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by dwater 6y ago
I've heard that top brass at the DoD is fixated on 5G being critical to military superiority in the near future, without really having any practical understanding of its strengths and weaknesses or real world applications. But it'
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by dwater 7y ago
Yes, I heard a "market analyst" on the radio this morning talking about how the market is probably near the bottom now that COVID19 has been priced in, and it's time to start thinking about economic recovery. Meanwhile, a rea
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by dwater 7y ago
There are already apps that do that. They are useful for home appraisers, interior designers, architects. Anyone who wants to quickly map out a building. They just use the camera though so improving the accuracy with Lidar would be valuable
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by dwater 7y ago
Pretty much every large retailer I've been to in the last 6 months has most of their employees supplied with smart phones of some sort, usually with a barcode scanner, that they can use for inventory processes. I've walked up to e
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by dwater 7y ago
The home buying paperwork process has improved post-housing crisis. There is less total paperwork, and much of it changed to be easier to read and understand. I've done it 3 times, once before the crisis and twice after, and I've
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by dwater 7y ago
There can also be business opportunities offered exclusively to partners. My company wants more people to become AWS Practitioners for this reason. I believe Amazon refers work to its partners, although I'm not clear on the details.
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by dwater 7y ago
Or people who have just started their careers, with few responsibilities or liabilities, and not those who are near retirement.
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by dwater 7y ago
The Speeduino project is similar but more DIY focused, and newer, and open source. https://speeduino.com/wiki/index.php/Speeduino
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by dwater 7y ago
They made the CB750 for 35 years with many different types of carbs. I had a 1971 or 72 for a while and you could perform a standard sync of the carbs. There were screws on the shaft or something like that.
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by dwater 7y ago
That was my experience. I once talked to a newspaper reporter for 20 minutes and he used maybe a 10 word quote that I felt did not represent the point of what I had explained to him. I would not speak to a reporter unprepared again.
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by dwater 7y ago
If the amount is so large that you are actually concerned with someone finding out, and they gave these out to the whole company, perhaps it would be wise to quietly point out the mistake to HR. IANAAccountant, but I would guess they'r
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by dwater 7y ago
Gift cards are taxable income, but if you point this out to HR it probably won't make them happier with you. https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/hr-topics/compensatio...
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by dwater 7y ago
The original article includes a link at the bottom to a part 2 posted 6 months later that addresses many of your questions. https://whathappensonthehomestead.com/an-update-about-our-sa...
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by dwater 7y ago
Reposted by the BBC from The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/mystery-of-the-cargo-ships-that-... Discussion of the original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17884382
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by dwater 7y ago
The reason that taking parental leave doesn't hurt your career is because if you stay a classroom teacher, you have no opportunity for advancement. And although salary ranges vary widely by district, there are many districts where your
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by dwater 7y ago
I have the same setup on 2 pis, and even on a 3b+ I've found it's easier to just put a cheap little microSD card in to hold the bootloader than to try to get USB boot working.
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by dwater 7y ago
I've made extensive use of the stair calculators, this site is excellent. Built 2 sets of staircases with landings so far. I hadn't thought to explore the rest of the site, I see plenty here that will be useful in the future.
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by dwater 7y ago
https://torguard.net/faq.php Is TorGuard related in any way to the “tor” project? Answer: No, The reference to "tor" in TorGuard relates to "torrents" and guarding one’s privacy when using bitorrent. We
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by dwater 7y ago
I weigh 140lbs, and eat meat probably 2-3 times a week on average. I eat a regular burger probably once every 3 months or so and it usually knocks me on my ass and makes me feel an extreme level of full as well as very tired (I usually have
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by dwater 7y ago
He seems to have figured out that hot takes get him more visibility than measured discourse, and he's optimizing for that visibility. There's always value in his ideas, but the presentation seems to have veered toward clickbait.
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by dwater 8y ago
That sounds similar to the approach my Prealgebra teacher used in 1994. She had an overhead projector with a roll of plastic transparency sheet attached. She wrote across the bottom of the projector and then rolled it up as she went along.
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by dwater 8y ago
I agree with your point, but in my experience it's people 50+ that are actively using FB to maintain social networks. People under 30 seem to only maintain a ghost account and use other apps for their social networking. Your point stan
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by dwater 8y ago
My partner has been employed with the same large international company for 8 years. She had an elected procedure done that is required by law to be fully covered by insurance. She had 3 calls leading up to the procedure with her health insu
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by dwater 8y ago
It is a lot more complicated than that. There are some people in the system trying to extract money, but they are mostly associated with Pearson and the like. Most of the administrators, coaches, and other non-teacher employees started off
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by dwater 8y ago
I graduated from high school in 1999 and worked at a big box computer store during the spring and summer. I remember when the demo machines with the Voodoo3 3500 and TNT2 Ultras hitting the floor and all of us employees crowding around befo
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by dwater 8y ago
What percentage of ammunition fired do you think kills people directly? And how many people do you think are exposed to that ammunition but not targeted by it?
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by dwater 8y ago
I have done this twice, once ages 24-31 and once 31-34. Both ended up being financially advantageous, especially the first time around when few of my peers were buying houses. Both times it ended up being complicated. It didn't ruin fr
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by dwater 8y ago
In my experience I don't notice things being different when I'm using the Pi-Hole. It just seems like regular functional internet. When I'm not connected is when I'm surprised by how many ads there are and where and when
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by dwater 8y ago
> In America, the media narratives about race are entirely sympathetic toward minorities. I would also appreciate a citation for the implication that poor white Americans are somehow more racist than other Americans (esp other poor Ameri
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by dwater 8y ago
If you want to do a real deep dive into the architectural differences of graph databases, the book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann is a great resource. https://www.oreilly.com/library&#x

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