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by jmpman 5y ago
Surprised that the Grand Canyon isn’t easily visible with this map. Is that a resolution issue?
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You’re suggesting that 3 out of 3 Japanese Americans, 100%, when given the opportunity to help Japan over American, and chose Japan, is not significant? If 4 out of 4 had, would that have been significant? 100 out of 100? Just curious where
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by jmpman 5y ago
From the Wikipedia article I’d cited: Historian Gordon Prange notes that "the rapidity with which the three resident Japanese went over to the pilot's cause" troubled the Hawaiians and added: "The more pessimistic among
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incident The narrative I’ve heard is that the Japanese internment was done solely due to racism. Yet, in the first incident where Japanese American citizens are confronted with th
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by jmpman 5y ago
Can someone explain why during the start of Covid lockdowns, gasoline prices didn’t drop to $1.00/gallon? There was no demand, and plenty of supply. The simple supply/demand curve of my high school economics memory, seems to imply
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Nice. This last weekend, I took the time to teach my son RegEx so he could find potential Wordle solutions. Playing around, trying to find fun starting words, we were looking for words that contained the most number of vowels. Afterwards I
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House was a short sale back in 2011. Beautiful house, for an absolute steal. Only real downside is the road, which my bedroom is about 100ft from. Although I describe it as a major road, during rush hour there are a few thousand cars an hou
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It was a Kawasaki.
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Good. I look forward to this enforcement in my city. I currently live against a major road. During the night, the traffic noise isn’t disturbing, except for about one vehicle in a thousand. And that motorcycle wakes me at 3am. For weeks on
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My grandfather was a US army tank commander who was part of the Okinawa invasion prior to the end of the war. As much as I’d like to criticize the atomic bomb, I probably wouldn’t be here had it not been used. My grandfather would have been
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Those games at GameStop or other physical media have already paid their ~30%.
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Xbox, PlayStation, Switch - they all take a similar cut for access to their platforms, and yet the video game publishers are worth billions. Why should these policies apply towards Apple and not other video game platforms? I can browse the
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I’ve had IBM recruiters reach out to me. Each time I reference these age discrimination lawsuits as the reason I refuse to consider them. Why should I join a company that is going to actively try to get rid of me in a few years. Good luck g
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I meant with conventional warheads. Drop a couple tons on Lenin in Red Square. Certainly it’s just symbolic, but if it’s successful, then it’s would be a failed test of the Moscow anti missile capabilities, and that has much more serious im
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Can Ukraine not hit Moscow with surface to surface missiles? Why would the Ukraine regime not employ that strategy?
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New Zealand has been basically isolated and Covid free for the past year. Their population is approaching 95% vaccinated. It would be interesting to see statistics on heart disease rates in their population over the past year, as we could t
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by jmpman 5y ago
Was thinking about how I would use these eVTOLs, and realized that everywhere I would want to go, there was a Costco relatively close. Costco to Costco throughout a metro might make sense. If the eVTOL could go 100 mph, it would cut my trav
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by jmpman 5y ago
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Not that the analysis is flawless as there are many critics. The reason to read the book is to understand the how and why different societies have evolved and why there was a massive difference betwee
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by jmpman 5y ago
I’ve recently been piano shopping. The premier brand with name recognition is Steinway. The major competition for a new Steinway is a used Steinway. As pianos age, various components wear out, crack, break. There’s a huge industry of piano
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by jmpman 5y ago
If a cop is directing traffic, you should obey them. But what if they’re next to a construction worker, a cowboy, an Indian chief, a biker, and a sailor?
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by jmpman 5y ago
I was in a drivers education class (I’d rear ended someone, and was trying to keep points off my license), and we went around the room explaining what law we broke to wind up in the class. One attendee was there for 1 MPH over in a school z
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by jmpman 5y ago
My Tesla will allow me to engage autopilot in a school zone, obeying the adjustment I’d set on speed limit - while using, not the correct school zone speed limit, but the non-school time speed limit. It would allow me to go 30 mph over the
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by jmpman 5y ago
What is the unsubsidized price per gallon? In the article, they state that ethanol is approximately the same price as gasoline, but, farmers receive subsidies, which would then lower the price at which they can produce corn profitably. Remo
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PG? The up and right = better guidance came from a sales guy that I didn’t initially have a lot of respect for. But, he was right. People naturally assume up and right is better on any graph, so present your data in that way. So, 1/res
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Make sure that however you graph it, up and to the right is better.
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Anyone have a scatter plot of resistance vs filter efficiency? Watching each review would take forever. I want to explore the results visually.
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I had dismissed this as over reaction, until I read a biology PhD dissertation on medicinal plants, which contained a section on diversity and inclusion. Somehow this paper was published with the irrelevant racial aspect. How does this get
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My gardener is very likely working illegally, and not paying taxes. My house cleaners are likely not reporting their income for taxes. But the nanny, working part time, making around $10k/year, I have to consider my employee, provide h
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There’s already an exception of up to $2300/year for a nanny tax. Less than that, and you don’t have to file for them. Yes, they should have dramatically increased the nanny tax exemption - ideally up to the standard deduction.
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So, I elect the Democrats, with promise of healthcare reform, free college tuition for my kids and environmentally friendly policies. Instead, I now have to file a W2 for my new nanny, complicating my taxes and hers. After my nanny takes th

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