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DANK_YACHT
4y ago
What would cause them to be an environmental issue? As far as I know they can be built in a safe manner and there is plenty of space for them.
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How do you know the dentist is closest to your house unless you considered multiple options and ranked them by distance? In your case, "best" includes time convenience and you did compare options without even being aware of it.
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> We don't need the very best of everything. I think it's very human, when presented with an array of options, to desire the best. Just imagine you are presented with N options for a vacuum cleaner. Would you really just pick r
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4y ago
No, the article mentioned remote learning explicitly. The article states it drove people to private schooling.
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4y ago
The article makes no mention of relocation as a driver of the decline in enrollment.
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4y ago
The two causes listed were switching to private school and dropping out (meaning stopping education all together). The article mentions that school enrollment is down across the country, not just in large urban areas.
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4y ago
"Environmental" uses seems to mean they're just allowing the water to run naturally to maintain the environment. (This is the source Wikipedia cites: https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-californ
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4y ago
Society, as with other forms of cheating, is the real victim of plagiarism.
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4y ago
> Polygenic scores are themselves an aggregation. And they contain a ton of noise. Again, noisy data can still be useful. For instance, generate a perfect single-variable normal distribution, sample along the x-axis and perturb each poin
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Any real-time PvP game has the ultimate puzzle: another human being. Once you're mechanically familiar with a PvP game, the game disappears, in a sense, and you're left trying to figure out the (very human) weaknesses of your oppo
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> The point is not whether including polygenic scores is better than nothing. The point is whether it's good enough to justify the claims they are making. It's not. What is the justification for this assertion? If polygenic sco
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My point is that 5% is probably an irrelevant number because it’s not 5% additional sales. If the mini wasn’t available, many people would get a normal iPhone instead of switch to Android. So the net sales is closer to 0. Apple seems to agr
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5% seems quite small and not worth the trouble. It might be worth it if a small phone generated 5% in additional sales, but most people buying a small iPhone would likely buy a normal-sized iPhone if no small version was available rather th
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4y ago
Finland and Sweden are parliamentary democracies. Officials are elected to carry out governmental processes. These people are trusted to serve the interests of the country. Not everything needs to be put to a vote of the people.
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4y ago
The why do they need H1Bs? They clearly want the best of both worlds. Cheap labor in their time zone. H1Bs obviously increase the skilled labor supply. If the laws of supply and demand are true, the price of labor will fall as supply rises.
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4y ago
Certain images of art have been found not to be copyrightable because the goal of the photographs was to exactly reproduce other pieces of intellectual property. You might be able to make a similar argument for medical images as well.