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by jhayward 2y ago
Attributing casualties from a dam break as energy-related is a stretch. The vast majority of dams are built for flood control. Energy production just helps pay the bills. It's not the 'purpose' of the dam.
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by jhayward 3y ago
You mean like Ford's Mustang Mach-E, that starts at $40,000? I'm not sure what purpose the hyperbole serves here.
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by jhayward 3y ago
I should have said "dentists and optometrists", rather than " .. and opthamologists". Sorry to catch this so late.
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by jhayward 3y ago
I don't recall who first relayed this to me but I believe the answer to the question in the title is "path dependence". Modern (US) health insurance started off as hospitalization insurance and was originated by hospitals th
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by jhayward 5y ago
This could only be said by someone who is completely disregarding the coercive power of a police "interview". There is always, always, a subtext of "if you don't wish to cooperate, I may need to exercise my discretion to
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by jhayward 5y ago
All of the demographic change is essentially growth in the Hispanic population. The Hispanic demo votes overwhelmingly conservative.
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by jhayward 5y ago
No, it won't. Austin is one of the most gerrymandered regions of the country. I live in downtown Austin. My congressman is Chip Roy, an ultra-right-wing MAGA nonsense spewing idiot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by jhayward 5y ago
I believe they modeled the behavior of a model of a neuron, not an actual neuron. Models are intrinsically simplifications of the reality.
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by jhayward 5y ago
Let me reverse your question: why would you use "how much oligarchic wealth someone has" or, possibly, "how intent on money laundering the buyer is", to determine aesthetic value? Because that's how art is sold toda
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by jhayward 5y ago
The wiki page says ctags was part of the 3BSD release, which would put it about 1979. My memory isn’t good enough to recall which release of emacs picked up support. I think there was a find-function key binding for lisp code before ctags,
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by jhayward 5y ago
I once made the mistake of making an offhand remark about people "aren't sitting around watching the dogs channel" in a meeting. Oh, did I get some dirty looks from that ill-considered thought that was spoken aloud.
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by jhayward 5y ago
I don't recall which version of Emacs first had "go to definition", but it was well before the 90's.
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by jhayward 5y ago
What an odd way of looking at it. It's not a contest. It's a diffusion of ideas that are helpful.
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by jhayward 5y ago
Pretty much every currently updated language does these days.
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by jhayward 5y ago
City or County denies occupancy certificate due to no electric connection and he's on the hook for all the mortgage, plus liable for the bank's losses because the house is un-sellable plus he has to find somewhere else to live unt
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by jhayward 5y ago
> some hospitals in Texas have started using it during triage This is false. The "leaked" internal discussion document has been repudiated by its author, and the group of hospitals discussing it.
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by jhayward 5y ago
Only someone totally ignorant of the difference between a vaccine and a pain drug, in terms of how they are tested and approved, would use 'what about vioxx' as an indictment of vaccines.
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by jhayward 5y ago
There is a really interesting example of the role of the surface vegetation for groundwater in Bamberger Ranch[1] in Central Texas. Central Texas was massively overgrazed by cattle in the 1800's and 1900's, and the ecosystem was c
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by jhayward 5y ago
Appetite is only loosely related to caloric intake.
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by jhayward 5y ago
The role of cellular immunity isn’t as clear. What would probably make a big difference, though, would be mucosal immunity given by a nasal vaccine. Get those antibodies located at the point of infection and they can get to work earlier.
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by jhayward 5y ago
It is pretty common in HGV accidents that a blow against one of the steer tires will break the steering on that side and result in loss of control.
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by jhayward 5y ago
It is a nice example of survivor bias.
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by jhayward 5y ago
Because it is more profitable to grow the pie than to hoard your slice of it.
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by jhayward 5y ago
> but are those mutations antithetical in some way to antibody production? The problem Delta presents to antibody-based protection is that there is a several day lag in the body's response to detecting the virus until it produces ma
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by jhayward 5y ago
NCMEC isn't really an NGO; it is an agent of the US government, written in to US law.
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by jhayward 5y ago
How is it that you are going to "wait and see how good their neural hashing is"? Do you think there is going to be any shred of transparency about the operation of this system? It is completely unaccountable - starting with Appl
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by jhayward 5y ago
A JPEG is a "visual derivative". It's also a "mathematical fingerprint" of an image.
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by jhayward 5y ago
That's what I want to know. A mucosal vaccine would be a very effective counter to the ramped up viral load and shorter incubation period that delta has brought.
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by jhayward 5y ago
Yes, the vaccines are still very effective against severe disease. It is transmissibility that's changed dramatically.
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by jhayward 5y ago
> He's right in a way, being vaccinated keeps you out of hospital, but it won't prevent you that much from catching the disease and developing post-covid syndrome This is misinformation. From the data we have available, vacci

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