baix777

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by baix777 6y ago
I'm not convinced nuclear is safe enough. Say new nuclear it is 2x safer than previous designs on average, and we spin up 4x more nuclear plants, well you can see where this goes. Plus, such a concentrated power source is going to inv
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by baix777 6y ago
Clover is great for lawn health as it fixes (adds) nitrogen to the soil. Before the widespread use of herbicides having some clover in the lawn was viewed as a good thing because of this. Lawn seeds even included a bit of clover. When herb
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by baix777 6y ago
Humans have being wearing clothes for about 170,000 years, indoors and outdoors, long enough for a evolutionary response. Along with fire, clothing is one of our great inventions and allows humans to live in colder climates than we could o
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by baix777 6y ago
The flaw with the golden rule is that what is hateful varies by person, and what people like also varies. A better rule is to treat people like they want to be treated. But this rule also has issues with people wanting something that isn&#
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by baix777 6y ago
This type of thinking, and the inability to see it even when pointed out, is why we have BLM.
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by baix777 6y ago
But the type of organization that is a corporation didn't exist when the constitution was written. Much like nuclear arms (and chemical, and biological) didn't exist when the constitution was written so we don't consider the
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by baix777 6y ago
If you look at this from a socioeconomic standpoint, the poor are more obese and exercise less than the better off. Being poor is hard, so the wealth gap of the US looks to be partial cause of this, but the whole cause and effect is hard t
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by baix777 6y ago
The issue with health care is it is a superior good. This means if someones incomes increases by 10%, people spend 12-13% more on health care. Canada has more regulated health care than the US, and yet the health care has better outcomes a
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by baix777 6y ago
Canada is similar to the US in terms of food consumption, and yet Canada has much better health care outcomes and lower health care expenditures. I'm not saying food isn't a factor, I'm just wondering how big a factor it is
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by baix777 6y ago
Amazon has a few superpowers. One is writing, but the other is so many metrics. I worked at AWS and saw how the weekly metrics meeting was ran, with execs questioning why some metric, out of 10s of thousands, was behaving in a certain way
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by baix777 6y ago
Not for a reliable solution. For example, assume you have a master and a replica database for reliability, what happens if the master, where the cron runs, fails? Do you remember to set up the cron up on the replica? From my experience,