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I'd be a buyer if you had an indoor unit with a radon sensor.

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 a…

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.

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/…

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…

Brighter = Fn + Del Dimmer = Fn + Backspace

That's great, until your service scales to the point where it's not possible to simulate prod in test.

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.

After a certain point, family size is negatively correlated with income. http://m.startribune.com/minnecensus-family-size-and-its-rel...

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

FWIW I do the same on Windows. Not usable without that change.

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…

You must now know about Powershell. For example, scheduled tasks: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2015/01/...

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…

A better title would be "Ad supported site: Not enough Americans are clicking on our savings account ads."

"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 st…

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-... …

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…

+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 …