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by gbrown 6y ago
Interestingly, much of the current young woodland would have been gone, replaced by prairie and oak savanna.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Citation needed? They ate grass instead of corn, and spread their waste over vast areas of wilderness, ready to be incorporated back into the plantlife. Also, a quick Google search says there were 30-60 million bison roaming the plains. Tod
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by gbrown 6y ago
Are you using it as a daily driver?
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by gbrown 6y ago
Can you point to anything specific that addresses the objection raised? Nobody contests that brick and mortar charter schools have higher performance - the issues come down to the resources they receive and the fact that they have unique ab
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by gbrown 6y ago
This seems like an area where regulations would be helpful. All persistently internet connected mobile devices with cameras must have one hardware activated status LED per camera, visible to the user. Same should go for microphones actually
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by gbrown 6y ago
We really need hardware LED indicators for phone cameras.
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by gbrown 6y ago
What do you mean it’s not robust to log transformations? A log transformation changes the inference to be about the conditional geometric mean, certainly (the log of an average of x is not equal to the average of a log(x)), but this is ofte
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by gbrown 6y ago
That may be harmful to some birds, FYI. Among wildlife photographers, playing bird calls is sometimes considered unethical as it can interfere with their natural behavior, cause stress responses, interfere with mating activity, etc. Guide f
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by gbrown 6y ago
I have one of these... it needs to be re-greased, since it's currently making lots of noise when raising and lowering. It would also be vastly improved by implementing acceleration instead of just starting and stopping its motion at fu
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by gbrown 6y ago
If I had more free time, I’d legitimately start a WISP for my neighborhood.
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by gbrown 6y ago
I’d happily switch with you lol. $60 for 10/0.5. American broadband infrastructure is a sad joke.
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by gbrown 6y ago
I’m paying $60 for 10Mbps down and 0.5 up. It’s a weird situation. Windstream lies to the federal government and says they offer broadband to my area, when they don’t offer any service at all. The only actual provider (South Slope), which o
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by gbrown 6y ago
... and do you support that? Anyway, a much better example would be forced sterilization policies.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Plus, no ublock origin for Safari.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Fedora seems like a sensible middle ground.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Check out the SoftBART method, I think there are interesting optimizations possible there. XBart also looks promising as an approach.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Because even in the case of entirely consensual sex, at the end of the day only one party is faced with important decisions concerning their own body. To try to insert non-physical concerns of a third party into that calculus is an order-of
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by gbrown 6y ago
Whoa, this is about bodily autonomy, not economic inconvenience. You would subjugate women’s bodies for the economic concerns of males? That’s a completely nonsensical and abhorrent view.
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by gbrown 6y ago
That’s why I like “anti-forced-birthing” more than “pro-choice”.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Thanks, that’s very helpful.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Can you get an injunction through small claims? I was under the impression (in the US at least) that this is not generally possible.
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by gbrown 6y ago
> And yet there's nothing stopping that fact from happening again and it hasn't. This doesn't quite ring true, since the environment which a new Eukaryotalike would have to compete in is a lot different now, since there ar
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by gbrown 6y ago
No, given that we can map the dark matter density in galaxies - having a bunch of dark matter galaxies wouldn't explain the shapes of what we actually observe.
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by gbrown 6y ago
I don’t have to imagine.
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by gbrown 6y ago
This is so completely fucked. I always worry about sounding hyperbolic, but I really do wonder these days if we’re living through the last days of the American republic.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Isn’t that just axiomatic? Of course anything you can do with a class you can do with a function + state. The prose is to make that pattern more natural for humans to program and use.
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by gbrown 6y ago
> Once I lost my key to my bike lock and went ahead and got to cutting it. As I was about to take off a cruiser pulls up and takes my info in case someone reported it stolen. Neighbor called the police. That seems very different than the
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by gbrown 6y ago
1. No 2. Secure? No. More secure? Yes.
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by gbrown 6y ago
It’s not really a meaningful comparison though - MOOCs have a lower (zero) barrier to entry, and a lower (zero) price of dropping. College is expensive, requires admission, and confers actual credit/degrees.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Surely you realize that this is not a universal experience...

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