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by blix 6y ago
> Why can’t Democrats make any progress even in places where they have total control and don’t need to compromise? The obvious answer is that these policies benefit Democrats and therefore they are uninterested in changing them.
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by blix 6y ago
Designing a healthcare system that makes people less angry would be a fantastic way to make people trust healthcare institutions more. If that seems unactionable, perhaps it says something about the quality of our healthcare systems.
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by blix 6y ago
I find Scientific American has been deeply disappointing for 5 years if not more. They infrequnetly cover meaningful science, and when they do try their work is full of errors.
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by blix 6y ago
Asserting that there is absolutely no temperature dependence without evidence is pretty much the same thing as asserting there absolutely is without evidence. If there is no data, the best choice is to say that you don't know while com
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by blix 6y ago
The show itself makes a big deal of the 'suicide mission' nature of the task. I'm not sure many viewers bothered watching the epilogue.
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by blix 6y ago
Here's an inteview with one of them from 2019 [1], which would be pretty hard if he immediately died. I have never found any piece of evidence that they immediately died; most sources that say this seem to draw it from the HBO series a
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by blix 7y ago
Thanks for the paper :) This seems ominious for olives at large, and points to globalization as a larger culprit than climate change. Global trade seems even less likely to disappear than fossile fuels. The history of bananas is quite inter
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by blix 7y ago
I don't think it's necesarily one or the other. Climate change is a stressor, and monoculture makes crops less reseilient to stress. Crops undergo massive failures relatively frequently. Bananas are headed towards their second ext
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by blix 7y ago
I'm not sure climate change bears more blame than agricultural systems that incentivize monocultures fragile in the face of external stresses. Climate change is only one such stress. Crop diseases are as old as agriculture. And really,
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by blix 7y ago
I think a lot of the people choosing to forgo education for an immediate job probably also had some familiar financial pressures that made that choice more appealing. Children helping their parents with money isn't new; the expectation
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by blix 7y ago
In 1920, less than 20% of Americans completed 4 years of high school. How do you think the average economic status of that group compared to the whole country? As old limits cease to be sufficiently exlusive, new ones are introduced.
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by blix 7y ago
They are the same effect. As the shell minerals grow they are dissolving at the same time. Growing and dissolving are two sides of the same reversible chemical reaction. The equilibrium point is a function of acidity. More acid yields slowe
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by blix 7y ago
I went to several specialists for a chronic digestive disorder and got wildly varying, directly conflicting instructions on which, if any, dietary choices might help me feel better. The common belief was that no dietary choice could make a
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by blix 7y ago
Motors become hot because they generate heat through friction and other forms of loss. Many other appliances generate heat this way (and some are designed to generate heat). Conductive materials are likely to be good heat conductors because
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by blix 7y ago
It's not like Amazon/Walmart don't exploit workers, they just do it farther away. And are you really claiming they are not engaged in a race to the bottom? McDonalds is going to be better positioned to invest in automated ord
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by blix 7y ago
Assuming their competition will be left.
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by blix 7y ago
> The CEO of Walmart even advised the feds that they should raise the minimum wage. High minimum wages favor larger entities than can leverage economies of scale. Amazon has expressed similar support. I don't think this is entirely
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by blix 7y ago
Where did I assert that absurd generalization you accuse me of? I use fuzzy language about a specific behavior, and you extrapolate it to a absolute that anyone who might ever say such a thing is incapable of nuance or self-criticism. I nev
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by blix 7y ago
Those arguments are not property rights. Referring to them as property rights is an intentionally misleading exaggeration. I can't think of how this isn't "biased to bend the truth". Surely not all statements do this, bu
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by blix 7y ago
In earlier times, identity was mostly a function of social relationships. This seemed to be a lot more concrete than abstract concept of identity that is popular in industrial societies. Here are some other things that might inform/cre
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by blix 7y ago
The space of incorrect-but-reasonable models is infinitely larger than the space of correct models. The way to distinguish between the two is experiment. Experiment is therefore the much more important side of the balance.
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by blix 7y ago
For many, ideas are a part of identity. I am a good person because I support good policies and vote for good party. I am smart because I have intelligent thoughts and ideas. When the quality of these ideas is challenged, it therefore can be
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by blix 7y ago
I think it's possible to change the minds of others through online posting. It has happened to me and I think I've effected change in others. However, all online posts are not equal. Posts like GP I think are likely to have the op
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by blix 7y ago
This experiment only involves solids. The new phase is a different electronic structure of the same crystal.
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by blix 7y ago
A poor person might momentarily accrue wealth from a paycheck and then lose it to rent, preventing real wealth growth. Low-income rental housing tends to be quite exploitative. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/0
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by blix 7y ago
The gravitational forces at the center do cancel out, but the important term for this effect is not the sum of forces but the gravitational potential, essentially the energy gained/lost by moving from deep space to the given location.
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by blix 7y ago
Oh yeah, it's miracle the USA didn't accidentally nuke itself. There are a lot of scary stories out there. However, I dont think that necessarily means nukes are taken less seriously than zero-days.
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by blix 7y ago
> What we do know for a fact is that it's atleast very risky and irrational at best to risk handing over a single let alone eight zero days to a adversary you deem to be bonkers enough to go nuclear since the reluctance to apply the
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by blix 7y ago
Magnetic domain transtitions are phase transitions, just like the solidifcation of a snowflake. It's not that surprising to me that magnetic domain structure could be fractal, many phase transitions can look fractal in the right condit
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by blix 7y ago
Incorrect analysis can give the correct answer. There are excpetions to many inverse square laws, they just aren't relevant to the problem at hand.

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