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by danielvf 8y ago
Out of the 4 trillion dollars the US Federal government spent in 2016 (the last year we had a full budget), 0.631 trillion of that was for the military. An almost infinitesimal part of the New York state budget is for the state national gua
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by danielvf 8y ago
Wow, Missouri's setup with this sounds awful! Unlike Ohio, which only has some mostly short stay jails that charge, Missouri charges statewide, and for prison, which averages six months to two years for an exiting inmate. Unbelievable!
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I did a little research. It's definitely not something I've ever heard of in my state. Looks likes this is mostly in Ohio? Apparently in the 1990's, almost all Ohio counties rolled this out. It's been being rolled back e
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“the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant when in fact there is no real underlying effect. This is done by performing many statistical tests on the data and only paying attentio
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by danielvf 8y ago
An essay written in 1971, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" really nails the failure forces that are active against structureless orgs, and well as how you can combat those forces. It's one of those essays that is just plain
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A “dell” is a valley usually surrounded by woods, in English usage. I don’t think it means forrest.
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Handguns without safeties are really common - in fact most newly purchased police guns in the US today don't require anything beyond pulling the trigger. The two most popular handgun lines in the US, the Glock[1] and the M&P[2], do
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by danielvf 8y ago
The cards reference is to the game of RISK. Owning every territory in the “Australian Content” gets the player a small bonus.
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Non-orbital flight takes ludicrously less power and rocket than getting to orbit. Flying six people per flight would easily be profitable on a per flight basis, ignoring development costs. And the development stuff is already a paid cost, a
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by danielvf 8y ago
Blue Origin is building a new full sized rocket motor that will power SpaceX’s main competitor ULA. Blue Origin has also announced that their next rocket, “New Glenn”, will be an orbital class rocket competing with the Falcon 9.
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Here's a map I made of Queens road in Charlotte. https://danielvf-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/2018/queens_road... - In driving down five major roads, you can suddenly be on Queens road. - It intersects itself. - Fo
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The cave had warning signs about entering during certain months due to the rainy season. The team didn't disobey the warnings - they went in the month before signs said not to go in. The rains came early. It's hard to fault the te
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by danielvf 8y ago
This isn't what you think it is from the headline. This is not a case of Nissan software engineers writing emissions test defeat code. Rather, this is some Nissan factory workers faking internal emissions test results that are done on
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(The client in the reddit post isn’t open source.)
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To a first approximation, incarceration rate is equal to rate of crimes times percent reported to police times percent of solved cases times prosecution rate times sentence length. Some of these are bad things, some of these are good, and t
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by danielvf 8y ago
I share your awe at the Vatican map gallery. Two stories high, floor to ceiling, 400 hundred year old hand painted maps, for the entire length of a football field. And it’s not just the size, it’s the detail and joy put into maps of little
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by danielvf 8y ago
It provides the option of adding future train/tram lines down the middle of the roads.
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What problem are you having with Rails currently? A lot depends on that. Personally, I’ve found that API/SPA apps end up being more development work per new feature than a single Rails monolith. Also, anything you switch to is going to
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by danielvf 8y ago
What IPFS software are you using? I've seen some bugs and issues with the official go server, and didn't feel it was production ready.
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Part 121 - Air carrier / Airline Part 135 - Charter Part 91 - Small and non commercial
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I've been able to have plenty of project, engineering, and technical influence in companies while not technically being in charge of anything. In fact, I prefer it this way. I don't like day to day managing, and I like the freedom
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If you are used to those two, and happy with them, you probably don't have any reason to switch. As for me, I've been using TextMate since it's first release more than a decade ago, and I'm simply used to it. I'm mo
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Not to mention the USSR put a 23mm autocannon into space onboard a space station. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_3#On-board_gun
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by danielvf 8y ago
Thanks for the chuckle. To save everyone from having to look this up on Stack Overflow: .map passes two arguments to the function it calls - the value and the index. The parseInt function takes up to two arguments, a string and a radix. So
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Here's part II http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
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Here’s a view on the ever popular Legion vs Phalanx debate, written from the Greek side by someone alive during the war: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
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I dug that article up - really interesting read, and seems pretty accurate. (Warning: long) http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/06/guns-and-states/
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CCW means Concealed Carry Permit, in the US Southeast. I’m assuming the poster was recommending legaly carrying a firearm when working alone in the streets at night.
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Section 352.12(C) prohibits PVC for installations where “subject to physical damage” unless identified for such use. However, the meaning of "subject to physical damage" is supposedly a little loose, and most documents/traini
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I know four police officers. One works a desk job now, one just moved to work a crime free affluent New England town. As for the other two on the street. In the last two years, one had a shotgun pointed at his face from three feet away by a

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