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by jackfoxy 6y ago
If an efficient way to use CO2 as an industrial feedstock can be found, then it opens the door for gigawatt scale gas turbine farms located at natural gas fields. (The advantage of location at the field is to minimize pipeline cost and meth
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
And this is just the tip of the iceberg for data importation. Managers and customer facing folks want to say Can't you just use off the shelf software for this? If your data importation needs are at all non-trivial, the problems tend
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Why eco-leftists are suddenly turning on Michael Moore(nypost.com)
3 points by jackfoxy 6y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
The NewsWeek article in question https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan...
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
A better way to compare is excess deaths over seasonal average (or last year's seasonal statistic) per million. That does not tell you exactly how many died of covid-19, but is a more useful comparison.
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Worked my way through college in Ag during 70's and early 80's, before self driving anything. I can tell you from experience it's easy to be lulled into a sense of complacency by the boredom. I'm sure the human is still
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Totally out of my depth here. I've been following Dr. Chris Martenson's daily covid-19 updates since late January. He is adamant this treatment is only effective in combination with zinc supplements.
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
From Alcibiades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades to Michael Bloomberg, it's always the elites who sell out their country. Of course it's only the elites who have have something of value enough on that
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
California has proportional representation in the House of Representatives. California used to have proportional and geographic representation internally in a bicameral state legislature. Then came the Supreme Court's one man one vote
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Mineralogy and working my way through Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Living Together is a loaded term suggesting peaceful coexistence. I think it's much more likely each species/sub-species in turn drove each other out of a desirable habitat over a very short period of time, in geological time. B
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
I was introduced to Werther too early in my German literature studies, which turned me off to Goethe. Big mistake. Foreign students of German literature should read all the Goethe they can get their hands on.
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F# 5 Preview 1(devblogs.microsoft.com)
8 points by jackfoxy 7y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Also note not a hard-hat in sight. This is on the eve of modern attitudes towards workplace safety, which got a big boost from reporting on worker deaths associated with the Hoover Dam project.
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
It stands to reason kids can be carriers, but I have not seen any reports of child transmission data for covid-19. In this situation with such a crazy high R0 (transmissability) the lack of knowledge calls for erring on the side of caution.
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Anecdotal: I had a discussion yesterday with someone who has very close connection to someone inside one U.S. intelligence agency. I asked him about the circumstantial evidence of virus engineering. He told me that he recently directly aske
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Most languages rely on coding patterns for code safety. This is merely a best practice , usually involves writing multiple lines of code, and is merely a convention. Functional languages have many of these patterns already encoded into com
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US natural gas operator shuts down for 2 days after being infected by ransomware(arstechnica.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 7y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
family silver, as in definition n. 4 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/silver
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
I worked on a farm in the former West Germany (BRD), before the re-unification, not far over the border from East Germany (DDR). The proprietor's family was leasing the historic farmstead. His family's original farm had been just
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Betelgeuse is really huge, comparable to the size of the orbit of Jupiter. I'm not an astrophysicist. It seems like that size would make surface asymmetries more likely.
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
We should absolutely have full transparency into services, providers, and cost, regardless of what other public policy is adopted. One can make the argument that some big share of the affordability issue has been generated by the government
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
No mention of the role of Noah Webster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster#Blue-backed_spell... in standardizing American grammar and spelling, and probably trickling down to bringing pronunciations closer toget
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
I thought primary Norman French speaking died out with the Plantagenets. I'm sure almost all the royals after the first few Plantagentes were at least bilingual in English/French. George I could not speak English IIRC. His first l
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Of course we compared cubicles to private offices back when there were still cubicle farms and found them "soul crushing". The leap to open floor plans was a whole other level. It's like plotting soul crushing on a log scale.
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
35+ years in the IT workforce here. Yep, dumbest idea ever. The vast majority of my office time was in cubicles, which are pretty good. Usually enough privacy to get things done. I did have a glassed-in private office for about a year at on
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Elon is a long way from wasting money on colonizing Mars. Everything SpaceX has done, and probably will do for the next decade, has immediate value for exploring and exploiting outer space. As for actually colonizing Mars, he should perhaps
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Well this was a false memory I may now remember as false. No, it wasn't tenths. I think more likely it had to do with the claw at the start of the tape for attaching to your starting point, which does not stay at a rigid 90 degrees. M
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
These paintings are awesome. The artist has brilliantly adapted primitive 19th century American style (I'm not sure I agree with calling it folk art ), but with more vibrant colors and his own style. Respect.
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
I knew about the survey foot because both the l00' tape measures I have are in survey feet. Messed me up on a home construction project about 13 years back. It was then I learned there are 2 differing feet definitions.

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