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by jb775 6y ago
> Scientists estimate that prior to European settlement in California, fires burned approximately 4.5 million acres annually in California. In comparison, between 1950 and 1999, fires burned about 250,000 acres annually, less than 6 p
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The paper didn't recommend throwing money at firefighting, it recommended throwing money at forest management, for long-term forest resiliency.
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I feel like this guy still doesn't get the actual point why politicians are talking about section 230. They aren't directly rebutting the language of the law, they're threatening to amend/repeal section 230 since they kn
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> Rural conservatives who have kids will eventually have those kids leave for good paying jobs in urban areas, or those kids will likely not have a great life expectancy from lack of opportunity in their small community (dying small com
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I've always wondered which part of the medical supply chain is causing healthcare prices to rise so rapidly. There's no way these are natural market rates being driven by supply/demand, it's gotta be something artificial
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Not to mention dentists, doctors, hospitals, etc. I have an eye doctor appt this week and I literally have no idea if it's gonna cost me $50 or $500.
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It's kind of a moot point since the government already has backdoors built into operating systems, hardware chips, browsers (therefore can enable screen-sharing + other hardware settings remotely), etc. "True" E2E encryption
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But at what point does hard work and perseverance get any credit? You're not doing anyone any favors by lumping them into "privileged" vs "disadvantaged" binary groups, you're promoting victimhood mindset while
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If no one in an entire country is willing to accept $X to do $Y (in any location), the business needs to increase $X. The whole point of hiring an employee is bc $Y represents more net business value than $X. If $X > net business value o
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Insert "Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Protest" CNN screenshot here
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Swap out astronaut with a more common highly-skilled occupation and my underlying point still applies.
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In parent's example, the overall wages didn't drop because the immigrants bought stuff in a small geographic area, so more shops opened to sell stuff, and more warehouses were needed to store stuff, etc...and those new jobs were f
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I think this is true when we're talking about a large number of immigrants in general, where a significant percentage of them don't have advanced skills (akin to any large sample-size of humans). The dynamic changes entirely when
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A couple thousand dollars per H1B hire-attempt is nothing to a big business, especially if they're eventually able to pay each H1B worker a fraction of what they'd need to pay an equally qualified American worker. Worst case scen
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During brainstorming sessions, I often think about why/how medieval artists couldn't quite grasp how to depict depth in their paintings (as a lateral thinking technique). Being humans living in the world, they obviously experience
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I'm by no means against taxes, I completely agree they're rightfully used to fund roads/police/fire/etc. My primary argument is that the richest government in the history of the world has more important things to pr
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Do you honestly think that if the IRS successfully collected more taxes that politicians would reduce taxes? And in my example I'd think that the lumber would come from privately owned land/lumber operations. Not sure what you mea
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Your line of thinking is flawed in multiple ways: 1) The federal government is not a business, it's a federal government. It shouldn't be looking at taxes as a "cost-effective activity with a positive return on investment&quo
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The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover...he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whe
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by jb775 6y ago
The term "conspiracy theory" has evolved over the last few years into a tool to criticize people who think too far outside the box. It plays on the dynamics of social group theory, and is being used by the left to ostracize any pe
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Not to mention this decision was likely made by the UN-ELECTED Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, Jill Hunsaker Ryan. I did a quick search of her background and she was almost indicted for fals
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin People seem to forget that the expected total death count from day 1 was, and still is ,
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This is essentially putting penalties in place if social media companies use dark patterns in their algorithms behind the scenes. Long term, this is good for everyone.
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Drones aren't currently feasible. They don't have good battery life, they can't carry much weight (for a saw or w/e to chop the coconuts off), and precision cutting would be very difficult without propellors eventually c
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That's awesome...what a massive productivity jump from manual pruning. Requires a pretty expensive and modern tractor though.
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> Google and Apple have taken steps this year they say will help users shield themselves from hundreds of companies that compile profiles based on online behavior In other words, Google and Apple are using their platforms to eliminate
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Any references and/or dates? Or just gonna stop there since that's what you'd like to believe?
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Do you think the orders aren't unconstitutional? Details on why you don't like the judge and which media outlet I referenced (i honestly just googled the story and grabbed the first one I saw) digresses from my point. And fyi once
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I don't understand what you mean. What's the issue with someone voicing an opinion you don't agree with? Diversity is good because you get many opinions from many perspectives. It fails once you start selectively picking and
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Well look at how governors have been handling the pandemic. Most of them seem completely one sided in terms of their response, unwilling to compromise and stretching the limits of their power. There isn't a "let's see how it&

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