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by glenra 10y ago
> if it snows, now you are carrying tons of snow until you devote a small army of trucks to go clean the snow I don't think you've thought this part through. Not that snow isn't a problem that needs dealing with, but &qu
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by glenra 10y ago
Trump was mocking behavior - the being inconsistent part of it - not mocking disability. It's the difference between mocking somebody for their views and statements who merely happens to have a disability and mocking somebody fo
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by glenra 10y ago
You may have seen video of Trump , but you haven't seen video of the reporter in question. Here's some video of the reporter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baUuXQ443fA And here's Trump doing a similar impr
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by glenra 10y ago
What's wrong with the physics?
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by glenra 10y ago
Right, and Heinlein's solution to "whizzing past the bakery" was that there would be food service traveling along the road with you. In NYC, maybe very skinny food carts?
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by glenra 10y ago
> none of the successful dropouts ever went back to school. Bill Gates didn’t go back. Mark Zuckerberg didn’t go back. To go back would imply personal failure. Steve Wozniak went back to school (UC Berkeley, using an alias) and finishe
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by glenra 10y ago
I signed up, was put on the waiting list, received my invite a couple days later.
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by glenra 10y ago
LASIK is purely mechanical and generally well-understood and the improvement is directly measurable and involves applying a particular fix and then you're done. Dentistry can be like that too. As can some orthopedic stuff like setting
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by glenra 10y ago
> what if Apple had indeed sabotaged the Note 7 production line? Here's a better hypothesis: building a smartphone that is very thin yet has decent battery life and charges quickly is really hard . It requires tricky engineering
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by glenra 10y ago
Forgot to mention: a key part of that question is the vagueness of the wording "significant contributing factor" . "Significant" certainly includes "small but statistically significant" and also includes &qu
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by glenra 10y ago
There's at least one other survey that did the same trick - turned ~80% agreement in a big group into 97% in a minuscule subsample. Additionally, John Cook - the guy who runs skepticalscience - did some studies claiming to find high a
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by glenra 10y ago
> As is widely published, 97+% of climate scientists agree that anthropogenic climate change is occurring. That "97%" claim is questionable. The usual source on that number is this paper from 2009: http://onlinelib
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by glenra 10y ago
An Airpod that could generate really loud infrasound would probably have amazing bass response, but I'm pretty sure that's not what was invented here. And subliminal messages don't work, so...why would we care if somebody p
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by glenra 10y ago
Immediately after every Apple product presentation the people attending the presentation can try out the product in an adjacent "demo area". Which means there are at least a thousand people who could have tried on the headphones a
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by glenra 10y ago
Why would major numbers of people take an unproven drug with unknown effects/consequences? Seems like a self-limiting problem. When a drug is unknown and unproven, relatively few people will take it unless they have pretty good rea
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by glenra 10y ago
Celebrate the opening of northern passages to more sea traffic and the new access to new previously inaccessible resources?
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by glenra 10y ago
> we can't lower standards just to encourage new entrants. Why the heck not? Two obvious reform options are: (1) New rule: any medical device or medicine officially approved for use in any of (large list of countries deemed to hav
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by glenra 10y ago
Price competition is mostly illegal due to the way the health industry has been successfully cartelized over the years. The usual benefit of free-market competition is that inefficient providers are allowed to go broke while better ones exp
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by glenra 10y ago
A handheld GPS typically offers a few options: (a) fastest route, (b) simplest route, (c) shortest route. These problems happen to people who pick (c) or worse, pick (c) with an added "avoid major roads" modifier. Which can be a g
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by glenra 10y ago
Wait, what do you mean the claim "has never been duplicated in a laboratory"? The article was about EXACTLY THAT THING. A dozen former Biggest Loser contestants went into a laboratory for a few days for a study in which they had
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by glenra 10y ago
The study of Biggest Loser contestants included people who (after they lost weight) were burning hundreds of calories LESS than a person of their weight normally would be. (The average metabolic deficit in the study was 500 calories/da
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by glenra 11y ago
> The claim [...] is that the wine develops differently inside the smaller container Is there some reason they couldn't let it "develop" an appropriate amount of time inside the larger container, then divide the result i
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by glenra 11y ago
Though hopefully it'll get peer reviewed (and revised in light of review) and maybe even published sometime before that happens.
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by glenra 11y ago
along with this: > 6. Women have lower acceptance rates as outsiders when they are identifiable as women. They should have added this: 7. Men have lower acceptance rates as outsiders when they are identifiable as men. Seeing those tw
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by glenra 11y ago
> [ketchup] counts as a vegetable in school lunches... That is a myth. The truth is fairly complex but boils down to that one agency briefly proposed adopting rules that might if adopted have allowed things like pickle relish to &q
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by glenra 11y ago
If this article ( http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/raw-data-lead-... ) is correct, the problem specifically of lead in Flint seems to have been worse throughout the 1990s and most of the 2000s.
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by glenra 11y ago
The guy you're thinking of wasn't a Monsanto lobbyist. http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/03/27/no-its-...
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by glenra 11y ago
Our security apparatus is the boy who cried "wolf" (okay, actually they cried "terrorist", but close enough). They've repeatedly lied to Congress and to the people, including lying about having programs and lying ab
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by glenra 11y ago
> why would someone eat Soylent? Oily farty flavorless sand milkshake? You seem to be reacting to version 1.0; the current shipping versions are 1.5 (in powder packs) and 2.0 (in liquid bottles) Soylent being an engineered food which i
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by glenra 11y ago
How would it hurt? We get wood pulp from trees that are farmed , not by clearcutting old-growth rainforest. If we used less tree pulp, the obvious result would be that we'd plant fewer acres of forest. If anything, finding more uses f

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