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by rdj 1y ago
A caveat being and mentioned in the article, that sailors didn't have access to the safe water of lakes and streams, thus beer. And as someone mentions below, it's safer to drink low alcohol beer than months old (untreated) water.
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by rdj 1y ago
I don't know his intention or whether The Register just framed his words to align with a political viewpoint. Perhaps it's nothing more than one industry person taking shots at their rival... but I'm having a hard time reconc
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by rdj 2y ago
California does handle it differently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13 - "by assessing values at their 1976 value and restricted annual increases of assessed value to an inflation fac
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by rdj 3y ago
That's the sentiment in the industry. Here's some numbers from when the sale happened. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/japans-sapporo-buys-craft-...
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by rdj 3y ago
If you are interested in the numbers, give Bart Watson a follow: https://twitter.com/BrewersStats He's an economist that covers this for the Brewers Association. Based on the data, it's not looking good. Some of i
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by rdj 3y ago
The old machinery (rose engine) and technique (guilloché) sent me down a pleasant rabbit hole, but the tldr: Self-taught watchmaker turns hobby into profession and hopes to reintroduce "(mostly) made in America" watches. They reta
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by rdj 4y ago
The paper does seem to address this: "Several previous evaluations (Ioannidis, 2021a; Levin et al., 2020; O’Driscoll et al., 2021; Brazeau et al., 2020) have already synthesized information on age-stratified estimates of IFR. Most of t
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by rdj 5y ago
If it’s security training for developers, architects, and technical teams take a look into the CTF style trainings (hands on keyboard, hacking exercises). We’ve turned it into an annual event (leaderboards, trophies, bragging rights, swag,
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by rdj 6y ago
We actually discussed a small train and decided to go with horse and sleigh next year, mostly because of upkeep and the ability to reuse that portion of the property for other things in the off season.
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by rdj 6y ago
You must have tapped into our meeting...that's on the plan for next fall!
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by rdj 6y ago
For us, the biggest issue is trying to forecast what additional non-agricultural projects we may be starting in the near future that would be adversely impacted by a specific piece of land being tied up for 10 years. For example, we're
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by rdj 6y ago
This gets into a bigger conversation about business models. For us, we are selling an experience that includes a tree. Artificial trees will not be able to replace that. But selling an experience is a low volume game and the revenue has to
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by rdj 6y ago
Right now, trees and gift shop.
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by rdj 6y ago
Our place currently has limited attractions with several planned for next year. There is a gift shop that drives significant revenue, but was closed this year due to COVID. We offer free hot chocolate (small disposable cup). For the gift sh
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by rdj 6y ago
It's not an issue on our farm. We have eyes on most of the property most of the time. We also don't stock any precuts, so a thief has to come on the property and do some amount of work to steal a single tree.
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by rdj 6y ago
We cut our season off early due to the number of mature trees available. We're rebuilding and playing catchup. It was more important, particularly this year, that we were open rather than how many days. We get families that have been c
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by rdj 6y ago
Timely. We just, as in a few hours ago, wrapped up our season as owners of a u-cut tree farm. It's relatively small, just under 30 acres. But our family was just doing a post-mortem on what went well, what we need to change and making
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by rdj 8y ago
My youngest child was obsessed with Minecraft. To the point I decided to check it out, ended up running a server where he and I and my two adult children could play. This lasted a year or so, before they moved to Fortnite. I joined them. I&
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by rdj 9y ago
And closer to home: our beer flood of 2017. Although the only death was a little piece of pride, and a new IPA. https://www.facebook.com/FarmCreek/photos/a.425132817617510....
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by rdj 16y ago
related but a little different (just FYI): some Intel nics can handle interrupt modulation. Decreased latency but wouldn't fix the open handle/scaling issues here.
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by rdj 16y ago
Are these pieces of paper really worth $100 a piece or only the cost of the paper and ink? Since the notes never shipped, and likely won't, thus won't backed by the government I have a hard time thinking this is a $110 billion problem.
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by rdj 16y ago
If these sites are being seized with no followup legal proceeding, this is outrageous and should not be tolerated. However, if this is just step one in some sort of court case for piracy against an individual, fine. That makes it no differe
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by rdj 16y ago
A company I worked for in Atlanta did the same thing (pay the difference). However, I suspect this is still the exception, not the rule.
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Ask HN: help with relocating to San Francisco
3 points by rdj 16y ago|1 comments
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by rdj 16y ago
Interesting ideas. I just can't get past the fact the a Director as NASA actually said, "Anybody that watches the [Star Trek] Enterprise, you know you don’t see huge plumes of fire". As if, instead of drawing from science fiction as inspira
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by rdj 16y ago
I thought that as well and then I remembered, they don't fund companies or ideas, they fund teams. These teams, may or may not change the idea the had when they applied.
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by rdj 16y ago
"I'm the only one with the knowledge base required to make this business happen". If the above quote is true, why did you let the other two become equal partners? Seems like there was a mismatch to begin with, assuming this isn't a detail y
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by rdj 16y ago
I would have assumed you had a plan before you stood on the corner asking questions. Maybe you decided: - how many people you wanted to talk to - the type of people (kids, working adults, homeless, men, women, etc) - the response you were e
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by rdj 16y ago
My concern with texting-while-driving laws is how do they get enforced. Do your phone records automatically get handed over to law enforcement if you are in an accident?
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by rdj 16y ago
Not surprised. What could a job at either Valve or Bungie give him that he doesn't get now?

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