I've never heard anyone use GIF except to describe an image that is a GIF because they are doing something with graphics. It isn't exactly a day to day word or something laymen use... random teens on Facebook would still have no idea what a GIF is.
"(1) I disagree that supposedly subconscious and internalized racism should be considered non-existent."
First that doesn't sound like someone with supposed subconscious racism, it sounds like someone who is racist pretending not to be racist. But I didn't say there was no subconscious racism and there doesn't need to be no subconscious racism for me to be correct. Once someone is accused of some subconscious bias you've put them in an indefensible position. There is no way to prove it is isn't true. Everything you say or do is now questioned because of a supposed bias that may not exist at all. That is worse than racism. Especially when you consider that if someone has a subconscious bias you can reason with them which is quite distinct from a conscious bias where they consider the bias to be justified and correct.
Your examples of level x certified blah blah make me think of exactly what I'm talking about with entitlement issues. Your company doesn't exist to pay you according to the paper credentials you have. How much you've invested in them in terms of time and money aren't really relevant to the company at all. Those are screening filters and proof you've been exposed to material that might help you produce results. At the end of the day, are you actually producing results? Are you producing MORE results than your peers or just doing equally well? The level blah certified blah blah might have been an idiot who didn't produce results and get the job done paper credentials mean you are qualified on paper they aren't any indication that you are actually any good at what you do. The boss may well have felt that training someone from the ground up would give him the chance to craft someone who did things the way he wanted them done (far better than paper credentials any day). The black and white thing might not even have impacted the decision and you might has just projected your perception of racism onto his legitimate management strategy. Because you put him in the position we've already established is impossible to defend it cost him his job and his career.
You aren't entitled to be paid based on some paper credentials you hold or tests you pass. Those things are just a pre-screen that indicates you had the opportunity to develop skills. Your actual talents and ability are judged by the results you produce. If your company implements a brownie points system to encourage people to close more support incidents and you find a legal way to acquire lots of brownie points you aren't right when you feel entitled to more than the guy who actually closes more support incidents but has shit for brownie points. You are missing the forest for the trees.
The hiring requirements, paper credentials, metrics measured and evaluated, incentive programs. All of that is a means to an end and doing well there doesn't actually entitle you to anything. In a for profit organization that end is two-fold, making money and making it appear your boss is making the company money. One defines your actual value to the company the other defines your perceived value the company.
It is a stupid distinction. A virus replicating using other cells as a vehicle but it does replicate. Many lifeforms couldn't survive without a symbiotic or parasitic relationship with another lifeform so why single out the cell machinary?
It is all a bunch of silly nonsense that talks around what is very clear at this point. "Life" as some magical, separate, sacred, and distinct thing that should hold an elevated status in our minds is a ludicrous carry-over from more ignorant times. Life is just a repeating chemical process that persists for longer than most. It is no more sacred than the waves bouncing back and forth when something large is dropped into a narrow channel of water.
"You don't know hardly any people that are openly, consciously racist, but that doesn't mean it isn't still there."
Problems that are supposedly subconscious and internalized should for all intents be considered to not exist. The racism that is a problem is someone willfully and consciously making valuation judgements of another person or their capabilities based on race. What you perceive as subconscious racism in others might be your own subconscious racism coloring your judgement of their words and actions. Don't like that argument? No kidding. It is impossible to disprove some supposed subconscious inclination. You can't even protest that you don't feel that way because you wouldn't know.
I've known plenty of people in the workplace who aren't willing to put in personal time to advance themselves. People who work in tech but don't actually love tech and go home and watch football instead of going home and playing with tech that will naturally keep them sharper. The sort who doesn't take pride in their work and doesn't expend extra effort like making themselves available for a call after hours or taking the initiative and personal risk to make a not yet approved change they discover that will cause things to be broken tomorrow. These people aren't exceptional, don't stand out as exceptional, and get passed over in favor of guys who do stand out. It is fair to say they are indeed shiftless, lazy people when contrasting with the rest of us who are good and hard working.
