Monthly Archives: March 2019

Python #2,000 Hunted and Removed from Everglades in 2 Years.

50 percent of pythons removed from the Everglades have been adult females each capable of laying 40 to 100 eggs per season.

That’s 500 snakes per year each laying that many eggs. Even if they got half of the snakes left (unlikely) that means a minimum of 20,000 pythons are being born per year.

That number has to be low.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190318/indiantown-python-hunter-captures-historic-python-in-early-monday-morning-hours

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Our Robocall Nightmare May Be Coming to an End – The Upgrade – Medium

My phone vibrates and I glance at the screen, noting the call’s “917” area code — the same as my own number. “New York City,” I note. “Might be important.” The call is from a fake credit card company…
— Read on medium.com/s/the-upgrade/our-robocall-nightmare-may-be-coming-to-an-end-b6d15a4486fa

Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash

Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-03-19/how-an-extra-man-in-cockpit-saved-a-737-max-that-later-crashed

Facebook can’t find enough local news for its local news service

Facebook can’t find enough local news for its local news service
— Read on www.engadget.com/amp/2019/03/18/facebook-local-news-availability-today-in-journalism-project/

Idiot Husband Tests Tesla Autopilot By Having His Wife Walk In Front Of The Speeding Car – Digg

Here’s a husband with too much trust in Tesla and a wife with too much trust in her husband.
— Read on digg.com/video/tesla-autopilot-test-stop-wife

Behold the Glitzy Splendor of New York’s Hudson Yards – CityLab

With super-tall glass towers, a luxury mall, and a ’grammable urban spectacle, Hudson Yards is very much a development of its time.
— Read on www.citylab.com/design/2019/03/hudson-yards-real-estate-development-skyscraper-architecture/584623/

Years of mastery

Years of mastery – 60 seconds of people doing things at ridiculous skill levels
— Read on www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/b0hkz1/years_of_mastery/