Fair enough, and after all it’s not your money.
In any case, it should be pretty cheap to have someone set it up for you. I’d throw it out there as somewhere around $30-50/hour with remote work allowed, or a fixed price of $1000-1500. From your description it sounds like something that could be knocked out in a week by someone with a few years experience, and you have the additional security of having someone else on the hook for, well, security. Just make sure they document everything.
First, if people are winging it, your first problem is going to be standardization and sterilization of the data. If everyone is using excel, for example, they should be filling in the same template which enforces data integrity (eg required fields and allowed values). Don’t allow anyone to roll their own. Standardize everything. At that point your job becomes pretty easy with solutions ranging from converting the data to CSVs or just uploading it to a sql database (eg mysql) with some gui.
I would recommend thinking pretty hard about whether there is a business value in limiting access to data that people “don’t need.” While it does make sense for reporting to have simplified views, managing user level access to specific subsets of data is often not justified for the level of effort required. If you’re dealing with actual (eg government) classified information or if there are highly valuable trade secrets that need protecting, that’s another story. But if it’s just “Jeff in NY doesn’t need to see Jane LA’s sales numbers,” it’s probably a waste of effort and will be a time and money sink. I’m saying that as someone who has worked on very highly classified systems.
Anyway, everything you’re talking about is a solved problem That can be solved using excel and maybe an off the shelf database that an intern could set up for you.
You should probably look into the chemistry needed to do 2 H~2~O -> 2H~2~ + O ~2~
Obviously the biggest problem is making sure you have an even number of water molecules.
Hint: It’s not because this idea never occurred to any of the scientists and engineers involved in hydrogen power.
This the order in which you should try to access papers:
I voted Green in 2012 because a) Barack Obama was given a 99% chance of winning my state very close to the election and b) I thought I could “send a message” to the Democratic Party that they should move further left.
I did so with full knowledge that not only was Jill Stein in no position to win a single elector and that in addition she was a horrible candidate who would be literally the worst president in the entire history of the United States (this was before Trump, but I’m still going to go with that for the purposes of this discussion). I did so knowing it was a protest vote while claiming it wasn’t a protest vote but a vote of conscience.
Jill Stein and GPUSA are a bunch of corrupt fucks who only run because they take in republicans money because they regularly scrape off a 3-4% of the otherwise democratic vote, which in some districts and state can swing the entire election.
So o cast my GP vote, the total GP vote was completely in line with historical trends, Obama won my state and the presidency (thankfully), and no signal was sent, except that the republicans could rely on that.
I’m sure the Dems do something similar with the libertarian vote. I’ve even been tempted to donate (now that I have some money to donate) to libertarian candidates in elections where scraping off a point or two could tip things towards the D (which I confess is something I favor, being part of Team Rainbow). I haven’t dug into it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that racist son of a Bircher Ron Paul didn’t help hand the election to Clinton. If so, fucking yay. I don’t love Bill, but we sure as fuck didn’t need more Ronald Reaganing.
I think everyone should treat people advocating for a GPUSA or other protest vote as a Republican stalking horse, period. Whether they’re intentionally doing it or naively turning themselves into a broadcast node doesn’t matter - I’m not judging. I’m just saying that they’re effectively campaigning for a fascist, and should be treated as one.
I cannot find the lemmy thread, but here’s an older reddit thread which itself contains a link to this video.
Not to minimize malnutrition - that’s an effect that we know will be carried epigenetically for at least two generations even if everything stopped now and we weren’t looking forward to a decade-plus of occupation - but the situation on the whole is physically rewriting the brains of both the adults and more especially the children.
I am an adult, and I chose, more or less, to put myself into the situations I ended up in. I still have PTSD to the point that I had a flashback and panic attack in a friend’s bathroom during lunar new year when they set off a brick of firecrackers and it sounded exactly like a half dozen automatic weapons firing from across the intersection. It took me about 15 minutes of breathing exercises and pushing everything back down before I could come back out. What I went through was absolutely zero compared to what these people, including children, are going through. You’re going to have everything from suicides to psychoses to radicalization and hair trigger political violence. And it’s baked in at this point. It’s done. It’s going to happen with all of the physical certainty of billiard balls hitting each other. All they can do is make it worse, which is what they’re doing every day.
There’s going to be decades of consequences, and Israel is going to find itself isolated far more than it has ever been.
Based on a recent discussion, I think it was decided that Paul Bunyan (and, one would infer, Babe) should be classified as kaiju. It feels a bit racist (or at least specie-ist) to single him out compared to the damage done by all the others.
Having listened to Irish folk music from the Clancy Brothers to Christy Moore to the Pogues for the past 50 years, you’re absolutely right.
But the Thin Lizzy version wasn’t bad.
This is a good strategy. A solar flare will also interrupt their radio communications and they will be unable to call for backup.
You’re talking like a Sovereign Citizen.
I’m talking about the very specific laws that prevent people from being evicted if they’ve been residing on a property for N months without following a very deliberate and drawn out legal procedure so that landlords cannot evict a family from their home of many years because of some missed rent payments or because they want to upgrade the place so they can charge more to a new tenant. Those are the laws that keep the sheriffs from just kicking down doors, at least in some states.
I’m not taking a moral position on squatting. My friends and I squatted in an abandoned house while I was in high school, although most of us didn’t live there full time. If I noticed someone squatting tomorrow, especially in a corporate owned home, I would not have seen it. But the laws that I’m talking about were designed to protect tenants from having their lives unfairly disrupted, and I’m arguing that even if people are against squatters, we still need to protect tenants’ rights.
I would have thought that was abundantly clear.
They should be required to teach both sides. There should be required classes (no pun intended) that cover the benefits of socialism, unionization, the organized movement for workers’ and human rights, and the oppressions executed by the capitalist system.
I mean, if we have to “teach the controversy” on evolution and climate change, I can only see the need for the same in other controversial areas like economics and racial oppression.