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by jqm 11y ago
Great idea. A contract growing scheme on a small scale. Community groups (churches, neighbors etc) might even want to get involved. Prepayment for at least some of the growing cost would be nice for the growers (CSA style). I suppose a rati
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by jqm 11y ago
They require a certain climate. That's why they aren't already being commercially planted in other places which they would be at current high prices if commercial production in those places were viable. The media like to beat up o
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by jqm 11y ago
My understanding is there are only a few areas in the world climate suitable for commercial almond farming. Among them Spain, areas of Australia and California (which produces most of the worlds almonds). Move the Alfalfa first. It uses in
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by jqm 11y ago
From the perspective of lending, it doesn't matter if a borrower is church attender, a drug dealer, beats his kids, or goes to work half an hour early every day. It is simply a matter of perceived ability to repay. Germany, especially
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by jqm 11y ago
"> We cannot demand that new generations must pay for decades for the mistakes of their parents. The Greeks have, without a doubt, made big mistakes. Until 2009, the government in Athens forged its books. But despite this, the young
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by jqm 11y ago
"short of enslavement" And that might not work either. My understanding is that some slaves eat more than they produce.
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by jqm 11y ago
In the old days someone put a photo album in a trunk in the attic. Then they got old, forgetful, the kids didn't care about the photos, then the person died. Years later someone else found the photo album. What happens in this scenario
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by jqm 11y ago
I've sometimes thought there should be exactly two levels of government... International (non-optional and all countries participate) and County (~2500 km2 and several thousand to maybe 10 million max people). The world has gotten smal
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by jqm 11y ago
In a theoretical sense, yes. In a practical sense, from a conservative perspective there are ways to tell market pricing probably exceeds actual value. And authorities could take steps at that juncture. But everyone wants to keep the petal
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by jqm 11y ago
Prohibition? To be frank, the thing that does no good for anyone, but rather the contrary, is passing laws prohibiting free expression of ideas.
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by jqm 11y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to automate building using something other than brick? Probably bricklaying started because bricks were small enough a person could carry and lay them individually (now they are ornamental of course rather than st
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by jqm 11y ago
"You don't understand that "common good" is impossible to define" Maybe I do understand that. I'm not "sea-lioning" you at all. I'm just responding to a derisive and dismissive remark you made to
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by jqm 11y ago
How about just sending the iodine and let them iodize their existing salt supplies?
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by jqm 11y ago
"> Is it possible you are thinking superficially and not considering the longer term ramifications of actions? No." Manifestly a wrong answer. Examples of correct answers would be "I don't believe so", "I do
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by jqm 11y ago
<quote>It's not a particularly interesting question. It's almost the definition of a wrong question.</quote> Is it possible you are thinking superficially and not considering the longer term ramifications of actio
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by jqm 11y ago
This brings up an interesting question. What exactly comprises "the common good"?
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by jqm 11y ago
On the other hand I have experienced obnoxious religious people at work (certainly not most religious people of course). They wanted to make a big production and drama about their beliefs and still others wanted to evangelize on the sly. I
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by jqm 11y ago
Agreed. Its even better if the homemade yogurt is strained. I got one of these a few months ago and have been mightily impressed. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DDXWX0Q I strain the yogurt down much thicker t
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by jqm 11y ago
While possibly polygamy should be as legal as same sex marriage (I don't see why not) it is unlikely to become legal any time soon. It just doesn't have the same number of adherents to push it forward. And most people don't k
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by jqm 11y ago
"lesser skilled management is attempting to hire down for political control" There is often a degree of "will this guy show how little I really know and take my position" in hiring decisions. One of the marks of a really
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by jqm 11y ago
I don't know if there is an end game for software, but there is undoubtedly an endgame for our involvement with software.
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by jqm 11y ago
I saw this job posted recently... http://www.lovelacehealthsystemjobs.com/?/work/job-post/desk... Is it even possible to buy Windows Server 2000 support anymore?
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by jqm 11y ago
Maybe they will follow the lead of the US and create more positions in things like HR, Insurance Sales and Law. Or an ever expanding cadre of mid-level managers with the main job of playing politics against each other. If this isn't en
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by jqm 11y ago
"suddenly, a significant percentage of the people who had spoken well about impressive-sounding projects failed, in some cases spectacularly, when given relatively simple programming tasks." Unsurprising. Turns out talk really is
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by jqm 11y ago
Hahaha. I had exactly the same thought and almost posted something similar.
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by jqm 11y ago
I'm skeptical. Humans adapt to circumstance and use different tools, but I'd need some convincing to believe our essential nature has _ever_ changed since we first climbed down out of the trees. Tribalism, selfishness, violence, l
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by jqm 11y ago
DMAE (in addition to being great for focus) really makes dreams memorable. It does occur naturally in fish and although I've never noticed dreams being more memorable when taking fish oil (maybe because I got the cheap stuff), I can ce
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by jqm 11y ago
Remember work for you is product for someone else. All the things we take for granted... the lights being on, the roads being paved, the bus coming on time... all this happens because people organize, take care of their personal affairs, sh
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by jqm 11y ago
You could say that about any syntax. But in most cases it would still apply much more to things like Perl regular expressions.
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by jqm 11y ago
His examples were bad (asterisk etc.) but the point is valid. There is some hairy regular expression syntax that is pretty difficult to grok right off the bat. It could be simpler and clearer.

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