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by tjic 10y ago
At one point early in my software career I was between jobs for a few months. I have construction skills, so I worked doing demolition and then framing an addition for a friend at $10/hr. To quote Pulp Fiction "The night of the fi
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by tjic 10y ago
> It would be a massive waste of my training to be working in an unrelated field This is an example of what I'm talking about. What's more of a waste of your training? To be work in a career field only 60% overlapping with you
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by tjic 10y ago
Wonderful counterpoint, and I entirely agree with you!
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by tjic 10y ago
I've met a lot of people who "couldn't" find a job. What they usually mean is "they can't find a job in the area they want, in the industry they want, doing the kind of work they want, at the salary they want,
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by tjic 10y ago
A quibble: the Constitution says nothing about states not being able to exit. In fact, the 9th and 10th amendments say that powers not delegated to the Fed are reserved for the people and states...strongly suggesting that states _DO_ have
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by tjic 10y ago
I've got multiple thoughts about this story, but the biggest one is that Robin Raphel answered FBI questions for quite a while BEFORE thinking that she should get a lawyer. For anyone who's not as politically connected as she is (
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by tjic 10y ago
I've got a Kubota myself (B-7800). Very simple; I do all the maintenance on it with just basic shop tools.
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by tjic 10y ago
life goal: becoming That Uncle™
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by tjic 10y ago
> My dad is still running a John Deere M tractor from at least the early 50s, and all of the implements that we hook onto it are at least of that vintage My tractor is about five years old, but the haying implements I hook on (specifica
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by tjic 10y ago
+1, if only for the phrase "Linux conjugate bulldozer". ...which I would ABSOLUTELY build, if there were plans. OBTW, tangential, but if this kind of thing gets you excited, check out this guy (Doug Jackson, aka "SV Seeker&qu
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by tjic 10y ago
This is an example of a site I hate: http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ They've re-invented the tractor and 3-point / PTO implements, but they've done so very VERY poorly, there are no instructions, ever
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by tjic 10y ago
I clicked over to this, prepared to hate-read it and leave a caustic comment. (background: I live on a farm, and have come across dozens if not hundreds of websites that promise to "open source", and/or "crowd source&quo
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by tjic 10y ago
> The problem is that your notion of "real problems" is artificial. If our society prioritizes space colonization above eliminating nuclear stockpiles, Nuclear stockpiles serve as a deterrent to aggression; the fact that the US
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by tjic 10y ago
So these people have different preferences than you do. That's hardly a compelling case for "they need to change their mentality". Tolerate diversity, please.
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by tjic 10y ago
> I think this is a very dangerous path. To the contrary, I think that the erosion in trust is based on information technology giving us citizens a better view of how the sausage is - and always has been -made. Thus the erosion in trust
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by tjic 10y ago
> You've just defined away the problem. <shrug> What's the null hypothesis here? From my point of view, you're the one who defined into existence as a problem something that is not a problem.
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by tjic 10y ago
> . I think it's very easy to sit back and say "I think we should let this happen!" if they've never knowingly experienced loss based on this phenomenon. I'm sure that I've experienced increased costs based
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by tjic 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC "Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households... the fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament...
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by tjic 10y ago
> despite the fact that the status quo is informed in large part by structural injustices. This is presented as if it's an unambiguous fact, when it's largely a political stance.
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by tjic 10y ago
Please don't say "we". Not everyone shares your politics. I'm perfectly happy with algorithms detecting that certain people are more likely to be safe drivers than average, and giving them lower rates, and concentrating
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by tjic 10y ago
Making your own bench is a rite of passage for woodworkers. I'm glad i did it. https://goo.gl/photos/W3FeEukR9Dj4qbXT8
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by tjic 10y ago
Both of these books are excellent. I'm lucky enough to have a full three car garage full of top-of-the-line power tools, but there's no substitute for a set of well sharpened chisels and a few handplanes (and the skill to use them
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by tjic 10y ago
The discussion thread here strikes me as confused because people are looking at an era several centuries back and using current norms (both economic and cultural) to analyze it. Beds used to be luxuries and having just 1 person per bed was
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by tjic 10y ago
No, you're doing EXACTLY what I was calling out. You've got your own ethical / utility function and are explaining to me that basket of goods X is ideal bc it's exactly the basket that your ethical / utilitarian cod
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by tjic 10y ago
When we got engaged I put the money I would have spent on a ring towards buying a farm (as someone said in a thread on news.yc "oh, you're The Farm Guy!"). My wife thanks me almost literally every day for the farm. I don&#x27
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by tjic 10y ago
I'm anarchocapitalist; I don't believe that "working democracy" is a thing. Or, perhaps, if it is a thing, it's not what you think it is.
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by tjic 10y ago
> The reason why rent is so high in these places is because there's a lot of demand to live there - No. Mere demand alone does not raise costs. There is a lot of demand for water, but it is still super cheap. Prices are high when
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by tjic 10y ago
Meh. You also pay for the cost of public parks even if you never use them. You pay for the cost of government elementary schools even if you homeschool your kids. etc. Now, I'm an anarchocapitalist and would love to see all of these co
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by tjic 10y ago
I hate the word "fair". It means nothing. If Tesla is charging more than you think fair, set up super-charger stations next to theirs, and charge wholesale electricity + X%; you'll make a killing.
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by tjic 10y ago
You're arguing that the problem with Donald Trump is that he's too green and/or too into creative destruction, and will cause the oil industry to implode? Hm.

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