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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
Submit illegitimates ones instead? At least, there are days when it seems like that’s how it apparently works.
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
Honestly speaking, that's an incredibly difficult issue to try and optimize for. There are a ton of different measures you could implement to try and improve ambulance travel times, but they're the same street design choices that
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
While there's almost certainly an element of "let's get this done and over with before the push to switch out Biden grows even larger," Jamie Harrison's explanation[0] would suggest that there's still a very re
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
It’s the sort of thing you really want to verify first. We know he was bleeding. That was all. But yes, there was the possibility he could have cut himself when the Secret Service grabbed him. Or he very well could have been grazed, which
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
Revisions are common and expected due to the nature of how BLS collects employment data through surveys of workplaces. BLS has a great article from 2013 that explains this[0] if you're interested. The gist: > In the survey sample, b
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
That's a rather misleading take. Reagan was threatened with impeachment twice--first by a group of eight representatives over his invasion of Grenada, and later by a lone Representative, Rep. González, over Iran-contra--but it never we
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
> If you try the hybrid model: collective transports just for certain routes in specific hours where they are at least half full then you get a very big investments underutilized, it's not different than the office+apartment model w
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
Well, for starters, the graph lopped off the first twenty years from the data set so that it could "start" from the massive peak in the 20s and 1930. The top reply to your original tweet is a retweet of two videos that rebut the g
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
I can read "the destruction of human experience" two ways. One, it's a just a descriptive label of the symbolism the act of crushing creative instruments/tools/materials represents, even if that symbolism is clearly
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
Sadly, there are plenty housing plans where the developers didn't bother to plant that even those lone trees. They're all easy targets for mass tree planting, and with people actually living on and tending to the property, the sur
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
> ... I cannot imagine my mom going through anything like this, so for her the media landscape has gotten only worse. I setup a Jellyfin server for my parents. It works, but ripping blu-rays--even with my efforts to largely automate and
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
And then the OP is back where it all started, only this time, he's the owner of the streaming service in question. Truly, there is no escape :).
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
> - if applicable, swap the default, white Bowden tube by one that's heat resistant (Capricorn comes often as a recommendation), that's for your health Capricorn makes great bowden tubes, but even they're quite explicit ab
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
We're talking a few dollars per unit for the various capacitive buttons, if that. Steering wheel controls already connect over CAN bus so it's not like you're saving a great length of wire, for example. They still connect to
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
There's nothing wrong with MDF for certain applications. You just have to recognize the tradeoffs and how they affect the piece. Anyhow, to answer your question, there are different grades and qualities of MDF. If you go to a local ply
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
It's a small tower, but I'd think it'd probably still weighs a couple thousand pounds. I could be way off there and it's smaller than it looks in the CNN photo, but you're likely looking at using a construction heli
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
Considering the fact that the commenter's father lost or wasted all of it, he'd have probably been better had it sat in a checking account for the intervening years. Or under a mattress in wadded up dollar bills. Even if you'
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
Should we just lock prisoners up for life? Or perhaps we should skip that and murder them behind the courthouse after they've been convicted, saving some taxpayer dollars in the process? Neither is a practical or morally justifiable an
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
I could see Tesla flagging videos containing nudity to exclude them from their normal analyses/processes, but if you don't restrict access or just delete the videos outright, all you've done is make it easier to find the vide
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
Maybe, but that's the world we live in now. If it's crazy, it's an inevitable sort of crazy. Get enough spam calls, and even if you know you might get a valid call from an unknown number, you'll find yourself treating
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
CAFE standards have been around since 1975. Yes, they helped incentivize manufacturers to aggressively market trucks and SUVs, but they don't explain the recent increase in the size of those trucks. That part's new.
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
It isn't really viable as a carbon capture measure, and there's been a lot of research in recent years to show that decades of tree planting campaigns across the world have very often failed outright or--in some cases--been a net
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
Pretty much all of the other car companies have managed to settle on rather generic[0] names for their level 2-3 autonomy implementations: Ford BlueCruise, GM Super Cruise, BMW Driving Assistance Professional, Mercedes Drive Pilot (the firs
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
Road design sends signals to drivers: wide lanes and other design choices make a road less cognitively stressful, and so you speed up. It feels like you should be able to move a bit faster, and so you do. If the posted speed limit doesn&#
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
Absolutely, but networked autonomous vehicles moving faster so as to increase traffic flow like the parent mentioned would only make the problem worse. People behave unpredictably. Hell, even when they behave predictably and cross at the cr
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
The kid doesn't give a damn if the cars behind the car that's about to hit them are braking. All that matters is whether that first car is able to brake fast enough to avoid hitting them, or if not, whether the car has slowed suff
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
> For example cars could go through intersections at full speed or close to it, timing it so they passed between each other. Cars could actually merge onto freeways and change lanes at full speed without some jerk trying to block them. Y
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
I mean, we have pretty overwhelming evidence that people will alter their travel behavior based on incentives and available capacity. We add more lanes to a highway, and get induced demand with people choosing to drive more. Road diets rest
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
The phrase certainly evokes images of the Springfield Tire Fire in The Simpsons . That said, this plant isn't a modern waste-to-energy plant. It's a waste coal plant burning waste coal.[0] Or, put another way, it's a remarka
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by Bluestrike2 3y ago
> And if you ever want to get into collecting rare, limited edition, and antique books come join us! We're a fun community (though like all things collectable bank accounts will suffer the consequences). Oh, god. Some of those links

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