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by glenra 9y ago
>Autonomous cars incentivize car use, which increases traffic. Don't you have this backwards? Cars driven by fallible humans need lots of separation to avoid collision but cars driven by computers should get by with thinner lanes cl
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by glenra 9y ago
> Google can easily prove that they don't discriminate against white men by demonstrating that their workforce is mainly white men White people are ~78% of the US population (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by glenra 9y ago
> That last chart is really interesting, and maybe quite alarming. The general expectation has always been that most future warming will show up where it's coldest today. For the world average to move by 2 degrees doesn't mean
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by glenra 9y ago
> I know some, but not many, badly overweight people who exercise regularly. There's a lot of reverse causality in that relationship. Being badly overweight makes exercise more unpleasant and prone to cause injury.
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by glenra 9y ago
I suspect that cliff side isn't as steep as it looks - the steepness is being exaggerated by the camera's fisheye lens. The path looks like the sort of ridge trail used by skiers in the winter. Also, the path isn't that nar
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by glenra 9y ago
An obvious interpretation of this data is that some people are risk-takers and others are risk-averse ; the risk-takers are collectively more inclined to do drugs and more inclined to have sex. (Something like an extrovert/introv
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by glenra 9y ago
The number of OD per year is almost meaningless without knowing the number of users per year. (Which also had been increasing sharply in the US.) The last time I looked into this it seemed like illegal heroin use was relatively dangerou
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by glenra 9y ago
The article's timeline counting "deaths from prescription opioid overdoses since 2000" seems hugely misleading in that overdose deaths from prescription use affects a teeny-tiny fraction of opioid prescriptions and that fract
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by glenra 9y ago
> The oddities this time are that the iPhone 8 isn't called the iPhone 7s (even though that's what it so obviously is) The "s" generations always physically looked exactly like the prior non-s. They would keep the s
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by glenra 9y ago
(regarding the merely second-degree murder charge) It's still possible the driver was motivated by fear for his life - that the driver was trying to get away from protestors rather than trying to kill them. The video here even prov
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by glenra 9y ago
> a recent-ish study that compared test performance of various minority/gender groups... You are referring to the idea of "stereotype threat" which, alas, did not survive the replication crisis. Quote "After correct
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by glenra 9y ago
Individual income inequality has been approximately flat for the last 50 years. The variety of income inequality that has increased is household inequality, but that's mostly driven by social changes as that metric is hugely sensit
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by glenra 9y ago
Me too. It's not just fact that TSA has the job to make travel more inconvenient and annoying and expensive, but that there seems to be no limit to how much extra expense and annoyance we're willing to let them inflict on us. An
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by glenra 9y ago
A bog-standard strategy for bootstrapping a new business is to take on your FIRST client for FREE (or nearly so). Pick a business nearby that you like - perhaps your OWN local vet? - and talk to them in person to see if they'd be wil
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by glenra 9y ago
> The veterinarians I've seen are booked from dawn to dusk, so "too many clients" is their issue. Why advertise when you are already booked solid. Websites aren't just advertising, though. They can also reduce suppo
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by glenra 9y ago
> we know for sure that anything non-medicine does, by definition, not work. We don't actually know that. That something is proven to work to the satisfaction of the FDA and the doctor's lobbies is too high a bar to say tha
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by glenra 9y ago
> There's been a few studies where identical resumes have been sent out with "white-sounding" and "non-white-sounding" names, with the white names getting more follow-up. IIRC, that study finding didn't su
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by glenra 9y ago
What really validates is all this protesting. If the protestors are so afraid of a mild-mannered speaker that they need to prevent the speech from happening at all, that sends a pretty strong signal that the views being suppressed must
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by glenra 9y ago
All diets fail for nearly everyone who tries them, the National Weight Control Registry notwithstanding. The fact that a tiny percentage of the populace successfully loses weight does not make "try to do what those people claim they we
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by glenra 9y ago
Hang on, has a counterexample been presented? Maybe we're reading the challenge differently, but I parsed "reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years" a
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by glenra 9y ago
> in comparison to Western Europe [in Russia] gender identity politics is non-existent, and feminism is ridiculed In western society an especially smart, capable woman has the option to gain status/prestige by studying feminism. P
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by glenra 10y ago
They needed to describe the features of the device to explain why it was important they be able to keep that particular device with them - that they were being deprived of something more critical than the mere inconvenience of "just
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by glenra 10y ago
Just as society gained from Disney's being allowed to use the stories and characters of Sleeping Beauty or The Little Mermaid, we would similarly gain from new artists being able to give us new takes on Disney stories and characters. O
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by glenra 10y ago
> Do not lie to federal officers. Do not attract attention. Aren't those in conflict? If you want to not attract attention you want to lie an appropriate amount , like everyone else does. No more, no less. For instance, pretendin
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by glenra 10y ago
If you use the Wayback Machine you should be able to verify that the Obama website didn't have a page on climate (or on lgbt, for that matter) when he first took office - it took years to put one there. Administrations tend to put up
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by glenra 10y ago
Wasn't Obama basically a continuation of Bush as far as State Department policy? If Trump wants to actually change things when it comes to foreign policy, the "institutional memory" of these guys could be a significant hind
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by glenra 10y ago
> Putin is not a warm, fuzzy, lovingly altruistic person. He wouldn't do favors if he didn't get something in return. Right, all he really needs in return is that it embarrasses the US. Heck, for the last 22 years the US ha
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by glenra 10y ago
This seems to be the paper behind the article: http://www.academia.edu/7952415/Accelerating_Moving_Walkway_... What's wrong with buses includes that they take up a lot of space, have a high energy cost to run, ten
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by glenra 10y ago
> climate data (which has always been public.. It has not always been public. Most of it is now public, but there was a period (mostly before "Climategate") in which the relevant info absolutely most definitely was not
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by glenra 10y ago
Hey, remember when info relating to government-held climate records was a big secret and instead of frantically plotting to release the data the same people were frantically plotting to evade FOIA requests for it, on the grounds that if

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