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by dwater 8y ago
There are parts of framing that are safer and easier with 2 people, but there are a few places that I used a block and tackle to haul stuff around by myself. The only days that I really needed extra hands was setting up the posts & beam
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I started by googling "Free garage plans" and going from there. I went with these plans: http://www.todaysplans.com/og2424g.pdf I modified them to add a full size staircase in the corner, change the window and doo
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by dwater 8y ago
You probably know that you can find longer dimensional lumber at a lumber yard instead of a big box store. I am building my own 2-story 2-car garage, and was surprised at how many independent lumber yards there are tucked away around town.
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I was just watching an interview between Scott Galloway and Richard Kramer discussing if the big 4 will be broken up. An insight I hadn't heard before was that anti-trust in the US is based on consumer harm, and since consumers get ser
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by dwater 8y ago
Browsing their channel, I was unable to find any videos that appear to promote gun ownership. The only videos that prominently featured guns appeared to be neutral to negative on guns, and mostly not in America. https://www.yout
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by dwater 8y ago
I'm using a generic HiFiBerry clone that I got for $18 with a pi3b running Volumio as well. I'm using a 240GB SSD in a USB enclosure as the drive, and a cron job that keeps it synced with my fileserver. Only snag was finding a pow
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by dwater 8y ago
I would imagine they are thinking longer term than you are. Crystal City is 3 Metro stops from downtown DC, 10 or 15 minutes, but still has room for Amazon to build and rebuild in their image. It has no culture or community, it's a bla
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Most visas do though, so it could be worked out.
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"If you are a hedge fund manager running a portfolio you leave it empty and take a write-off.” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/24/new-york-re...
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by dwater 8y ago
Not tipping in America rarely if ever gets you poor service. You have to return to the same business and happen to get served by the same server enough times for them to remember you. It does deprive the server of a living wage.
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by dwater 8y ago
They do publish information of that sort, beginning during the Obama administration: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search/?name=university%20of... https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive&#x
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by dwater 8y ago
I got cheap SSDs in cheap USB cases for my 2 Pis after getting annoyed with SD corruption. SSD prices have dropped recently after being flat for a long time. If you are really cheap the cases often go for $1 or free after rebate at newegg.
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When they are leaving Japan after trading the damascus steel ingots for quicksilver, the Japanese fill all the quicksilver bottles to a level that will cause it to slosh along with the same frequency, causing harmonic resonance to sink the
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by dwater 8y ago
There already are people who take advantage of others in this way. You will need to differentiate yourself to be successful in this crowded marketplace. https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collect...
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by dwater 8y ago
This blog post is based on posts from the Urban kchoze blog, which has been linked on HN previously. I liked it so much I read the entire archive. One great post is about a possible remedy to American zoning: dynamic zoning. http:/&#x
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by dwater 8y ago
I have read this book and I would recommend as an alternative "The Richest Man In Babylon." It is more clearly a book of parables about building wealth and less about the route one person took to financial success.
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That does not seem relevant to this article, because it does not call the system illegal. It calls it "effectively a Ponzi scheme", and then goes on to offer evidence to support that claim. A Ponzi scheme is "an investment sy
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by dwater 8y ago
I loved Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. I've read Anathem twice and loved it. And even though it clocks in at around 3,000 pages, The Baroque Cycle trilogy is so good I've read it 3 or 4 times and I'll probably read it again.
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by dwater 8y ago
There was an article I remember from 2600 about all the various stimulants readily available at the time (1996-97), I found a text version of it: http://67.225.133.110/~gbpprorg/2600/HackHead.html I believe the or
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by dwater 8y ago
I taught high school for almost 10 years and I agree with both of you. You don't have to be a genius, some of the best Algebra 1 teachers I worked with couldn't teach calculus because they didn't understand it. Getting the st
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by dwater 9y ago
That is misleading. Infant mortality was high, but for those who lived past childhood average lifespan was not that far off from what it is today. https://condensedscience.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/life-expec..
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by dwater 9y ago
As someone who works for a company that works with the DoD, the push mentioned in the second to last paragraph is making it's way down the chain and we are seeing a greater acceptance of cloud tech. There isn't widespread adoption
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And this practice has been going on informally since the 70's when the first HOV lanes were opened. I have used it before and although the first few rides might feel awkward, you get used to it quickly and it's a great improvement
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Most East Coast American cities have neighborhoods that were built 100 years ago as suburbs because it was impractical to walk to downtown that are now considered inner city. Other areas of the country do as well, but I'm only speaking
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by dwater 9y ago
Suburban areas in the US aren't old enough to get hit with infrastructure maintenance costs like the urban areas are. This is a really interesting article about the profitability and maintainability of growth: https://www.st
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by dwater 9y ago
While it certainly would help to get the very best teachers working with the most challenged students, there is some research saying that it's really not the best approach because teacher quality has a less of an effect on student achi
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by dwater 9y ago
> Segregation isn't addressing the root problem, it's just hoping that spreading out the problem (households that don't value education) will mask issues. It reads like you are saying that the root problem is households th
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by dwater 9y ago
In my opinion this article, and the related report[0] bury the lede, which is that segregation is the bigger problem than funding. I only read the executive summary of the report but the first 3 paragraphs address funding inequalities, and
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Perhaps hunter gatherers are generally content with their existence and see no need to invent, whereas farmers and agricultural societies are frequently unsatisfied and unhappy (because they spend more time working and less in recreation) a
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I spent nearly the last decade teaching high school math in public schools in the US and this is my attitude as well. Most of your intended users are adversarial; most students enter the classroom not wanting to learn most of the subjects t

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