These kind of people all seem to think they are entitled to the same pay, benefits, advancement, and leeway that those who are genuinely exceptional receive simply because they have managed to achieve and maintain average and follow the letter of the requirements. They have a false sense of entitlement. Example, an employee with deadlines on the scale of months and who essentially ignores the concept of work and non-work hours and averages more than 80hrs a week often comes in late and it is overlooked. One of these individuals who does shift work and never works a second more than 40 hours a week will respond by starting to come in late and referencing the first employee if called out on it. The first employee has worked hard and earned a bit of leeway on a technical infraction that isn't interfering with this work. The second employee simply feels that someone else is getting something and there isn't anything wrong with him so he should be entitled to the same treatment.
There is nothing about this situation that requires one party or the other to be a minority. But if a minority, the employee with the false sense of entitlement does seem to often believe the reason he isn't getting equal treatment is because he is a minority and this individual would argue the same case you are making. He would sound convincing because he isn't being written up, his work performance is comparable to his co-workers. He is meeting lots of requirement check marks. The reality is that he isn't entitled to anything. He "wants stuff" and maintaining the idea that his failure is being caused by subconscious racism is only further clouding the reality that he isn't entitled because he is only doing what is required of him and not doing MORE than is required of him. Even if there were some sort of subconscious racism the solution would be the same, do far more than is required, achieve far more than required, then you set yourself apart in a way that is going to merit conscious consideration.
Having high testosterone levels doesn't make you lie, break promises, steal, or commit sex crimes. Unless you think every bald guy you've ever met is a lying, thieving, two faced, rapist.
"That's because I'm globally known for my expertise. Are you, sir?"
On lighting? No. My expertise comes from sourcing information from such sources and from field experience. I work on a part-time basis consulting for medical marijuana dispensaries and individual medical patients producing their own medicine. I am not relying on an appeal to my authority but merely sharing what I've seen in the field. The great thing about debates is that you always win. If you win you've shared information. If you lose you've learned something new. Usually it is some combination of the two.
On a theoretical level LEDs win hands down. I just haven't seen it play out on the practical. When I've tested LEDs before I was only able to achieve output of comparable quality and quantity to HID lighting with the same wattage. Growth was similar to using a Metal Halide and High Pressure Sodium combination. In a similar fashion I've compared the MH + HPS combination vs spectrum enhanced HPS and while the former produced more vegetative growth (and therefore more full and healthy looking plants) I didn't find that actually improved quantity or quality of flower yield vs spectrum enhanced HPS.
So if things have improved in LED land or I was missing important information about what to look for in the lights I am very interested.
"Just do it through me. I have offered this option to tons of people, they always decline. Their fault of logic, not mine. I might charge 5% for designing the light to your specific crop (my specialty.)"
I'm working out of pocket and I am serious so let's talk numbers. shaitand@gmail.com
Not if you have a monopoly or a de facto monopoly shared with only a handful of large competitors who all share a mutual interest of making massive profits. Then you pass the savings to customers very slowly, reluctantly giving in bit by bit in tiny incremental improvements. By the time you've passed along the full savings you've already made additional advances that garnered you 10 fold more savings than what you've passed on.
It all comes from the counter-productive mantra that it isn't good enough to maintain healthy stable profits, one must have growing profits.
I've got two spare tents, light tight and with white reflective inner surface. Both six feet tall one is 4ft x 2ft to be used for vegetative growth the other 6ft x 6ft to be used for flowering. Adequate airflow is not a problem and I have an 8,000 BTU portable AC unit to dedicate to the task of providing cool air but the space they are in will not be well insulated. Heat is always a concern under these conditions because I am in a very hot and dry climate.
Every time there is an LED discussion I express my as yet unchanged opinion that LED's are not cost effective and you champion them. Rather than debating the issue again, lets collaborate. I'm willing to commit a reasonable amount of time, money, and resources to being proven wrong.
