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by danielvf 9y ago
Probably none [edit: in manufacturing]. Most illegal immigrants don’t work manufacturing. The three most common jobs for illegals around here are construction, yardcare, and building cleaning via nested subcontractors. Manufactures have har
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by danielvf 9y ago
I worked with small / medium manufacturers in the prosperous part of the Southeast. Hiring is brutal currently. Last week one company setup interviews with 20 possible new workers. One showed up for his interview, and one wandered in t
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by danielvf 9y ago
Simply making it so that heavy containers go high and light ones low would likely not affect the ship until it it hits bad weather. The load is still centered on the ship at the dock, so it would not list. The total weight is still correct,
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by danielvf 9y ago
I’m guessing he meant carbon dioxide, rather than just carbon.
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by danielvf 9y ago
I think I’ve followed the same method for decades. 1. Read the whole book in one sitting, to get the big picture in my head, and build a mental model of the thing. 2. Implement a toy project using the thing. Maybe an hour or two. Go back to
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by danielvf 9y ago
For scale, this is about five train cars worth of oil.
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by danielvf 9y ago
I'm certainly not saying nuclear war wouldn't be awful - it would be! But in judging Carl Sagan's claims, we look at what he actually wrote to the public, and it's the specific climate claims that Carl Sagan made that ap
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by danielvf 9y ago
Carl Sagan’s predictions were really dire. Here’s a three paragraph TLDR of his specific predictions from his 1983 article that brought "Nuclear Winter" into the vocabulary: — “Our baseline case, as in many other studies, was a 50
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by danielvf 9y ago
Alaskan fund usually pays out about 1K per person per year. As long as you can live on three dollars a day, you are good. (And that’s not unheard of if you’ve built your own cabin in the wilderness, grow some of your own food, and hunt.)
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by danielvf 9y ago
I know someone who has made money with a simple ETH trading bot. Apparently it can be done.
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by danielvf 9y ago
DFvakso has the outside world / big picture. A height map would handle this just fine.
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by danielvf 9y ago
It’s correct. For a long time diet was the limiting factor on the length of see voyages. Terrible things happen to you if you don’t get Vitamin C for example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
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by danielvf 9y ago
I think you are loooking for Charlotte, NC. Still growing fast, still green trees everywhere, still boring, still friendly people. Still a mix of hospitality and hard work. Avoids most coastal drama and fads. Still half conservative, half n
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by danielvf 9y ago
I’ve worked with major US car crash testing facilities. I used to think that crash testing was just a video of the car crashing and an opportunity to walk around the car afterwords to how the car did. Maybe it would pass, and maybe it would
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by danielvf 9y ago
The US has about 33,000 currently registered homebuilt aircraft. There’s a lot of them! For some years when I was growing up, five homebuilt aircraft were built for every one traditionally manufactured general avaition aircraft. Most of the
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by danielvf 9y ago
What do you mean? AlphaGo Zero has played itself, and they have published 20 of those games.
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by danielvf 9y ago
At least initial reports are that alphaGo Zero is more human-like than Master. Zero packs even more of the inhuman ability to pick the most critical part of the board for each move, but less weird looking stuff. In fact, one of the obvious
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by danielvf 9y ago
SQLite is absolutely fantastic, but I’ve twice used on sites where I would have used a real DB and twice needed to switch back to a real DB after a few months. The concurrency model just doesn’t match up well with multiple web processes do
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by danielvf 9y ago
I think this classic blog post really covers the general phenomenon at play. Current social media has created a system that fuels rage fights on any topic, be insure that you will see the worst, most untrue parts of whatever the “other side
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by danielvf 9y ago
In addition to the fine, the SEC notes that the founder lost $65 million dollars as a result the drop in price and compensating early investors for that drop.
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by danielvf 9y ago
An acre foot is a volume of water one acre, one foot deep, used over a year. In gallons, that’s 325,851 gallons per year per acre foot. The poster then can use about 4 million gallons of water per year for his land. When spread out over thi
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by danielvf 9y ago
This is one of the fifty greatest essays ever. Don’t be distracted the talk of Feminism or the New Left. This stuff applies across every organization I’ve run into.
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by danielvf 9y ago
This is talking about the “kites” though, not the “gates”.
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by danielvf 9y ago
Not in any appreciable way.
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by danielvf 9y ago
That would be a dealbreaker for me. It really only takes one bad person to sour office relations.
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A true classic.
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by danielvf 9y ago
In 1970 a guy named Thor had a reed raft built matching stuff found in an Egyptian tomb. He then rode it with friends from Morocco (Africa) to Barbados (Caribbean). The book is great if you can find it. Travel time 59 days, but the rowers c
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by danielvf 9y ago
“How many seem to believe the route of shaming people into political action is effective. How few people seem to talk about community, about joy, about love, when discussing political action.”
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by danielvf 9y ago
Looks like pretty standard interview stuff. It’s just trying to get you talking so they can see if you communicate well and if they like you.
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by danielvf 9y ago
Article is from 2014

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