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by shaftway 6y ago
I know a couple firefighters in the bay area and they definitely game this system. They'll work a typical salaried position for ~30 years, and then in their last year (or last couple years) they'll stuff as much overtime as they p
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by shaftway 6y ago
The use of the term "meltdown" seems disingenuous when discussing a molten reactor. If most of the fuel is already molten, and the shutdown procedure is to cut power (matching a power loss scenario) which means a plug melts to all
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by shaftway 6y ago
I was hired pretty quickly and easily with no degree. A degree from a prestigious four year college certainly doesn't hurt, but it's definitely not a requirement.
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by shaftway 6y ago
You could use the certificates to get in the door and use tuition assistance from the company to round yourself out. Google pays 2/3 for job-related coursework, 1/3 for personal improvement classes.
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by shaftway 6y ago
Not just wilderness or undeveloped, but highly inaccessible to firefighting crews. The Bay Area has peaks over 4000 feet with lots of fairly sheer areas. Often firefighters have to be dropped in by helicopter. Florida is mostly low rolling
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by shaftway 6y ago
The explanation that makes it more visceral for me is to increase the number of doors: - You pick a door (let's say 17) - I open 98 doors (let's say 1 - 16, 18 - 78, and 80 - 100) - Only doors 17 and 79 are still closed
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by shaftway 6y ago
There are always blind spots. You covered a blind spot, but not all of them. Some of them are surprising. https://www.wthr.com/article/news/investigations/13-investig...
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by shaftway 6y ago
It makes me sad. Born too late to explore the world; born too early to live forever and explore the entire universe; born just in time to make dank memes.
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by shaftway 6y ago
I separated the cost issue so it wasn't lost in the other wall of text. I use a DCFSA ( https://www.fsafeds.com/explore/dcfsa ) to pay for it. Au pair expenses are a valid expense for this. Our marginal income tax r
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by shaftway 6y ago
The doc we share is pretty long, but it can be broken down into: - Welcome Message - Basic Information about the Family - Details about the kids - Health and Safety - Au Pair's Responsibilities - Sample Schedule - Basic
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by shaftway 6y ago
We've used Au Pair in America ( https://www.aupairinamerica.com/ ), but we are currently using Cultural Care ( https://culturalcare.com/ ). I don't have particularly strong feelings on either in gener
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by shaftway 6y ago
They use Google Classroom for tracking work and Zoom for various video calls (full class, small groups, student 1:1, and teacher 1:1). The work is often assigned on other sites: - Nearpod - Classdojo - Raz Kids - BetterChinese - Zearn Proba
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by shaftway 6y ago
Oh, one additional thing. We're applying for an IEP for our son. He's diagnosed with ADHD and at the end of last year he did not do well. We're asking for a few things that'll help him (and us) stay aware of what he&#x27
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by shaftway 6y ago
This is actually our 10th au pair, so we've had a wide variety of experiences. Some good. Some bad. The cost and contractual obligations are easy. Agency fees are usually around $9000 for a year for a brand new au pair (it's cheap
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by shaftway 6y ago
Background: We're in the bay area and our kids are 10 and 8. We were lucky enough to get an au pair right before the lockdowns started in our area (literally picked him up the night before local lockdowns went into effect). We've
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by shaftway 6y ago
Camp Parks too. They've has been selling off land to local developers, to the point that they completely moved the primary entrance. Signage claims it's for reserve force training, but it used to host some MILSATCOM personnel, and
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by shaftway 6y ago
> No, because usually the private key is around 256 bits, so you need to compute 2^255 hops on average to find the key. So if my key is 255 bits long, then don't I need to do the 255 2^255 hops anyway to actually decrypt something?
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by shaftway 6y ago
Include _____-as-a-service. Then sum it up as the Uber of whatever and you can laugh your way to the bank.
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by shaftway 6y ago
It doesn't take much need to write a style guide. And this one is rather lackluster. By comparison look at the shell style guide: https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html
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by shaftway 6y ago
I thought one of the reasons not to use a microwave is that it's way to easy for the water to get superheated. Especially in a ceramic mug that is smooth on the inside, with no nucleation sites for the water to form steam it can get wa
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by shaftway 6y ago
Original article has been taken down pending edits and publication, but here's an article about it: https://www.abc27.com/news/local/harrisburg/harrisburg-unive... In related pseudo-science, here's
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by shaftway 6y ago
> I agree with the idea that "nonlethal" weapons are often used irresponsibly. There's a reason that the article uses the term "less lethal". These weapons are not "non-lethal". They're not "l
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by shaftway 6y ago
Did it cost them that much? I think it wasn't clear on that point. It looks like they rented the theater out for a fixed fee (since they have connections to the theater let's say it was $100). Then they can sell tickets and they g
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by shaftway 6y ago
I think the underlying sentiment is that you've bought the device, so you should be able to do whatever you want with it. And there's no technical reason that your choice of device should preclude other stores. For a more meatspac
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by shaftway 6y ago
There are different categories for speedruns within a game. The most popular is for completion, then for 100% completion. Sometimes other restrictions too. Like Super Mario Brothers has ones for winning with and without warp pipes. The fast
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by shaftway 6y ago
It doesn't matter which one is the original. The creditor has a stick with the debtor's imprint or mark on it of some kind. That's enough. Presenting a false stick as the debtor doesn't undo the existence of the creditor
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by shaftway 6y ago
> React Helmet ( https://github.com/nfl/react-helmet ) > I really found this library very helpfull. Really clean solution i would say. > Sample Usage: import Helmet from 'react-helmet'; <Helme
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by shaftway 6y ago
One thing that other people seem not to mention is transfer opportunities. I hopped jobs pretty often. Usually between every 18 and 24 months. All of the hops were good career moves, or non-optional. Then I joined a FAANG about 10 years ago
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by shaftway 6y ago
> [...] we find that the group who read the information on a logarithmic scale has a much lower level of comprehension of the graph: only 40.66% of them could respond correctly to a basic question about the graph (whether there were more
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by shaftway 6y ago
I've seen a Model S rolled off the back of a flatbed at a charging station. They ran out 10 miles from the next supercharger. Took them a while to figure out how to get power to it just to open the charging door.

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