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by kbutler 7y ago
If the primary source of gun deaths is suicide/accident, does it make sense to put limits on "assault rifles"? Do background checks help prevent suicides or accidents? On the other hand, waiting periods, permit to purchase, e
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by kbutler 7y ago
But Massachusetts is middling (20/50) on the gun murder rate ('''includes murders and willful manslaughters, but excludes "deaths caused by negligence, suicide, or accident" and justifiable homicides.'&#x2
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by kbutler 7y ago
> Contract law typically consists of an offer, acceptance, and some thing of value traded by each side. Restatement (Second) of Contracts, § 17(1). "some thing of value" - usually termed "consideration". What is the &
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by kbutler 7y ago
The event is the collision. It's safing in advance of the event (pre-safe), rather than after the event (post-safe), which would be too late.
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by kbutler 7y ago
Some technical disciplines use "safe" as a transitive verb meaning "to make it safe", either from damage or from damaging other things. I've seen it most often in rocketry contexts - you "safe the rocket"
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by kbutler 7y ago
Differences matter. Your derisive, dismissive view is shallow. I haven't analysed the effects of this home ownership structure, but the business investment approach means that the banks aren't lenders, but are part owners of the c
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by kbutler 7y ago
The Easter Island narrative is probably wrong: http://theconversation.com/the-truth-about-easter-island-a-s... "It is generally agreed that Rapa Nui, once covered in large palm trees, was rapidly deforested soon after
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by kbutler 7y ago
Note that the actual title of the article is "A Natural History of the @ Sign". Omitted the '@' (probably an escaping issue) drastically changes the title.
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by kbutler 7y ago
Skimmed parts of it. Read this bit: """ Right now, we are at net positive emissions. Every year, we add more CO2 to the atmosphere. Even if we reach net zero emissions by 2050, we’ll keep adding more greenhouse gases to
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by kbutler 7y ago
I'd love a sequoia forest, but: Not suitable for my climate. Planting trees isn't the problem - the challenge is having them live to maturity. Bigger trees store more carbon more rapidly, as they perform more photosynthesis ( http
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by kbutler 7y ago
> Any engineer can tell you that a measurement is meaningless without tolerances/margin of error, and the tolerance in effect when putting up a fence is not expressed in a microscopic scale. But these locations are very precise, ind
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by kbutler 7y ago
Went back and re-read, still not seeing it there. It is described in the linked wikipedia article, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees , so it isn't completely ignored by the author.
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by kbutler 7y ago
While obxkcd is usually good for a few upvotes, you're probably losing karma because the article included this link.
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by kbutler 7y ago
The author also ignores the fact that the distance associated with a degree of longitude changes dramatically as you go from the equator (69m/111km) to the poles (0) - roughly as a cosine. So the number of decimal places of longitude
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by kbutler 7y ago
single-cell protein, also called single-celled protein (for example https://scialert.net/fulltextmobile/?doi=ajft.2011.103.116 uses both), refers to the process of producing the protein using unicellular (or "sing
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by kbutler 7y ago
Yes. Female is 3.6% according to article I linked above, so some may consider male "nearly all". White is 57% according to the statistics link I posted above, so white is inaccurate even with "nearly all". Thus, "ne
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by kbutler 7y ago
Because that would be inaccurate. https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in... Number of mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and August 2019, by shooter's race and ethnicity Wh
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by kbutler 7y ago
> 5. They live in the US. This is not factual. The Lankford study generally cited has been shown to ignore most non-US mass shootings. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3238736 Lankford’s study rep
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by kbutler 7y ago
Grant short-term copyright for any written works, but require registration and periodic renewal for longer duration, with increasing fees for subsequent renewals.
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by kbutler 7y ago
The risk of hyponatremia is pretty low - you'd need to sustain drinking over about a quart per hour, or much larger amounts in a short period of time. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318619.php It takes
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by kbutler 7y ago
Yes, the headline is not just misleading, it is false. Not only does the iPhone drive other revenue streams, "It also still makes up the largest chunk of Apple's revenue." It is no longer the only important product, but it is
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by kbutler 7y ago
He capitalized it, showing it as a proper adjective. That's pretty good casual trademark use in my book. :-) I really like genericized trademarks - fun to look over lists like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_
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by kbutler 7y ago
Sounds like you have a lot of hostility for "the culture, politics, climate, geography" but I'm not sure you've ever actually been to these places you detest so much. Maybe try getting out and meeting and talking to peop
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by kbutler 7y ago
As a counterpoint, my reaction to big cities has generally been "Nice place to visit, but I sure wouldn't want to live there". And my vacation photos are way more likely to be landscapes than cityscapes. I do like the ocean,
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by kbutler 7y ago
> the poor only get poorer This is demonstrably, dramatically false. "The headline could be "The number of people in extreme poverty fell by 130,000 since yesterday” and they wouldn’t have this headline once, but every single d
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by kbutler 7y ago
Hear, hear! Although I'm a curmudgeon at heart, I'm trying to help my children internalize the fact that "correct" language evolves. Learn the right meaning, syntax, pronunciation, and idioms so you don't sound uned
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by kbutler 7y ago
Ground-source heat pump installation is expensive - estimate by a vendor near Boulder, CO $30k/14 year pay-off for residential - http://www.energyhomes.org/pricing.html but a bit light on details of their assumptions.
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by kbutler 7y ago
An induction-compatible disc that heats up via induction and transfers that heat by conduction to your non-induction-compatible cookware. Simple, inexpensive, inefficient, and possibly damaging. https://www.centurylife.org/t
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by kbutler 7y ago
Heat pumps are only efficient down to a bit below freezing temperature, so it may make sense for Berkeley, but it gets really expensive if winter temperatures get much colder.
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by kbutler 7y ago
The charitable interpretation would be the catastrophic predictions in the "1980s", such as around the time AGW became widely publicized with Hansen's papers and testimony and UN efforts. https://www.apnews.com&#x2

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