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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
>I could choose to indulge my fabulous side and cross dress Well, personally, I would say you are born with a fabulous side so you are just being true to yourself. Congrats and have fun! > Yes, choices do have consequences, but socia
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
“I am the equivalent of someone who was gay in Mississippi in 1950,” Oh give me a F*ing break. You CHOOSE to be a conservative. You aren't born a conservative and face true harassment, discrimination, and death threats because of it.
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
If the infrastructure is up to the task and it would actually be doable (say release fault pressure with a magnitude 5 earthquake every 3 years via some sort of method) it might not be such a bad idea. Way easier to build for a planned mag
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
A bit off topic.... Currently Hydro power makes up a small (6%) but significant portion of the energy mix in the US. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3 When you look at just the clean energy sou
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
Maybe this will get enough people to FINALLY start demanding funding for high speed rail corridors. I can't imaging getting to the airport, waiting in line for like 2 hours and then getting on a 45 min flight to Portland from Seattle.
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
The irony, or market working I guess, is that as demand for gas and fossil fuel goes down so does the price. This keeps the incentive to keep burning gas. During this recent price drop larger vehicle sales with worse gas mileage increased
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
It's not being culturally sensitive for sensitivities sake. It's about an equal chance of survival. Most fairly intelligent people acknowledge having one planet for the human species is risky right? What if an asteroid is on a
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Hail the maintainers(aeon.co)
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
Eh from what I am seeing access is fairly regulated. http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ia/permits/highseas.html http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-2/fisheries/deep-sea-fish... Status quo see
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
I know, and then humanity will have destroyed the last remaining wilderness on Earth and the ecosystem that goes along with it. Looking at our collective history we should know better. How tragic.
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
Ah! There is a big difference, I believe between subcontracting LEO for NASA and a frikin Mars mission. Since so far everything is done for NASA I don't have a problem with it. NASA, like any giant government agency subcontracts out
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
Good, it should be harder for SpaceX and other completely private entities to go since space is identified as a public Common (see my comment above). Its not sour grapes. When Neil Armstrong went to the moon it was for all Americans and al
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
Yes! Or it should as humanity has identified Antartica as a Common. Just because you are an international corporation doesn't mean you get to violate international law. Unfortunately, the environmental protection protocol is open for
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
They still have relevance. Lets take the Antartica treaty for example. Lets, for the sake of argument, say only one entity has the knowledge, resources, etc to reach Antartica and this entity is a subsidiary of BP. BP-Antartica lets say.
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
Agree, I'm interested in the political aspect of this as well. For most of modern history (past WWII lets say) exploration of unknown frontiers (Antartica, space, the moon etc) has been done under nation states with various levels of
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
<blink>whatup</blink>
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
Are you trolling us? 97% of climate scientists agree that the global is warming and that humans are the cause of this warming. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-... Before it was the warmest
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by brooklyndavs 10y ago
To piggy back on this, in general how do you balance the time between switching out a toolset vs doing development work? For example, I've been using PyCharm for years but the switch in JetBrains's licensing strategy has me looki
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
Facebook ceased to be cool once Mom, Dad and that crazy Aunt were on it :)
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
Unless your child lives close to a power plant, or a mining operation, or a fracking operation, or somewhere vulnerable to sea level rise....
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
I wish I could share this outlook but I see a few things slowing the installation velocity of zero emission energy generation. These are a mix of technological and political. What we are seeing currently in the install velocity is probabl
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
"Electric cars get cleaner every year because of this. Gas cars will always burn gas their entire life." This might be true in the future but we aren't there yet unfortunately. This is due to the incorrect assumption that na
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
"Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross Natio
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
Really? Article V Section 8: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Exc
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
Your experience is interesting to me. I'm a runner as well and I end up doing several races per year including a marathon, a few 1/2s, few 5k and 10ks. Do you do any interval training or long runs on the days you fast? What do
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
I use to be in the enterprise "consulting" gig. As a consultant its terrible. The only rate you know is what you are making, and thats just at the per year level. As the consultant you never know what is being changed to the cl
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
Between this and the software engineer vs developer article that was on the front page yesterday I really am starting to think if our industry needs to start taking some sort of industry wide recognized professional certificate into conside
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
Completely agree. Do accountants have to work on the companies books for 8 weeks as a "trial period"? Does a mechanical engineer have to build widget X on the spot during the interview process? No, for most jobs they look at yo
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
Wow, your housing in Brooklyn is MORE affordable vs SV? What neighborhood are you in? Brooklyn has some of the highest housing costs in the country and is on par with Manhattan at times depending on the neighborhood.
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by brooklyndavs 11y ago
Thats funny. I wonder if the same coworker from Atlanta would make the same comment about a city like Chicago? I've spent years in both Chicago and Toronto in the past and it seems like the climate is almost identical. Toronto maybe

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