loonster

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by loonster 6y ago
I would attribute more of the decrease in child mortality to clean water and better nutrition. Vaccines played a negligible roll (diseases were already well past their peak when vaccines came out).
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by loonster 6y ago
Our genome is filled with viral elements. Maybe one specie evolved <blank> and a virus spread the evolution to other species.
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by loonster 6y ago
My old (90s) GE fridge didn't keep vegetables very long, but my new GE does. The model I got doesn't have a fancy dual coil either.
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by loonster 6y ago
A title without money would make it easier for them to transfer somewhere else. It will buy you a short amount of time while they "gain experience" in their new title.
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by loonster 6y ago
Yes, I have pictures of empty shelves on my phone. Part of the problem was state government response. After each further restriction, people panic bought more.
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by loonster 6y ago
It is my understanding that refineries cannot change the percentage of gasoline that comes from a barrel of oil. If electric cars become as popular as ICE, either gasoline will be used in other things, or other oil distillates will become
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by loonster 6y ago
Your argument would be stronger if you used the same one that you used in your initial post. As you previously stated, revenue is not distributed evenly. For sake of argument, the actual numbers for 5 users could be: 120, 30, 0, 0, 0 . The
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by loonster 6y ago
As a user, I'm wouldn't want my searches to be ad-free. Companies pay good money to put their ads there, and they may outperform the search algorithms. Practices I don't like: - Making sponsored searches look like regular s
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by loonster 6y ago
Or wealthy people buy up a ton of land and get the law changed.
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by loonster 6y ago
I am curious why you dislike solar more than wind. Solar to me seems much more predictable. At smaller percentages it works well to handle peak AC loads. Larger percentages seem foolish to me.
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by loonster 6y ago
The best math class I ever had was a drafting class called "Descriptive Geometry". In that college class we used a drafting table to solve math problems. An easy example would be the length of line of the corner seam of a hip roof
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by loonster 6y ago
A reputable distributor would stop carrying it.
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by loonster 6y ago
I've done work for a well known euro car maker, and they had several of the brackets interfering in CAD. This could have been avoided with a simple collision check that they should have done. After informing them of the errors, they fi
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by loonster 6y ago
This is a case where it would be much more useful to state terms in absolute risk instead of relative risk. A 10x increase on a .001% chance doesn't mean anything. A 1.1x increase on a 10% risk is huge.
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by loonster 6y ago
A federal holiday would be fantastic. The main benefit is not getting more people to vote, but getting more people to watch the polls & counting. The more opportunity that people have to watch, the more faith people will have in the sy