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by greeneggs 6y ago
You just have to be able to live with yourself, given that your trip (and presumably your lifestyle more generally) is destroying the very thing that you are visiting to admire. That's beyond me.
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by greeneggs 6y ago
Instead of posting uninformed speculation, you can just Google it… > In 2017, the U.S.-based VW executive Oliver Schmidt, who oversaw emissions issues, was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $400,000, the maximum possible under
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by greeneggs 6y ago
Of course it isn't that simple. If your farm's tomatoes are more expensive than your neighbors' tomatoes, then nobody will buy them. You'll quickly go bankrupt. It is also difficult because of the two tiers of labor. A
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by greeneggs 6y ago
I am curious how much additional information, if any, is learned from a person's face. From a full-body photo, with the face blacked out, what can be learned?
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by greeneggs 6y ago
I think that they positively spread awareness of both problems and solutions. If a patient doesn't know about a drug, then they might not bring the problem up with their doctor. Viagra might be a good example. Many, or even most, me
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by greeneggs 6y ago
The reference is presumably to hiking the Annapurna Circuit, not for climbing Annapurna itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna_Circuit
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by greeneggs 6y ago
What will you do when you stop making progress? Once you get beyond the beginner level, progress will flatten out, and as you age it will go backward. As a runner, just slightly older than you, I am getting dramatically slower, and certain
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by greeneggs 6y ago
The point of the system is to encourage moderation, and it does well at this. Sometimes you get two Democrats, as in recent Senate elections, and sometimes one Democrat and one Republican, as in the 2018 governor's race.
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by greeneggs 6y ago
Trans fats were banned by the FDA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/18/artif...
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by greeneggs 6y ago
Given Boeing's recent problems, I would be much happier on an old design that has been well tested, than on a brand-new design.
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by greeneggs 6y ago
> surely we can, in principle, genetically modify ourselves to fix the problem gene drives would cause? It might not be practically possible. Genetic modification has side effects, where typos are introduced in other areas than the targ
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by greeneggs 6y ago
A landfill sequesters the carbon. Burning the plastic puts it into the atmosphere. That's a bad idea. If the problem is that "recycling" programs don't always recycle, then just landfill it all. Problem solved.
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by greeneggs 6y ago
There's quite a lot of literature on the US and UK's no-concessions policies on kidnapping. Here's one example [1]. A few quotes: > Despite the U.S. no-concessions policy, U.S. citizens continue to top the list of nation
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Physicists argue that black holes from the Big Bang could be the dark matter(quantamagazine.org)
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by greeneggs 6y ago
I think they wanted to pick relatable scientists, not just inspirational ones. Ironically, this itself has inspirational effects. I know that I myself was more inspired by stories from average physicists than by Einstein or Feynman. It s
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by greeneggs 6y ago
The problem is stated correctly. You are reading it incorrectly, but I am not sure how. If c=0, then it says that f(x)=f(y) if and only if (<=>) x=y. In other words, for all x≠y, f(x)≠f(y). Thus the function is 1-to-1. This is a n
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by greeneggs 6y ago
There is limited testing availability across the US. Making the tests free encourages people with spare time to get tested repeatedly, at the cost of essential workers who then have a difficult time getting tested. In Los Angeles, there ar
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by greeneggs 6y ago
It's like dating where each bad date costs $250+. (Around here, the initial appointment is not free and often costs extra.) Obviously the process works for some people, but it is dauntingly difficult. And phone/video therapy, thes
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by greeneggs 6y ago
Just for context, there are 22 other solar systems within 12 light years of us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars_and_brow...
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by greeneggs 6y ago
Check out the Kimley-Horn Integrated Transportation System (KITS): https://www.kimley-horn.com/service/kits-advanced-traffic-ma... A user manual might give you some sense of the complications (bus priority, special eve
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by greeneggs 6y ago
Looking at the results, there doesn't seem to be a large difference between the two languages. And it is a very small sample size. I am not sure how to interpret it. Here is a link to the paper: https://brussels.evolang.or
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by greeneggs 6y ago
I think you, and others, might just be misinterpreting the point of the map. My take is that it is to help people look for the satellites. A 60 degree above the horizon cutoff isn't unreasonable, and making the circles much larger wo
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by greeneggs 6y ago
Seven US states have "at large" congressional districts, and a few states have one at large district. This seems easier and maybe more sensible for a state's representatives in the US Congress. [0] Apparently, there used to
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by greeneggs 6y ago
Space tourism to the ISS is just US taxpayers paying for billionaires' vacations. Yes, NASA charges a fee, but it is tiny relative to the cost of the service. If somebody develops a private space station, great. Until then, this isn
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by greeneggs 6y ago
Isn't Walmart a platform? They have similar "Sold and shipped by XXX" as does Amazon. Random example: https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=bicycle%20tires
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by greeneggs 6y ago
> If everyone uses it and is able to grocery shop less often because they feel less food stress, things are improved. But that is exactly the issue that gorgoiler points out with the queue example. Everybody won't use your websit
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by greeneggs 7y ago
This average isn't quite right, since it assumes that everyone is in the program for the full 12 months. That's certainly not the case. (In fact, many people without dependents are limited to 3 months of SNAP in 3 years.)
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by greeneggs 7y ago
The US government does have such a stockpile. > The Department of Health and Human Services said last week that the stockpile has about 12 million N95 respirators and 30 million surgical masks —a scant 1 percent of the estimated 3.5 bill
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by greeneggs 7y ago
There are many online collaborative whiteboards. Those are the keywords you need to search for. I can't really recommend one since they all seem to have serious flaws. But for your use case, one might suffice.
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by greeneggs 7y ago
The risk increases as the fraction of infected people increases. For example, if you have 200 people on an airplane from SFO today, there is a good chance that nobody will be infected. Next week, when there are many more cases, a gatherin

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