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by elgenie 4y ago
Finland has the benefit of a small population (5.5M) and thus a relatively small amount of electricity demand, a large territory with plenty of places where wind turbines aren't going to bother anyone, and humongous geopolitical incent
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by elgenie 4y ago
That a behavior runs a higher risk of death doesn't mean that it's a evolutionary disadvantage at all, let alone clearly. You'd have to calculate out the rewards (is letting all of ones cubs starve in order to avoid a 0.01% c
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It's a bit different. First, Reagan only referred to Springsteen as a hopeful songwriter in a speech on the campaign trail, and that was about it, since Springsteen didn't authorize use of the song on the trail. It should also be
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Despite the text-not-subtext political message, it still somehow occasionally gets willfully misinterpreted. Trump, of all people, came out to it in rallies in 2020 ( https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jo
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If farming worked like this comment presumes, the simple fact that growing things takes time would be a road to financial ruin and nobody could feasibly earn a living doing it. Since there exist both farmers and food, one can conclude that
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Japan’s GDP per capita is similar to what it was in the mid-90s despite sizable per-worker productivity gains because their population is aging rapidly. However, “no obvious way out” is incorrect. Increasing immigration (with citizenship) a
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by elgenie 4y ago
There are huge economies of scale that come with density that lower the per-capita cost of water, sanitation, energy, and transport; and accompanying gains in per capita productivity. And, for reasons that should be obvious, the places &quo
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by elgenie 4y ago
Atherton has zoning that, for the Bay Area, is both very restrictive and very permissive, in a way that makes it a sweet spot for rich people to realize a specific but wide-spread American dream. The restrictive part is that lots have to re
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by elgenie 4y ago
A simple glance at what he, a prominent VC, was investing in (and publicly promoting) at the time would've told you he wasn't walking the walk.
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A God entity snapping its fingers 10,001 years ago fits neither "guided" nor "over millions of years" nor "less than 10,000 years ago".
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The 10K years bit is in the question Gallup asks. However, it's posed about humans in their current form, not the Earth. Note: as I'm commenting, the post title reads "40% of Americans believe the Earth was created within the
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by elgenie 4y ago
You’re incorrect about the middle of tectonic plates being safe from earthquakes by definition. Locating naively built skyscrapers in New Madrid, MO, for example, would be a bad idea. [1] On a geological timescale, tectonic plates occasiona
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Distinguishing between failure modes isn’t nitpicking when the difference is between the plant being totaled for the purposes of future power generation as opposed to spewing radioactivity over a third of a continent. An Airbus that loses a
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by elgenie 4y ago
Only 1% of the corn grown in the US is "sweet corn", i.e. corn that's meant for direct human consumption on the cob or canned. The other 99% is "field corn", and that gets used primarily in livestock feeds and ethan
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by elgenie 4y ago
Iowa has been doing a solid job of making the Iowa caucuses significantly less relevant all on their own. The state and its registered Dem and GOP cohorts have become much less representative of the nation as a whole over the last two decad
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by elgenie 5y ago
If the physical design of the street says that it expects to be traversed at 40mph, people will drive 35 to 45mph on it even if the posted speed limit says 25. This situation offers tremendous benefits to traffic police officers a bit behin
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by elgenie 5y ago
For most any value of creative "X", "Christian X" is going to be populated by those retreating into the niche because they're emphatically not good enough at "X" to achieve mainstream success, to the point
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by elgenie 5y ago
I suspect that a big factor at play is that a lot of ex-restaurant workers realized those jobs kind of suck. The pandemic made a lot of restaurants close and lay off staff without a foreseeable return date, pushing people to seek employment
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by elgenie 5y ago
A reasonable and forum-appropriate analogy might be touch-typing. In the nanosecond at which the lights go out, Ronaldo's brain has finished (the equivalent of) considering the concept of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy d
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by elgenie 5y ago
Consider also that until the 20th century around half of the people born died before adulthood and around a quarter did so before the age of one [0]. Those geniuses didn't even get the chance to be the smartest uneducated subsistence f
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by elgenie 5y ago
The Soviets also imposed (badly needed) reforms on the alphabet and spelling of Russian itself ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthography... ), getting rid of two pairs and one trio of phonetically re
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by elgenie 5y ago
According to Wikipedia [1], it’s a matter of some debate, with the theories being the (standard) corruption of a name for the first Western Baltic people encountered, or a take on the “unintelligible war cry” people from the Latvian root f
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by elgenie 5y ago
In Russian, at least, the country remains “Germany” but the people from it are the “mute-sies”, unlike pretty much every other pairing of country name / demonym.
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by elgenie 6y ago
The causality goes the other way. Technologies that are fast to develop in but comprised of heaps of inefficient layers upon inefficient layers are possible in the first place because computers are powerful and have oodles of RAM. There’s s
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Senate is irrelevant in this case because the Paris Agreement is not regarded as a treaty. The Senate didn’t ratify anything five years ago either.
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Kinda sorta. The US is likely to officially re-enter the Paris climate accord in 77 days.
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Calling “gaussian noise” “normal noise”, like the associated distribution, would not lose any precision
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This would be a problem if his job were to prove that his client is innocent. But it is. Instead, the job is to argue that the prosecutor is not able to prove that guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and to advocate for his client's best i
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by elgenie 6y ago
> The bar does not exist to serve lawyers, it exists to regulate them. Those are far from being in opposition. A cynic might say the bar exists to serve lawyers as a class by doing the bare minimum to appear to be regulating them.
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by elgenie 6y ago
That’s a different Biblical personage. The son of Noah from which “Semite” derives is Shem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem ), and is quite distinct from the prophet Samuel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w

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