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by fasthands9 3y ago
>“The mismatch between the DNA-based prediction and Beethoven’s musical genius provides a valuable teaching moment, because it demonstrates that DNA tests cannot give us a definitive answer about whether a given child will end up being m
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by fasthands9 3y ago
To add to this Death Valley is bigger than Delaware. It has multiple entrances that are over 90 minutes apart. To visit all of them and then and then get to the nearest bank could be half a day if not a whole day. I would not be surprised i
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Airports are one thing that the government has to be involved in either way. You can't just tell airlines to pay for things themselves but then also give every suburb the ability to veto construction on land in other cities.
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I am skeptical that libertarians who want legalized drugs would be okay with tracking. For progressive-minded people I'm skeptical too, most harm reduction programs I see emphasize anonymity. The link below is framework for harm reduct
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I agree for the most part. I used to be more pro legalization of everything. It definitely seems like if you do the cost benefit analysis for individual cases it is better to not punish people for ingesting a substance voluntarily. That sai
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I am still pretty intrigued by the whole topic even if it's a spectrum. From what I've read, beavers build dams instinctually if they hear running water. This applies to beavers raised in captivity that were separated from their p
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I admit I think there are reasons beyond that. I realize it's anecdotal, but I rarely hear about this type of event at Amazon or Microsoft or even Apple. Google attracts a lot of disputes like this. I would speculate it has something t
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I don't disagree with this - but work at a co-op if you prefer that system of management? I actually like working at a corporation because I don't have to play politics or worry about parts of the business I'm not involved in
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Sometimes people use the phrase "adults in the room" and I think anyone who is not capable of separating a specific issue from a specific policy or not adults. Clearly, as you said, it would be chaos if exceptions for not followin
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by fasthands9 3y ago
https://www.edgewortheconomics.com/experience-independent-au... This claims the false positive rate is under 3%. It's based on Shotspotter's statistics and "independent audit" statistics. Not sure how tr
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Being skeptical of face value claims makes sense if they have never been used before. But, they've been in place in some cities since before 2000 and after searching I'm still not aware of any incident audio from it was used that
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Fair enough. My previous statement was incorrect. Edited above. I understand the hypothetical case they could be misused but I'm still not aware of any cases they actually were. >On June 8, 2007, the Shotspotter acoustic gunshot det
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I'm curious if the author lives in the wealthier or non wealthy region. I do not own a gun. I currently live in a city and would be happy to learn they were installing shot spotter near me. It's maybe the least intrusive type of s
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Perhaps I have my own bias, but I never quite get why record labels are always considered bad for musicians. From my understanding record labels put up a lot of money upfront and profit, sometimes very much, if the artist blows up. I unders
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by fasthands9 3y ago
For reference this estimate from 2000 (Atlanta has grown a lot since then) estimates there are 1,370,000 housing units in the "ten country" metro Atlanta area. The estimate in this study is that three different companies own a com
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I wrote that flipped.
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I agree. The donation is a pretty great thing - but without increasing the number of residency slots per year it seems like it may just shift people that would go to another school to go to this one.
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by fasthands9 3y ago
It's hard to see how the price problems are meaningful. Electricity in Texas is about twice as high than California. The 180x spike last only a few hours in a few spots. The consumer's total costs over the course of a year are low
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I can sympathize with affirmative action when it started. In 1970 US was about 87% white, 11% black, 1% asian, and less than 1% mixed. There wasn't that much immigration from Africa, so it was pretty clear who was descended from Americ
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by fasthands9 3y ago
It also seems like a straightforward resource coordination problem. If a city has 10 car thieves and all cars are relatively hard to steal, the city can manage the police resources to investigate the crimes. If a city has 10 car thieves and
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I agree that 401k rules are not ideal. It seems reasonable that once you have X dollars in it the tax advantage should stop. Why should the government encourage me to save more money when at age 30 I already have hundreds of thousands of do
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by fasthands9 3y ago
It is also a tricky statistical problem. Obviously the covid vaccine was an unprecedented effort, but do remember reading how the high rate of infection in the US made it statistically easier to test. Within a few months you could observe t
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I do not like the Sierra Club - but in the political scene it is 100% on the left wing side. If you are saying it's "not truly left wing" then that scenes like a high bar. Sure, there are plenty of orgs to the left of them, b
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Local chapters of the Sierra Club still routinely oppose many types of infill housing development. I believe the national org is now YIMBY and most chapters are, but there are certainly many progressive/environmental orgs that have blo
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Sure. But that has nothing to do with applauding smaller packaging in the abstract.
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by fasthands9 3y ago
If they were reducing prices at same time then it wouldn't be "shrinkflation". The movement by the WH here to blame companies is a bit silly IMO, but a response to the data they are looking up which shows prices going up on a
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Crime is obviously down over the decades, which is very important, but I think it would be silly to deny there was a major uptick in murders in 2020. https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-ra
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by fasthands9 3y ago
As far as I can tell all those links you posted were case studies involving public administration jobs and bureaucracy. Parkinson's Law is explicitly about this. It is not at all clear if (or how) productivity would go up in most other
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Four day work weeks are popular in the same way it is both popular that taxes should be lower and public spending are both popular. Degrowth/anti-capitalism are popular to many but even among this subset of people they are very upset (
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by fasthands9 3y ago
https://champsorchumps.us/records/most-mlb-wins-since-2000 https://www.fueledbysports.com/mlb-payrolls/ I think the salary cap does make it possible for any teams to be more competitive. The tea

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