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by bcoates 11y ago
Trucks? Last I researched this the Ford F150 and Dodge Ram -- popular, mainstream pickup trucks -- were by a large margin statistically among the least safe vehicles allowed on roads in America, compared across everything, not just in-class
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by bcoates 11y ago
Good? They're at least getting informed consent and an opportunity to be diverted towards harm reduction. Ideally if a patient stubbornly demanded a particular drug they'd be warned in graphic detail of why that was a bad idea, as
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by bcoates 11y ago
NYAG is mostly in the business of shaking companies down but not killing the golden goose. Presumably this is an opening salvo that will end in them making some token changes to their business to be declared in compliance with the law and p
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by bcoates 11y ago
I'm pretty sure The Phantom Tollbooth, Alice in Wonderland, and Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land have merged in my brain into one school animated film blob. Which one had "Inchworm" in it? P.S. It's a billiards table.
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by bcoates 11y ago
The problem is this would be admitting that the big lie (user targeting produces relevant more effective ads) is a big lie. User targeting destroys the social fear of missing out mechanic -- nobody believes advertising affects them, but eve
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by bcoates 11y ago
It sounds like he's discussing some fire road that probably isn't practical to turn into a real road (this is steep, hilly terrain where most buildable space has been used) but there are reasonable places to park and hike like Gri
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by bcoates 11y ago
It's ignored because it doesn't matter. Mineral reserves only count ore that can be extracted economically at current prices; at current prices we have sufficient uranium for well longer than it takes to find and extract more (so
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by bcoates 11y ago
Also, be aware that fiber sabotage is a thing that happens. It's rare, but it's bad, and in my experience even top-notch providers take days to recover from it. Even if you aren't the target, it doesn't matter how many r
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by bcoates 11y ago
Because once a debt has been turned over to a collections agency it is not in your interest to pay it. The window of opportunity to not have a credit strike has closed. Paying the bill will not improve your credit. The counterparty has alre
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by bcoates 11y ago
Only if you're in a hurry! The interviewer can patiently wait for the subject to become bored. Formal interviews in intimidating settings (like panel interviews for jobs) are often scheduled to be much longer than necessary just on the
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by bcoates 11y ago
The reason for a lot of homographs with ASCII is that there are old code pages that have entire non-US alphabets and punction sets in the 128-255 range, and regular ASCII in the 0-127 range. It's a design goal of Unicode to support exa
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by bcoates 11y ago
Remember that as the AOL search history leaks showed us, the anonymization is a fig leaf and it's not terribly challenging to re-associate a complete search query history with a person -- even without identifying the voice.
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by bcoates 11y ago
Meth is just the moral panic du jour, before the 2000s being a long-term functional amphetamine user was stereotypical behavior for jobs requiring long-term concentration (truck drivers, pilots, double-shift factory workers, doctors, studen
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by bcoates 11y ago
How much more opiate is in a hit of street heroin than your usual medical injection of IV morphine for traumatic pain? I've had the latter and while it was fairly awesome, it's not exactly world-changingly addictive either. I&#x27
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by bcoates 11y ago
Are there any comparisons between fractal trees and the database cracking/adaptive indices advocated by [1]? It seems like they're going after the same use pattern but cracking is relatively simpler and even faster for inserts. [1
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by bcoates 11y ago
It's not just that -- at least in the corner of the West where I grew up, kneeling and squatting were actually discouraged in young children as somehow unhealthy (to your knees, iirc).
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by bcoates 11y ago
Here's a better, less Forbesy article that loads for me: http://www.amny.com/news/taxi-and-limousine-commission-seizi...
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by bcoates 11y ago
Because the drug legalizers first disobeyed, then circumvented, and finally ignored the law, and the LGBT groups cheerfully use personal intimidation and group shaming rather than wasting their time putting their faith in politicians? The s
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by bcoates 11y ago
Did they call their shot in advance, or is this another case of arbitrarily picking the best model by hindcasting?
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by bcoates 11y ago
There's trolling, and then there's art .
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by bcoates 11y ago
Is that any different from how Windows has restarted the GPU and reloaded the driver whenever a the video driver crashes since Windows 7? I think the new part might just be userland software being able to take advantage.
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by bcoates 11y ago
You were doing so well until you brought up the CPS boogeyman, which is as much a part of the baseless fear culture you're deriding as anything else. Getting in trouble with CPS over letting your kid be independent is as unlikely as an
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by bcoates 11y ago
Is this perception even slightly based on reality?
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by bcoates 11y ago
It's legal to beat your children in the US. It would be incredibly controversial and a major change to the legal status of parenthood for it to be otherwise.
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by bcoates 11y ago
They don't need to go away, they can just be neutered. There were two massive cutbacks in spy agencies in the last 50 years, having a third is not a fantasy. "I can make this organization by and for evil people marginally better b
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by bcoates 11y ago
Even countries that have strong drug price negotiation schemes are only getting modest discounts for Hepatitis C drugs; they're willing to pay because even at full price it's more expensive for someone to slowly die of liver failu
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by bcoates 11y ago
There is a specific, long-standing exception in Federal gambling laws for what DraftKings and FanDuel is doing. They're not ignoring or even bending the law. The weasel-wording they use in their ads is to get around TV network (and spo
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by bcoates 11y ago
Proposition 13 didn't do that; the various governments who petulantly refused to adapt their tax regimes to the Prop 13 limits did. The bizarre incentives created by almost 40 years of attempting to strong-arm voters into giving power
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by bcoates 11y ago
You want to not let people build skyscrapers to protect the egos of city authorities that can't build a sewage system that would meet the western standards of 100 years ago? Dubai has problems, but tall buildings aren't one of the
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by bcoates 11y ago
You're not missing anything. The author seems to be (accidentally or intentionally) part of an ultra-heterodox economic school that believes that all economic value, across all times and places, comes from the consumption of energy. Th

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