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by modriano 6y ago
Detroit absolutely doesn't have more homicides than Chicago, and I have no idea how you could have come to believe that. Detroit hasn't had more than 400 homicides in a year since 2007. Chicago hasn't had under 500 homicides
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by modriano 6y ago
As new technologies emerge and proliferate, they'll inevitably be used by criminals to harm citizens, businesses, and the local community. I can tell you firsthand (at least for murderers in Chicago, where I work as a crime analyst), e
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by modriano 7y ago
How fast do you think America or the world will transition away from gas cars? Be realistic. Is there any way you see that happening in less than 25 years?
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by modriano 7y ago
> ... the US has a problem as it granted the President broad discretionary powers to suspend international travel but not domestic gatherings, which can't be banned via executive order and even if congress were to pass a law banning
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by modriano 7y ago
Sometimes I type the name of a site into the URL bar, but I don't include the top-level domain. Most of the time, the top link is an ad for the site I wanted, and the second link is a non-ad link to the site I wanted. I always try to c
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by modriano 7y ago
Mobile voting is a nightmare idea. A very large portion of the population is far from tech savvy, but to have mobile voting as an option, the entire voting base has the know how to correctly place a mobile vote, or else a significant percen
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by modriano 7y ago
Donald Trump has made the claim on several occasions.
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by modriano 7y ago
Yeah, but the tariffs only provoked any growth because companies rushed to stock up on supplies before the tariffs went into effect, anticipating that the coming price increase would decrease profitability and potentially destroy specific s
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by modriano 7y ago
Well, the plan was always to eventually reduce the cash subsidy for electric vehicles. The subsidy was intended to help electric vehicle design and manufacturing to mature to the point that electric vehicles are a viable, affordable, and de
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by modriano 7y ago
In the first (real) job I had after undergrad (physics and mechanical engineering, graduated in 2010 when the economy was a horrorshow), I was a shop supervisor in a factory. I was 23, working in the assembly department of a dirty factory,
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by modriano 7y ago
I'm a crime researcher in Chicago and I work mainly on aggravated battery (shooting) and homicide cases. There have been many homicide and shooting investigations that have been substantially aided by Ring footage (always received with
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by modriano 7y ago
Short answer: Cameras produce the evidence needed to build prosecutable cases that can put burglars in jail (thereby preventing them from victimizing/terrorizing people while they're in jail). Longer answer: People who commit one
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by modriano 7y ago
There are literally billions of ways that a factory could poison the drinking water with toxic byproducts from their production process. Obviously a community will be significantly harmed if their drinking water is poisoned, but the communi
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by modriano 7y ago
For nearly a decade, Donald Trump said Obama was not born in America, despite that being objectively false. Is that a position that shouldn't be silenced? What value does that objectively false assertion add to society? In 2016, pro-Tr
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by modriano 7y ago
On the topic of deportation, has anyone seen anyone arrested for deportation at a music festival? Do we have any data that this is actually happening? I'm a crime analyst in Chicago and I can't imagine officers doing event managem
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by modriano 7y ago
I put quotes around the phrase ("have an obligation to their shareholders to be profitable") because even though it's not technically true, it has become a self-reinforcing platitude. Investors enforce that "rule",
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by modriano 7y ago
In the US, public companies "have an obligation to their shareholders to be profitable", and China is a gigantic market. The rules that govern the economy aren't optimized to create equity or equality. They're optimized
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by modriano 7y ago
I know the US (330 mil. pop.) is a much larger country than Switzerland (8 mil. pop.). You also could have said: "The cost of improving the Swiss housing and infrastructure to reduce the mortality rate due to fire would be a miniscule
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by modriano 7y ago
For about the last 20 years of my life as an American, 99.9% of all buildings I enter have a no-smoking rule. The only exceptions have been bars in kind of backwards places that I've had to go on business, like Jacksonville, FL.
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by modriano 7y ago
Based on this data, the fire death rate in the US is 1.16 per 100k pop. and the rate in Switzerland is 0.28 per 100k pop. Percentage wise, that's a big difference, but that's only because both of these numbers are extremely small.
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by modriano 7y ago
The past decade has been flat, and it has increased noticeably since last year. There was a substantial recession about a decade ago that caused a contraction of the US economy which explains the decrease in energy consumption, and we'
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by modriano 7y ago
Umm, energy use per capita [0] is going up, while the at-birth life expectancy is going down [1] (largely thanks to the opioid epidemic, which is largely a product of a large unemployment trend caused by offshoring and automation of low-edu
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by modriano 7y ago
But anyone who has read a book about designing a home solar system can tell you that all of the literature tells you that you have to pick the location of your panels carefully so they aren't occluded by trees over part of the year bec
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by modriano 7y ago
Do you have any evidence supporting your "obvious" answer? Can you explain why investors have pumped $15 trillion into bonds with negative yields if there are so many good investment opportunities around?
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by modriano 7y ago
My girlfriend and I are currently fostering two pigeons (pet pigeons, hatched from other pet pigeons) who were abused by the children of their prior owners (they shot the pigeons with BBs and broke one's wing). It's obvious that t
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by modriano 7y ago
Yeah. We (in the US) can't even start making the changes needed to save the planet until Trump is gone. Unfortunately, climate change is politically beneficial for Trump and the GOP as climate change is displacing millions of people in
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by modriano 7y ago
The only way to reduce the temperature of Earth is to have thermal energy leave the Earth + atmosphere system (Q_out) at a faster rate than it enters the Earth + atmosphere system (Q_in). The first law of thermodynamics renders any scheme t
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by modriano 7y ago
My guess is that these facial rec systems aren't very sophisticated. I suspect that they just compare a sample image with their database of images, so as people age, they just look less like their image in the database, so the similari
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by modriano 7y ago
> I think the answer to this is a rather blatant “of course!” It's not as blatant as you think. It takes experienced scientists to review submitted papers, and their time is an expensive resource. Is it interesting that a research t
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by modriano 7y ago
Thank you. I really didn't want to go on Facebook.

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