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by flubert 9y ago
I wonder about satellites. How far above the earth's surface would a satellite have to be to keep atmospheric drag low enough to keep an artificial satellite in orbit for a long long time. And how big would it need to be for it to be
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by flubert 9y ago
"No license or permit is required to openly carry a loaded firearm in unincorporated areas where discharge is not prohibited by local ordinance." ...Maybe every county has adopted local ordinances prohibiting open carry in unincor
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by flubert 9y ago
Good catch. I apparently was off by one in counting the over 200,000 population counties, but there are actually 28 counties in my spreadsheet, so the area should be correct (but someone might want to double check anyway).
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by flubert 9y ago
>Open carry licenses do exist, and you can get them, from the Sheriff of a County with population under 200,000; It looks like the 30 California counties with population of less than 200,000 have a combined land area of 73,063 square mil
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by flubert 9y ago
>Note though that the parent refers specifically to handguns. Also there are limitations on the locations where open-carry of unloaded handguns aren't allowed. Specifically, [1] states those locations as: (A) A public place o
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by flubert 9y ago
Your link [1] seems to be concerned exclusively with handguns. I see that there is still hunting that takes place in California: https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Hunting ...someone can correct me if it is limited to archery, or
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by flubert 9y ago
>"It is legal for a licensed gun owner to open-carry in California." Falsehood. ...it looks like your bot didn't consult Wikipedia, which states otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Cal
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by flubert 10y ago
>majority of recent terror attacks in the US have been committed by US citizens. Is there like a list/spreadsheet/wiki/website of "recent terror attacks" with stats like this (i.e. Birthplace of perpetrator, citi
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by flubert 10y ago
I wonder what the best plan is for getting people on board with breeder reactors.
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by flubert 10y ago
Here's a source that say's that 16% of U.S. oil imports come from the Middle East. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6
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by flubert 10y ago
https://www.google.com/#q=uber+greyball&*
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by flubert 10y ago
Any thoughts you'd like to share on: The Myth of the Rule of Law... http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
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by flubert 10y ago
>They should all be quarantined on some remote island off the coast of Alaska. Close. Seems like they are self-segregating in Seattle. http://kuow.org/post/seattle-kids-have-lower-polio-vaccinati...
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by flubert 10y ago
Title should probably mention that the plastic banned is disposable bags, cups, and cutlery. Not IV bags, syringes, laptops, bike helmets, etc..
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by flubert 10y ago
>You still haven't answered the question though; I was never asked a question until now (N.B. the original posters). > do you submit corrections? I haven't for years (as in over 5+ years). I'm sure someone will point o
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by flubert 10y ago
Do you? Seems like there should be a xkcd covering this. The usual case as near as I can tell is something like: Make a minor correction to an obvious error, including a link to a source and other wikipedia articles. Edit gets immediatel
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by flubert 10y ago
I'm sure it is just an oversight that the OP forgot to mention that he is currently heavily invested in the Boston rental market as a landlord.
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by flubert 10y ago
There has been a moderator comment on politics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
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by flubert 10y ago
>it's rare to actually manually recurse in Haskell I wonder if there is a semi-easy way to measure this. My impression was that while the papers and tutorials are all about combinators, the people writing Haskell "in the wild&
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by flubert 10y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110871/ "Currently available evidence indicates that electronic cigarettes are by far a less harmful alternative to smoking and significant health benefits a
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by flubert 10y ago
>I was being facetious. Ah. One thing interesting that just now popped out at me while looking at the page for the "Happiness Index". In most ordinary lists, you wouldn't have any graphic, but Wikipedia has put the countr
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by flubert 10y ago
>I also notice that the most happy countries in the world are all significantly more diverse than the US Am I reading the chart wrong? Or do you have a definition for "diversity". At first glance it doesn't look like it
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by flubert 10y ago
Don't forget to mention the religious diversity, where only 71% of the population belongs to the official Luthern Church of Iceland, while the heathens of the Free Luthern church in Reykjavík and Hafnarfjörður only comprise 5% of the p
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by flubert 10y ago
My favorite part is where they are talking about $40k down payment, when you can buy a house for $40k. http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/309-W-Maple-Ave-Mc-Cracken... http://www.zillow.com/homedetails&#
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by flubert 10y ago
Is anyone trying to correlate this effect with DNA (similar to how cilantro tastes like soap to some). If a seeming large difference in basic sensory processing can go relatively unnoticed for so long, I wonder what else could be flying un
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by flubert 10y ago
Here's one interesting article about the U.S. infant mortality rate compared with other countries: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/why-americ...
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by flubert 10y ago
>Perhaps the fact that 64% of the women were dealing with unemployment suggests a different stressor. It would be interesting to know the breakdown of voluntary vs. unvoluntary unemployment for the "self-harm" group, and the co
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by flubert 10y ago
How many paid holiday's are there in Denmark or Switzerland? Or what is the total number of paid days off including vacation and holidays? I'd say the average number of holidays for white collar workers in the U.S. is about 10 d
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by flubert 10y ago
Can you give us an insider perspective on the illegality of homeschooling in Germany?
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by flubert 10y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=hp+to+watts

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