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136 points by sarcher 3y ago|27 comments
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by sarcher 4y ago
Ya, he just can't stop being mad. He published another paper back in February about how twitter is the reason people don't like his ideas: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/2/e052891.responses I li
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by sarcher 6y ago
Elaine Herzberg is still dead. Not much upside in that scenario.
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by sarcher 6y ago
SAG-AFTRA and DGA have members in that range. I'm guessing Equity has some as well. The AMA isn't technically a union, but performs similar functions.
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by sarcher 6y ago
Thanks! I was thinking of 'Roppe' which is the not the right brand at all.
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by sarcher 6y ago
Journal of Light Construction is pretty good as well: https://www.jlconline.com/ And, online only, Green Building Advisor: https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/
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by sarcher 6y ago
Yes, good choice. I didn't include it mostly because I find that Norm's compromises on a few design elements/material selections may guide someone in the 'wrong' direction - but that's a huge value judgement on
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by sarcher 6y ago
Air conditioning is not as common in New England (where the author is located) as it is in the rest of the country. I would say about a third of projects I worked on in the Northeast did not have air conditioning, and I was working on prett
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by sarcher 6y ago
It doesn't have to be a lot of work, just paying attention to what you like and dislike in your current home, friend's homes, etc. is most of the battle. Like, if I asked you what restaurants you like to go to and what some of you
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by sarcher 6y ago
Ya, you won't find it in commodity construction, but just in case anyone is looking for real linoleum a currently available brand is 'Marmoleum'. It's nice stuff, I've used it on two projects but it's not every
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by sarcher 6y ago
As someone who works in residential construction, this is one of the better looks at what a 'good' process looks like from the homeowner side of the equation. The only places where my advice would differ: - They finished the floor
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by sarcher 7y ago
Pre-existing requirements for the seasonal storage of manure on dairy farms (primarily because you aren't supposed to spread manure in the winter) means that many dairy farms already have large manure storage lagoons/tanks. These
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by sarcher 7y ago
I worked for an entity that eventually got rolled into the subject of the NPR article. We looked into compression/cleaning for biogas, but both the capital requirement and ongoing operational cost was too high for the gas volume produc
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by sarcher 7y ago
I used to work in AD/Composting and the issue I've read about with compost heat recovery was the cost of the recovery system (compost piles are very large) and short equipment life span due to damage by loaders/environmental
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by sarcher 7y ago
Introduction of the $5 daily wage also included a reduction in labor hours to 8 hours per day. So no, the $5 wage did not include overtime. "To run the factory continuously instead of only eighteen hours a day, giving employment to sev
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by sarcher 7y ago
When Henry Ford set minimum salaries, he wasn't impacting the wages of the engineers who designed the cars - he was impacting the wages of those who made less than $5 at the time the change was made. A minimum wage was being set, not a
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by sarcher 7y ago
A Journal of Light Construction editor had a fire in his SolarCity panel set-up as well, and had a hard time getting it sorted out. https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/electrical/solar-panel-fire... and here's a
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by sarcher 7y ago
I'll check Timberland, thanks!
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by sarcher 7y ago
Unfortunately, it's job-site PPE policy - I work in construction.
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by sarcher 7y ago
I looked at Doc Martens a long time ago (a decade+) when I was looking for steel-toe non-leather work boots, but none of the vegan Doc Martens boots have steel/composite toe protection. I just checked again, and I think that's sti
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by sarcher 7y ago
Can anyone find a good way to browse? Closest thing I could find to an index is a alphabetical list of guests - but the formatting is made for mobile or something and you have to keep clicking 'load more' every couple of names. h
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by sarcher 7y ago
It's a mirror of the intracity highway issue. Access is improved for people who don't live in a specific location, and the externalities of this decision are dumped onto local citizens. The desirable location ends up hollowed-out,
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Off the Map: The Problem with FEMA's Flood Maps for the East Coast(psmag.com)
3 points by sarcher 8y ago|0 comments
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by sarcher 8y ago
I really enjoyed clicking around and virtually touring the campus - especially knowing how much work it must have been! What a great project, glad the university recognized your effort.
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by sarcher 8y ago
I also recommend Reply-All, entertaining and gives a great window into the consumer side of the tech world. Hangouts with James Fee is a podcast primarily about the business side of GIS, I haven't seen a new one in a long while now tho
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by sarcher 8y ago
There was a guest this summer who noted that unmarried and areligious people are "emasculated". The guest also received zero push-back while implying that immigrants were purposefully being directed by the government to avoid assi
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by sarcher 8y ago
You're welcome. My email address is in my profile if you have any questions in the future.
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by sarcher 8y ago
I work in residential construction. Beginner friendly, 'find out if you find this interesting' kind of books: "This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House" by Bob Vila. An older book, only th
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by sarcher 9y ago
I am also interested in a Nexus 7 replacement recommendation.
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by sarcher 9y ago
Totally, the scale can be outrageous. As you mentioned, Milwaukee's system is huge - but it works. "Too Big, Will Fail" is a pretty common refrain from anti-infrastructure personalities, but when it comes to simple civil engi

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