As you've indicated in another of my posts on custom lights you are building custom panels with superior output and, more importantly for LED lifetime, superior cooling. Typical off-the-shelf LED units are rated at about 50,000hrs which is comparable to HID. It sounds like you are doing much better and I'm sure that is about cooling, quality design, and quality components.
I don't have any high end manufacturing capability but am no stranger to DIY and am not afraid to work with surface mount components if needed. Is there any way for me to cost effectively source materials and build panels in the ballpark of what you are working with? I'm always open to an experiment, especially one that changes my mind. Any information that will set me down the right path would be appreciated.
"Both of these countries have questionable laws limiting the use of pesticides and fertilizers. I have no doubt that their products are grown unsustainably."
Does it really matter? I mean I know it is trendy to do the organic green thing but it literally makes no difference for anything with a rind, peel, or substantial skin and for the rest... there really weren't any restrictions here in the states a decade or two back either. It isn't like they are going to use anything that isn't being used elsewhere and it is generally more cost effective to use what is being mass produced rather than brewing your own forbidden throughout the rest of the world pesticides.
"The one vegetable that we simply cannot get in quality is the tomato."
You aren't going to get one through hydroponic farming. Hydroponic tomatoes look beautiful and big but they are dense and flavorless. I've lived in parts of the US where the winter tomatoes were all hydroponic.
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I've never heard anyone use GIF except to describe an image that is a GIF because they are doing something with graphics. It isn't exactly a day to day word or something laymen use... random teens on Facebook would still have no idea what a GIF is.
"(1) I disagree that supposedly subconscious and internalized racism should be considered non-existent."
First that doesn't sound like someone with supposed subconscious racism, it sounds like someone who is racist pretending not to be racist. But I didn't say there was no subconscious racism and there doesn't need to be no subconscious racism for me to be correct. Once someone is accused of some subconscious bias you've put them in an indefensible position. There is no way to prove it is isn't true. Everything you say or do is now questioned because of a supposed bias that may not exist at all. That is worse than racism. Especially when you consider that if someone has a subconscious bias you can reason with them which is quite distinct from a conscious bias where they consider the bias to be justified and correct.
Your examples of level x certified blah blah make me think of exactly what I'm talking about with entitlement issues. Your company doesn't exist to pay you according to the paper credentials you have. How much you've invested in them in terms of time and money aren't really relevant to the company at all. Those are screening filters and proof you've been exposed to material that might help you produce results. At the end of the day, are you actually producing results? Are you producing MORE results than your peers or just doing equally well? The level blah certified blah blah might have been an idiot who didn't produce results and get the job done paper credentials mean you are qualified on paper they aren't any indication that you are actually any good at what you do. The boss may well have felt that training someone from the ground up would give him the chance to craft someone who did things the way he wanted them done (far better than paper credentials any day). The black and white thing might not even have impacted the decision and you might has just projected your perception of racism onto his legitimate management strategy. Because you put him in the position we've already established is impossible to defend it cost him his job and his career.
You aren't entitled to be paid based on some paper credentials you hold or tests you pass. Those things are just a pre-screen that indicates you had the opportunity to develop skills. Your actual talents and ability are judged by the results you produce. If your company implements a brownie points system to encourage people to close more support incidents and you find a legal way to acquire lots of brownie points you aren't right when you feel entitled to more than the guy who actually closes more support incidents but has shit for brownie points. You are missing the forest for the trees.
The hiring requirements, paper credentials, metrics measured and evaluated, incentive programs. All of that is a means to an end and doing well there doesn't actually entitle you to anything. In a for profit organization that end is two-fold, making money and making it appear your boss is making the company money. One defines your actual value to the company the other defines your perceived value the company.
Or even a crime... unless you consider it to be a sex crime by god every time there is a miscarriage.
"had to pass my nation's medical examinations before earning his license"
Which puts him on level with the worst doctor you've ever encountered or heard of in your nation.
It is a stupid distinction. A virus replicating using other cells as a vehicle but it does replicate. Many lifeforms couldn't survive without a symbiotic or parasitic relationship with another lifeform so why single out the cell machinary?
