ambago

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by ambago 2y ago
Strategically, quite a bit. Wired recently had a piece on this: https://www.wired.com/story/4-internal-apple-emails-helped-d... Matt Stoller also had a really great writeup: https://www.thebignewsletter.com&
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by ambago 8y ago
Am I misunderstanding the graph in the article? My understanding is that the graph is showing that home prices are still rising, but only at an 8.4% increase between Sep 2017 and Sep 2018 (the rate of increase has just decreased.) If so, th
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by ambago 10y ago
Especially since "driver-error" is the cause of 94% of motor vehicle crashes in the U.S.[1], with 32,675 people killed and 2.3 million injured in 2014.[2] Worldwide, motor-vehicle crashes cause over 1.2 million deaths each year an
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by ambago 11y ago
I mostly agree, except; depression might be Facebook's problem if it is exacerbated by one of their "experiments." http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-s...
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by ambago 12y ago
Possibly, but most of the Saturniid moths aren't aerial acrobats to begin with. None of them can fly with enough precision to really evade predators. One of the best behavioural defenses for flying insects (found so far) seems to be t
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by ambago 12y ago
An update on the various fundraisers set up for James: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/...
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by ambago 12y ago
Perhaps I generalized a bit too much (I suppose I should not have commented when I was dead tired...) However, the USDA does in fact allow non-prohibited chemicals to be used on USDA certified organic produce. USDA National Organic Program:
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by ambago 12y ago
I think they are referring to the loophole that allows farms to use organic chemicals on produce that is labeled "Organic". In chemistry, an organic chemical is a compound that contains lots of carbon, or carbon chains. The loopho