i_am_nomad

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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I used to live right near the park, 1/4 mile from the N-Judah. The infrastructure in that area can barely support the housing stock that exists right now.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
“Only be out the house and whatever payments” isn’t negligible in most cases, why are you hand-waving that away?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
YIMBY should more properly be called YITBY (yes in their back yards).
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Except the school bus is a public good. Are you saying that we should reframe housing as a public good as well and provide it as such?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Costco sells USDA Prime? That’s worth the trip alone. Most grocery stores never have Prime.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I’d call that a reverse cargo cult, if so.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
But the processing and shipping isn’t the problem with desalination. The problem is that dumping bribe or salt into the ocean can kill local wildlife.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Probably depends on the vapor pressureS of the VOCs; if less than water, then no.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Mixing cultures makes everyone nicer.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I’d need a source for this, because this seems incorrect. Most of the captured carbon would enter a food cycle, and while some of it might become methane, much more of it would be constantly cycled in the ecosystem, and some would end up as
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
To be fair, a very, very stressed out 31 year old doctor died from it. Stress does truly awful things to the immune system.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Yes, the “person from Porlock” who knocked on his door to sell him insurance. That’s the most enduring thing about that poem, as it’s so relatable. Those people from Porlock are everywhere.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Should anyone buying that insulin have to divulge how much money they make a year and what other things they spend their money on, so that the manufacturer can figure out how much to charge?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I’ve heard very, very few worthy covers of it. The most recent is by Vomitron.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
As you shouldn’t, there have been at least two horrible incidents in the last year or so where “ESA” dogs mauled another passenger.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
One thought about this, ICD9/10 are medical coding standards. They have only a very shallow semantic depth to them, they’re more about completeness and specificity. They don’t map well to what OWL tries to do.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
This has been around for a while. It’s excellent, and I’ve tried to get it adopted at several life science organizations. The problem is culture. Principal investigators are notoriously stubborn about how they do things, and that includes
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
How is this not a display of religious symbols on public property? I assume because the city government doesn't maintain it and it doesn't impede city works?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Let me be more precise (for you and for the people who downvoted me): fusion will never be cost effective. Ever. There is no conceivable material for the walls of a reactor that could withstand the neutron bombardment from the reaction. May
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Fusion is never going to work at all. The only fusion reactor we’ll ever have is 93 million miles away.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
When you get off a plane from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa, you are often greeted by the smell of countless open cooking fires dotting the land. It’s quite nice in my opinion, though it’s not healthy for those who use them.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Matt Stoller puts this into context in his recent and excellent book “Goliath,” specifically the pro-monopoly, proto-fascist forces dominating America at the time. And of course, he brings this forward to the present, where we are currently
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Thank you. Every time I see a fusion article - and it’s always a breathless “just around the corner” puff piece - I scan it to see if they’ve solved neutron embrittlement, or even come close. So far, no one has.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
But that’s my favorite drug name, despite its antiquity. There’s just such a goofy mismatch between something that sounds like magical fairy sparkles from heaven, and a drug that lets you fight six cops at the same time and win.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
We have to treat the causes of homelessness. And I don’t think the cause is “not enough software.”
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I'm not the New York Times, I'm n=1. I can't really generate my own statistics. And see the other person's reply about immigration vs. illegal immigration.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
To be sure, I am no great detective or even particularly smart; I'm sure people fool me every day. I used to work in substance abuse research, and your story (which I am sorry to hear) rings very true. You're right that I don&#x
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
You're being downvoted, but there's a lot of valid social critique contained in the seemingly cruel "learn to code" meme.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Fast food. Warehouse picking. Wholesale food packing. "Attendant" style jobs. Basic landscaping. I've done several of these in my youth - they were luxurious compared to the offerings now. Forty hours a week, no gamifica
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I haven't suggested anything, except that the problem is much more complex than most people acknowledge, and that some causes of the problems seem to be deliberately ignored. That being said, I would recommend universal healthcare, vou

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