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by jboggan 7y ago
This was the problem that turned me from a music major to a math major and eventually led me down the path to computer science. It's a beautiful and cold problem and I love to see any progress made on it.
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by jboggan 7y ago
Or maybe they were just drawing the extant megafauna that had not yet been hunted to extinction [0]. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_rhinoceros
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by jboggan 7y ago
You are pretty much at the peak of income for your current amount of effort and risk for any role in the global economy. There are higher paying positions but you'll have to risk a lot and work a lot harder. How much of a life do you h
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by jboggan 7y ago
Even if there were an increase in demand for the purples you'd still be hard pressed to get them commercially, California has been squeezing the number of licensed commercial boats down to about 100 and the market's flexibility is
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by jboggan 7y ago
Not nearly inedible, just not commercially practical for the effort versus the amount of meat inside. I prefer their taste over the commercially sold reds, they are sweeter in a wider range of seasons. Purple uni crushed up with soy sauce i
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by jboggan 7y ago
My Facebook feed this morning was filled with friends at home watching Disney+ with their children because of the snow days closing schools across the country. I know scaling a service on Day 1 is difficult but I imagine their load is much
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by jboggan 7y ago
No, it's called paying attention and forming judgments from copious amounts of personal empirical data and drawing conclusions from that. I was pretty concerned when the kelp disappeared and the urchin barrens arrived, but it's pr
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by jboggan 7y ago
Solo night freedives for lobster, no deeper than 30 feet on shore dives just because it doesn't get that deep within a quarter mile of the surf. I usually stick above 50 during daytime out in the islands.
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by jboggan 7y ago
You've got two dangers in shellfish, one is bacterial spoilage and another is domoic acid poisoning that comes from plankton metabolites concentrating up the food pyramid. I always eat uni live so that's not really an issue - actu
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by jboggan 7y ago
There are only about 100 commercial operators along the California coast that are licensed to harvest and sell them. That number used to be around 500 and they have been winnowing the licenses down year over year.
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by jboggan 7y ago
I'm not a number contributing to an average, especially when it comes to a defensive use of a gun, because I didn't pull the trigger and no police report was made. I kept myself from becoming a statistic because I know my own circ
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by jboggan 7y ago
I freedive the Pacific coast on a weekly basis year-round. The little purples are actually tastier than the commercially harvested reds to me, but it's a lot less meat for just as much work. I don't see them really making this wor
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by jboggan 7y ago
A firearm, like a fire extinguisher, is one of those items which is completely pointless to have until it's the only thing in the world that matters. In my experience it wasn't a horde - just one man - but I needed it all the same
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by jboggan 7y ago
I've always wondered about this because corals have been around during much warmer and much more acidic periods in the ocean.
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by jboggan 7y ago
"Whenever you are gluing metal it's a good idea to clean it first with steel wool or sandpaper. (Rust never sleeps.)" Glad to see a Neil Young nod in an esoteric reference site. That feels very old-internet to me.
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by jboggan 7y ago
I guess you're right. Now, what to do about the 400 million or so weapons in private hands? Should the National Guards of each state get those since they are the rightful militia?
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by jboggan 7y ago
>2A is absolutely not about individual rights. No Founder ever talked about it in this way. It's about militias. Absolutely untrue. "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constit
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by jboggan 7y ago
We still have privately owned field artillery, among other things: https://youtu.be/qtFczo5ZCwY?t=934
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by jboggan 7y ago
Yes, what was that?
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by jboggan 7y ago
Think about the amount of price fluctuation that can occur before you get a few confirmations in, especially during this last bout of speculation. I met with one payment processor and told them that based on their rough transaction figures
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by jboggan 7y ago
After building a derivatives trading platform for Bitcoin and attempting to get it off the ground, I can categorically say that no one is interested in hedging their risk, not even payment processors.
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by jboggan 7y ago
I'm surprised there wasn't anything mentioned about the effects of predation. They absolutely know when the regular human hunting seasons are and adjust their local migration accordingly - they'll be in high mountainous areas
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by jboggan 7y ago
I'd read this book.
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by jboggan 7y ago
During a recent interview process I was given a take home assignment for data engineering. Well, I had to wait two weeks for the team to come up with a take home since they didn't have a data engineering assignment at the time. Eventua
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by jboggan 7y ago
I've come across them repeatedly and in some cases they have formed the majority of candidates that got to a phone screen. It's a result of our industry having many high paying jobs in relative physical comfort with no hard gateke
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by jboggan 7y ago
For context, determining if two graphs are isomorphic is NP-complete.
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by jboggan 8y ago
As a Georgian transplanted into California, I miss these onions so much. Great read as well.
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by jboggan 8y ago
The most interesting (and I think difficult) approach here is properly representing the ASTs as vectors. There is a lot more possible when you get this right.
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by jboggan 8y ago
You sound like you'd be a great data engineer.
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by jboggan 8y ago
It happens occasionally when there's very little tidal motion (slack tide), not a lot of small particulates from run off or recent rain, and most importantly not a lot of nutrients in the water - most murky water I run into in SoCal is

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