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by gascan 9y ago
That one's sort of understandable. Bad circumstance for everyone. Best Buy didn't do their due diligence, but you very clearly could have been the fraudster pulling the swap rather than the hapless victim.
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by gascan 9y ago
Hypothetically we've weakened the selection pressure against those traits, but they still have some impact. A celiac who continues to eat gluten will not be at their best or healthiest. They will have an uphill battle in life compared
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by gascan 9y ago
I guess as long as it's implemented well it will never matter to anyone who isn't a cheat. But as one of countless time-strapped homeowners who can't remember if he needs a 5/8" widget or a 1/2" widget, I
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by gascan 9y ago
What in particular would you say is driving the USMC to this approach to innovation, compared to the other branches? Are they simply more exposed to unconventional warfare? Is it something about the type of person selected to be a Marine vs
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by gascan 9y ago
Funny, I'm going in the opposite direction. For a long time I omitted hats, gloves, and insulation for my legs on cold days, wearing mostly just a big jacket. I eventually figured out it was silently making me miserable, as my core tem
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by gascan 9y ago
If it's a popular sauce in America, it's almost sugary as a rule. BBQ sauce, maple syrup, salad dressing, tomato sauce. Mustard might be the one solid exception (?) I don't know if this is because sugary sauces become popular
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by gascan 9y ago
It fits in with other things we already know, though. Cleaners and their VOC are responsible for an increasing portion of ground level ozone & smog, which are also correlated with declining lung function. This would be just yet another
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by gascan 9y ago
I still find lightning incredibly ironic. To me, it looks like: * Gold =~ Bitcoin (2009) * Gold Standard =~ Lightning Network (2018) * Fiat Currency =~ (???)
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by gascan 9y ago
for comparison, even the high-end estimates of bitcoin’s total current power consumption are still less than 6 percent of the power consumed by the world’s banking sector. Indeed, congratulations Bitcoin. You are able to process 2.3 trans
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by gascan 9y ago
We're probably thinking of different examples, but to me it's not morality- it's more like the exploration of unintended consequences. If you act like X, what unintended consequence Y might come about? I have always felt like
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by gascan 9y ago
I guess it depends on your preferences- e.g. would you rather be an inauthentic good parent, or an authentically terrible parent?
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by gascan 9y ago
It's not wholly negative. Unintentionally or not, media provides extensive education-by-example of behaviors to avoid, far beyond the cartoon villain.
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by gascan 9y ago
unless outright fraud has been established I've always suspected that was part of the reason- it's simply far easier to defraud small fry who don't have the experience to spot fraud or the resources to prosecute it.
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by gascan 9y ago
There's the repopulation angle of conservation- there's also the education angle. People tend to care more about nature the more they learn about it. The suffering of orangutans in Borneo will tend to mean more to someone who has
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by gascan 9y ago
This doesn't seem to even try to explain by what measure 401(k)'s have failed (if the problem is low contributions, that is not the fault of the 401(k)), or back up the suggestion that pensions are not bankrupting municipalities
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by gascan 9y ago
Taxing on revenue rather than profit feels wrong. Owing absolutely nothing in taxes despite billions in revenue also feels wrong. This seems to be pretty clear retribution for what many believe is rampant abuse of tax law.
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by gascan 9y ago
The rotation/organic/etc argument is that properly managed soil & fields sustain their yields indefinitely with significantly less fertilizer, water, etc input, whereas the traditional industrial ag model achieves higher yield
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by gascan 9y ago
That's an emphatic "yes". Standard fertilizer is NPK- Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium. If it was not possible to drain all of the (bioavaliable) P & K, ask yourself, why would anyone ever need to use NPK?
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by gascan 9y ago
Organic allows pesticides- but the list of approved pesticides is full of things like ethanol and soap. It passes the sniff test that a farmer controlling pests with ethanol might use more than a farmer using, e.g. neonicotinoids. As for fe
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by gascan 9y ago
Presumably it's a throughput & latency optimization. Doc only has to see you once if they already have the x-ray, instead of ordering an x-ray and then seeing you again. We speculatively do things in computers all the time in the n
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by gascan 9y ago
This exists in Android. Greyscale mode is implemented with the very same color-shifting functionality. It's usually under Developer Options.
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by gascan 9y ago
have it drive you to a skiing resort while you sleep Everyone within ten hours of a ski resort has already thought of that. Prepare for ski traffic to get several times worse, and lift lines to stretch up the mountain. Food, lift tickets,
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by gascan 9y ago
See my profile, @gmail.com
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by gascan 9y ago
It occurs to me that growth has one unmitigated good- attaining critical "threshold" economies of scale. Semiconductor technology would still be exotic, expensive, and immature if not for massive economies of scale. It is only thr
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by gascan 9y ago
Any replacement of the utterly ubiquitous USB 2.0 & micro-USB 2.0 was always going to take many years. Give it a few more. The Nexus 5X was one of the earliest harbingers, and that was only two years ago.
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by gascan 9y ago
What you need is more aggressive culling. Eventually more storage space becomes a black hole for a photographer. Your photos go in- and never come out, because the sheer quantity is oppressive. Who wants to spend a Sunday flipping through
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by gascan 9y ago
I wonder which ways the prevailing winds blow? (Do they follow the jetstream?) Salt Lake City, Denver, and Los Angeles all suffer significant air pollution from neighboring states and cities- air pollution is a regional, not local, problem.
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by gascan 9y ago
Growth doesn't seem to be a prerequisite for capitalism. Rather, it's a shortcut, a cheat, that hides or forestalls your sins and indiscretions. Picture a MLM or Ponzi scheme- as long as growth is maintained, the problems can be s
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by gascan 9y ago
I'm with you. I'm amazed how quickly the concept of "My business has to have a presence at night" has become some kind of non-negotiable rule. Exactly how much business is driven by 3AM drivebys? But, the costs of all
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by gascan 9y ago
In support of your argument, just about every damn device these days is covered in LEDs that run 24/7. Look around your house at night. Microwave, electric kettle, stove, phone chargers, smoke detectors, routers, modems, electric tooth

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