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It doesn't seem all that different from scaring a herd of buffalo into running off a cliff. No reason that we need to by flying to spring the trap on wild resources.

> Fish Farming seems more sustainable.

It does seem like any major market should be required to farm their resources rather than taking from the commons.

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While I agree with the lawnmower sentiment, should we really write off unethical behavior by comparing humans to machines?

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Do you have further reading on these events? I agree with you 100% but I would argue that these growers are probably some of the lesser evils facing our public lands.

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I personally am drawn to this idea. $100k seems arbitrary though. I would like to see it adjusted for the COL of an average American family. Would you happen to have any reading material or studies related to this tax scheme?

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I'll drop Indianapolis in here. It is becoming a midwestern tech haven with large companies such as Salesforce making headquarters there.

Speaking from personal experience it is also dirt cheap compared to any other cities mentioned here and the salaries have been higher than what I have been able to find elsewhere.

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Do you have any recommendations for books regarding stoicism? I'd like to learn more.

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I agree with you, but what is the solution? I can't think of any reasonable solution to the stated problem.

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I just wanted to highlight this comment. The rating review systems are becoming a trusted source of information more so than advertisements.

Reminds me of another comment on here that talked about how so much of tech is solving communication problems. In this case the communication of past human experiences to a current restaraunt goer.

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It's interesting to read this. I wonder if you would change your mind if $5,000 would make or break your business. The odds of that happening are small, but still possible.

These odds of needing a full spec'd machine are also small but still possible.

Either way I guess I'm saying that an opportunity cost of ~$5,000 is significant.

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Org-Mode is great but not perfect. I would be willing to pay a significant amount of money for anyone that can reproduce most of the features of org-mode outside of emacs in a light-weight format.

It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult but it hasn't happened yet. People seem to start replicating org-mode, realize how many complex features there are and give fall off before completion.

http://orgmode.org/

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3 - 5 cups of coffee per day. And an average of 3 beers per night.

Once or twice per year I tend to take 1 - 4 weeks off from alcohol and taper down on caffeine significantly. .. sometimes down to no caffeine. It's rough going for a few days but afterwards I feel that I can't tell the difference between not consuming and consuming

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Okay you have my interest. Could you expand on why you would like to see desktops with laptops for a VM? Would the laptop borrowing happen on a night by night basis? Wouldn't you expect some employees to always take the laptops home. Genuinely curious as to why you think this would be better. (more cost effective, better office env, etc.)

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If you can get away with it, Xero Shoes: Z-Trail is a perfect "shoe" if the weather is over 50f. Although I completely understand that they are not for everyone, everyday. But I highly recommend anyone needing a pair of durable/simple sandals take a look.

Just be sure to read the sizing chart!

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I'm not sure about mobile friendly. You could probably use just about any template and hire a freelancer to touch it up.

But I just want to put my vote in for Jekyll. Makes static site generation a breeze and I use it for any site that I host these days.

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Airflow might be primarily intended for workflows, but scheduling is fairly robust. But you also say that you want more than just simple Cron so I suggest taking another look.

What I really appreciate about Airflow is that it is self documenting. Anyone can logon and see the exact workflow, schedule of that workflow, the status of last few job runs and the python code that ran if they desire. Airflow documentation itself is good and getting better.

It can run a simple cron job but it also gives you room to build it out into much more. We use our Airflow scheduler to call simple API endpoints and then that same server does daily loads into our data warehouse.

Also 1.8 just dropped to stable and it is a huge improvement upon earlier versions.

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I'm worn out on articles dissing the performance of SQL databases without quoting any hard numbers and then proceeding to replace the systems with no thanks of development in the latest and great tech. I have nothing against spark, but I find it very hard to believe that alarm code is now readable than SQL. In fact, my experience is just the opposite.

AirBnB is using an extract, load and transform architecture. No mention of the hardware, data through put, whether they have a message broker/queue to ease the burden of peak volume but work.

I have a strong feeling that they could have 1.) Kept the system exactly how it is and done some performance tuning. But that's not sexxy anymore. Things are just supposed to scale. Which brings me to

2.) Moved transformation logic to its own server or multiple servers using a message broker and queue to aid the transfer of data between systems. It would have been more readable and could have been done in a mo the or less.

In summary I believe they should have put some effort in to keep SQL. Especially for the purpose of accounting because spark does not lend itself to readable logic.

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Alternatively try Intermittent Fasting. Most people do it where you break your fast around 1pm, but for the purposes that OP is discussing, move your eating window to between 5pm and 10pm.

It is admittedly harder at first, but after a week or two your body adapts and you should experience a sustained level of energy throughout the day. Of course this means not eating lunch at work.

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Chrome tends to perform better than Firefox handsdown on my 2015 mbPro.

I went back and tried both the developer edition and the stable release after seeing this post because I want to move away from google as much as possible. But the fact of the matter is that in the hour I was attempting to use firefox I saw the OsX spinning wheel about 20 times. I have never once seen it while using chrome. This killed it for me immediately.

(Notes. I had GPU acceleration turned on, and nearly 6 gigs of free memory.)

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I know that years of experience is just supposed to be a guideline in these cases, as we all know that YoE doesn't directly correlate with ability to perform.

But the difference between your Senior Engineers and your Engineers is 1 year of experience? That seems off.

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2015 Macbook Pro, which has been the best machine I have ever owned.

Just as important as the machine though is the software/ shortcuts I have put on it.

    -homebrew
    -iterm2 mapped to a global hot key of cmd+shift+space (get to the terminal in a hurry)
    -contexts.co is also a great tool that has almost resolved all of my window managment issues
        -chrome mapped to cmd+1
        -various other tools mapped to cmd+2 - cmd+5
    -visual code studio. Nothing important to add. I just enjoy it. (not my ide though)

A note on osx window management,

Contexts.co resolved a lot of my problems but not by itself. For all you dev's who use Chrome and extensions or apps. If you're more than frustrated with how osX handles switching between chrome and your extensions (hangouts, keep, postman, etc.) try removing the app version and find the extension for whatever you are looking for. It's not perfect, but with context.io and the extension version of hangouts, when I cmd+tab to hangouts, it now actually takes me there.

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