readers but great advice clearly told. (Summ…

Love every opportunity to link to this story: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t... The Citigroup building in NYC had a fundamental design flaw that could…

I know this thread is about Weasels... but can I just use this opportunity to drop a recommendation for one of the funniest documentaries ever made: https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-…

Everyone has different views on what Liberal vs. Conservative means, but if you were to use these definitions: Liberal: Promote group-oriented solutions to address economic dispari…

That's not how laws work. You can't have one set of rules for one stakeholder, and another set of rules for another. Particularly when one of those stakeholders gets to acts as enf…

I'm just going to quickly jump in here. I'm David, one of the co-founders of Fixed. Every single contest is custom written, and has an extremely thorough review which includes: 1) …

BINGO!!! You da man. That's seems to work for all my examples. Thanks!

We noticed something interesting as we were looking at parking ticket numbers. The sequence of parking ticket numbers follows a similar pattern across lots of different cities. We …

https://github.com/djburdick/la-street-sweeping-maps

Great. We have a blog post up: http://blog.fixed.com/post/116649853902/a-problem-we-need-he... ... I'll setup a GitHub later today.

@shortoncash - I like that approach! If you live up to your username, do you've any interest in doing it as a side project?

HN - we're looking for some help. We have 500K Street Cleaning tickets from LA. Each ticket has the address of where the ticket was issued, and the date/time of when the ticket was…

We take a huge amount of pride in our Customer Service. We have a target response time of 4-5 hours, and try to make sure every user questions gets responded to in under 1 business…