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811.
by bigbubba 6y ago
To be fair, some might count "the hogs ran 100 miles away" a local success, if their chief concern is hogs in their backyard where their small children play.
812.
by bigbubba 6y ago
When it comes to hogs, it's a matter of extermination, not 'hunting'/sport. Pulling punches with notions of sportsmanship and respect for the animal totally misses the point. These aren't elk. Of course, even the
813.
by bigbubba 6y ago
What of Alberta's rat control? From what I've heard it's not perfect, but still pretty good. Good enough for Alberta to generally be considered 'rat free.'
814.
by bigbubba 6y ago
It seems you might be aware of this already, but irradiation of pork to kill parasites is an established practice in the food industry. Food irradiation in general is safe and effective, but weirds a lot of the general public out (particul
815.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Between AGW trends, California's historically hot and dry climate, and invasive grasses/trees, it seems like there isn't much hope on the horizon for California. All signs seem to point to a drier more flammable California c
816.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Food for thought: > Paleoclimatological studies indicate that the last 150 years of California's history have been unusually wet compared to the previous 2000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_chang
817.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Sure, kind of. You hit the impact driver with a hammer, but I wouldn't call the driver a hammer.
818.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Mimicking a spreadsheet with an RDBMS would be a neat hack, but I think the better solution is to simply use the database like a database. If an amateur carpenter is trying to hammer screws into wood, you hand him a screw driver, not try t
819.
by bigbubba 6y ago
The translucent gradient overlay this site has is truly obnoxious. What possesses people to do things like this? Headers that follow you when you scroll down the page are bad enough, but this is truly abominable. Don't fade out text
820.
by bigbubba 6y ago
I've noticed that some people mistake 'the best extant X' with 'X has no problems.' For instance, 'Y is a problem with X' will often receive the response 'Nuh-uh, because extant Z also has pr
821.
by bigbubba 6y ago
I think it's unlikely that's what they actually did.
822.
by bigbubba 6y ago
I though for sure s7.c was an amalgamation file like sqlite3.c, but evidently it's not. Eesh indeed.
823.
by bigbubba 6y ago
From what I've read and heard, call/cc is generally considered strictly inferior to delimited continuations.
824.
by bigbubba 6y ago
The wake-word is different in different regions/languages right? That suggests they either have special silicon for each language (unlikely) or it's programmable. Is it reprogrammable over-the-air? Even if it can't be give
825.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Trying to adhere to this is a nightmare. The amount of time required to reinvent common words even most ESL speakers know anyway is absurd. But hey, at least you can't say 'murder of crows' right? I know how much that an
826.
by bigbubba 6y ago
On occasion I have argued that dolphins are fish, despite being air breathing mammals, using an argument quite similar to this. The use of the word 'fish' to describe animals that live in the water predates biologists deciding th
827.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Maybe it's regional? I've known, used and heard 'murder of crows' for as long as I can remember. Admittedly it's not every day that I have conversations about crows, but the term has never seemed novel to me and I
828.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Well they did say 3- 8. A petite short person won't be able to drink as much as a tall heavy person, all else being equal. Tbh one or two beers is all I drink these days, but six or seven is what it takes for me to be 'properly
829.
by bigbubba 6y ago
> Like all drugs (including alcohol), they can interact with [...] Interesting aside, some mushrooms contain the mycotoxin coprine. Coprine is normally harmless but can make you quite ill if combined with alcohol. Common ink caps are
830.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Obviously there is a balance to be struck. I don't have enough data to know what the correct answer is, but I do think it's not such a simple matter that can be decided by only looking at it from a single perspective.
831.
by bigbubba 6y ago
You, me, and everybody. You have a moral obligation to resist laws when you perceive them to be immoral. This was a pretty big part of the civil rights era for instance (not to say that reusing hardware is so morally important as that, bu
832.
by bigbubba 6y ago
What of the role cheap used cars play in helping people with little money improve their lives (for instance, by allowing them to commute to better jobs) and the positive ecological effects of raising people out of poverty? An impoverished
833.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Of all the things to complain about, fire inspections should be near the bottom of the list. All of those regulations were written in blood. I'm sympathetic to the problem of established businesses lobbying governments for more regul
834.
by bigbubba 6y ago
In other words, taking Al Capone down for tax evasion. But as I understand it, taking down Al Capone in that way was only necessary because at the time the laws now used to attack organized crime (RICO for instance) didn't yet exist.
835.
by bigbubba 6y ago
The nutrition aspect of food seems to overlap with medicine; something that is normally 'just food' might become a medication if somebody were malnourished. For instance, regular foods containing vitamin C could be considered &#x
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The filthy rich often don't care about the social externalities of their corrosive businesses because their wealth insulates them from the harm they cause. Don't waste your empathy on Facebook executives.
837.
by bigbubba 6y ago
From what you describe it sounds like Tacitus was dehumanizing the Germanic people for not being as metropolitan as Romans, not talking about fires. Tacitus also wrote of the Great Fire of Rome, so it would be weird for him to argue that f
838.
by bigbubba 6y ago
> Forests burn with regularity Some do, some don't. California isn't the whole world. Edit: > Wildfires are among the most common forms of natural disaster in some regions, including Siberia, California, and Australia.[1
839.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Particularly American social media companies. Until the EU bans these, I don't think there is much hope for European social media companies which actually respect EU laws and regulations (American social media companies obviously have
840.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Such a database would be a tasty treat for any unsavory company looking to purchase them.

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