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by borkt 8y ago
Sounds like 95% of scientific studies these days. People always try to pick the best option given multiple items to select from. It's basically what you learn in persuasive argument courses - show the best evidence as it is not in your
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I'm a municipal civil, wife is a winemaker. We do well enough that we can afford to live where we grew up and I don't see this job getting disrupted (old underground infrastructure, much of the work is project management related,
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by borkt 8y ago
Maybe OP is referencing soil health? Not saying I agree but I've seen similar numbers there.
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Lubricating these faults often has the reverse effect; it allows the plates to constantly slip and having more frequent, smaller earthquakes. That being said, the geysers quake a few years back hit the theoretical maximum for that portion o
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That is definitely true. I work on the infrastructure/engineering side of municipal government but I have worked on the private side in companies that also do land planning. Developers always promise anything the city wants in order to
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by borkt 8y ago
Mixed use is precisely what zoning regulations are pushing for these days. If there were no zoning laws developers would only build whatever makes them the most money (from what I gather this may be mini-storage in all honesty). Edit: also
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Yeah, they are too busy being addicted to candy crush without realizing that was precisely the intention. My wife, who is not an engineer (she works in applied science) is disgusted with how the technologies have been used to take advantage
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I traveled argentina with some friends who were going back to visit friends and family after a few years away. We met so many different types of people, from those at the pinnacle of the wine industry with houses and developments spread acr
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Ask HN: Are there any mobile games that are good rather than purely addictive?
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Studying ancient history and reading books have been thought to be a frivolous waste of time by previous generations as well. It all comes from your frame of reference.
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I'd have to say whatever the waldorf schools are doing is working. My father-in-law's neighbor is an education PhD and her son has been in waldorf schools from the start. He is the most intelligent, wise, and confident kid I have
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by borkt 8y ago
There can be other issues in life, such as interpersonal issues or stress reactivity that lead to addiction probably far more often than a lack of a job or money. See Michael Jackson, Prince, Demi Lovato, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Petty..
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Correct, it helps the farms remain profitable. My wife is a winemaker and even with the guest worker program they are not able to find enough workers. The salaries have gone above $20/hr, though the way overtime works is different and
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by borkt 8y ago
A lot of them use legitimate guest worker systems, and it benefits everyone to have access to these workers.
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It's not the event that happened but rather the reaction (which I think you are implying). The saudi regime kills people regularly who in the US would not even have committed a crime, but we allow it. This murder occurred at an embassy
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by borkt 8y ago
I really can't bring myself to buy a new car but this would be about the most enticing. Even if I were wealthy I would probably still buy used cars (and my hobby is racing so it is not as if I don't appreciate cars).
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by borkt 8y ago
Getting the necessary time in complex aircraft has gotten almost prohibitively expensive. I also believe the military is creating less pilots as a result of having fewer and fewer airframes. I wanted to be a pilot and pursued an Air Nationa
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by borkt 8y ago
I have always found that detailing a car carefully to really calm my mind and feel rewarding after words. Recently I decided to try my hand at repairing a panel on my car as the shop wanted ~1000 over materials. It came out great and I have
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by borkt 8y ago
I would not be surprised if the astronauts go into a launch fully expecting a malfunction, even though the soyuz hasn't had a failure since 1983 if wikipedia is to be believed.
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I am this exact way. I've come to the conclusion that I seem to be addicted to stress, and my mind purposefully avoids important tasks until almost no time is left, and then it is so much more easy for my brain to concentrate on the ta
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by borkt 8y ago
Are they spying on private communications to identify terrorists? Please don't tell me you are calling this rudimentary Russian propaganda an attack. The ads were aimed at the lowest common denominator of America, and those that were a
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by borkt 8y ago
I'm sorry and in honesty I am not sure which problem is worse. I really like being around a wide variety of people and hearing what interests them and about their lives etc. I also can't imagine how anyone could possibly be intere
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by borkt 8y ago
Yeah, also costs are rising at an insane rate. Health care and college are both an order of magnitude higher than they were when millenials were children, and even then many of us saw our parents work hard and still not build any savings un
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by borkt 8y ago
It has every type of food known to man, and often truly authentic restauarants if not neighborhoods devoted to specific regions/groups. People are generally much nicer than the bay area, and the weather is great most of the time. Proxi
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by borkt 8y ago
Change into pajamas and tell stories
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by borkt 8y ago
Its definitely a big difference. On a 12 hour flight to south america it was far more comfortable than any other similarly long flight I have taken.
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by borkt 8y ago
I think you mean catalytic converter? Which don't remove lead but do mitigate NOx/CO/Hydrocarbons and the like
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Also the schengen zone
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I've even noticed it in the California wine country. While in decades past the weekend flow was typically from the North Bay to San Francisco, now on weekends we regularly have traffic throughout the day in Santa Rosa. Healdsburg, a to
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by borkt 8y ago
The more I read about him the more it feels like he had some sort of extremely high functioning borderline personality disorder. I know how unacceptable it is to label people as a layperson, but all of these articles where people were great

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