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by iguy 6y ago
I thought the most important fuel of the Dutch golden age was peat, not wind. The first really fossil-fuelled economy. (You can see evidence of it flying over, marshy areas where this was strip-mined, I mean strips the size you could load o
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by iguy 6y ago
You're mis-reading me. Nowhere have I proposed any well-thought-out secret scheme. I'm pushing back against a story that says there's one precise purpose to this, which I thought was your claim above: "pretty obviously j
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by iguy 6y ago
Conspiracy is quite a strong word! My take on the neutral explanation would be is to assume that it's like every other policy -- about a dozen people with varying motivations had to support it, and then a few more motivations got added
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by iguy 6y ago
Sure, but maybe this has better PR than scrapping stuff. Or having it show up in Isis videos. Mostly I don't think it's clear that "subsidize domestic police forces" need be the main goal.
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by iguy 6y ago
And perhaps a way to turn over the army's stockpile & keep its suppliers in business. Quite a bit of the defense budget seems to have this goal, and it's not crazy -- if you skip a generation of tanks/planes/ships be
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by iguy 6y ago
I was surprised by this, as I assumed from the first pictures that it was going to be electromagnets. Seems like a lot of moving parts to do it this way.
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by iguy 6y ago
Here's a blog post laying out in detail the gulf from Darwin: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2020/10/07/did-arabs-come-up-...
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by iguy 6y ago
Deep fried anything used to be a luxury, because calories were expensive, and a whole pot of boiling oil is a lot of calories. IIRC, southern fried chicken in the US descends from cooking styles that only the aristocrats of western England
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by iguy 6y ago
Silicone, BTW. (As opposed to the stuff Intel etches.)
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by iguy 6y ago
I can't read the article, but in my understanding, sand for concrete is what might be scarce. Because it has to have particles with the right degree of sharp corners. (IIRC, the Saudis import this from Australia or something, because
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by iguy 6y ago
Source is [1], 45k / 1290k for drug possession (and nothing harder), plus 145k for other drug charges (which I guess is closer to 11% not 10% as I said). Minnesota's 17% isn't that far off the national number it seems. They d
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by iguy 6y ago
When you say a co-factor, can you say more about what you have in mind? For instance it could be a junky who needs to feed his own habit. It could be that the profits available from dealing in some area motivate gangs to take control of it.
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by iguy 6y ago
But only about 10% of prisoners are in Federal custody. Among those in state prisons, drug possession is about 3% of cases (about equal to DUI plus fraud cases). Other drug charges make up about 10%.
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by iguy 6y ago
About 10-20% of prisoners are in for nothing more serious than drugs, and if you try to exclude trafficking, then it's closer to the 10% end. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
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by iguy 6y ago
Indeed. Although if food grows easily, you might expect the number of humans around to grow to catch up with it... and this mostly didn't happen (in the pre-industrial world) not because there wasn't enough time (exponentials are
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by iguy 6y ago
And, food was expensive, it cost a majority of most people's income. While today it costs next to nothing for us to feed the homeless, then it would have been almost as expensive as hiring them.
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by iguy 6y ago
I guess you should compare to non-identical twins. Who I think look like siblings who happen to be the same age. But no doubt someone somewhere has tried to quantify this.
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by iguy 6y ago
And distance. Not so much gene flow across the Mediterranean until we got good at sailing. And climate. Milk was an advantage against other food sources available at the time in northern Europe, but this wasn't necessarily true elsewhe
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by iguy 6y ago
It's true that they were replaced, almost completely in northern Europe. But the claim of TFA is that these skeletons date from after this Indo-European / Yamnaya arrival, and hence that it disproves the theory that lactase pers
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by iguy 6y ago
I guess there's no commerce in mathematical theorems. But the use of his name as a generic (not just for products sold by the company which bought the trademark) seems similar in that it's a community decision -- we could have all
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by iguy 6y ago
Sure. So is Ford. But back in 1909, it was also the name of the guy who signed the patent. Whose company name was his surname.
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by iguy 6y ago
Isn't Allen the inventor's name?
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by iguy 6y ago
Oh you may be right, sorry. I guess it's supposed to offer what functionality it can, like voice calls but no video if you decline camera permissions.
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by iguy 6y ago
Aren't they free to make their app not work at all without this setting? If so, then they must still find enough in letting you use facebook without it, even if less than they would like.
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by iguy 6y ago
One reason for this difference is that HOAs are kind-of eternal. They need some way to adapt to changing circumstances. Whereas things you will only use for a few years, you get to vote with your wallet. (As you do when booking a hotel, or
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by iguy 6y ago
This was news in Feb or so, because not every disease has this profile. The 1919 flu, for instance, was much more deadly in the young (whose stronger immune systems could over-react more dramatically).
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by iguy 6y ago
Maybe. I'd hazard a guess that membership of the top 1000 places in a high-stakes national exam might actually be less noisy than a gold medal. That is, on a re-run, what percentage of people keep their top-1000 scores, and (on re-runs
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by iguy 6y ago
Sure, but this is like insisting that every guy with Olympic gold holds a "false" medal, every time. While the stated rule is that it goes by who crosses the line first on the day, this obviously isn't a perfect measure of wh
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by iguy 6y ago
> randomly selecting therefrom admits this error Well, it enlarges the error. All you have done is to add an additional source of noise on top of the existing one. > and removes the stigma from those just below the previous, false cut
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by iguy 6y ago
I guess an important thing is that they hunt in this environment (in which clams also do just fine). And, like us, they don't have much bodily defence against being eaten by others.

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