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by mjhay 3y ago
Ah yes, I got those confused. I'm sure the naming is deliberate to conflate a dumb and non-exciting idea with a dumb but exciting idea.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Underground things are more susceptible to flooding, not less. That's why basements flood so much.
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The Tories are hugely unpopular. Losing to them would be quite a feat, but I think Starmer and Labour just might be able to pull that off.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Then you'd have to repair the asphalt underground, at greater expense. What's the point? The hyperloop is one of the dumbest transport projects to ever be built.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Yes, much dumber and with poorer safety standards.
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by mjhay 3y ago
I agree. The frustrating thing with a lot of this is that microbiota seem to follow the Anna Karenina principle: every healthy microbiota is alike, but every dysfunctional one is dysfunctional in its own way. FWIW, I have a friend whose SIB
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by mjhay 4y ago
Then Exxon would go bankrupt by the demand cratering to zero. It's the same result either way.
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by mjhay 4y ago
There's this thing called "climate change" that's been associated with fossil fuels. If these related externalities were internalized, Exxon would be bankrupted many, many, many times over.
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by mjhay 4y ago
The name "imaginary" was due to Descartes and it absolutely was intended as a pejorative, even though they're necessary to algebraically close the reals. Some ancient Greeks, IIRC, were similarly hostile to negative numbers.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Yeah, there's literally no actual information in that article pertinent to the method. It's not even like this is a particularly arcane thing.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Historically (before ~1800 let's say) China was known for its very high-quality goods. In fact, the Silk Road trade and later trade with the Spanish was almost exclusively Chinese goods flowing out and gold and silver specie flowing in
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by mjhay 4y ago
Yet another instance of the right's complaints of censorship being projection. They were censoring and cancelling people before the term "cancel culture" existed.
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by mjhay 4y ago
That this movie ever got the funding it did really shows you how much leverage Travolta had back then in Hollywood.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Public transit is safer than driving. You are far more likely to be killed driving your own car than be stabbed on the bus.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Those data scientists are incentivized to make assumptions that wind up giving the results the NYPD wants. Statistics is not objective.
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by mjhay 4y ago
It was not a coincidence they arrested her when she did. It was absolutely a tactic to intimidate DeBlasio. It worked too!
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by mjhay 4y ago
As an aside, I don't want anyone sick preparing my food or drink. There's a public health reason for actual sick leave right there. Aside from that, if they can't afford to treat their employees with dignity, they shouldn&#x2
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by mjhay 4y ago
They should charge enough to be able to afford to treat their employees like human beings - and human being sometimes get sick. How is hard for you to understand? Do you really have that little empathy towards service workers?
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by mjhay 4y ago
The NLRB has been pretty well defanged at this point. I doubt anything significant will happen here.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Sad to say, I think his law died with him.
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by mjhay 4y ago
The best way Mozilla can help make a better internet is to pour more resources into Firefox. The monopoly of Chrome is a huge threat to the open internet, and Firefox is uniquely placed to combat that.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Something doesn't have to be capable of being an existential threat to civilization to be considered "bad."
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by mjhay 4y ago
The "a few bad apples" line is always darkly funny to me - a complete 180 of the familiar "a few bad apples spoils the barrel." Most cops are probably not horrible people. However, the current policing system protects th
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by mjhay 4y ago
Bjorn Lomborg is a professional contrarian spouting nonsense. https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/a-closer-examin...
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by mjhay 4y ago
Minneapolis is one of the top US cities for cycling mode share. You can bike in snow+ice with proper studded tires. With a fat bike, you'll do better than any car or truck in deep snow.
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by mjhay 4y ago
It's a bad idea, but orders of magnitude less of a bad idea than drunk driving. People ditching cars means less drunk driving (even if it means more drunk cycling), as well as less road deaths in general. That can only be a good thing.
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by mjhay 4y ago
I'm guessing it's in terms of quantum information. Quantum entanglement and tunneling can happen faster than the speed of light, which causes similar time paradoxes with special relativity. This is avoided by the impossibility of
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by mjhay 4y ago
Those established companies don't have units with smart thermostats that get bricked if the company goes out of business.
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by mjhay 4y ago
You're more-or-less describing nonwoven fabrics, which are used in a huge variety of applications. There's different fabrication methods, but they are typically not as strong as standard weaves since the patterning can't real
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by mjhay 4y ago
None of that will do anything, beyond, at best, chipping at some of the most egregious examples. We are a capitalist system. Economics and politics are inseparable, and the capitalist class has the power.

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