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by jellicle 7y ago
Commenter is talking about the wet bulb temperature, which is basically the temperature at maximum humidity. Qatar is running about 32 degrees maximum wet bulb temperature, which is still barely survivable, but a couple more degrees and liv
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by jellicle 7y ago
"Not foolproof" is the most generous way possible to speak about pedestrian-avoidance systems that hit the pedestrian in every single tested case. From the article: Tesla: 20 tests, 20 kills - 0% success Chevy Malibu:20 tests, 20
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by jellicle 7y ago
For most taxpayers, social security and medicare payroll taxes (highly regressive) are the largest tax they pay.
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by jellicle 7y ago
> The top 1% are indeed audited at about the same rate as the working poor, but they also pay higher taxes than everyone else. But they don't. That's the point. Your conventional wisdom is wrong. The USA has a large number of
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by jellicle 7y ago
82% of the US population lives in urban areas. Most Americans look out their front door to see a dense metropolis with thousands of people per square mile. The upshot of this is that quite a modest train network could easily serve 50%+ of
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by jellicle 7y ago
> No, he didn't. Of course he did (and does). It's well known. Here's HN from 11 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20979343 I have personally read, in the last few weeks, over a dozen statem
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by jellicle 7y ago
Tesla would undoubtedly want you to be. Who has more money to hire lawyers, you or Tesla?
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by jellicle 7y ago
This. The experience of women on dating sites is this: lots of messages from men that basically say (often exactly this): "Wanna fuck?" Like, that's the whole message. Except there's almost always multiple misspellings
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by jellicle 7y ago
Good companies have policies that any good-faith reports of sexual harassment, racial discrimination, fraud or abuse at the company, or any other similar event _shall not_ be subject to any bad consequences or disciplinary action, even if t
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by jellicle 7y ago
As long as you've got a reasonable downpayment (or paid for some sort of default insurance), or you at least paid on the mortgage for a few years, the bank has little chance of losing their money. It's YOUR money at risk, not t
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by jellicle 7y ago
Some more information on the subject: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-18/china-e-c... https://bitterwinter.org/bans-on-shipment-of-goods-imposed-t...
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by jellicle 7y ago
The trillion dollar coin idea is a good one, and completely legal, and the idea will come up again if there's ever a Democratic president. And no, it's not inflationary in the slightest (the inflation, if any, would originate wit
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by jellicle 7y ago
The idea of "focus" is only meaningful if you are resource-constrained - my 3-person team can only do 3 things at once, so they must focus. However, when talking about world climate actions, we have 7 billion people acting. There
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by jellicle 7y ago
Having boutique practices is what reduces the availability of very specialized treatment, not the reverse. You're stuck because your understanding is completely backwards.
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by jellicle 7y ago
I think Stallman did great work with the FSF and GNU. I also think the FSF will be hugely better off without him around, and it's insane that it took this long.
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by jellicle 7y ago
The reason is so that there aren't "boutique" private practices. Keeping the rich people in the same boat as the poor people is actually quite important for the long-term health and welfare of the system. Members of the Can
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by jellicle 7y ago
Wile E. Coyote has run off the edge of the cliff and yet his legs are still going and he isn't falling. But at some point he will stop, look down, look at the camera, and then fall a long, long way. We're just waiting for the loo
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by jellicle 7y ago
You're not too familiar with prison, I guess. By and large, I would expect inmates to choose the closest prison to their family, regardless of quality metrics. What good does it do to know that some prison 2000 miles away has a really
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by jellicle 7y ago
If you phrase it as "fossil fuel companies should pay large amounts in taxes and the government should use those taxes to help mitigate the effects of climate change" it changes from dystopian to socialism without missing a beat.
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by jellicle 7y ago
What do you think Uber vehicles do then, if not ply the streets? The Uber app specifically tells drivers how to ply the streets - what direction they should be driving in order to maximize their chances of picking up a profitable fare in th
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by jellicle 7y ago
Anyone can make an error once. Commenter talks about how they repeatedly parked the car in an underground garage that they knew had no cell signal, despite multiple towings being required. What's the appropriate number of towings for
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by jellicle 7y ago
I've never quite understood that argument that only little people benefit from jail time and important people do not. Surely if we can put someone in jail for a year for having a forbidden plant in their pocket then we could put someon
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by jellicle 7y ago
Search warrants are 100% routine and Amazon must comply with hundreds? of them daily.
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by jellicle 7y ago
Or the police request access, the homeowner denies it, the police get a search warrant for certain data on Ring's servers, Ring provides it without comment. Everyone's happy! The homeowner has preserved their privacy by smugly cl
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by jellicle 7y ago
Coral is a living thing. It can't live in hot(ter) water. Additionally, the minerals will dissolve in more acidic water. The problems of coral reefs are caused by the water becoming hotter and more acidic. I fail to see how pumice ma
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by jellicle 7y ago
I wish Apple weren't so schizophrenic. Odd-numbered days: PRIVACY DAY - we love our users! Even-numbered days: HARDWARE DAY - we hate our users! Pick one and stick with it, guys.
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by jellicle 7y ago
Taking your comment seriously: People have done the math on the heat directly released by burning fossil fuels, and it isn't that high. What CO2 does is keep more of the SUN'S heat on Earth. And that turns out to be a much more i
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by jellicle 7y ago
Nope, it's pure loss to everyone else. Every dollar that an HFT makes by front-running your trade is a dollar you don't make as an investor. The money isn't coming out of nowhere.
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by jellicle 7y ago
Can't we make the exact opposite argument? In the unbalanced system which currently exists in the USA, rural voters are given huge, disproportionate advantage in electoral power, leading to national decisions being made that favor them
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by jellicle 7y ago
It is 2019 and this came out in 2015. At a minimum, these are the world's slowest blood hounds. I'm not privy to German politics but if the political situation is ANYTHING like what I would expect, diligent prosecution of corpora

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