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by borkt 2y ago
See link below): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371139794_Unveiling...
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by borkt 2y ago
I make ~30,000/yr doing seasonal physical work. Prior to this role I was a municipal engineer. Be careful what you whistleblow.
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by borkt 2y ago
If you notice these alloy elements add up to 100. This alloy can be thought of more as 92% Al with 2% each of the other elements. Its a metal-metal matrix composite, primarily pure aluminum with localized, tiny grains of what would be thoug
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by borkt 2y ago
FISA has been in existence since 1978. It did not prevent 9/11, so honestly your comment undersells how worthless the program has been in light of the constitutional freedoms we willingly cede in reauthorizing it. The fact is though it
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by borkt 2y ago
Both are real. I worked in the public sector and only worked from home for a month. My wife works in winemaking and never took any time off work. Both of us due to our jobs were outside all the time. I got covid, and developed systemic infl
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by borkt 2y ago
shocking to see unanimous agreement by two separate users on such a controversial statement. There is a time and place for (almost) everything, lemon adjunct beverages included, but I would assert beer complements a far greater variety of m
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by borkt 2y ago
Precisely what happened to me. Doctor botched the disgnosis, my department in local government did everything in their power to push me out immediately upon sharing an honest assesment of how I was feeling, asserting that I was voluntarily
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by borkt 3y ago
What part of the state are you in with good roads? Sonoma county here, miserable roads
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by borkt 3y ago
No thanks, id rather not pay to listen to smug people in a bubble pat themselves on the back by referencing media which exists wholly within their bubble.
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by borkt 3y ago
OP forgets ‘institutional investors’ is code for the pooled retirement funds of the vast majority of residents, as well as the institutions who hold much of the sovereign debt, which is generated to pay for social services, war, etc. It all
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by borkt 3y ago
I hope you’re correct but the very realistic possibility of SPO (single Pilot Operations) is what pushed myself - and many others like me - away from the career. The current pilot shortage was by design, as the airlines were well aware of
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by borkt 3y ago
most issues with failing water infrastructure involve non-biological contaminants like lead.
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by borkt 3y ago
Vaporware
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by borkt 3y ago
Where in the Bay Area do you currently live? We are talking about market street sf here, not sea cliff.
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by borkt 3y ago
It was nasty before the pandemic. I’ve frequented the metreon imax for probably two decades, as well as conferences at the Moscone center. The more people became obsessed with the world in their phones, the less they cared what was going on
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by borkt 3y ago
One provides service to the outside world broadly in trade to fulfill its needs, the other provides limited service to the outside world and trades with a highly limited subset of the world to fulfill its needs
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by borkt 3y ago
The fact that our existing computational models are in agreement with the experimental behavior leads me to believe there is no new physics involved here. That being said this raises the question as to whether this class of material is know
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by borkt 3y ago
More than likely there is only one interesting material in this specific composition. But understanding the phenomenon we are observing in this material can potentially lead to the development of other materials which display these characte
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by borkt 3y ago
Observed effects which have been given a name != a single universal truth. Just because we have experimental evidence of effects and theoretical explanations for their occurrence prove we actually have defined the underlying phenomenon&#x27
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by borkt 3y ago
Statement should read no civil service government employee should talk to the media about their work or workplace unless the authority to speak on the topic on which they are speaking is in their formal job description, or they have been ap
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by borkt 4y ago
No, op didnt
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by borkt 4y ago
Yet they chose to work for twitter? What wasted potential
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by borkt 4y ago
When all this started going down I bought industrial engineering technologies I wanted to teach myself to use better - and got to work doing useful things with them. I'm unsurprised that these tools keep climbing in value. I feel like
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by borkt 4y ago
Litigation is the enemy here. I’ve been in this from top to bottom and it’s always legal precedents that fuck everything up. Governing bodies, be they local or regulatory, are forced to broadly interpret legal precedent established in high
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by borkt 4y ago
A whole lot unfortunately, as the life is not a simple topic. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34542151/#&gid=article-figur...
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by borkt 4y ago
The lost revenue you describe is just one part of the repair expense, it is not separate
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by borkt 4y ago
Just one person but i was an early case (family member went to Wuhan 1-2 times each month. During the firsr year of COVID, as early as march of 2020, i had serious issues with gut and hearth inflamation - repeated bouts that started as back
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by borkt 5y ago
Wars are one of many ways to organize the world. To pretend they are any one thing is naieve, just look at the Opium Wars and try to explain it in the context of todays players. It surely involved aggression, it surely affected change in mu
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by borkt 5y ago
This has been going on all along - van life, buying out Austin in the 2000s, retiring/cashing out To buy multiple Airbnb properties to live off of, buying out Austin in 2020, etc.
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by borkt 5y ago
Wrong

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