It is all a bunch of silly nonsense that talks around what is very clear at this point. "Life" as some magical, separate, sacred, and distinct thing that should hold an elevated status in our minds is a ludicrous carry-over from more ignorant times. Life is just a repeating chemical process that persists for longer than most. It is no more sacred than the waves bouncing back and forth when something large is dropped into a narrow channel of water.
"People murdered by me to date: 0."
Probably lying, you are a self-professed meat eater.
"You don't know hardly any people that are openly, consciously racist, but that doesn't mean it isn't still there."
Problems that are supposedly subconscious and internalized should for all intents be considered to not exist. The racism that is a problem is someone willfully and consciously making valuation judgements of another person or their capabilities based on race. What you perceive as subconscious racism in others might be your own subconscious racism coloring your judgement of their words and actions. Don't like that argument? No kidding. It is impossible to disprove some supposed subconscious inclination. You can't even protest that you don't feel that way because you wouldn't know.
I've known plenty of people in the workplace who aren't willing to put in personal time to advance themselves. People who work in tech but don't actually love tech and go home and watch football instead of going home and playing with tech that will naturally keep them sharper. The sort who doesn't take pride in their work and doesn't expend extra effort like making themselves available for a call after hours or taking the initiative and personal risk to make a not yet approved change they discover that will cause things to be broken tomorrow. These people aren't exceptional, don't stand out as exceptional, and get passed over in favor of guys who do stand out. It is fair to say they are indeed shiftless, lazy people when contrasting with the rest of us who are good and hard working.
These kind of people all seem to think they are entitled to the same pay, benefits, advancement, and leeway that those who are genuinely exceptional receive simply because they have managed to achieve and maintain average and follow the letter of the requirements. They have a false sense of entitlement. Example, an employee with deadlines on the scale of months and who essentially ignores the concept of work and non-work hours and averages more than 80hrs a week often comes in late and it is overlooked. One of these individuals who does shift work and never works a second more than 40 hours a week will respond by starting to come in late and referencing the first employee if called out on it. The first employee has worked hard and earned a bit of leeway on a technical infraction that isn't interfering with this work. The second employee simply feels that someone else is getting something and there isn't anything wrong with him so he should be entitled to the same treatment.
There is nothing about this situation that requires one party or the other to be a minority. But if a minority, the employee with the false sense of entitlement does seem to often believe the reason he isn't getting equal treatment is because he is a minority and this individual would argue the same case you are making. He would sound convincing because he isn't being written up, his work performance is comparable to his co-workers. He is meeting lots of requirement check marks. The reality is that he isn't entitled to anything. He "wants stuff" and maintaining the idea that his failure is being caused by subconscious racism is only further clouding the reality that he isn't entitled because he is only doing what is required of him and not doing MORE than is required of him. Even if there were some sort of subconscious racism the solution would be the same, do far more than is required, achieve far more than required, then you set yourself apart in a way that is going to merit conscious consideration.
Having high testosterone levels doesn't make you lie, break promises, steal, or commit sex crimes. Unless you think every bald guy you've ever met is a lying, thieving, two faced, rapist.
You could build a beowulf cluster of those!
I wouldn't call vulnerable to 26% of known an preventable malware a good score.
"The world has moved to iMoble devices which are mostly locked down."
If you think mobile devices are safely locked down you live in a dream world.
But they don't affect all platforms equally. Privilege escalation is a very different ballgame on a linux box than on a winows box.
Linux contributes bash and windows contributes malware. Good to know.
"The overwhelming number of Linux servers worldwide are behind firewalls"
Sure. On the other hand there are no small number of firewalls running Linux.
Shipping speed from china has improved. It used to take 3 weeks to get electronics components I order off ebay from china. Now it takes about 3 days.
"That's because I'm globally known for my expertise. Are you, sir?"
