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by caeril 6y ago
Same reason we become much more animated when discussing abortion restriction, identification tattoos/implants, roadside blood draws, and other forms of abrogation of bodily autonomy. There is an enormous difference in the personal sen
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by caeril 6y ago
Objectively, my hearing is just fine. I can hear frequency sweeps and tones perfectly well, but all my life I've been unable to pick out words in conversation if there's even moderate background noise. "What?" is likely
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by caeril 6y ago
> it's been outmoded by superior technology I assume you mean natural gas, since renewables are still a small portion of the overall energy mix. Bear in mind that fracked gas wells decline much faster than conventional ones, and th
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by caeril 6y ago
Yup. There's also a lot of room at the utility scale for improved designs of the old Edison batteries. Nickel-Iron chemistries are heavy and initially expensive, but: 1. They can last effectively forever with periodic electrolyte top
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by caeril 6y ago
All standard label printer formats (EPL2, ZPL, etc) support barcodes directly, and have for decades.
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by caeril 6y ago
> Journalists not understanding Journalists don't understand anything about the topics on which they write, but they regard themselves as paragons of virtue and arbiters of Truth with a capital T. Trump is a garbage president but
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by caeril 6y ago
I see a lot missing, here. No assembly, compilers, linear algebra, or digital design courses that you find in every other CS program. How did this courseload get accredited? (and I say this as someone who never graduated - just showing some
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by caeril 6y ago
> Startups become large companies over time, if they don't fail. Picking nits, here, but this isn't true. My personal (multiple) anecdata is that a very good number of startups neither fail nor become large - rather, they becom
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by caeril 6y ago
> but if you can somehow escape from it Not sure what you mean by this. There's nothing to escape from. The word we have for superficial consumerist social strivers who spend conspicuously to soothe their ego and signal their status
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by caeril 6y ago
I wear a P100 respirator everywhere I go in public. According to every government on the planet, I am 100% kosher, but if I am infected, the exit valves on my mask will spread my virus far and wide. Governments also routinely permit balacla
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by caeril 6y ago
PNAS has also looked at the statistics: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15877 Police brutality is definitely a problem in the United States, but it appears to be entirely colorblind.
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by caeril 6y ago
> Really would love a clear answer It's astonishing that you don't understand this, but I'll assume your question is in good faith. It's because "Silicon Valley" doesn't actually produce etched silicon
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by caeril 6y ago
The muscles that actuate your fingers are largely located in your forearms. Keep your core out to your wrists properly bundled, and you'll be fine without gloves.
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by caeril 6y ago
You're right. There are undoubtedly many teenage mothers. But we need to look at medians: The median age for women of first age of birth in the United States is 27.6 years. The average "childbearing years" duration is 5.3 yea
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by caeril 6y ago
40 is early for the average empty-nest boundary. That comes later. Rather, the decline at 40 marks marked independence of young children transitioning into pre-adolescence and then adolescence. You see your children much less 1. when they e
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by caeril 6y ago
From what I understand, there is widespread agreement on a grid-wide disconnect policy. The idea is: when a CME of sufficient scale is detected, all switchyards and substations go open a bit before impact (CME ions travel sub-c, so we have
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by caeril 6y ago
Those of us who care about silly, antiquated things like P/E ratios, or even having earnings at all, have definitely consistently underperformed the market. Value investing is a widowmaker in the ZIRP era.
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by caeril 6y ago
> you still pay CA taxes on any income earned due to work in CA I do exactly this. I earn income from a CA company, but live elsewhere. But I wouldn't characterize it as "paying". Paychex withholds my CA taxes, which then
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by caeril 6y ago
You don't need to be good at attribution when you're on the same side as the press. You can build a case on the flimsiest of IOCs, and anyone who questions you gets smeared as a foreign agent or cutout, without a shred of evidence
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by caeril 6y ago
Ordinarily and historically, I'd fully agree, but the antigun refrain of "lol you're going to fire your AR-15s at drones and tanks and A-10 Warthogs?" does have some degree of merit. 2A was written when citizens were not
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by caeril 6y ago
Your comment, predictably, is indeed popular. What won't be popular: the second amendment was crafted specifically so that functionaries of State power can't abuse their position without the risk of extrajudicial reprisal. Not at
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by caeril 6y ago
Sugarcane dungarees are your best bet, here.
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by caeril 6y ago
Our intellectual capability is not degraded; rather, it's funneled into adtech, porn, social media click optimization, and entertainment. Critical distinction.
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by caeril 6y ago
This reflects my personal view of the "real" economy. Nearly everyone around me is absolutely destitute. Meanwhile, equities are trading at all time highs. There is an enormous disconnect, at least in my specific area.
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> ‘A God’ is certainly fiction. Maybe. I struggle with this myself, after having been somewhat convinced by the Simulationist arguments, specifically, those around quantized reality. If our universe is a simulation, that implies the exis
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by caeril 6y ago
Can someone versed in immunology explain to me why both this and the Pfizer vaccines are both borderline-experimental mRNA vaccines (versus attenuated or recombinant)? I understand that bog-standard protein vaccines don't protect much
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by caeril 6y ago
If this is the rationale, why do countries with public health insurance fallback not also have mandatory BMI or tobacco/alcohol limits, given the much much higher fatality rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer versus automobile ac
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by caeril 6y ago
You're not entirely wrong, but there are significant lifestyle changes that contribute to this. Versus the golden years of single-income households, we: 1. Go out to eat and for entertainment MUCH, MUCH more often. 2. Take more frequen
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> I don't understand why public health officials Public health officials don't actually care about public health. Another critical issue they've willfully chosen to ignore is the dramatic comorbidity of COVID-19 and obesit
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by caeril 6y ago
Data point of one: Stripe got my business years ago because of the API (compared to the CyberSource merchant API at the time) and the competitive rates. The pretty UI on their site had precisely zero bearing on the decision.

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