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by NoPiece 12y ago
Note, however, that the methodology of this particular study may have contributed to an artificially high satiety value for potatoes. Per the study's design, the participants were separately fed 220-Calorie servings of each food. A 22
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Amazon is a level 3 customer, but Amazon also has a direct connect with Comcast. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/see-wh...
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Money is created via debt, but the economy expands when people create things of value.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
That's sometimes true, but not always. Two examples: a signup may have a captcha, so the cost of filling out the form to check for an email address is high, or something like a bank sign up, which requires additional info besides the e
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by NoPiece 12y ago
There are privacy issues though. Take a known email address, run it through 100 sites, and find to find out what kind of sites the person uses.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Even though the top rate in 1979 was 70%, the effective marginal tax rate on the top quintile was 27.6%, which is pretty close to what it is now. It isn't meaningful to just compare the historic top rate because the tax code was differ
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by NoPiece 12y ago
You acknowledge it is an oversimplification, but is it even true? Taxes have shifted around, but in aggregate, they haven't been slashed. Taxes as a percentage of GDP were 26% in 1979, 26.4% in 2012, and haven't fluctuated more th
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Don't you mean over-regulated, crony capitalism, government granted monopoly? Pure evil?
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Is a colder Earth better, or is it 20th century Earth the perfect temperature?
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Chrome, for example, works as you describe on Windows, but scrolls an entire page on a Mac.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
In Michigan, 79% of new cars purchased are Ford, GM, or Chrysler. In California, 22%. http://wot.motortrend.com/patriotic-car-shopping-which-state...
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Interesting that Linux doesn't come up once in the article, and that it is the equally doomed Sun that is perceived as the competitor (and WinNT).
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by NoPiece 12y ago
There are 41 million acre feet of reservoir in California. The 10 largest reservoirs account for over half that, and the top 50 account for 90%. The unlisted reservoirs beyond the 250 in the table don;t account for much storage. The big 10
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by NoPiece 12y ago
This is total nonsense. By this argument, additional reservoirs would only stop being worthwhile if we never withdrew water at all. That's no better, and in fact much worse, than never building reservoirs in the first place. That&#x2
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by NoPiece 12y ago
The currently empty reservoirs show more are worthwhile. The population is growing much faster now than it was when more reservoirs were being built. California has grown ~40% (14.6 million) since 1980.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
It is too politically expensive and difficult to build dams and reservoirs in California's eco-sensitive environment. There were more dams and reservoirs built in the 70s (18) than the 34 years since (11). Also, a lot of the easy/
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by NoPiece 12y ago
As I understand it, this ruling hinged on the former, not the latter. I think a fine would have been unreasonable - this a disagreement over technicalities in the law. On the other hand, what guys like David Geffen are doing in Malibu is bl
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by NoPiece 12y ago
The judge had to twist the law to get the decision everyone wanted. She said closing the gate was "development" and therefore needed a permit which he didn't get. That's already quite a stretch, it would have been capric
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by NoPiece 12y ago
I really like the app so far. My one piece of feedback would be that I'd like the focus button where the aperture number is, so I could have quick, one handed access to it.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
I know nothing about this site in real life, but immediately recognized it from GTA IV.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
I may have worded my comment ambiguously, I am talking about the writers in the US who discovered Finland after noticing the low US scores. I am not talking about any thoughts or opinions or the reality inside of Finland. The entire basis o
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Do the tests play into the decision of whether the student goes into a vocational or academic track, or is it an individual choice?
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Right, I was just saying it is funny that the people who are championing the non-standardized test based education in Finland use a standardized test as the evidence of success.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Ironic that the main reason people keep writing about how great the schools are in Finland is their performance on a standardized test (PISA).
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Obesity isn't confined to the lower class. Go to any Olive Garden and watch someone eat an "Endless Pasta" bowl (all you can eat if you are not an Olive Garden fan), white bread sticks, and diet coke. Low sugar, but still hor
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by NoPiece 12y ago
But how do people know to go to the edge of the supermarket when the government has been telling them, and schools have been teaching them go to the middle? This is the food pyramid the government was pushing from 1992-2005. You should hav
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by NoPiece 12y ago
I think there are better potential solutions for a self driving car to orient itself in those kinds of conditions than for a person. I've driven in miserable weather, and it is very disconcerting - you just guess and go. A self driving
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by NoPiece 12y ago
No major thesaurus lists sabotage as a synonym for disrupt. A couple have disrupt for sabotage.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
The article documents recruiting Lyft drivers by riding with them, which is neither unethical nor illegal. It doesn't document cancelling rides, which would definitely be unethical, and should be illegal.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
If cell service can already be at the tower level, being able to kill individual phones seems like it would be very impractical in a protest situation. This seems less prone to abuse than a mass shutdown.

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