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61.
by black6 8mo ago
My wife had a very successful "farm school" in Mississippi by staying under the limit for required childcare licensing. At the time one could have six children (in addition to one's own) and not have to be a licensed childcar
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by black6 9mo ago
Plant food.
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by black6 10mo ago
CO2 is plant food. It's amazing how the spin has affected so many generations. Much much worse than that for the environment are particulates from incomplete combustion, NOx from poor combustion, et cetera.
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by black6 10mo ago
So that's the kind of hill Jack and Jill went up.
65.
by black6 10mo ago
Those are illegal, separate from the medium of conveyance.
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by black6 11mo ago
Why does the government need a plan for pennies? They stopped wasting money minting them, now the "problem" will sort itself out naturally.
67.
by black6 11mo ago
If you're asking a machine which human you should vote for, you probably shouldn't be voting.
68.
by black6 11mo ago
The third option that becomes more tantalizing every year in the US is to not have insurance, pay OOP for routine matters, and when something catastrophic happens let the medical debt go to collections and settle for pennies on the dollar.
69.
by black6 1y ago
I still like Keith Lofstrom's Server Sky concept. http://server-sky.com/ServerSky
70.
by black6 1y ago
Can't give up on the Senate Launch System. That'd be political suicide .
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If Sharks Were Men(pamolson.org)
1 points by black6 1y ago|0 comments
72.
by black6 1y ago
> People do act differently when they know they are being watched. Even more so when they know they are being recorded. There is a whole genre of short form and streaming videos where the subject films himself violating social norms and
73.
by black6 1y ago
I might turn out to vote if there was a candidate whose sole platform plank was to repeal as many existing laws as possible.
74.
by black6 1y ago
Being "middle class" is a mindset, not a category of wealth. It's something of an anachronism from when there were two distinct classes: nobility/clergy, and the peasants. The middle class, the bourgeoisie (because they
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by black6 1y ago
I haven't read The Water Knife, but I have read The Tamarisk Hunter, which I believe is related and paints a picture of the future of the American West with it's messed up water rights.
76.
by black6 1y ago
The Internet was philosophically designed to move information, and for every effort to prevent that there is a workaround. There will always be a free protocol.
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by black6 1y ago
Using chilled brine as a cooling medium is common in industrial processes, unfortunately it needs to be chilled and that usually comes via an evaporative cooling tower. Assuming the sea is close and the temperature low enough, an open loop
78.
by black6 1y ago
How many Sergeants Major are there at the FAANGs? More seriously, I've never heard the E9 designation outside of the military. What does it mean?
79.
by black6 1y ago
That's always been the actual effect of non competes in the US. Slavery was abolished; you can't be told by a former employer that you can't work for someone else unless they continue to pay you not to. That you're being
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by black6 1y ago
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. Anatole France
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Is anybody using this private key?(isanybodyusingthisprivatekey.com)
93 points by black6 1y ago|53 comments
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by black6 1y ago
Airlines should grow up and start charging by weight just like carriers do for every good except passengers (flat rate shipping boxes excluded.)
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Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by black6 1y ago|0 comments
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by black6 1y ago
Case in point.
85.
by black6 1y ago
"Attention pilots with short pitot tubes or low manifold pressure: please taxi up close, as the next pilot may not be float equipped." F Street Station, in Anchorage, AK
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Make your own paper hex calculator [pdf](brutman.com)
1 points by black6 2y ago|0 comments
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by black6 2y ago
I recently got fined for having backyard chickens within 100 feet of a neighboring residence. That's the ordinance, and I can't meet it in a low density neighborhood. Fuck the city. I still have chickens and will continue to have
88.
by black6 2y ago
Always have been.
89.
by black6 2y ago
For being some type of metaphor for life, that the character's spouse was only mentioned a handful of times in passing was decidedly odd.
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by black6 2y ago
There's a booth in a consignment shop in town that has a load of old high carbon steel Case scissors of different sizes. Resale shops may be the way to go.

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