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by jartelt 6y ago
The vast majority of forest land in California is owned by the federal government and is National Forest land. California can't just go and run controlled burns in those federally controlled forests. That would need to be done in coope
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by jartelt 6y ago
I don't know whether or not the 10 weeks of family leave will remain after the COVID-19 pandemic slows. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. The point is that the response to the pandemic was to give stressed parents up to 10 weeks of a
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by jartelt 6y ago
1) I think you are ignoring that it is possible for non-parent employees to be negatively affected by the pandemic as well. You seem to be dealing with it very well (which is great!), but others may be stuck working from noisy, cramped apar
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by jartelt 6y ago
Time off would allow people to relax, work on a hobby, exercise, etc. If you are feeling run down after working from a crappy, crammed apartment for 3 months, it can be refreshing to get an extra week or so off work with no questions asked.
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by jartelt 6y ago
It is not necessarily just hostility to parents. I see it more as hostility to the HR policies in place at some of the companies. A new parent at facebook gets 4 months leave after the birth and then can take another 10 weeks of family leav
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by jartelt 6y ago
I guess we just fundamentally disagree on some things here. > The problem we're trying to solve isn't poor experimental design, it's a failure to publish "boring" results--a bias against uninteresting results whi
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by jartelt 6y ago
Sorry, but I think you are not on the right track here. Top tier journals typically publish results that are both interesting/novel and that have good experimental design. Yes, there are bad studies that get through now and then, but b
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by jartelt 6y ago
Basic IR beam solutions cannot tell the difference between someone going in the store vs someone going out, so keeping a real-time count of occupancy is difficult (or impossible). They also struggle with two people going through a doorway a
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by jartelt 6y ago
In Redwood City, police officers start out at $120,000 a year (plus a pension). I know mechanical engineers in the Bay Area that start out making less than that and do not get a pension.
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by jartelt 6y ago
This is a very early step (phase 1). They are giving the vaccine to small number of healthy people to make sure it is safe in that population. From there they have to go on to larger trials that look at both safety and effectiveness. The ph
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by jartelt 6y ago
Of the 20 employees listed on LinkedIn, several are just Mentors that almost certainly do not take home a full salary with benefits.
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by jartelt 7y ago
Wearing a mask helps block airborne droplets from the cough or sneeze of an infected person. That said, you need to aware that a mask is not perfect and you should still stay at least 6 feet away from other people. You also need to fit the
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by jartelt 7y ago
You likely will need to prove that your unemployment or lack of ability to work was caused by COVID-19. So doctors note, test result, order to stop work by governor, etc.
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by jartelt 7y ago
1) Decide what you are going to do with the time previously spent commuting. If you previously spent 45 mins driving to/from work, you now can either use that freed up time to work more or to do something else (relax, clean, etc.). 2)
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by jartelt 7y ago
Combination of favorable laws, good weather for testing, wide roads, etc.
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by jartelt 7y ago
Validation of Waymo's valuation provides data for Alphabet stockholders and (hopefully) shows that all the money Alphabet has poured into Waymo has generated significant value. If you never show this validation, some shareholders becom
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by jartelt 7y ago
Yea, smell issues are from transport of the food waste to the facilities. If you have a facility accepting waste, there will be trunks bringing in smelly stuff on a regular basis.
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by jartelt 7y ago
Industrial compost sites and anaerobic digesters are likely a bit smelly. People also may gripe about having a compost bin in addition to a recycling and trash bin.
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by jartelt 7y ago
This article is pretty off the mark. Yes, eliminating food waste will not solve the climate problem. However, eliminating food waste will absolutely help the climate problem as well as reduce needed landfill space, and provide valuable comp
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by jartelt 7y ago
Similar for "all intensive purposes" vs "all intents and purposes"
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by jartelt 7y ago
Having a 10 year exercise window on options helps quite a bit. In most cases there will either be a liquidity event within 10 years or (for companies that are successful but stay private longer than 10 years) the company will have multiple
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by jartelt 7y ago
Most plans have clearly stated out of pocket maximums. That is the most you are going to pay in a given year.
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by jartelt 7y ago
Saying you want rents to come down (or at least stop rising) does not automatically mean you are against building more housing... Many people arguing for more housing in the Bay Are are doing so because they want prices/rents to come d
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by jartelt 7y ago
Yep, there are very often "learning curves" that can be used to accurately predict price trends as manufacturing volume increase. The same thing has played out with solar cells and led to big price drops. https://en.wik
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by jartelt 7y ago
Lead acid batteries are used in pretty much everything ICE vehicle and are used in large quantities as uninterruptible power supplies (data centers use a ton). It's a huge industry.
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by jartelt 7y ago
Even if they said how many models they looked at before choosing 14 models (and explained why they chose those 14), conspiracy theorists and people skepticalof climate science would still argue that it is not legitimate because of survivors
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by jartelt 7y ago
Earlier this year Google e-mailed all employees and noted that accessing docs outside the scope of your job responsibility is forbidden and a fire-able offense. I think this policy change marked the end of the open culture you speak of. Whe
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by jartelt 7y ago
"...PART of what they do..."
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by jartelt 7y ago
One difference I have noticed is that in the midwest you can eat out and often spend less than $20 per person on the entire check. For even a mid range restaurant in the bay area, you are at $20 per person after food/drink (not includi
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by jartelt 7y ago
I imagine the retailer just cares about getting the sale and doesn't really care who they pay the 2% (or whatever) commission fee to? Shouldn't make too much of a difference whether they pay the commission to Honey or to some rand

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