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by dls2016 7y ago
> And oh boy, is there demand. I remember wanting a DevilFish modded 303 as a teenager in the 90s. Behringer's business model has me very conflicted.
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> because they are actually running inverse problems with the PDEs to fit the data Could you explain this a bit more? Are you talking about data assimilation?
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I don't think I implied they did. I'm only saying that humans are social creatures and that scientists are susceptible to peer pressure (even in "hard" sciences with lots of possibility for experiment). I imply no malici
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This part of climate "science" always makes me put on my Popper hat. The social aspect of being the outlier (grants dry up, career goes away) makes me skeptical of the IPCC reports, just not in the usual direction. I fear reality
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> the hard work of SpaceX to make cheap, reusable rockets an everyday reality Are they a reality?
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What's the physical intuition here? Is it that you want the de-orbit to hit the atmosphere at a shallow angle instead of plunging to earth?
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Ugh... just makes me think of selling junk for school "fundraisers". Just let me write a check!
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Did you know the hole's only natural enemy is the pile? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DERjNPnr31Q
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It was a PANTS ON massage!
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Like a sibling of my original comment, human morality is optimized for small tribes. In my opinion the point of the slogan is to instill some anarchy into the listener... some weariness of top-heavy hierarchies. In my experience, it seems t
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> the health issues have nothing inherently to do with THC Daily smoker here and I think I'd disagree slightly. We've been hearing for decades that "today's weed" is stronger than the 60's or whatever. But m
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> I mean, sure, it makes you more happy with a slightly messier house and more happy just being From my experience, this feeling comes from SSRIs and not cannabis. The former uniformly masks my anxieties whereas the latter only takes awa
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In other words, there’s no such thing as ethical consumption.
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So NYTimes started an investigative process a year prior to Buttigieg's exploratory committee? Amazing... and doubly so since the NYTimes isn't exactly a champion of progressive democrats. The less nefarious answer is that these b
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Busy restaurant next to an amusement park (Hersheypark). They couldn't keep anyone in the job. I didn't even want it because I was "bad at doing my taxes" and could make more as a busser making $5.50/hour plus cash
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> effectively making _less_ than she would have in, say, 2005 or 2010 I started working in 1998 at 16-years-old. I could make $9.50/hr washing dishes or more as a bus boy on a busy night. Shit's whack. Of course as a suburban k
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What the hell use is capital without labor?
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I understand, but in certain jurisdictions your viewpoint is being challenged. See: AB 5 in California or an announcement from the state of New Jersey that Uber owes $640 million in back taxes and fines for misclassifying employees. I perso
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> Uber is not putting a gun to anyone's head. But their platform has a near-monopoly in many markets, which they use to set prices while simultaneously classifying drivers as independent contractors.
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Wow! I've been watching various SBIRs this year with a buddy, but have never heard of some of these programs. Muchas gracias!
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Bret Stephens (nytimes) and Rahm Emanuel (politico) had some banger op eds on this topic yesterday. Absolute brain worms.
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So seizing property is wrong but our current system of not providing living wages to large swaths of the population is ok? I’d rather fix the basic needs of the many before I worry about the whinging of the rich. There are intermediate opti
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Uninteresting... settled... tomayto... tomahto... If you dismiss anything uninteresting as no longer being climate science, then we end up in a no-true-Scotsman loop. I was responding to the question "what climate change science is set
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The greenhouse effect, for one. It's essentially the blackbody effect along with spectral properties of constituent atmospheric gases.
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> Is it really that important that we only help anyone who “truly” need it — and burn the whole system down to that end? The welfare queen has been replaced by means testing .
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Perhaps, but I believe this leads into the issue of the waste inherent in the current American standard of living. The waste (big house, meat every day, giant cars, plastic everywhere, etc.) is, as you know, due to the low cost of extractin
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Regarding reduction of work hours, I’m a subscriber to the prevalence of “bullshit jobs” theory. Remove the power from corporate overlords via redistribution and put those resources under more democratic control. As a bonus people will take
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Sure... but there are two simple facts: a) billionaires are unelected and b) they dictate the usage of vast quantities of resources. Personally, I believe this is immoral.
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> Do you believe that I will take better care of myself or be a better father in the long run if I get a one-time bonus of $917? Your POV fails to take into account the utility and time-value of the redistributed dollars. It's the d
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Not to be a jerk, but I feel this perspective is meaningless from the get go. Redistribution/politics is about the marginal utility of a dollar and the time-value of the application. A dollar in a billionaire's account is worthl

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