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by dougmany 6y ago
Add some clear casting epoxy and it would be a cool project to show all your friends. Oh wait.
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by dougmany 6y ago
>would never pickup in bad areas They have more control so they are more likely to be considered actual contractors.
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by dougmany 6y ago
This is a great approach to learning. It explains how the field got to where it is and allows the reader to go as deep as they want.
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by dougmany 6y ago
I know it is the southern end of New England but a friend of mine in Connecticut just switched to a pellet stove for heating his large home. He plans to pay for the stove in two winters worth of heating.
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by dougmany 6y ago
But we are not seeing further-to-the-left arguments on marriage rights. It's not like now that same-sex people can marry, people are pushing for plural or animal marriage.
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by dougmany 6y ago
I know a lot of liberal gun owning people. I have a hunch this is like environmental issues. I think many conservative want to support environmental issues but since it clashes with more government control, it get's thrown under the
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by dougmany 6y ago
Trees are nice but not having trees does not automatically mean collapse. I found this paper had many more arguments then the article. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255726745_Ecologica...
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by dougmany 6y ago
It is interesting that the cotton masks were more effective than the surgical mask: >The median viral loads after coughs without a mask, with a surgical mask, and with a cotton mask were 2.56 log copies/mL, 2.42 log copies/mL,
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by dougmany 6y ago
I am always amused at how effective the There is no scientific evidence line is. That just means it has not been studied. No one has studied masks on this specific strain? It's new for crying out loud.
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by dougmany 6y ago
At least two of those links had nuanced reasons that matched the parent's remarks. One even literately had a three point explanation: * There is no scientific evidence they are effective in reducing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
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by dougmany 6y ago
>we need strictly targeted and laser focused protections for the at-risk population Exactly. And if we had been prepared with enough testing capability and protective equipment, that would have been the way to go. But we were not prepa
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by dougmany 6y ago
And that is the nature of the problem. It is far easier to throw out a random anecdote then to prove or disprove it. I remember hearing a story of a solder that sent a single bullet into a pole mounted transformer. The oil leaked out,
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by dougmany 6y ago
The general idea is to have large government funded works programs to transform our way of life from fossil fuel based to renewable based.
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by dougmany 7y ago
Audio < Text when too many people are trying to communicate at the same time. <rant> We are supposed to be engineers here. I regularly see this attitude that one thing is always and inherently better than another. Life is (mostly)
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by dougmany 7y ago
I took away that they picked an in-eloquent person to poster up as the leader and that the push to unionize has a broader base.
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by dougmany 7y ago
from that link: >“We are encouraged by Tesla’s execution and think it deserves to be among the world’s most valuable auto companies, and is perhaps the most important auto company in the world given its EV leadership. However, we think i
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by dougmany 7y ago
I like that the Carancas impact event is listed as .000007 mya. I happened in 2007.
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by dougmany 7y ago
Oh yeah. When it would change colors it would run over to the pen holder and pick up a new color. That was fun to watch.
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by dougmany 7y ago
It is basically a search tool to help people find facilities. It does look a lot like a web site though.
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by dougmany 7y ago
I had a Cordova app rejected by the Apple store because it did not use enough native iOS functionality.
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by dougmany 7y ago
Isn't it though. Copying an existing process would not be called entrepreneurship. Sure you can have one new aspect and everything else is the same. But the fundamental driver behind entrepreneurship is the thought that there can be
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by dougmany 7y ago
I averaged about half the time vs walking when I used my kick scooter regularly. Reading the next though, I think they are gaining time by linking transit hubs.
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by dougmany 7y ago
For the lazy: Pfaff is convinced that aggressive prosecution is the biggest cause of over-incarceration. His argument here is compelling. He notes that while incarceration rates began to climb in the 1980s as a response to rising crime, tho
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by dougmany 7y ago
Battery costs are coming down. When electric cars are cheaper than equivalent ICE cars, people will switch. https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2019/8/27/128006-156... from here https://s
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by dougmany 7y ago
You ended that quote too soon. >"However, I've come around to realize that this makes financial sense." Clugston says that it costs about $20,000 a year to house someone. If they're on the street, it can cost up to $1
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by dougmany 7y ago
Well they will not be able to sell their over priced cookies to the uncaring masses.
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by dougmany 7y ago
I remember reading about how google searches reflected mood. One example they gave was people search for cameras when they are happy with their life. I wonder if in 2012 people were in a happier place.
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by dougmany 7y ago
>Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling-class plutocracy One criticism of "Everything will balance itself out by itself thinking&quo
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by dougmany 7y ago
There may also be risk in future liability. Tobacco took a hit because they knew of risks but they continued to sell their products without warning customers. I have heard there is similar evidence for oil companies that knew of global wa
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by dougmany 7y ago
>Better than humans is not enough. By that logic, perfection is not enough because perfect is better than humans.

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