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by mbauman 4y ago
... or maybe — just maybe — they are figures that are impossible to determine in any sort of comprehensive or reliable manner. It's not a conspiracy.
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by mbauman 4y ago
Use the "Injury Mechanism" group to see things broken down into categories that include firearms. E.g., https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D158/D332F518
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by mbauman 4y ago
It doesn't change the stats that much. Guns and vehicles are both deadly. In rates per 100k, FA=Firearm, MVT=Motor Vehicle Traffic: 1-17 FA 1-17 MVT | 1-19 FA 1-19 MVT 2019 2.5 2.8 | 4.3 4.2
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by mbauman 4y ago
This is not true anymore. For ages 1-17, there were 2,571 firearm deaths in 2021. That's now ahead of motor vehicles (2,348). Source: https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D158/D332F520
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by mbauman 4y ago
It's not a dissertation, though: * If relying purely on radioactive decay, it'd take about 12150668kg of U-238 to output 2000 dietary Calories worth of energy per day. * If your body could induce the fission of U-238, however, you
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by mbauman 4y ago
I think both answers would be significantly improved — and way more interesting — with a bit more care here. Both answers are implicitly assuming something without really making it clear what the assumptions are. The gas example isn't
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by mbauman 4y ago
There's a logical disconnect in this jump though: > Uranium-238 (U-238) is a radioactive isotope that releases energy through the process of radioactive decay. The energy content of uranium-238 can be calculated based on its energy
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by mbauman 4y ago
Here's the non-sensical part — it's using the energy per fission of U-235. U-238 releases energy at a rate of 4 MeV at a half life of 4.468 billion years. That won't decay fast enough or energetically enough to sustain you u
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by mbauman 4y ago
I wish they'd just show the footage of the 3 minutes at the end of regulation time. They showed _some_ footage, but not what I'd think would be the most interesting parts! I think the only online footage of the game is here, just
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by mbauman 4y ago
The key isn't that the "AI" writes the whole darn thing. It's a "get-out-of-writers-block-free" pass. I've successfully used chatGPT for exactly this process. I'm writing something — unique, by me!
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by mbauman 4y ago
It's the quantity that scares me the most. These methods are imminently automatable, especially with a connection to social media graphs.
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by mbauman 4y ago
Nicaragua is similar, and in Managua it's even more convoluted with things like: > From where the old Franciscan church used to be, 2 blocks towards the lake and 1 block and 50m up Where you have to know a historical landmark, that
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by mbauman 4y ago
It's rather amusing that there are other comments here talking about how the balloon coverage is American media distracting you from the derailment.
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by mbauman 4y ago
It's not a random Pharma company mandate, it's an FDA one. I think it's in here: 21 CFR Part 314.80 Postmarketing reporting of adverse drug experiences. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cf
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by mbauman 4y ago
Check their other blog post.
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by mbauman 4y ago
The blog author also takes umbrage at the paper's authors' other work and biases. Since the blog author is anonymous it's not as clear what their biases may be, but the only other blog they have posted comes to the conclusio
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by mbauman 4y ago
In my experience, I've seen lots of _old_ HOAs that are similar — only there for utilities that the larger municipality is lacking (like trash, recycling, snow removal, etc). It's the new ones — those that are set up by the develo
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by mbauman 4y ago
A little funny to not link to the comment that had the answer — they're dowel bar retrofits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowel_bar_retrofit
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by mbauman 4y ago
I don't understand. Are you entitled to someone's attention and engagement?
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by mbauman 4y ago
This view of "the blue checks" as a uniform elite class is really fascinating to me — and I think is partly why Elon bought the thing in the first place. It cuts both ways — both the overvaluing of the check and the denigrating of
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by mbauman 4y ago
That's not really the problem. The problem is that *customer support* suggested to do so.
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by mbauman 4y ago
> Product pages are long because longer pages tend to perform better at SEO If you own the category, however, folks will go directly to you instead of Google. I'm not googling for a 8-32 button head sheet metal screw.
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by mbauman 4y ago
Digikey's empty search for the entire catalog listing in categories (and then extraordinary filtering tools within categories) is absolute perfection.
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by mbauman 4y ago
Oooof, looks like the primary way of creating it is through... fission reactors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Production And there's not much of it: > According to a 1996 report from Institute for Ener
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by mbauman 4y ago
> That ain't good. Your takeaway does not match that article. The article details how "no measurable success was ever achieved" and that the large amount of energy required to start fusion is hugely prohibitive. I don&#x27
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by mbauman 4y ago
It's funny, Julia used to use reStructuredText and I could _never_ get the syntax right when doing doc changes. Markdown is significantly more accessible in the common case of just writing prose and code examples. Why do you care abou
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by mbauman 4y ago
Man, I miss all those Ambrosia Software games (Apieron, Barrack, Escape Velocity, etc). I love how many are pre-loaded there, but the few I tested all seem broken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia_Software
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by mbauman 4y ago
That is definitely not what's going on here.
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by mbauman 4y ago
Nah, mostly just trying to scare them and put them in their place. https://www.bikelaw.com/2017/07/punishment-pass-defined/
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by mbauman 4y ago
It'd be interesting to have an eventually-consistent monospaced font that adjusts the widths of characters like `w` and `i` such that when they're within a few characters of eachother they become more proportional. Obviously adja

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