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by kbutler 8y ago
I have a friend who is a skilled woodworker. I asked if she ever thought about selling her work, and she replied, "Then it would be a job." Wise words... On the other hand, my wife was volunteering, and the organization offered t
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by kbutler 8y ago
Better article: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/04/23/52... My conclusion: The face-recognition functioned completely correctly - it associated multiple acts by the same individu
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by kbutler 8y ago
Foreign aid and other financial assistance coming from polluting countries is neither zero-emissions, nor sustainable. Nor is it a probable route to prosperity. Look at the nations that have received significant foreign aid over the decad
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...or exist in history, but their position changed because it was politically unpopular. Sierra Club 1989: "Immigration to the United States should be no greater than that which will permit achievement of population stabilization in th
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by kbutler 8y ago
Historically, that's a reasonable supposition. The hypothesis that poor countries can achieve economic prosperity without emissions requires proof.
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1) per capita statistics explicitly ignore fertility rate effects 2) even though the US fertility rate has been below replacement rate since the early 1970s ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTINUSA ), populati
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Just space flight technical jargon: Nominal - as expected (no more than nominal deviations from expected parameters) Anomaly - something unexpected
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"dark pattern" was a phrase in use before that neologism. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q="...
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...and because more males are born than females. (105:100)
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There are lots of reasons - as populations become more educated/urban/rich/able to access contraception, fertility rates decline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility#Caus... describes
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by kbutler 8y ago
Note that this article is specifically about short breaks (10s) vs overnight or longer breaks.
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Yes, approval voting leaves the door open for some tactical voting. So if candidate #1 would win a simple majority (50.01% of voters), but is absolutely hated by everyone else, but #2 is "acceptable" or second best to 100% of the
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by kbutler 8y ago
The cited study 1990 https://doi.org/10.3109/07853899009148930 is evaluating "consistent sauna use preventing colds" rather than "get in the sauna to sweat out a cold", and in fact stated that &quot
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I used to swear by exercise to sweat out a cold, but then a couple of times it seemed to pull it deeper into my lungs and linger as bronchitis for a long time. "Rest and fluids" seems to do better now. Except when it doesn't
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by kbutler 8y ago
I wish that were the case here, as I've "fixed" other ports by lintectomy (and it has been long enough I had to go check it again!) but this is physical damage to the port.
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by kbutler 8y ago
I have a Nexus 7 2013 whose USB jack no longer works (probably accumulated damage from bumps/drops/general stressors), but wireless charging still works fine. (High-five ThatPlayer who posted at the same time)
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by kbutler 8y ago
Proposing that it is a justifiable tax for investment is very different from saying "the concept of 'a nation can't afford' does not make sense [for] a nation-state with control of its own currency". It looks like y
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The point is that inflating the money supply is a tax, just a hidden one spread across all holders of assets denominated in that currency (cash, loans, salaries, ...) Smaller amounts of "print and spend" inflate less than large am
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by kbutler 8y ago
I originally thought this comment deserved downvoting, because "we'll just print money" shows a lack of understanding about the role fiat currency plays in an economy. However, I realized that this comment is a valuable addi
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I approve of both the general encouragement to use the original headline and rewriting the headline in this case. Maybe we could have a general rejection headlines that include the words "worse than" and "thought"? The G
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weight... Though maybe "wait" is appropriate for a thread on time management?
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by kbutler 8y ago
Do you insulate the user from that implementation detail? Links and buttons have significantly different representations in accessibility, right-click, and keyboard behavior.
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by kbutler 8y ago
That differences in fiduciary duty does not appear to be the case. For example "Agents who represent clients under single agency owe a fiduciary responsibility to the client" https://www.thebalance.com/agency-relat
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Statistical significance is required, but not sufficient to prove an effect. Lack of statistical significance means you did not prove an effect, but you also didn't prove there is no effect. So the answer is more likely "statisti
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by kbutler 8y ago
$2M house. 6% commission split 3% to seller's realtor and buyer's realtor. Seller's realtor gets $60K if it sells in 1 month or 1 year, same commission. No sale = $0. First week gets a 10% low offer of $1,800,000. If sale co
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by kbutler 8y ago
Realtors have a fiduciary responsibility to act in the interest of their principal, even when it is against the interest of the agent. "This duty obligates a real estate broker to act at all times solely in the best interests of his pr
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$2M house. Seller's realtor says, "Drop the price $200,000 to get a sale". Costs seller $200,000. Gains realtor $54,000 (costs $6,000 from .03*$2M). Or hold out for the sale at $2M. Nets seller $200,000 and increases the re
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by kbutler 8y ago
Notice Turchin's exclusions and his analysis: Wage stagnation primarily for unskilled men (women's wages have risen a lot, skilled labor has risen as well). The reason? "The TL;DR answer is that it was a combination of immigr
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by kbutler 8y ago
So, yes, Apple describes some iMacs that are not iMac-Pros as "for Pros". > should they also sell them all with the highest performing graphics card and 64GB of RAM? Nope, those are each about $400 retail (well, the delta from
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> Apple never claimed any iMac was for Pros except the iMac Pro. Apple explicitly claims the iMac is for "pros" in the article this page is discussing: "iMac is ideal for pros" "iMac is loved by consumers and pro

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