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by enoch_r 3y ago
Is this more of an issue for evaporated brine than for regular landfills? I thought that modern landfills had pretty advanced systems for preventing groundwater contamination, but it does seem possible that the problem is harder for water s
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by enoch_r 3y ago
The US consumes about 322 billion gallons of water per day. There are about 66.5 cubic centimeters of salt in a gallon of water. If we bury the salt in 200-foot deep landfills, that's a total of roughly 32k acres per year, less than 2%
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by enoch_r 3y ago
I think you have your rose-colored glasses on when looking at the past. Air pollution: down since the 1990s. [1][2][3] Water pollution: down since the 1990s. [4][5] Noise/light pollution: definitely up since the 1990s, agreed there. Ca
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by enoch_r 3y ago
I… actually think it’s a good thing when criminals are jailed? For example, if a family member of mine committed murder, I would be quite pleased if my DNA could contribute to the investigation, as seems to have happened in the Bryan Kohber
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by enoch_r 3y ago
On the contrary, emotion is at the very core of any justice system. When we minimize crime, we are trying to minimize the psychological harm done by crime and criminals. It is "base instinct" for me to wish to avoid being punched,
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by enoch_r 4y ago
> They should kill fees all together. Have it just leave that at the hands of the host to bake into a single cost that they want to charge per night, and simplify it. It's perfectly reasonable for hosts to charge more for a single n
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by enoch_r 4y ago
I got sucked into reading a few other posts by the same author and one is about exactly this! https://brr.fyi/posts/frost Pretty incredible.
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by enoch_r 4y ago
African elephants are not endangered, especially in Zimbabwe (where he apparently shot the elephant): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63597223 Of course it's totally valid to make whatever decisions you like
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by enoch_r 4y ago
Paying people to raise social, intelligent animals in horrific environments and then slaughter them seems more morally questionable than quickly ending the life of a wild elephant. Do you ensure that the CEOs of companies you do work with a
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by enoch_r 5y ago
This seems incredibly unlikely to be true - if 34% of students lied, and 48% of people who lied claimed to be Native American, then ~17% of college students should be Native American. Which they're not, suggesting that this is probably
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by enoch_r 6y ago
The headline and first few paragraphs are just an incredibly misleading framing of the study results. - drivers experienced with L2 assistance were the most aware of on-road events - drivers inexperienced with L2 assistance were the least a
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by enoch_r 6y ago
You may be interested in this study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=586405 The authors used changes in the terror alert level (which caused increases in police presence) as a natural experiment, an
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by enoch_r 6y ago
> most homicide is domestic This doesn't seem to be true. According to Wikipedia, there were 2340 domestic homicides in 2007.[1] There were 18,361 homicides that year.[2] So <13% of homicides were domestic. You may have read a st
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by enoch_r 6y ago
I'll add Colin Kaepernick to the list for next time! I should also include things like the woman who lots her internship after she made a bad pro-BLM analogy: https://jonathanturley.org/2020/07/03/ima-sta
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by enoch_r 6y ago
Kindness Yoga shut down after their pro-BLM posts online were criticized as "performative activism" by employees: https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/29/kindness-yoga-closure-dur... A woman in Kentucky
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by enoch_r 6y ago
I completely agree that some calls to terminate people are good, and others are bad. I think you're interpreting my comments, and the letter, as saying "there should be a blanket norm against calling for anyone's ouster for t
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by enoch_r 6y ago
Let me try to restate. As I understand it, you're saying that people are advocating for the free expression of ideas - and yet , when people use that freedom to insult them call for their termination, they get mad. This seems contradi
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by enoch_r 6y ago
I'm saying there exist, in some communities, cultural norms that we treat ideas we disagree with with respect. We interpret them charitably. We don't make personal attacks on those who hold them. We assume good faith. If you under
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by enoch_r 6y ago
The HN guidelines say: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Are these good guidelines? Do you
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by enoch_r 6y ago
The claim is not that anyone should be immune to public shaming. The claim is that as a culture, we are reaching for public shaming far more often than we should. Imagine there are two college campuses. On campus A, when students disagree
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by enoch_r 6y ago
The Atreus is by far my favorite keyboard, I have a Keyboardio that I never use because the Atreus is so great. The key is to pull it off your desk and put it in your lap. You end up typing with your hands on your thighs, which feels quite
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by enoch_r 7y ago
Pedestrians and runners don't stop at stop signs and it doesn't seem like a problem, so it seems clear to me that "everyone is required to stop at stop signs all the time" is not the only workable legal solution here. In
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by enoch_r 7y ago
Your claim: > a bike plus adequate space around it is only a bit smaller than a car with adequate space around it. Here is an example photo from a recent organized bike ride in my city: https://images.app.goo.gl/S1Nh8d7zq
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by enoch_r 7y ago
1. It seems to me that all the photos are of roughly "maximum congestion" of each vehicle type. So the cars are pictured as if they're stopped at a light or in heavy traffic, while if they we traveling at 50mph I'd hope
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by enoch_r 7y ago
Where I live, the primary goal of blocking vehicle traffic from cutting through is to protect "neighborhood greenways" from getting inundated with car traffic. These are specially designated bike routes on neighborhood streets tha
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by enoch_r 7y ago
In Portland the city has put up "diverters," which block cars from continuing along a neighborhood street while allowing pedestrians and bikes through. It makes the street useless as a cut-through. I love this model and wish they&
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by enoch_r 7y ago
Streets have many purposes. They allow people to access their homes. They provide parking. They are bike routes, walking routes, scooter routes, running routes, skateboard routes, and driving routes. They are sometimes even places kids can
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by enoch_r 7y ago
This is true for freeways and possibly multi lane arterials. It's absolutely not true for small neighborhood streets, which seem to be the shortcuts at issue here.
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by enoch_r 7y ago
I switched from a Macbook Pro around 2015 or so. Since then I've used a few Thinkpads (T470, X1C, P50). Currently I'm on a X1C7. They're great machines, work perfectly with Linux, high build quality, etc.

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