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by jadell 7y ago
A chemical reaction that sets of a string of defensive protection reactions and behaviors? Sounds quite like panic to me. It's basically "fight or flight" for plants except plants can't do the "flight" part.
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by jadell 7y ago
Police use military terminology when talking among themselves. Many current police officers come from the military before becoming police. Officers refer to non-LEO as "civilians". If the police are supposed to be a civilian agenc
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That's the theory anyway. There's ample evidence that that's not how it works in practice.
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by jadell 7y ago
This doesn't really surprise me. Trump's speech patterns are juvenile: lots of repeated words and phrases, simple vocabulary, almost no subtext or complex ideas. A perfect training set for a simple probablistic text generator. Thi
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I'm sure the prostitution portion of the work will still be best described as "independent contracting" and not part of the dancers' employment at the club.
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by jadell 7y ago
> It's all well and good to understand why this is, but if the answer is "because, on average, women prefer a different distribution of work", then we should let that be. I haven't seen any research showing one way or
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by jadell 7y ago
Are they not electing to because it doesn't interest them, or are they opting out/washing out due to other factors? Have links to any studies that show one way or the other?
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by jadell 7y ago
Their influence is more at the level of university and higher-education. My personal opinion is that they should be doing more for K-12, but I hesitate to let large corporations be involved in deciding what gets taught and who gets hired in
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by jadell 7y ago
Then the focus should be on why aren't more women being hired for executive and engineering positions? I'm not putting all this on the hiring company; it starts much further back in the pipeline than that. So what is the company d
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by jadell 7y ago
But it can be driven by those companies. Companies in the US have a huge influence on the educational pipeline, and in turn, who gets encouraged in that pipeline.
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by jadell 7y ago
People who cry loudest for revolution are usually the ones who don't ever study the history of successful revolutions. Especially: who the actual revolutionaries were, what positions they held in society before and after the revolution
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by jadell 7y ago
So why is average pay for women across all positions less than men? It's not like Salesforce employees are doing heavy manual labor that skews itself towards hiring more men. Why aren't women being hired in positions at the same r
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by jadell 7y ago
> Sometimes, I'm amazed that so many people simply keep their mouth shut even if they totally disagree with their management or project organization! I don't want to assume your level or length of experience, but I'm not a
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by jadell 7y ago
I went to public school in the US. We read the book _The Wave_ in 9th grade (possibly 8th, I don't really remember. It was early high school.) I don't remember ever discussing that it was based on a true event. I didn't learn
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by jadell 7y ago
I don't work in an industry where I encounter bulk packing materials day-to-day. I would assume the answer is "yes"? Any large warehouse for any type of product using any type of packing material probably suffers rodent risk.
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by jadell 7y ago
Both. They're made of corn starch, which is what puffy Cheetos are made of, and manufactured literally the same way, except without the cheese flavor powder mixed in. They taste like "nothing" (well, they probably taste like
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by jadell 7y ago
According to the fine print (and carriers' past actions), nothing on an airline ticket is guaranteed as part of the sales contract; not the plane type, flight numbers, arrival/departure times, baggage handling, connections, and, t
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by jadell 7y ago
The information is almost certainly available on the page where you see the search results and choose your flights. Probably right next to or near the flight numbers. It is on every major US carrier's search results. I don't know
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by jadell 7y ago
That might have been true until state governments realized there's nothing to check their power on local governments, and started passing legislation to severely hinder what a city can actually do. And then use gerrymandering and veto-
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by jadell 7y ago
And yet, until the early 2000s (I wonder what happened right around then...) that was exactly our policy. Even today, +80% of families released show up to their immigration court hearings after being released[1]. (edit) Here's data goi
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by jadell 7y ago
Until relatively recent history, "let them go" with an order to appear in court at a later date was the SOP for anyone without a criminal history. I'm not sure what the official name for this policy was, but political operati
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by jadell 7y ago
It doesn't matter what I believe. It matters how the NRA, those in Congress and the administration who are anti-gun-control will spin those findings. I strongly doubt such a conclusion would pass by unchallenged. If I had to guess, it
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by jadell 7y ago
Dickey covers the CDC and the NIH (as of 2011). And the common interpretation of that amendment[0] is that it is unclear where the line exists between research conclusions and advocating for gun-control. The CDC's entire purpose is to
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by jadell 7y ago
> I wonder if it is because the tobacco industry was fighting a war against the very direct link between smoking and cancer. Ultimately the science proved that smoking is damaging to your body, and that damage is expensive to fix, and th
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by jadell 7y ago
In a lot of first-world countries, too.
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I don't think you're recalling correctly: surveillance was a huge part of how people were controlled in 1984 . It wasn't the only tool, but it certainly was a main one of them.
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by jadell 7y ago
Rezoning the area would be necessary, you are correct. The freeways which go through the city (instead of around it) are mostly elevated, so I don't think that's as much of a problem. And cutting most of those 4-lane streets down
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by jadell 7y ago
LA is effectively several different cities tied together under a single government entity. It even has a few holes in it where it completely surrounds several independent cities (Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, for example.) There's
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by jadell 7y ago
Attractive nuisance is a tort, not a crime. No one gets arrested for it, they get sued if someone gets injured. Speeding is arguably not victimless. Someone pointed out the "shooting into a crowd without hitting anyone" analogy, w
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by jadell 7y ago
It always felt weird to me that most of the rationale for policing drug use is based on preventing the crimes a user might commit while on drugs, rather than just the prosecuting the crimes they actually do commit while on drugs. "

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