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by captain_perl 8y ago
I grew up in a farming area. Farm workers at harvest time are almost Olympic-level endurance athletes. Most Americans who show up don't last a day in the fields. So no, $100/hour won't inspire more than a few workers who have
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by captain_perl 8y ago
So was Emperor Hirohito in WW2. In fact, his knowledge of biology and radiation was why he immediately grasped the futility of fighting an adversary with atomic bombs, and recorded his surrender broadcast.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
And don't forget about being downvoted for listing facts!
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by captain_perl 8y ago
No, because when there's fog, the strobe gets reflected within the cloud everywhere. This is SFO after all.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Automatically monitoring an ILS approach is not that difficult from the cockpit if the frequency can be sent via ADS-B. Beyond that it gets really hard because visual and circling approaches can be in any heading, as well as large cross-win
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Large airports have fancy lighting schemes and are pretty obvious in good weather. Small airports or bad weather at night are a different story - I would not fly into a new airport the first time in those conditions. Think 10x - 100x the ri
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Large companies typically do payments in batches, not one-by-one, so the redundancy is not needed. However, if they're trying to do per ride auths, then they might need redundancy there. Hard to imagine they do that.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Can somebody who follows the electrification project explain why diesel is bad but electric is so good that they have to upgrade? We're talking billions of dollars for less than 50 miles along an existing railroad right-of-way. I don&#
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> typically provided to engineers in San Francisco Ever notice how many companies change their health care provider every year? Company health care premiums are going up at 20% to 30% per year, thus doubling every 3 to 4 years. What do y
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by captain_perl 8y ago
I understand you're trying to be PC and all, but for the benefit of other readers, the grandparent poster was referring to the fact that lots of embedded development is done in Japan, but the software programmers are paid and respected
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by captain_perl 8y ago
For acute emergencies, like a heart attack or car accident, US hospitals are obligated to treat your immediate needs if you enter the lobby. You just clutch your chest and say, "Help, I think I'm having a heart attack!" Sadly
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> I offered to stay on full-time for half-pay and half-equity. There's a lot of red flags here ... some random advice: 1) Ensure your deal is in writing. 2) To protect your equity, you need to be in the room when new investments are
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by captain_perl 8y ago
It's worse than a headache. With debit cards, you don't get a refund. With cc's, typically you will have to state that you did not know about the fraudulent charges and that you did not loan out your card. Usually you get an
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by captain_perl 8y ago
OpenCV is free and used for important projects at companies including Yahoo! and others.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> Because implicit in the statements is somehow we have to take extraordinary measures for children we've never met. Yes, we do have to take extraordinary measures for children who arrive on US soil, because they cannot take care of
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by captain_perl 8y ago
There's a million ways for a crooked exchange to fleece clients, but front-running is the most obvious and profitable way. If you're evaluating Coinbase, then start there.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
As a student of WW2, millions of Japanese lives were saved by the atomic bombs: 1) Japanese military leaders were planning to continue fighting until no citizens were left: "even if the Japanese people die, their spirit will live on.&q
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by captain_perl 8y ago
I'm ex-Netscape, and have been using the various Mozilla browsers primarily since around 2000. The browser has always worked fine in daily use. I also use the developer tools, and they're also adequate for vanilla-js development.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Mathematicians are happy to use computers for typesetting papers, but not for the initial creative phase: 1) computer displays require you to scroll, which interrupts your mental flow 2) paper and pencil or pen is free-form 3) in advanced m
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Linus has stated many times that he wants less beginners contributing to the kernel, especially the scheduler, which has nothing to do with gender. Be thankful Linux is willing to be the BFDL, otherwise corporate interests will undo 20 year
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Mori sounds like a lost MBA. LA Koreatown has an entire and modern apparel industry. They could have validated anything they wanted from SoCal.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Hopefully a 10-ton asteroid will hit the ISS tomorrow, then we don't need to resupply it at all. None of the most-cited papers come from the ISS, unlike WMAP and friends, which are used for actual science.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
I'm been a proud vanilla-js programmer for over 2 decades. The only in-built thing really lacking is customizable dialogs, such as HTML modal and modeless dialogs, and starred password input control dialogs. All of the typical JS packa
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Dunno ... because they ask for 2 cores and you give them 2 over -provisioned vcores instead (each core sliced into 17-24 vcores)? Or because they ask for 16 GB RAM and you give them 8 GB?
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by captain_perl 8y ago
I remember the US federal govt. hired around 20 Unix sysadmins around 1984-1985 to monitor/archive IRC and newsfeeds (pre-WWW.)
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Mojolicious is a mind-blowing framework, doubly so with Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI. Unlike Catalyst, there's very few dependencies. For a beginner, I'd recommend reading "Learning Perl" by Randal Schwartz first, then r
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by captain_perl 8y ago
You have to read the story to understand what really happened. They have German passports, but are of Kurdish, Tunisian and Turkish origins and have had previous travel issues.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> Maybe social sciences are just really hard. More likely is that they're not actually science.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Software development for an original product is one of the highest-risk activities that you can do in business. (It's like buying a bar without permits and expecting to open in a month.) The best way to reduce that risk is to ask busin
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> maybe the feeling that he was wrong has chastened him. Actually, it looks like he was in fact correct.

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