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by dls2016 7y ago
ASCAP shakes down bars all the time. https://pitchfork.com/news/ascap-hit-multiple-us-bars-with-c...
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by dls2016 7y ago
Given the distance to the sun and proximity to the asteroid, shouldn’t the vehicle and its shadow be essentially the same size?
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by dls2016 7y ago
> I'm not exactly sure how people are convinced that "organic" food = higher quality and safer Well the obvious answer to "how are people convinced" is "advertising".
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by dls2016 7y ago
> They were probably exposed to 2,4D, not glyphosate Ok, and...? I'm not well-versed in these things, but a quick google suggests the situation with 2,4-D is the same: anecdotal evidence of birth defects and cancers, lack of researc
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by dls2016 7y ago
My wife used to administer Medical services in Santa Barbara country: coordinating translators and a program providing insurance to undocumented children. Many of the recipients worked the fields and I was always astonished to hear the freq
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by dls2016 7y ago
I really can’t believe how many people on here take Musk seriously. Tesla is going bankrupt, there’s no evidence that SpaceX is profitable nor that reusable rockets will help in this regard and the Boring Co is a less funny take on Lyle Lan
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by dls2016 7y ago
Did your sabbatical affect future pay raises?
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by dls2016 7y ago
> What if Disney was a private collector and bought up all the words art, and sealed it away, or charged admission at a single museum. If they provide all the museum security, fine. But in the real world Disney relies on the US legal sys
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by dls2016 7y ago
What happens when someone uses a hair dryer in the bathtub? As someone who spent a fair number of hours teaching mathematics to engineering students, exciting is what you want. What use is it to state the complex hypotheses of a theorem i
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by dls2016 7y ago
The obvious answer is that the US prison system is a replacement for our former use of chattel slavery.
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by dls2016 7y ago
NYPD has a long history of implementing the "broken windows" theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#New_York...
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Ok, now make the same argument for those guilty of wage theft and see how much push back you get. (Estimates suggest wage theft and shoplifting both cost the US economy ~$40 billion/year. But one of these crimes results in virtually ze
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by dls2016 7y ago
> I'm really not seeing meaningful solutions proposed. Stop jailing people for nonviolent crimes. Give the turnstile jumper the same treatment as the embezzler. Reduce the ridiculous US prison population!
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by dls2016 7y ago
Ok, but when was the last time anyone ever went to jail for wage theft? Once you look at which crimes lead to arrest and the racial/economic background of those arrested, this quote quickly stops making sense. It's the broken wind
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by dls2016 7y ago
> if any billionaire's dumb dumb kid can get in with enough money thrown at the institution Do you really think this isn't already the case?
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by dls2016 7y ago
Counter culture? Working a 9-5 and living in the suburbs is counter to tens of thousands of years of humanity organizing itself in tribes which compete (often violently) for resources. It seems fairly obvious that "legalizing" the
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by dls2016 7y ago
The best part is that 1/3 of it is simply quotes from a WSJ piece published a few weeks prior.
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by dls2016 7y ago
Of course a jean-wearing, podcast-listening, village-idiot wouldn't understand the Washington Post's high-brow takes. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04...
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by dls2016 8y ago
My naive, first-order understanding is that English = German + French. But since the Renaissance, French became the dominate influence due to its use by elites/scientific community. So it's not Spanish influence, per se, but its s
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by dls2016 8y ago
The rate of unvaccinated children in CA is highly correlated with income and non-Hispanic white populations (LA Times published stats a few years ago). Not sure that jibes with your hypothesis.
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by dls2016 8y ago
ambiguous grammar
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by dls2016 8y ago
Exactly. The article mischaracterizes Biden’s behavior and is therefore pointless in discussing his fitness for office. (To the point that writers like this appear to be carrying water for him.)
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by dls2016 8y ago
When was the last time someone sniffed your hair or you saw someone’s hair sniffed in a professional situation? My own professional career spans military, academia and multi-national corporations and therefore dozens of hours of dumb videos
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by dls2016 8y ago
No love for Adaptation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdYIqSZblv0
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by dls2016 8y ago
fossils were the only thing to make sense to me in this fucked up world
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by dls2016 8y ago
> The economics of this has to do with marginal utility mainly and nothing to do with exploitation. That's vacuously true when you simply ignore the existence of exploitative landlords (aka slum lords) who fail to maintain their uni
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by dls2016 8y ago
Interesting application to theoretical mathematics: Terence Tao thinks it may be possible to use a "water computer" to prove blow-up of the Navier Stokes equations. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/02/