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by mchannon 8y ago
There are about 100 million cattle in the US today. Assuming 75% are fully grown and the remainder weightless, that comes in at 75 million tons of cattle. I have no trouble visualizing 75 million tons of cattle, so why is it so challenging
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by mchannon 8y ago
> I do doubt that this would be as nutritious to humans as milk from cows or other mammals. From the article: containing nearly four times the protein of cow’s milk And we needn't get into how "coconut milk", "almon
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by mchannon 8y ago
My questions- how many spiders does it take to make a gallon a day, how would one mechanize and automate the milking process, and how does their milk taste? Once you get past the squeamishness of it, if it tastes good, is non-toxic, and can
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by mchannon 8y ago
For you, maybe. Half of conference attendees couldn't even launch the camera in 40 seconds.
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by mchannon 8y ago
QR codes are often misunderstood when they're on media other than paper or computer/phone displays. In particular, with projection-style displays like one might find at a conference, the reflective surface of the backdrop will act
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by mchannon 8y ago
Probably a no-load index fund if you're risk-averse. These things tend to grow a few percent a year. More risky, higher-payoff, would be a peer-to-peer lending platform. Best off, use that 30k EUR to support yourself while you build t
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by mchannon 8y ago
Honey, not vinegar. Advocate to management that they be promoted as soon as possible, to a role where they are less involved day-to-day with you. Get your peers in on it. Focus on fear and greed to keep their golden boy employee onboard a
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by mchannon 8y ago
It's not would happen, it's is happening. The difference is preexisting, but only beginning to get expressed. Some people resist authority and don't believe what they're told, and some people crave authority and want to
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by mchannon 8y ago
Call me crazy, but I think H.G. Wells' prediction of the human race diverging into two is less than half as crazy as it was 10 years ago. One race, indoors-oriented, tribal, authoritarian, amoral, warlike, domineering. Another race, ou
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by mchannon 8y ago
The original Radarange (microwave) cooked at either 500 or 800 watts, the upper number of which is the upper range in the study (10W/kg), where a human might weigh 80kg, = 800 watts. My late uncle was in the US Army in Desert Storm. Du
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by mchannon 8y ago
As planes use most of their energy to not crash into the ground, I could see the most practical use of this technology for propulsion where crashing isn't a major concern. Airships (dirigibles/blimps), and to a lesser extent, sea
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by mchannon 8y ago
Doy. The point of the post was that they were/are optimizing for the wrong things. Some people watch "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" and chuckle when they realize they're not. A smaller subset of people take it to t
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by mchannon 8y ago
There is such a thing as "libel proof". No matter how much dirt you dish on the bottom feeders in this industry, someone will give them an IP phone and your phone number, and they'll still cold-call and harass you no matter
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by mchannon 8y ago
Wikipedia has an excellent article on this under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination . Essentially, the system used to recruit candidates into the Imperial Chinese state bureaucracy was an-ever-more-elabo
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by mchannon 8y ago
Wish you luck on this, but I don't see it helping a lot of candidates. There's a large number of (and will always be a large number of) "ambulance chaser" boiler room recruiters working in a very large English-speaking
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by mchannon 8y ago
You haven't told us your level of equity/options and vesting with your current opportunity. These determine where you are on the spectrum between being owned and rented. Most companies err substantially on the side of rent. Assu
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by mchannon 8y ago
I researched it, and I don't have the specifics in front of me, but it looked like a massive corporate giveaway. Perhaps it didn't feel like it as much at the time, since only huge corporations had the need for so many computers.
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by mchannon 8y ago
The factor of 1000 difference is what you get when you accidentally forget to convert between kg and tonnes. 5000 it is.
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by mchannon 8y ago
My experience differs from the rest of the comments you're getting. I've benefited most from cross-pollination with _other programmers_. Pairing, working on short projects together. You can't ask a book a question when you
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by mchannon 8y ago
> A measure of death risk to the general public, i.e. people not directly involved in the production of the energy. It's important to distinguish internalized vs externalized risk. That's kinda creepy. Like we should be ok wit
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by mchannon 8y ago
Actually, TIL (a google search revealed) it's only 5 times more massive.
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by mchannon 8y ago
Interesting. Trade “the planet’s climate” for “plate tectonics” and you’ll find a lot of like-minded Americans, particularly in Congress.
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by mchannon 8y ago
Many people derive meaning in their lives from trying to make it fair (or more fair) for others. Some see a burning house and ask why must it burn, while others reach for the hose.
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by mchannon 8y ago
Solar and wind might surprise you. Anytime you're working on a rooftop or on a tower, your risk of falling to your death is not zero. Hydro is in a special case too, because a sudden dam collapse could kill thousands of people in the
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by mchannon 8y ago
That article is from 1979. Wow. Probably best taken with a grain of salt given how much solar in particular has ramped up.
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by mchannon 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbornadiene Wikipedia has a pretty thorough chemical description. Fascinating, really.
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by mchannon 8y ago
Easily disproven. The 2008 crash is full of executives who did not comply with the law, and did not take the threat of prison seriously. I think to this date you can count the number in prison on two hands, and most of those were more foot
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by mchannon 8y ago
I agree. The journalist who posted the original article was too busy to put a link to the proposed bill. [EDIT: link: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Wyden%20Privacy%2... ] To those who say white co
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by mchannon 8y ago
Everybody here is ignoring yield per acre. RoundUp, for all its faults, drives the yield number up. More people (and particularly more cattle) are fed per acre when you use pesticides. If you banned the pesticides, it would do a lot of go
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by mchannon 8y ago
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