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by jbattle 11y ago
Is there a data set somewhere that shows concrete predictions made by groups of people and how often they are right/wrong?
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by jbattle 11y ago
Are there any credible options for geoengineering our way out of this? If prevention fails that is
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by jbattle 11y ago
If we're thinking about the same thing - that 'island of plastic' turned out to be incredibly diffuse - something like a few particles of plastic per cubic meter.
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by jbattle 11y ago
I'm not an economist but it always drives me crazy when the US economy of the 1950's and 60's is seen as some sort of reasonable benchmark for how our economy should grow. The world was still coming out of the great depressi
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by jbattle 11y ago
On the subject of ancient art, CBC radio did a interesting series on who should get to say where and how ancient art gets kept and displayed. It's a two-part series and covers a lot of ground ... http://www.cbc.ca/radi
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by jbattle 11y ago
It's an unpleasant thought - getting acclimated to avoiding looking at things for fear of activating them
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by jbattle 11y ago
It's brilliant. Once you get moving you won't even notice the cold. A snow-filled forest is one of the quietest and most peaceful places you are likely to ever find.
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by jbattle 11y ago
one random example - i'm shocked at how good cheap RC drones are (compared to what was available just a few years ago)
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by jbattle 11y ago
I had always just assumed it meant "French" so you got me reading (thanks!). Wiki seems to indicate the original lingua franca was based on the language of the Franks and mostly used in the eastern Med. https://en.wiki
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by jbattle 11y ago
News in general about Ethiopia is confusing from a distance. When I visited people seemed happy with the government and you could see concrete (literally) signs of progress everywhere. Lots of new roads, the new railroad, tons of new scho
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by jbattle 11y ago
The state by state numbers are surprising. CA has about 1/10th of the total shootings. IL has only 20, which is less than a lot of other states (NM for example). Florida and Texas seem to be the other big standouts
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by jbattle 11y ago
snorri sturlson claimed the norse gods were refugees from Troy. There must be something appealing about having exotic roots.
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by jbattle 11y ago
"Parked along the underground racetrack are a pair of mammoth six-story conglomerations of computers, crystals, wires and magnets: Atlas and C.M.S., each operated by 3,000 physicists who aim to catch and classify everything that comes
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by jbattle 11y ago
The government is investing heavily on modernizing the roads right now, but it's a little hard to imagine how bad the roads are. Here's a video that's pretty representative of roads throughout much of the country: https:&#x
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by jbattle 11y ago
that's true if they let the trees re-grow to maturity and let the deep layers of peat reform (which AFAIK takes a really long time). for better or worse these stands of older trees are a finite resource, and once they've burned th
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by jbattle 11y ago
This is a good point - it seems not improbably that a whale's view of place would have more to do with their location in an oceanic current rather than their x, y coordinate in a plane. Sort of like if you describe your position withi
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by jbattle 11y ago
I don't remember 100% clearly but I think photos published of the event were carefully framed to make it look like a huge crowd of Iraqis and few if any Americans
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by jbattle 11y ago
also - do the right thing for whom?
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by jbattle 11y ago
I wonder why they put these on assault rifles rather than a high precision rifle - seems like an odd fit but I'm sure they knew what they were doing
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by jbattle 11y ago
Massive wires each under 1.4 tons of tension would make for quite a show if one did break
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by jbattle 11y ago
I do think there will always be this detectable weird KT-boundary starting around the mid-late 90's where information is just hard to come by (on the internet). Important stuff like GI Joe cartoons and news stories will of course be a
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by jbattle 11y ago
nauseating. how long did it take you to trust "grownups" again (if ever)?
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by jbattle 11y ago
Scrolling up and down on your last link makes my eyes play tricks on me - they look like they start animating.
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by jbattle 11y ago
Sounds like he didn't need to read the article, he's seen this first hand
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by jbattle 11y ago
My first job out of school was in tech consulting, and I got a lot out of it. In the 5 years I was there I got to see probably 5-8 different companies of all types and sizes. It gave me a better understanding of the different kinds of pro
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by jbattle 11y ago
is there any practical approach on the horizon (or here) that allows scientists to apply crispr throughout all the cells in a living organism? I get how this works with a single cell, but typically that's only useful for either very
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by jbattle 11y ago
Isn't this just the same as population density? I think there's an XKCD about this ... https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by jbattle 11y ago
I always assumed it was an intentional design decision ... 1) these are board games, and for many people working through the mechanics is a big part of the fun 2) it's an attempt to make it clear the tool isn't a replacement for g
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by jbattle 11y ago
Right - it's another manifestation of the subtle and pervasive racism in our society. It/we conceptualize and talk about whites as the "normal" ones, the default, and everyone else as not-normal.
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by jbattle 11y ago
How long can they hold you while fishing for evidence?

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