jmerton

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by jmerton 6y ago
There are also twists to this story. I am a retired engineer with considerable drainage and roadway experience. The infrastructure bill will increase the demand for my skills, which can be in short supply in normal times. I may have a techn
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Is there a RESPONSIBLE way to GIVE a life saving idea away?(scorrendo.blogspot.com)
1 points by jmerton 9y ago|0 comments
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by jmerton 12y ago
Me again. I committed a serious spelling error. The Actual phrase is the "right to be LET alone." This is actually quite explicit in the Fourth Amendment. Privacy was not "invented" by the Supremes. As far as citation, h
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by jmerton 12y ago
Actually, the U.S. Supreme Court has a formal definition of freedom: "The right to be left alone." This is a very frequently quoted phrase in USSC decisions. BTW: the right to privacy is considered by many to be half of this.
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Ask HN: OpenSSL Heartbleed Resource Guide
1 points by jmerton 12y ago|0 comments
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by jmerton 12y ago
What can you offer that I can't find with a search engine? I'm interested in circuit design (Ham & tinker background).
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by jmerton 12y ago
I commit spreadsheet abuse, I have excel files with tons of links
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by jmerton 12y ago
What, exactly, does this do? The ReadMe is somewhat terse.
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by jmerton 13y ago
I come from a civil engineering background. The problems you cite are not engineering problems - they're management problems. In the environments I've worked in, heads would have rolled for the over-runs/over-dues you mention
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by jmerton 13y ago
I'm an engineering tech (land development) who lost nearly everything in the crash. I "lived" (slept) in my truck, which has a custom cap made for the purpose, for four months this spring. It's not a cheap way to live.
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by jmerton 13y ago
Thanks for the links. My area of (amateur) research is "contra-science," and one sub-set I find most interesting is so-called "race." What is called "race' seems actually to be the result of environmental/
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by jmerton 13y ago
No. Crudely put, the rich guys get the pretty girls. This re-averages the IQ. There's an article somewhere; sorry I don't have a link handy. Edit: This re-averages the overall genetic factors.
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by jmerton 13y ago
Just, please, don't blame it on the Tea Party. We need them badly - at least until they finish fracturing the Republican Party. As for the Democrats - all in good time, my friends, all in good time.
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by jmerton 13y ago
I'm spare you the details, but some pages have 'Page Meisters" that you must get by to add to the content.
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by jmerton 13y ago
Here's an analogy some may find crazy: I've been collecting data that classifies sugar (cane / corn / etc.) as a drug, rather than a food. Considering that type 2 diabetes is a self induced illness caused by sugar abuse,
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Ask HN: Extending the Segway Vertically
1 points by jmerton 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmerton 13y ago
Henry Ford Jr. asked Walter Reuther how he would get the robots to pay union dues. Reuther asked how Ford would get the robots to buy cars.
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by jmerton 13y ago
"Emergency vehicles" are not required to obey the law. A friend of my was ticketed for "riding a bicycle on the sidewalk," by a police officer who was riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. The District Court ruled against my
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by jmerton 13y ago
That link returns a 404.