jackfoxy

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by jackfoxy 11mo ago
cosmic context is NOT astrology mumbo-jumbo, but the actual orientation of the earth and moon in the solar system (coarsely grained)
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by jackfoxy 2y ago
I watched the entire series, The Americans . It's thrilling and well-crafted television, but totally bogus as a representation of how illegals worked in the USA. Illegals were/are special assets that would never be concurrently r
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by jackfoxy 2y ago
That which you incentivize you get more of. That which you tax you get less of. Or, as Charlie Munger famously remarked, Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
The real Master and Commander story, https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Cruise-CLASSICS-NAVAL-LITERAT... , is from the American perspective and is way better than the fictional one. To do it justice it would have to be done as a
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
Drachinifel is pretty darned knowledgeable. I imagine its not that easy to get enough footage of some American WWII destroyer that is NOT a Fletcher class, (as a made up example), to fill out an entire 45 minute narration. And there's
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
This is more and more a problem, not just with images. Even most of the higher quality (better researched) Youtube channels are fast and loose about using irrelevant stock footage to go along with their narration. Of course the channels wit
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
They had not kidnapped Patty at that point. The only thing the SLA was taking credit for at that time was the Marcus Foster murder. They probably thought they had a safe house in east Oakland, which is why all the hippies (as described b
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
No. There was no reason for this ex-cop to tell me the story 5 years ago about something that happened 45 years earlier. And he didn't make a career as a cop, so he wasn't protecting anyone.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
A former Oakland PD officer shared with me insight into how police intelligence worked back in the day. And I'm sure this still goes on. It was back in the time of the SLA terrorism and Patty Hearst kidnapping. One of the brothers in E
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
Nor should it be in our republic. There is no national security override to our rights in the Constitution.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
It may not make any significant change in the numbers applying for k-12 positions, but do people really need to go through the torture, indoctrination, and expense of graduate school to teach k-12? Won't a handful of undergrad courses,
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
Spy craft goes way back. You can read about it in Herodotus and the Old Testament. George Washington was a spy master and much of what we think we know about his operations is dot connecting. This is true of most historical accounts of spyi
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
To be clear. Geothermal is great in some places and circumstances. It will never be a big enough world-wide market in the foreseeable future to move the needle much in proportion of total energy produced.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
Damn long-form journalism takes forever to get to the point, so my skimming sometimes misses something crucial. With that disclaimer out of the way, (I think) it is distressing and damaging for young people to be doing this job. (And maybe
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
The way to determine who sold them the data is a service and agent I've envisioned for a long time, but never had the wherewithal to produce. (I won't go into all the hurdles.) Everyone should have their own email domain, and an a
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
What? No. It's how much fluid (not how much heat) and the oil cut of the fluid you are pumping up the borehole in the O&G industry. This has no bearing on whether the hole is fracked. It's a matter of the decline curve of the
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
It comes from having researched the GeoThermal market to determine whether the last software company I worked for should enter that market. The answer was a resounding NO.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
I've left the Microsoft world. That said the dotnet environment is pretty frickin' cool. Not least of all for the mostly excellent documentation across a lot of libraries. And MS keeps throwing money at development. It's just
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
It's not a tunnel, it's a borehole; and therein lies the problem with geothermal power. The usable energy is proportional to the cross-section of the borehole. That's just the beginning of the issues, e.g. the magma chamber r
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
What bothers me about canola oil is it is actually rape seed oil. Rape seed is/was originally toxic. I have heard two different stories on how this was overcome. 1) The toxicity was bred out by Canadians. 2) The toxicity is removed in
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
What is the take on peanut oil from the seed oil bad crowd? IIRC it is usually missing from both the good oil and the bad oil columns.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
The second paragraph of the article starts out Most on-line sources claim the phrase originated in 1104 in a small town in Essex, England. In the third paragraph the author states he prefers the boxer story. Personally, I think the usage
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
I would also say good old small.. but the rest of the adjectives flow as I would expect to hear and say.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
Worked my way through college on semester breaks on farms in Oregon and Germany. I can totally relate. The camaraderie of showing up at the shop with the other hands on a frigid morning, working until sunset, sometimes longer. Watching crop
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Bitcoin Ordinal Inscriptions Added to US National Vulnerability Database(oodaloop.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 3y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
I'm only about half-way through, but if you skip to 30:50 he makes a big point. And frankly the lead up to that point was necessary, which necessity is also part of the message he is delivering.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
I'm with ya. I still use F# for scripting in Linux. I've been out of enterprise computing for over 2 years.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
One of the first comments on the site points out this lacuna. Leave it to the F# community to be vocal about this.
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
I was in Prof. Marvin Mudrick's Troilus and Criseyde course at UCSB in the '70s. Things I learned: it is high literature (whereas one could argue the Cantebury Tales are in a more popular genre), and it is long. I'm sur
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by jackfoxy 3y ago
The insider class gets its lifestyle boosted to aristocracy tax free because it is all for business , or rather operating expenses.

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