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by delazeur 10y ago
Supposedly Reagan was admired by his political colleagues for his ability to genuinely believe in what he was saying. They just had to pretend.
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by delazeur 10y ago
Obviously there is the potential for certain forms of abuse here, but it could be really useful for creating a record of what was said and what promises were made on the call. "Oh, you thought it was due on Monday? Nope, transcript sa
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by delazeur 10y ago
Then we need the polled odds to make this comparison.
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by delazeur 10y ago
Well, it's not ocean water. Not sure what your point is.
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by delazeur 10y ago
It is a fundamentally different usage of water. A significant percentage of the water you put on your lawn will return directly to the aquifer.
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by delazeur 10y ago
Here is the text of the Fourth Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon pro
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by delazeur 10y ago
> If I do not want minorities staying in my private residence, I can refuse them staying there. If they are your guests. Not if they are your customers. > Off topic...at what point do we stop calling them "minorities" when
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by delazeur 10y ago
I believe that Mercury/Gemini heat shields included cork and/or balsa wood.
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by delazeur 10y ago
Except that the space pens were developed with private funds and the Soviets bought the same pens from the same manufacturer. There are some interesting philosophical differences between the programs, but "the Russians jerry-rigged ev
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by delazeur 10y ago
> To my knowledge rockets fired at Israel are very basic, while Israel has the Iron Dome in place, thus it is a bit of cherry picking. My understanding is that most of the rockets fired at Israel are not loaded with explosives, and that
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by delazeur 10y ago
Yes, and even if the claim was reliable it still wouldn't mean much to me because IQ is just one aspect of being an intelligent person. Even with the dubiousness of the claim, though, I think we can probably agree that there are some
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by delazeur 10y ago
Real estate as a driver of the CA economy goes at least as far back as the Homestead Acts and the Reclamation Act.
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by delazeur 10y ago
I don't think there will ever be a scientific method for measuring or ranking intelligence, and I understand that life circumstances play a huge role in being able to acquire the social markers of intelligence. Still, some people are
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by delazeur 10y ago
I suggest you read up on North American hydrology. Fresh water is being depleted at a rate significantly greater than it is being replenished. It's also a stretch to call wastewater injection a "one-time loss of water" when
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by delazeur 10y ago
You save a bit of time and you look pretty smart. I can do calculus in my head, but I struggle with arithmetic. My colleagues who can do fast mental math but can't do any algebra to save their lives end up looking much more competent
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by delazeur 10y ago
> Also, as someone who's never actually invested, do people really judge investments on that number rather than internal rate of return, payback period, etc etc? Given that it made the difference between a profitable and unprofitabl
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by delazeur 10y ago
I am prepared to believe that the majority of HN readers are in the top 20%ish globally, but the top 1-2% is a stretch. Tying that to a particular skill is, of course, ridiculous, but I think a lot of us here have consistently performed at
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by delazeur 10y ago
I think it is generally taught, but usually as a "useless" algebra concept rather than a financial management concept.
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by delazeur 10y ago
It's dangerous when it leads a person to choose "I'm going to figure this out on my own" over "I'm going to find someone who can solve this" in cases where they really should have known to pick the latter.
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by delazeur 10y ago
I don't know, in the U.S. people get really emotional about Pluto's status.
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by delazeur 10y ago
> I've seen that on LessWrong too, really smart math/CS people talking about biology can get demolished by a second year biology student. IMO, LessWrong and other communities based around critical thinking tend to either foster
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by delazeur 10y ago
Yes, the real problem is that even though Congress is hated as a whole the individual members tend to be quite popular within their own states and districts.
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by delazeur 10y ago
Some day I hope someone explains to me why people care so much about the classification of Pluto.
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by delazeur 10y ago
This isn't about polluting water, it's about injecting waste water into deep reservoirs from which it will not return to the surface in the meaningfully near future.
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by delazeur 11y ago
Well, personally, I am a male comfortable talking about personal stuff with friends but I would never talk about it at work.
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by delazeur 11y ago
I have two moms, and while I am not entirely insensitive to the emotions of other I am probably somewhat less sensitive than average. I don't think female-centric households have much to do with it.
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by delazeur 11y ago
It doesn't sound like the violation and the investigation were temporally linked though. When you're speeding and you see flashing lights, you know you're in trouble for the thing you're doing right then . If some min
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by delazeur 11y ago
The person kept saying that what they did was "just like jaywalking," but as soon as they were called in by HR they knew they were in serious trouble. That doesn't add up.
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by delazeur 11y ago
So the argument is that people with technical jobs are likely to do technical stuff outside of work? Or at minimum, have the capacity to do so? I'm skeptical that many recruiters and interviewers will buy into this. Even if you can s
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by delazeur 11y ago
It doesn't look like the opportunity cost was necessarily based on pre-tax salary (although it may have been). The current pre-tax salary of ~$150k (?) was compared to the average Stanford MBA pre-tax salary of $142k, which is a fair

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