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by akiselev 4y ago
Yes and no. The middle/high school had more great teachers than I can remember and many of the students came from families that placed great importance on education but the legal battle to stop the I710 extension was a disaster for the
902.
by akiselev 4y ago
> About 40% of the water used in Phoenix is used for farming. Phoenix-area residents use over 50% of the water they get from city water supplies for watering lawns and maintaining swimming pools. Granted, maintaining lawns and outdoor
903.
by akiselev 4y ago
I'm talking about the entire southwest, not just San Joaquin Valley. In agriculture, Riverside County is the 13th most productive county in the state in planted crops with $1.2 billion in cash receipts on about 210,000 acres [1]. That&
904.
by akiselev 4y ago
The I710 extension has been officially dead for almost a decade - CalTrans has probably finished selling off all the property they bought by now. I grew up in South Pasadena, the little 25k pop town that killed it, and it was a big deal bec
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by akiselev 4y ago
I think the issue arises when a public persona is attached to the work, taking it from the realm of art to performance. I doubt most people would react the same to a fictional autobiography from a reclusive author a la J.D. Salinger like th
906.
by akiselev 4y ago
You've lived and traveled in Califoria and the west but have you tried to grow anything here? There's a reason we've built vast megaprojects to pump water around the West: our deserts have been the terminus for the biological
907.
by akiselev 4y ago
Those sound like big numbers but unless my napkin math is very wrong it's not even an order of magnitude more than existing Californian water projects like the California Aqueduct [1]. 1 m/s flow through a 40 m diameter pipe is 12
908.
by akiselev 4y ago
Correct. Getting the bigger one is probably one of the worst decisions I’ve made in setting up my shop but at the time Festool wasn’t expecting any more to come out of their factories for at least a quarter. It’s more expensive than the 300
909.
by akiselev 4y ago
I have the Festool Domino XL [1] and IMO router jigs like in that video are only superficially equivalent. The real benefit of the Domino is how it indexes cuts against edges using the mortise spacer tabs/accessories and the 0-90 degre
910.
by akiselev 4y ago
> I’m confident that with advances in material science we would figure out how to build safe nuclear aircraft and nuclear rockets, ushering in a new space age. I'm absolutely certain of it. In regards to nuclear rocketry, it wasn&
911.
by akiselev 4y ago
Add an extra rinse cycle.
912.
by akiselev 4y ago
Historically, countries almost never understate the strength of their armed forces because that would invite pointless conflicts with weaker adversaries. Unless the former is looking for some casus belli to invade the latter, it leads to th
913.
by akiselev 4y ago
> Not sure how those folks could be leveraging their social class in America. One example off the top of my head: Indian caste discrimination in Silicon Valley [1][2]. Cisco was even sued by the state of California for such discriminat
914.
by akiselev 4y ago
The standard unit for purchasing lumber in the United States is a board-foot which is 1"x12"x12" or 1/12th of a cubic foot. Cubic feet is used because "board-foot" is too industry specific but it's still e
915.
by akiselev 4y ago
> Rather than do the typical HN thing of commenting on something irrelevant (like the landing page) I think you just did! (comment on something irrelevant to Deepkit, like the generic and uninformative landing page, that is)
916.
by akiselev 4y ago
The compute modules only has a 5V input, which it must convert to the voltages used by the CPU, RAM, peripherals, etc. using aforementioned power ICs. A modern CPU like the BCM2711 usually has several different voltage domains that must be
917.
by akiselev 5y ago
> Slavery isn’t permitted per the 13th Amendment Uhmmm... Amendment 13 Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted , shall exist within the Un
918.
by akiselev 5y ago
And "Slough Comp" is a tongue in cheek name for Eton College
919.
by akiselev 5y ago
Most reactor downtime is due to refueling, since that requires cooling down the core through several stages. AFAIK it's not practical to do it safely and economically in under a few weeks. Most reactor maintenance is already done durin
920.
by akiselev 5y ago
A dirty bomb with as much as 30,000 kg of radioactive fuel and waste.
921.
by akiselev 5y ago
> In my case it didn't help that our Dev manager was insufferable himself, but that's no excuse. Maybe it did. I seem to make the most progress when confronted with the same behavior that I exhibit, which sooner or later lead
922.
by akiselev 5y ago
The DMCA gave websites carte blanche to host user uploaded content with practically zero copyright liability as long as they responded to DMCA requests and let the third parties fight over it in court. I wouldn't call that restrictive.
923.
by akiselev 5y ago
> Unless you have a list of all the posters, and their qualifications, you can not make that claim No qualified psychiatrist or psychologist in their right mind would give medical advice to some anonymous person over the internet so th
924.
by akiselev 5y ago
"Always" as in 1972 - after nearly a century of suffering the aftereffects of the opium wars. The Singapore Economic Development board predates the harshest drug laws by a decade and when the law came into effect, Singapore was al
925.
by akiselev 5y ago
> So when you're looking at close screens or books for most of your day, the eye makes that be the "at rest" state, but now distant objects are blurry. Now if you insist on having distant objects not blurry (by wearing gl
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by akiselev 5y ago
The (vast?) majority of pre-industrial tribes I remember studying in anthropology live in very fertile areas like the Amazon, Pacific islands, and the mountainous jungles of central Africa or Papua New Guinea. These areas can support small
927.
by akiselev 5y ago
Same way I reconcile 25 years of Gallup surveys showing that 75% of smokers want to quit [1]. Investors love exploiting addicts. [1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/163763/smokers-quit-tried-multi...
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by akiselev 5y ago
Pointing out that a spade is a spade does make for boring reading. I don't understand what more there is to say about NFTs but maybe I'm just taking crazy pills.
929.
by akiselev 5y ago
No, it needs to be anaerobic exercise.
930.
by akiselev 5y ago
> Try the Whole 30 program first. It’s a way of eating that eliminates inflammation causing foods. DONT TRY TO LOSE WEIGHT! Weight loss is important for overall health but you’ll usually sleep worse during a weight loss phase. That said

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