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by pilom 10y ago
Well almost all corn, rice, grapefruit and peanuts produced worldwide are GM depending on your definition.
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by pilom 10y ago
So what level of proof that these are safe would you like? I haven't been able to find a SINGLE case in the 30+ years of genetically modifying food where a person had an adverse reaction directly related to the genetic modification. Ev
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by pilom 10y ago
Most colleges give credits for 3 and above on AP exams so many people think of a 3 as "passing".
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by pilom 10y ago
The CAISO paper looked at January and March. In the summer when air conditioners come on, the graph would have no dip and afternoons become the peak rather than evenings.
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by pilom 10y ago
Yes, industrial plants will turn off production (for instance at an aluminum smelting plant) in relation to the frequency of the grid. Grid frequency decreases slightly when demand starts outpacing "supply."
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by pilom 11y ago
While that is often true in software it is very seldom true in hardware. Think hard drives. The first HDD with HAMR (using lasers to heat up the platter to make it easier to isolate and flip a bit) required many millions of dollars to figur
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by pilom 11y ago
Well, you might do better trading for short periods of time, but you probably won't beat stock index funds over a 25+ year period.
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by pilom 11y ago
In the West he's also disliked for being viewed as being anti-dam building during the biggest dam building spree in history.
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by pilom 11y ago
I think the parent was thinking about the storage issue. The fact that spent nuclear fuel needs to be maintained for 100s-1000s of years.
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by pilom 11y ago
Just confirmed with our CTO. He was able to turn MFA off on our root AWS account over the phone.
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by pilom 11y ago
The answer to "I don't know my password and I don't know my security question/answer" is, "Sorry, for security reasons we can't help you access this account, you'll need to create a new account."
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by pilom 11y ago
Just to nitpick for a second, the vast majority of ammonia that moves from fertilizer to algae blooms comes just from farm runoff. Many farms still use flood irrigation and many others end up timing fertilizer right before big rainstorms in
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by pilom 11y ago
Ok if we're talking about net flow, lets talk about calories of plant required to get 1 calorie of food for us. Vegetarian, 1000 calories of plants make 1000 calories of food. 4000-6000 calories of plants make 1000 calories of chicken.
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by pilom 11y ago
WHY?!?! Just go to beanstalk and have it done for you or use Puppet/chef to manage it for everything.
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by pilom 11y ago
Idk, QA Automation is growing but that has rapidly replaced TONS of "follow the procedure by hand" type QA specialists. People who knew how to write procedures well and document executing them well are disappearing in droves to 1-
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by pilom 11y ago
I absolutely agree. If you want to stay in the AWS world, look at Elastic Beanstalk or Lambda. I've been doing DevOps for years and most apps (internal or external) that I deploy anymore are just one Jenkins job that packages and deplo
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by pilom 11y ago
I disagree. The argument is about things like AWS Beanstalk. Once all of your deploys are going out with Beanstalk, most of the AWS management disappears. It's basically Puppet and Chef taken to the extreme if you use all of it's
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by pilom 11y ago
Does google get you around the paywall?
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by pilom 11y ago
4.25% in payroll taxes (Social Security and Medicare), federal income taxes range based on how much you make and how big your family is. Large family making little, 0%; Single making $120k, your highest marginal rate is 28% but it will aver
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by pilom 11y ago
$18,000 per year in your 401k, $5500 in an IRA, $3350 in an HSA. That's $26,850 right off the bat. All tax free. Then max out your student loans and save up for the down payment on a house. Then date and find a spouse with a similar mi
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by pilom 11y ago
Wait, it isn't April 1st yet? I'm confused?
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by pilom 11y ago
Hawaii is another great example. $0.40-$0.50/kWh for their oil generated electricity. Solar comes in even cheaper than the article mentions. There have been so many solar installations in Hawaii that the power company has effectively p
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by pilom 11y ago
Yeah my system was way lower than $3.50/watt last year too. Their numbers are surprisingly out of date for being 2 years old.
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by pilom 11y ago
Residential installation in Denver CO at $2.16/W after federal incentive. Just about exactly grid pairity. Their $3.50/watt number is way high compared to the reality of today in the US.
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by pilom 11y ago
"Note that the total installed costs include the federal investment tax credit and any local rebates and tax incentives." $3.50/W is WAY higher than I paid per watt last year after the federal tax rebate. I had 3.125kW instal
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Massive outages across the internet right now(internethealthreport.com)
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by pilom 11y ago
My full time home internet connection is a grandfathered Verizon unlimited data plan (I work full time from an RV). Unfortunately, some websites (like Netflix) try to be "nice" and limit quality or provide the mobile only version
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by pilom 11y ago
They make sound insulating and deadening foam. Put the piano in a small internal room and line the room with acoustic foam: http://amzn.to/1o9CGjb Living closer to work must be worth 2 of these for $160?
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by pilom 11y ago
You haven't figured it out yet but as a Denverite, you're supposed to tell people not to move here. It's so awesome here we don't like to share.
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by pilom 11y ago
Us Denverites seem to be the only ones in this thread to have figured this out. Lived here for 5 years and I tow the party line, please don't move here.

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