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by corodra 7y ago
I don't know, I think that's only partially the problem. But just so we're clear, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying there are other factors. Mostly, I think it's the way distributors and retailers fo
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by corodra 7y ago
It's sad that food has to travel long distances to be purchased at reasonable prices when it's grown relatively nearby. To put the shoe on a different foot. The Dominican Republic produces a lot of tomatoes. But they lack a lot of
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by corodra 7y ago
I can't find the papers, but larvacides are not normally field used in trucks. They're usage is 1-2 gallon per ground acre with a dude wearing a hand pump backpack sprayer and when used in water, are dispersed by small row boats.
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by corodra 7y ago
It's a touchy subject for me because I try working on it in my spare time. My point is this, in Florida, there's a shitload of policy, gov action and procedure to keep mosquito populations at a minimum. It use to be spray trucks w
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by corodra 7y ago
I'm absolutely NOT an expert. I'm a hobbyist-citizen-scientist-whatever-its-called trying to build out a better mosquito catcher that keeps them intact so they can be studied in a lab to count local species populations and hopeful
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by corodra 7y ago
And they did a half-baked attempt too. "Hackers use distributed protein based machine learning to invent a sport the establishment hates" That's better click bait. Sounds like a VC worthy business plan too.
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by corodra 7y ago
And again, just like the others in the past who I argued with, you read nothing I put down. You saw hormone and knee jerked. The hormones in question are not found in other animals, and has been widely tested for a decade prior to field use
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by corodra 7y ago
That's the problem. A lot of people thought that saying "This won't work and could make things potentially worse" was equivalent to "I think people should die of Malaria". I remember this experiment coming out
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by corodra 7y ago
Well, that's the one downside to becoming the "best" in a field. There's fewer and fewer at your caliber. Thus, your name technically has more meaning. That goes outside blue collar too.
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by corodra 7y ago
That's the funny part when you mention specialized alloys. There's a whole bunch of people out there, even though they don't have a college degree, who have an amazingly keen sense and in-depth knowledge of these specialized
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by corodra 7y ago
You're arguing with people who have never been on a real job site. Here, they think job site means monster.com or indeed.com. I spent about a week at a natural gas power plant in Oregon being built to work on some telecom. Welders ther
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by corodra 7y ago
So a cable at 300,000km at, oh, I dont know, an average of 1 meter wide, is not massive? I think scrapping together enough material on earth to build this will be the first problem. 2.36 x10^8m for rough cylinder volume. Steel weight would
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by corodra 7y ago
Let's ignore the physical catastrophe of a cable at 380,000+ km long dislodging and becoming either locked in earth orbit or crashing into earth. Let's ignore that. What if the cable attached to the moon and then locking the other
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by corodra 7y ago
First, it doesn't state Sonoran Desert. Just "In the desert of Arizona". That entire region of America is a desert if you grew up in places like Florida or the western part of the Pacific Northwest. Because this article alrea
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by corodra 7y ago
There's plenty of people here who have done some fantastic math that throws red flags at this "I'm going to save the world" project. And each of you are beautiful people. What gets to me, these overly complicated dehumid
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by corodra 7y ago
Bureaucrats are not "STEM folks". Bureaucrats make education policy. STEM folks write the guidelines of how it should have been done, then the bureaucrats say "You know what this needs? The critical thinking skills that only
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by corodra 7y ago
Yes, that's why I put it in quotes. There should be an appropriate sized pool of specialty-whatever to be effective in a society. But also plus some. Just so you don't have an accidental brain drain. But output is important too. E
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by corodra 7y ago
I do disagree. Many other creatures play politics and morality. Wolves and chimps have power and political struggles all the time. Along with taking care of those injured. But an individual that has a history of taking more than their share
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by corodra 7y ago
Oh agreed. Specialization isn't perfect. But a lot of engineers, I think, like being "well rounded(?)". Mostly when it comes to making things. But, if you take the youtube channel Tech Ingredients. That dude is like the spiri
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by corodra 7y ago
I mean, you're not wrong. That's the whole point behind a specialized workforce. The whole point to modern society is individuals focus on something and do it, really, really well. We then suffer doing other stuff competently. Oth
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by corodra 7y ago
I know in America, in Colorado and Florida, nurses are in demand and paid pretty well. From the people I know, ~$60k+ with a 2 year degree. They're also generally happy with their jobs. They might bounce from one hospital to another fo
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by corodra 7y ago
Not too much to add compared to everyone else. But something I learned about myself, I have to break up non-fiction with the occasional fiction book. I like reading history, biography, informative books nowadays. Not so much technical anymo
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by corodra 7y ago
These types of essays and studies really miss the entire point on why people choose careers. I went to high school from 01-05 in a rather redneck area in Florida. Some would say white trash. And I'd agree with that. To put in perspecti
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by corodra 7y ago
Theres a huge assumption about the wisdom of crowds. That the individuals have reliable info on said subject. I'd also say, are competent to use said info. The idea came from a dude back in the early 1900s who surveyed everyone at a co
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by corodra 7y ago
I argue that the larger public doesn't need to know. Who, in the general public, is actually qualified to determine the effectiveness of these types of operations? On top of that, vast swaths of the public are amazingly incompetent. Wh
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by corodra 7y ago
Similar to no one talks about when the air force lands planes successfully, which it does thousands of times daily in peacetime. Even more in wartime. But when there's a crash, "Is the Air Force unable to properly fly planes?&quot
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by corodra 7y ago
Fair assertion. One I mostly agree with too. But, what's the point then? I mean, if there's no point in pursuing anything because a machine will always be better and no one is going to appreciate anything handmade anymore... What&
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by corodra 7y ago
I agree. But again, I'm not 100% against algorithmic recommendations. Same way I'm not always 100% for human curated recommendations either. Both have pros and cons. What I liked back in the day was the original netflix recommenda
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by corodra 7y ago
This is the same reason I like libraries and book stores. Especially used book stores. You can find some interesting books at "random". Generally random of course. But these are books that would, 9 out of 10 times, never be recomm
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by corodra 7y ago
Eh? So I had a downturn in my life back in 2012 and did otr trucking for about 7 months. Every large company had a Qualcomm in every truck that wouldn't even let you fully start the truck if you were over hours. They also recorded all

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