mickdeek86

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by mickdeek86 3y ago
I prefer to remain blissfully ignorant of the Depp/Heard bs, but I count at least three separate accusers of violence here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Depp#Other_legal_issues
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Is this something we engineers could create an online space for - eg 'repairWiki' - where we jailbreak appliance controls in an open-source kinda way? Would this run afoul of the law, or just Big Appliance?
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Can confirm: you're looking at Athabasca (the infamous tar sands) and Bakken, respectively
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Wikipedia's[0]description of CG Jung's Shadow: "an unconscious aspect of the personality that does not correspond with the ego ideal, leading the ego to resist and project the shadow. In short, the shadow is the self's e
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Per Wikipedia: On his way to conquering the world, Alexander (himself of pupil of Diogenes' rival Aristotle), asks Diogenes what he wanted, if Alexander could give him anything. Diogenes told him to step aside: Alexander was blocking h
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
In the Apocrypha, an angry child Jesus is said to have pushed a playmate off of something high, killing him. Had to pull a bailout miracle
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Will Earth no longer be an oblate spheroid?!?
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I'm right now sat on a comparably remote island in the Alaska fishery, relatively new here. I've always romanticized the sea, landlubber as I am, and after a few months here, I went to Waikiki for vacation and - hated it. I couldn
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I'm reminded of an anecdote I once heard, which I can't readily find atm, that in the days of yore when Chicago dominated the pinball industry, the same complex also dominated the slot machine industry. This business was later pur
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Then there's this ever-popular classic [0]: Genghis killed so many people that forests regrew, sequestering CO2 and cooling the Earth. [0]: https://www.livescience.com/11739-wars-plagues-carbon-climat...
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Your opening sentence reminds me of all the "baby" gravestones you see in old cemeteries; they didn't even bother naming you until they were pretty sure you'd live. On the other hand, the final curse of the Pharaoh was e
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Hannibal's elephants managed. Well, some of them did
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
The extra energy comes from the electro. Electricity into acetate, then used as 'plant food'. As a substitute for the glucose perhaps?
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Have you tried "long pig"?
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Also, early grain breeding trials (before field testing) at least since Borlaug. Walk past any university greenhouse in the Midwest and peek inside
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Your desert idea tracks (many of the biggest greenhouses already are) but to keep the majority of the water, you would dehumidify it from the exhaust air. There are systems for this, I saw a couple in NW Mexico when I worked in greenhouse h
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Do you dispute the conventional thinking that the rich get richer, frequently from passive income?
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
It's a common joke where I'm from that if a mosquito bites a whiskey-drinker they'll crash on the flight home.
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
'...neighboring upwind country..."
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Like the Mohicans, there's still quite a few of us.
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Well I'm in industrial controls. The only NCA I've ever signed was for a one-year a contract with JPMC, which was fully a software role. I've probably always had an NDA, and controls jobs rarely leave enough spare time to eve
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Many people don't have NCAs (I don't). Also they are often specifically prohibiting working for a competitor company, so working in a different industry wouldn't be a violation
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Was sugar in short supply during Prohibition, or do you mean 'sugar'?
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
You mean like airports? Or the existing rail infrastructure? Either way, additional HSR is doable , just not enough juice for the squeeze. Suburban commuter rail would have a higher bang:buck ratio
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Tacking a separate question on for anyone who's read this far: It looks like there's already a Union Pacific rail line from LA to SF, via Santa Barbara and hits Monterey/Santa Cruz along the way with some scenic ocean views.
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Still I get a chuckle when I see people stealing corn from a field (I guess the Bible says you should let people glean) thinking they're getting corn on the cob. Especially when sweet corn is 10-50 cents/ear where I'm from.
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Californians, especially long-time Californians, are sadly well aware
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
This topic comes up periodically on HN and it typically ends in the same points: 1. Your entire country (UK) is smaller than 11 of our 50 states. The several hundred miles between London and Edinburgh pass through many smaller cities and to
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Amtrak is you just walk on, unless they've changed it since last year. One time the conductor even let me bring a bicycle on against the rules.
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I'm not readily finding numbers but certainly adjectives like 'devastating', 'massive', etc, so can't specifically compare. Might we suppose that interest of study is correlated with commercial interest? But it

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