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by rmah 5y ago
He meant Florida, not the USA.
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by rmah 5y ago
The data is already public. An easy to use interface, not so much.
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by rmah 5y ago
That was probably a question to determine basic competency in coding, simple data structures and simple algorithms. I.e. if he can do this, that means he's at least minimally competent. if he can't, then we don't have to wa
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by rmah 5y ago
Fun fact: something like 2/3 of all watermelons grown in the world are grown in China.
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by rmah 5y ago
The way crate_barre phrased his objection to "10 years of experience" may have been a bit harsh. But he brings up an important point that I've seen many developers fail to understand. When you're 20 and you say you have
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by rmah 5y ago
Two things that may seem a bit tangential at first but relate to how you're thinking about your life. First, having "nothing to be proud of" is not necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps you simply have high expectations for yours
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by rmah 5y ago
Wait what? I though smallmouth's comment was a joke. DO serious people actually think this?
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I started driving in 1982... and I can say with 100% certainty that cars of 2020 may not look all that different from cars of 1980, but under that skin of glossy steel and glass, they are very different. The engines are different (ele
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by rmah 5y ago
I don't really see the difference between this and a coop apartment building except that it's in a rural setting. So, many of the social structures of traditional old world villages but cooperatively owned and in the USA. I don&
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"I can understand the SEC's hesitation as this could easily lead to scams." It's not "could", it's will. With 100% certainty. The only question is how many and hard they will be to control. We know th
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by rmah 5y ago
If you have to spend hours doing your taxes, no gov run filing system is gonna help you reduce that. All these "I don't have to do anything to pay my taxes" things are essentially for wage earners taking standard deductions,
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by rmah 5y ago
That article says "As of the start of 2020, Chinese investors owned about 192,000 acres of U.S. agricultural land valued at about $1.9 billion". That's out of 900mil acres of farmland in the USA. So about 0.02% -- hardly a
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by rmah 5y ago
Saudi Arabia has the fifth largest military budget in the world. They spend more than Germany, France or the UK. Their training and readiness probably isn't nearly as good, but to say they have no military is ... odd. More to the poi
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by rmah 5y ago
Consider the weather. Weather exists, I think everyone can accept this. But what is weather? Is it simply an aggregate emergent property of many interacting atmospheric and geological systems? Or is it something more? How can emergent
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by rmah 5y ago
Not sure how to say this without sounding snarky, but how is 200kg cargo capacity over 40km "heavy lift"? That barely qualifies as ultralight for helicopters. Cargo capacities of 4,000 kg over 400km, is considered "medium&q
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by rmah 5y ago
Your small investment is not, by itself, a negative signal. However, a lot small investors can lead to headaches down the road as once you pass the 99 investor threshold more regulations apply. Also, dealing with a bunch of investors is a
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by rmah 5y ago
IIRC, chokes are only necessary with carburetors to control the fuel/air mixture. I think today's cars are all fuel injection and thus don't need to have a choke. Cheaper gas powered garden equipment still has chokes, I thi
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by rmah 5y ago
When I was a child, we were taught the scientific method multiple times through middle-school and high-school. Is this really no longer the case? I really doubt it is.
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by rmah 5y ago
I think one issue is that many people seem to conflate believing the opposite with being skeptical of the positive. They are not the same thing. Being skeptical that a vaccine is safe enough for mass use is not the same as believing that a
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by rmah 5y ago
That would mean that 60% to 65% of those that died were not obese! Just FYI, the CDC says that about 42% of American adults are classified as "obese".
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by rmah 5y ago
Pretty much anywhere else with sunlight, soil and water?
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I wasn't making a moral argument, I was making a practical one. The demand , in and of itself, means very little. Being notified may matter, but the fact that it was couched as a "demand" rather than a "request"
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by rmah 5y ago
It's legal in the same way it's legal for me to demand that you never eat tomatoes again. It's also legal for you to demand that your neighbor turn off his TV. Anyone non-government party can pretty much demand anything f
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by rmah 5y ago
GDP is not a measure of economic wealth (much less "social wealth", whatever that is) and never has been. GDP is a measure of economic activity . I.e. transactions, spending. But since one year to the next, the structure of a
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by rmah 5y ago
Transportation today is highly efficient and the energy required per ton-mile of food is tiny . But go ahead and grow your crops in the city if that's what you want. No one is stopping you.
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by rmah 5y ago
Why would we want to grow our food on 2% of our most expensive land? Land that is already used for lots of other things?
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by rmah 5y ago
While I know nothing about Tanner Greer, the author of that article, it would not surprise me in the least if he had not read Xi's books. The intro callout is from Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia. While I'd give h
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by rmah 5y ago
Most of the time on maternity leave is typically unpaid. If I understand correctly, this guy refused to take leave on reduced pay.
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by rmah 5y ago
I understand your perspective, but... for how long? 1 month? 6 months? 3 years? 10 years? At what point does basic empathy turn into someone sponging off of generosity?
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by rmah 5y ago
That will only happen if you live in a region that is arid or semi-arid. Most of the US is literally overflowing with fresh water and almost all the expense for water is related to simply piping it to you or cleaning up the wastewater you

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