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Judging vertical farming based on the performance of wheat is not valid. When I saw the test crop was wheat, I scrolled to see if there were any other crops, saw that there weren't, and abandoned the article because wheat has among the
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Well, looking at the breakdown of electricity generation by energy source [0], it looks like energy generation fell by about 30% around the start of 2/15, with most of the losses being from coal and natural gas. And as Texas's gri
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The Democratic Presidential candidate has won the popular vote in the last 7 of 8 Presidential elections[0], with the Dems having, on average, about 5 million more votes for those 8 elections. It's empirically fair to say the right rep
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In that case, you're comparing the US, a country with extremely lax gun control laws and the resulting greatly increased threat to police safety, to countries with far more stringent gun control. I'm a homicide researcher in Chica
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> The current discourse is crazy to me. We have to remember that free speech is literally the FIRST amendment. Here's the first amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
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Does your definition of the West include Latin America? Because law enforcement in Latin America kill far, far more people than law enforcement in the US. In the US (pop 330M), law enforcement kills about 1000 people per year (about 34 peop
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> If you don't trust your fellow citizens to be able to deduce the truth... Do you trust people who live in an echo chamber overrun with disinformation to deduce the truth about the outcome of the US election? If so, can you speak t
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> Why do you think there was a seditious conspiracy? Do you really honestly believe that a few hundred people marching onto the capitol have the ability to destabilize the country? Remember, we have layers upon layers of armed forces tha
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> You do realize, both sides of America think the other side is radicalized. On Wednesday, while our elected Representatives and Senators were in the process of finalizing the count of the US election, armed Trump supporters stormed the
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Neither I nor the person I replied to mentioned free speech. They asserted that Google or Apple removing an app will lead to Google or Apple "[taking] everything else from you". I pointed out a class of apps that are banned and as
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I suspect you believe that as an article of faith, but it makes me think you haven't been on the internet in decades. Go onto thedonald dot win and you'll see hundreds of thousands of people who have created an insulated bubble wh
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Are you at all worried about the possibility that America could have another civil war because a sufficiently large proportion of Americans are radicalized in uncensored, insufficiently moderated communities? Facebook's own research fo
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Probably not because of the ban. Probably for Facebook's relentless facilitation of the person who incited treason and sedition, as well as the cultivation of conspiracy theory groups that produced the insurrectionists.
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You also have to manually add the kernel for that environment via: ({new_environment_name}) ...$ python -m ipykernel install --user --name {new_environment_name} --display-name "Python ({new environment display name})" The env won
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Speed, scale, accessibility, and the ability to target susceptible people without geographic proximity make it a novel problem. A person handling out pamphlets (asserting something like "Liberal politicians run a pedophilia ring, look
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Yeah. Up until recently, the ability to immediately communicate information to hundreds of thousands of people at once was guarded. Editors economically metered inches of print, networks (the original 4) were ruthlessly inoffensive to avoid
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In the usecase I'm particularly familiar with (law enforcement, specifically of violent crimes), it's pretty valuable to minimize the amount of manual data handling investigators have to do. The State's Attorneys office/
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There have been a lot of signed witness affidavits, but nearly all of them have been thrown out in court as not credible, and 0 of them have lead to victories in court. What irregular ballots are you talking about? https://www.de
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Each state has its own laws regarding elections and recounts, but in all the states I've looked at, voters have to sign either a document at their precinct if they're voting in person, or on an envelope for their ballot if they&#x
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An individual's understanding of the world is shaped exclusively by the signals produced by their 5 senses. Intelligence governs an individual's ability to interpret those signals and draw further conclusions from those interprete
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> So all of the people who swore affidavits committed perjury? Perjury is very rarely prosecuted as it's difficult to prove the person knew they were affirming a lie. So even though there have been sworn affidavits asserting fraud w
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Does it have 1+ gigabit service? Plumbing? Roads? How far is it to the nearest major airport?
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Neutrality in journalism was an artifact of the business model when consumers had far fewer choices of newspaper/channel (ie only < 5 local papers, 3 network channels), using neutrality as a strategy to avoid turning off potential c
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My college experience was made massively more enlightening because it exposed me to people from very different backgrounds. I grew up in a nearly 100% white suburb of Detroit, and even though I only had to walk 5 blocks north from my house
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>robots on rails That's a pretty fancy way to say motorized brushes on a timer.
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We haven't had real lockdowns anywhere. We've had please-stay-home recommendations. If we had a sufficiently strict lockdown early on, we could have brought transmission down to near 0, identified all new cases (and quarantined th
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> What possible solution could there be to homicide as a category of crimes beyond literally being able to see into the future or people's brains, a la Minority Report or Black Mirror? Isn't there a risk the mentality of a &quo
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> Education is the preventative solution. It's a possible preventative solution, but when designing anything, you should never forget that you are not the user. You have to design for the user. How does the ignorant person who is se
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Nationally, the clearance rate for arson is typically under 23%, meaning the vast majority of arsonists get away with it. In general, clearance rates are pretty bad across most crimes. The homicide clearance rate is typically below 62%, cl
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For 2018, did Detroit have more homicides per capita than Los Angeles and St. Louis combined? - St. Louis: 186 homicides, 302K residents, ~62 homs/100K pop - Los Angeles: 259 homicides, 3.99M residents, ~6.5 homs/100K pop - Detroi

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