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by jlmorton 7y ago
> Spend 12 months building ETLs Okay, sounds reasonable enough for a complex enterprise. > to feed a torrent of raw data to your lake Well, there's the problem. Why is it taking a year to export data in its raw, natural state?
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Cutting corporate taxes to zero does not necessarily mean trickle-down economics. We could cut the corporate tax rate to zero, tax capital at a rate slightly higher than labor (in exchange for using a corporation as a tax-free investment ve
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Bats are also the common wild reservoir for lyssaviruses, like rabies. Bats are not highly susceptible to rabies, and can remain asymptomatic for long periods of time. If you wake up in a room with a bat in it, or if you find a bat in a r
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Aircraft type is even a filter option on some travel sites, like Kayak.
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That's not really the point. They attempted to control for demographics, and for dietary covariates like protein, total dietary fat, fiber, and saturated fat. But that is a tiny sliver of the possibly correlated factors. Did they con
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by jlmorton 7y ago
> There are techniques available to control for correlations like that. If we knew all the correlations, we might stand a pretty good chance of controlling for them, but we don't know them. We might hypothesize that drinking 1% mil
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by jlmorton 7y ago
That wasn't my experience (on Firefox, at least). It just opened in a new tab. The only history in that tab is the subscription page, so the back button doesn't work.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Is it? There's no upfront pricing in the taxi industry. There is a set fare rate, but the fare is dependent on external conditions.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
No [1]. Only 8% of the currently homeless population became homeless because of mental illness. People with mental illnesses are by far the most visible of the homeless, because they are crazy. But they make up a minority of the populatio
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by jlmorton 7y ago
In fact, one of the things proposed in the article is that the object is a light sail being accelerated by the sun.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Response from the author: https://twitter.com/AlexiaCampbell/status/120696741694690508...
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by jlmorton 7y ago
It exists as a historic accident. It was not originally intended as a retirement savings program, but simply a way to help a small number of rich people avoid tax on deferred income invested in the stock market. Though the program has beco
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by jlmorton 7y ago
I sincerely doubt many people will remember anything about this five years from now. There have been dozens of crashes involving various models of the 737 series, and the vast majority of the population could not name a single incident. As
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Right, I don't disagree with the plain fact that methane concentrations are increasing, both globally, and apparently in Barrow. There is a decades-long trend of increased methane concentrations. The question is whether there has been
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Not true. He says: > The 2019 measurements are consistent with the trend over the past decade. Outliers (i.e. isolated data points that lie well above the average) are seen throughout the record. Do not over-interpret them. He goes on t
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Perhaps not, I am not a climate scientist. I guess that precludes me from looking at a dataset and forming an independent conclusion. But since I'm not qualified to comment on the data, is Michael Mann qualified enough? https:/
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by jlmorton 7y ago
I watched the entire interview with Dr. Peter Carter. At about 19:50 in the interview, he talks about a "Massive! Massive increase in methane." He talks about an incredible eruption of methane, almost in apocalyptic terms, he sa
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by jlmorton 7y ago
The government had a warrant for the data. You are able to disable the feature which allows Google to collect this location history. If you had disabled it, Google never would have stored it. But with the feature enabled, and with the go
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That's a pretty tall order.
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This is not an idea I just dreamed up. It works and is in practice around the world. For a successful example, look to the Canada Line in Vancouver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Line
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Another way to avoid this is with a Design-Build-Operate contract. The transit agency is on the hook for the agreed construction cost, and for ridership estimates and minimums. If ridership does not develop, then the contracting agency is
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by jlmorton 7y ago
> but I don't expect greater than inflation appreciation on the house. Even expecting the house to hold its value is rather strange. You would naturally expect the value of a home to decrease by some amount each year. Most of us w
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Exactly. What's important in deterring crime is not just the length of the sentence. It's the likelihood of being caught and punished. I don't necessarily want to lock people up for petty theft. But I do want them to face
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by jlmorton 7y ago
No, technology like Direct Air Capture requires about 250kWh as a theoretical minimum to capture 1 ton of CO2. Current methods require about 600kWh. Meanwhile, one ton of coal generates about 2,500kWh of electricity.
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> I often see these clean, easily provable anecdotes from those who support some kind of suppression of speech. I had a bit of a different take. I actually think even this simple statement is incredibly difficult to verify. First, we ha
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by jlmorton 7y ago
> ISPs need to realize that they are strictly a utility now. They used to provide TV service, but nobody wants linear TV and can just send their money directly to the company that produces the TV content and have it delivered over IP. Ri
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I'm not sure that's a proper application of Too Big to Fail. Boeing is a systemically important company, but there is not much of a contagion risk in a Boeing Chapter 11. When a large financial company fails, all their counterpa
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The powers are not granted by the courts, the Constitution is interpreted by the courts. The concept of judicial review goes back to the country's founding.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
According to the US Ninth Circuit, 42 U.S.C. §1983, and the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution, prohibiting the imposition of excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishment, on the basis that homeless people have no choice in the matter
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Because in a constitutional form of government there are lots of things that cities are not allowed to do, and judicial relief from those unconstitutional, or otherwise illegal actions is expected and by design.

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