lurgburg

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by lurgburg 3y ago
Wasn't Germany's WWII "synthetic fuel" just coal derived gasoline?
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by lurgburg 4y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stochastic_terrorism He could have anticipated his actions would lead to these outcomes.
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by lurgburg 5y ago
Presumably we're banning braces as well then.
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by lurgburg 5y ago
An interesting thing about the linked quora question is that they do show a few examples of times scientists were generally wrong about something. If you look at them, they seem to have certain commonalities: they involve some deeply perp
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by lurgburg 5y ago
Writing in context of preceding comment, which seemed to be predicated on them having a special capacity to raise prices in response to land taxes. I did wonder briefly if a land tax might decrease competition => higher prices, but then
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by lurgburg 5y ago
Writing in the context of preceding comment. Landlords increase prices as much as they're able, they don't decline to increase when they could to maintain some fixed margin. I'm not saying they're generally unable to ris
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by lurgburg 5y ago
LVT is generally conceptualised as proportional to the value of the land, not it's area.
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by lurgburg 5y ago
> they all increased their rent Why would they not have done this before, if they could? Landlords aren't trying to maintain some fixed margin, they want as much as possible, always.
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by lurgburg 5y ago
"Better" is just presupposing the conclusion: that there is something inherently superior about certain styles. That thinking is precisely the "language ideology" the authors are concerned about! Better for who? For what
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by lurgburg 5y ago
> It let me buy a property which I wouldn't be able to without HTB Possibly you're taking the wrong counterfactual here? "If I hadn't HTB but everyone else did" vs "If no-one had HTB". It's pos
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by lurgburg 5y ago
OTOH an individual parent has to expend a lot more effort to create controls than a government. An individual parent can't mandate technology companies install controls that automatically regulate their child's play; they have to
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by lurgburg 5y ago
You have, say, 10 different drugs you might use along with Ivermectin in a "multi-drug regime". From these 10 drugs, you can generate 10-choose-4 = 5040 different 4-drug regimes. As many as you please, effectively. Assuming Iverme
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by lurgburg 5y ago
Perhaps the world has changed somewhat in the last 10000 years.
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by lurgburg 5y ago
Because directly blaming Cuba would be all downside, no upside. If they directly and straightforwardly blamed Cuba, Serious Readers might actually wonder about their basis for doing so (as there isn't one), and might actually think cri
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by lurgburg 5y ago
Do you think that the majority of people read the full article? Do you think the CIA thinks the majority of people read the full article? Do you think the CIA engages honestly with the press to simply provide information to the public? GP&#
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by lurgburg 5y ago
Immunocompromised might not be able to get a vaccine because the mechanism for vaccines is the immune system, which tends not be be working so great in the immunocompromised.
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by lurgburg 5y ago
Cursory googling: CHAZ/CHOP: 2 deaths Capital Hill Riot: 5 deaths
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by lurgburg 6y ago
Are you just generally writing about green energy, or about the Telsa battery (the subject of this discussion)? As the ancestor comment noted, the battery saved money, and saving money doesn't increase costs.
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by lurgburg 6y ago
A somewhat surprising corollary: if you have methane and you can burn it, it's better to do that than vent it directly. (Of course, better still to leave it in the ground, if that's where your methane is coming from...)
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by lurgburg 6y ago
Perhaps a simple ban on converting fiat -> to bitcoin would go a long way? It wouldn't be absolute, black markets are a thing, but there are costs to participate in a black market, which costs will rise over time as good old physica
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by lurgburg 6y ago
> You physically can’t put an IP address into an MX DNS record Per TFA, > some mail servers do configure an IP address. Many mail servers are lenient when it comes to this misconfiguration and will deliver mails nevertheless I.E. peop
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by lurgburg 6y ago
This policy ("send a picture of your black skin") sounds like what they found they needed to do prevent black voices from being drowned out on a site so overwhelming white as reddit. If they'd found white people were capable
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by lurgburg 7y ago
My argument was narrow: to counter "seems to be a new thing". The argument of "the scale of these fires is unusual, but if there is an unusual cause, it's an unusual amount of arson, not unusual climate conditions".
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by lurgburg 7y ago
I guessing that judging and shaming a corporation's contribution to "poorly behaved offspring" is right out though
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by lurgburg 7y ago
https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/e...
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by lurgburg 7y ago
There is a breakdown of which incidents relate to bushfires yes.
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by lurgburg 7y ago
> people deliberately starting them seems to be (seems to be a new thing) No? https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/media-centrenews/arso... https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/crime-statisticshi
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by lurgburg 7y ago
And in the case of Japanese, the extra field seems to be utterly essential , because the same characters in Kanji might be pronounced in radically different ways. http://www.localizingjapan.com/blog/2011/02/1