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by edogg 6y ago
Is that a bad thing? Seems like Japan is a pretty nice place to live.
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by edogg 6y ago
I had friends in Hawaii who were stock traders, they really had to wake up early
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by edogg 6y ago
The components we are installing have chips in them, but we don’t worry about what chip because the manufacturer of the product keeps it working the same way. The modicon quantum Plc uses the pentium 166 chip and was released in 1994 and I
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by edogg 6y ago
You have drawings that show how it works and a supply of spare parts. When it stops working people can figure out why using the drawings and then fix or replace the broken or worn out components.
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by edogg 6y ago
25k seems excessive, but 10% of a years anticipated revenue might be appropriate. It is not unusual to have to but up a bond in order to bid on a contract.
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by edogg 6y ago
the building was saved and moved instead of being torn down in order to preserve architectural heritage. From the outside the building doesn't look special.
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by edogg 6y ago
Giving a grant to an existing company with a long history of technical excellence and delivering products to build a new product and a factory for it means jobs that don’t go away. A power plant built creates jobs to run it for as long as i
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by edogg 6y ago
It’s 6000 jobs, generating electricity without producing carbon, sustaining an industry and construction and manufacturing know how, and creation of a product for export. These seem like worthwhile pursuits to me and a good use of public fu
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by edogg 6y ago
The cost of the property reflects the value of the rents, the cost of financing, property taxes and maintenance. Rents are probably not that out of wack with the landlords costs. If the landlords revenue does exceed costs you could see it a
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by edogg 6y ago
Whistler, BC
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by edogg 6y ago
There are little air strips all over the place you could land at and then instead of having to figure out a ride to your destination which can be difficult in rural areas you can drive.
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by edogg 6y ago
A Canadian study linked the illness symptoms of Canadian and American diplomats in Havana to heavy use of the pesticide used against mosquitoes for Zika virus. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neuroto
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by edogg 6y ago
It sounds like they changed the settings on the protection relays synch check function to allow it to close the generator breaker with the generator out of sync. Or maybe they added a phase shift correction factor to the voltage transformer
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by edogg 6y ago
I would be interested in reading one of the studies in which the default was set to an inferior product and people stayed with the default despite there being a superior competitor and nearly zero effort required to switch.
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by edogg 6y ago
i'm not arguing that it's bad to pay to be the default. If the default service is worse than another people will switch to the other service. People install all kinds of apps on their phones, they can switch the default search eng
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by edogg 6y ago
It’s just the default - if another search engine is compelling people are free to switch
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by edogg 6y ago
are your advantages that prevent industrials from installing their own cogen know-how and economies of scale in project management, procurement, frabrication, installation and commissioning? I wouldn't have thought a company like forti
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by edogg 6y ago
With the downturn in oil and gas in Alberta Is there a lot of talent and drilling rigs available? Maybe it is a cheap time to drill some holes?
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by edogg 6y ago
I got a Synology 218. It does checksumming like zfs to guard against bit rot. and I didn’t have to spend any time wading through how to’s and blog posts to make it work, “just works” out of the box
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by edogg 6y ago
Ac transmission lines are regularly 500kv with some famous ones in Quebec being 750kv. I believe there are even higher now.
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by edogg 6y ago
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/canadian-research-... Or google Havana syndrome pesticide
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by edogg 6y ago
The attacks in Cuba were found to be illness brought on by new pesticides and aggressive use around embassies to kill mosquitos to prevent diplomatic staff from catching Zika virus.
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by edogg 6y ago
Where I live sellers have to disclose underground furnace oil tanks that they know of. We don’t get hundreds of pages of disclosures, maybe 10 pages of documentation such as zoning and covenants and surveys and seller disclosure form.
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by edogg 6y ago
Such as?
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by edogg 6y ago
I think the repurposing is as an alternative to powertop as he is looking at what makes his laptop use more or less power. He wants to use the power measurement feature of the WiFi receptacle to analyze the power efficiency and consumption
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by edogg 6y ago
The author of the article uses KST from KDE to generate the plot from the CSV stream. KDE is amazing. It is used by airbus for analyzing sensor data test results, others in astronomy, and myself in commissioning power plants. KST is so good
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by edogg 6y ago
TFA leaves out what the problem is with Cisco that wouldn’t allow him to allow his engineers to improve webex while they all worked for Cisco. What else aren’t people at Cisco able to achieve because they are at cisco?
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by edogg 6y ago
Napster was pretty close to that
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by edogg 6y ago
I’ve worked on 30 small hydro projects and don’t think I’ve seen a single tadpole killed. Often they have to create new habitat if some existing habitat is altered to compensate. Probably 15-30% of the total project budget is spent on envir
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by edogg 6y ago
To the century of humiliation starting in 1839 with the opium war [1]. I’m told saving face is very important in Chinese culture. I could see it being quite easy for people in China whose job it might be to prevent the export of fentanyl or

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