DuskStar

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by DuskStar 6y ago
His militia buddies were back at the original car dealership they were protecting. The shooter left there to provide medical assistance, which required crossing a police line - the police didn't allow him to return to his group after t
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Someone underage, carrying an illegal gun, probably doesn't fall into well regulated. Except AFAICT open carry of long guns by minors 16-17 is legal in Wisconsin, as long as if you're hunting you have the appropriate license.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Yeah, I should have said -600, -700, -800, -900 instead of -6, -7, -8, -9. For some reason I got that naming convention mixed up, and forgot that the -800 was NG while -8 was MAX. The 737-200 is one of the first-gen 737s, and still active t
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by DuskStar 6y ago
737-200, -300, -400, -500. 737-6, -8, -9. (Assuming that the -7s are temporarily out of service as you've said) 747 (cargo) 757 767 777 787 (all but these 8) So still quite a few lines flying.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
No need to protect the passengers if there aren't any other people on your flight!
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Half the point of a business jet is flying to more convenient (but smaller) airports.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And IMO will not fly before 3d printers capable of manufacturing reliable guns become widely available, which will render the whole thing moot. (since at that point you'll never be able to get rid of enough guns to make the police sto
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Also, in general if there's a consistent and significantly market-beating (after fees) hedge fund that's available to the public, it's a scam. Most real strategies can't scale infinitely (see Medallion), and so have a
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by DuskStar 6y ago
On the other side of things... I went to a high school that didn't weight AP courses - Calc 2 counted the same as PE. There tended to be ~10 valedictorians out of a class of 300 - all with perfect GPAs.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
This is a wonderful description of "free" to go along with "free as in beer" and "free as in speech", thanks!
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Another note against C is that while very few students will die (~12 at a 40,000 student campus if they all get it and it has an IFR of 0.03% for people 18-25, ~2 if the IFR is closer to 0.01% and half the students get it - either way com
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by DuskStar 6y ago
As far as I'm aware, only Backpage could be described as "illegal" instead of just "distasteful" or "unacceptable", and there's some controversy over whether Backpage was actually in the wrong there.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
That lets you distinguish friend from not-friend, but not enemy from airliner.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Another way is to announce a no-fly zone and then assume anything within the zone is hostile. (Yes, civilian planes can still fly there, but they've literally been warned at that point) I assume this would happen pretty quickly when a
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by DuskStar 6y ago
IIRC the CDC said that COVID-19 was actually less dangerous for people under 30 than the flu is. Of course, the CDC has not exactly covered itself in glory this year, so who knows.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
It would also be pretty pointless to rely on people actively seeking out testing for a seroprevalence study. Not exactly a random subset of the population...
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by DuskStar 6y ago
If 27% of the NYC population have antibodies, and half of people infected don't test positive for antibodies (too long after infection, mild infection that was defeated without antibodies, etc), then NYC is at or near herd immunity alr
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Right, including Russia.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> One segment of the population embraced politics and decided that masks was the last straw among all of the rules they otherwise accept in their lives, and decided to turn it into a public statement. Let's not pretend that there is
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by DuskStar 6y ago
EU population is 446 million, so evidently "yes, you were including Russia".
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> The cost of living in San Francisco is 200%-2000% higher than the cost of living in Jaipur. Why on earth do you assume that this is unrelated to workers protections? These protections aren't a bad thing, but to ignore their negati
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by DuskStar 6y ago
The point was that businesses actually have followed through on those threats to move away from countries with things like "workers rights" and "unions" and "8 hour workdays" - it just took a few years. The fac
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I think he's saying that the drug war is the problem, not the addiction. That the steps that we're taking to fight addiction are worse than the addiction itself.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
That doesn't actually show anything about the impact on students, though. For all we know, doubling online class sizes doesn't change outcomes. (Because outcomes are already so poor, and might be basically comparable to doing noth
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Schools are already underfunded Do you have any way to show this? Do student outcomes actually vary with the amount of funding the school gets? At the very least, the Kansas City Experiment [0] says that dumping infinite money into a f
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Does this mean that you have the data, and might be willing to share?
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Reproduction doesn't create matter ex niliho, either. And in space, organizing the matter is far easier than getting the matter in the first place.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Either you ship steel, or you ship biological material - you're shipping things either way. (And if you can do ISRU, then steel or just plain cast iron is available)
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Funnily enough, the biggest obstacle to HSR in the US is all the restrictions we've put in place to protect people from corrupt or otherwise authoritarian officials. Uzbekistan doesn't have to worry about environmental impact repo
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Yeah, the CDC actually says that COVID-19 is safer for healthy children than the flu now: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm

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