On lighting? No. My expertise comes from sourcing information from such sources and from field experience. I work on a part-time basis consulting for medical marijuana dispensaries and individual medical patients producing their own medicine. I am not relying on an appeal to my authority but merely sharing what I've seen in the field. The great thing about debates is that you always win. If you win you've shared information. If you lose you've learned something new. Usually it is some combination of the two.
On a theoretical level LEDs win hands down. I just haven't seen it play out on the practical. When I've tested LEDs before I was only able to achieve output of comparable quality and quantity to HID lighting with the same wattage. Growth was similar to using a Metal Halide and High Pressure Sodium combination. In a similar fashion I've compared the MH + HPS combination vs spectrum enhanced HPS and while the former produced more vegetative growth (and therefore more full and healthy looking plants) I didn't find that actually improved quantity or quality of flower yield vs spectrum enhanced HPS.
So if things have improved in LED land or I was missing important information about what to look for in the lights I am very interested.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3232409&cid=41896549
"Just do it through me. I have offered this option to tons of people, they always decline. Their fault of logic, not mine. I might charge 5% for designing the light to your specific crop (my specialty.)"
I'm working out of pocket and I am serious so let's talk numbers. shaitand@gmail.com
That doesn't mean they will actually pass the increases to customers.
Not if you have a monopoly or a de facto monopoly shared with only a handful of large competitors who all share a mutual interest of making massive profits. Then you pass the savings to customers very slowly, reluctantly giving in bit by bit in tiny incremental improvements. By the time you've passed along the full savings you've already made additional advances that garnered you 10 fold more savings than what you've passed on.
It all comes from the counter-productive mantra that it isn't good enough to maintain healthy stable profits, one must have growing profits.
I'm game to give it a shot.
I've got two spare tents, light tight and with white reflective inner surface. Both six feet tall one is 4ft x 2ft to be used for vegetative growth the other 6ft x 6ft to be used for flowering. Adequate airflow is not a problem and I have an 8,000 BTU portable AC unit to dedicate to the task of providing cool air but the space they are in will not be well insulated. Heat is always a concern under these conditions because I am in a very hot and dry climate.
What would you recommend?
Every time there is an LED discussion I express my as yet unchanged opinion that LED's are not cost effective and you champion them. Rather than debating the issue again, lets collaborate. I'm willing to commit a reasonable amount of time, money, and resources to being proven wrong.
As you've indicated in another of my posts on custom lights you are building custom panels with superior output and, more importantly for LED lifetime, superior cooling. Typical off-the-shelf LED units are rated at about 50,000hrs which is comparable to HID. It sounds like you are doing much better and I'm sure that is about cooling, quality design, and quality components.
I don't have any high end manufacturing capability but am no stranger to DIY and am not afraid to work with surface mount components if needed. Is there any way for me to cost effectively source materials and build panels in the ballpark of what you are working with? I'm always open to an experiment, especially one that changes my mind. Any information that will set me down the right path would be appreciated.
mfread@nexuminc.com
"I hear I live in America"
I heard that too.
"Both of these countries have questionable laws limiting the use of pesticides and fertilizers. I have no doubt that their products are grown unsustainably."
Does it really matter? I mean I know it is trendy to do the organic green thing but it literally makes no difference for anything with a rind, peel, or substantial skin and for the rest... there really weren't any restrictions here in the states a decade or two back either. It isn't like they are going to use anything that isn't being used elsewhere and it is generally more cost effective to use what is being mass produced rather than brewing your own forbidden throughout the rest of the world pesticides.
"The one vegetable that we simply cannot get in quality is the tomato."
You aren't going to get one through hydroponic farming. Hydroponic tomatoes look beautiful and big but they are dense and flavorless. I've lived in parts of the US where the winter tomatoes were all hydroponic.
"I'd highly recommend growing herbs (not weed) indoors"
What's wrong with weed?
vegas?
I think someone else already mentioned the hanging gardens of babylon, that is going to predate 1951 by a bit.
Vertical farming is definitely old hat, you can find plenty of information on growing weed that way.