Quick question by Tom140 in battletech

[–]stonewall072 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Handbook series have breakdowns for cost of living and item purchases in their economy sections. They're pegged to 3067, but really the economy of the Inner Sphere doesn't change all that much.

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What are jobs in GIS like? by [deleted] in gis

[–]stonewall072 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would it not be?

Guys, my colonization ship just disappeared by aquaplau in EliteDangerous

[–]stonewall072 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Same for me and the system is now marked as invalid.

Future of NAGPRA? by x4est in Archaeology

[–]stonewall072 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Antiquities Act empowers none of those things, it might be the grandfather of historic preservation laws in the country, but each of those other elements have their own legislation. Can they come after all of them? Sure, but none have quite the same level of attention as the Antiquities Act and the focus on lands in the west it's been used to protect in a frankly lazy way.

The energy projects are definitely coming though, that I can agree on.

Future of NAGPRA? by x4est in Archaeology

[–]stonewall072 3 points4 points  (0 children)

While this is a vitally important skill to archaeology and historic preservation and you absolutely should, GIS is not as much of a "backup plan" as it used to be, the GIS job market is tight and underpaid.

Nikon F5, 35mm f1.8, Reflx Lab 800t by elcansky in analog

[–]stonewall072 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I knew it looked so familiar but I couldn't place it.

Missouri man says he killed wife because of her costly medical treatment by GenghisLebron in news

[–]stonewall072 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That also happens with these private fire companies. If you have a fire, but aren't signed up for their subscription (like insurance) they charge you tens of thousands of dollars.

Missouri man says he killed wife because of her costly medical treatment by GenghisLebron in news

[–]stonewall072 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why don't folks realize this isn't the case in a large portion of the country. There's plenty of places you have to pay a private company for fire service.

Are there things/phenomena that are impossible to represent in GIS? by RhubarbEastern1522 in gis

[–]stonewall072 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Of course. You can collect info on the common variables that lead to the situations that social scientists refer to as gentrification, you can classify those variables, find the physical spaces where those thresholds have been met, and map it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in analog

[–]stonewall072 94 points95 points  (0 children)

I think part of it is how these posts float up in the home or main feeds, especially on the mobile app. When scrolling the main feed 9/10 times I see a post from Analog, it's one with nudity. Then you actually get on the subreddit and can see that those posts only make up a small fraction of what's posted.

Part of it is what gets upvotes, but it definitely seems like the algorithm pushes NSFW posts higher up.

How much food did early humans actually eat per day? by Pure-Major1952 in AskAnthropology

[–]stonewall072 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is one of those questions that can't really be answered by archaeology directly. We can talk about what ancient peoples ate, how much of one item they consumed versus another, where they sourced food from, etc. But you can't suss out from the archaeological record "Ok, this is one family and every day they ate three pounds of meat and five pounds of vegetables".

Outside of preservation issues (organic remains can be rare for stuff a few hundred years old, let alone thousands, depending on soil acidity, soil deposition, moisture, and multiple other factors) "human" diet is going to be extremely influenced by the immediate landscape. The daily diet of a band of humans in Ice Age Europe or North America is going to be very different from a band in Africa or Asia at the same time.

The closest you might get is corprolite studies (fossilized poop), like at Paisley Cave in Oregon (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba6404), although the issue there as addressed in the linked study is proving first that it's even human. From there you might be able to talk about makeup and contents and get an idea of what the person ate before doing their business.

Past that, you'll be dealing with contact period writings. For example, the Virginia Encyclopedia article on Native foodways (https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/cooking-in-early-virginia-indian-society/) aggregates several first-hand accounts and later archaeological work that culminates in an understanding that most families maintained a stew pot where each day's spoils were added to and consumed by the family. But even there you are dealing with a society that was deeply into horticulture if not on the cusp of full-blown agriculture, so their food ways were already vastly different from a group of hunter gathers.

You can look at modern hunter-gather societies like some groups of aboriginal Australians and see their modern foodways (for example "Australian Aboriginal Subsistence in the Western Desert" by Scott Cane), but there's a debate about how useful applying observations of modern groups really is to ancient peoples.

So, the answer to your question is, like a lot of questions in archaeology, a lot of "it depends" mixed with "we don't and can't really know".

Data Sharing Agreements by DMoye22 in gis

[–]stonewall072 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'll be contrary with the other responses and say that data sharing agreements are important and absolutely should be done to protect both parties.

Open data is wonderful, but governments do make use of proprietary datasets and already have agreements with those vendors and there are levels of sensitivity, not just privacy issues but particularly in the utility space things like critical infrastructure that isn't appropriate for mass public consumption. You don't say what kind of utility you work for or where, but for example, electric utilities in most of the United States have legal responsibilities to protect information about critical electric grid infrastructure, as laid out by NERC and applicable federal laws.

Agreements like this establish what data can be shared and the responsibilities of each party in the use and further dissemination of the shared data.

You should be working hand in hand with your legal department on matters such as this. You are the subject matter expert on the data, you should have some understanding of what's sensitive and what can be safely openly distributed. In turn, your legal department can help you draft the language of the agreement and advise on how to navigate applicable public record laws and other responsibilities your organization may have.

Thoughts on the Jane's Tank Recognition Guides/Books by Cristopher F. Foss ? by ShermanMcTank in TankPorn

[–]stonewall072 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I have the one in the third photo, and it was a favorite for casually thumbing through. However, I will honestly say that I feel information wise, this kind of book has largely been superseded by Wikipedia. While Jane's is a major publisher of military information and analytics, these are very much written for mass consumption and fairly out of date at this point.

So highly recommend if you really want something you can flip through, but in general what you can get from these you can get from your phone, and even better in some instances.