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by onecommentman 2y ago
Burning in a dense residential area…no. Draconian clearing of all trees and brush except for selective fire-aware landscaping…yes, but you are paying significant money to make the residential area look uglier (in some eyes, it’s just a Hig
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by onecommentman 2y ago
We can look to the experience of Los Alamos National Labs during the Cerro Grande fire in 2000 to provide perspective.
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by onecommentman 2y ago
I’ve used #FireMappers 3.1 by NAPSG Foundation, found at https://napsg.maps.arcgis.com/ . Would provide the full link, but the app value in the copied link is suspiciously long.
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But PJ high desert areas don’t have the same level of destructive wildfires as, say, the Ponderosa pines found at higher elevations or cottonwood bosques. My impression is the fire load per acre in PJ is much lower and the fires are just n
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by onecommentman 2y ago
David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was quoted as saying “It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.” True for wildfires under windy conditions as well. Probably the reason why the word
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by onecommentman 2y ago
Using the phrase “real hard truth” and “optical media that break easily” in the same post made my eyes cross. Are you referring to glass plate negatives from early 19th C. photography? And storing 400 DVDs in a binder takes about 1 cu ft
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New DVD players are available (HDMI) for $30 online. Pick up a couple for the price of a mediocre meal + delivery. Literally plug and play.
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by onecommentman 2y ago
The problem with articles about the aging population is they are generally written by the young, or perhaps middle aged. The old have been young/middle aged, so they can speak of that time with some confidence and wisdom. The young h
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by onecommentman 2y ago
Is San Francisco in such a degraded condition that it needs saving? Seems a strong term. Haven’t seen a “Save the Techbros” charity announced. Maybe I’m on the wrong mailing lists…
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by onecommentman 2y ago
The total number of countries worldwide has itself more than doubled since WWII. Additionally, those new countries were often created via political turmoil that continues to this day. “Number of countries” is an unhelpful metric.
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by onecommentman 2y ago
The Brits didn’t introduce the potato blight, they just mismanaged the resulting situation in their 19th Century trademark bumptious, oblivious, supercilious manner. But it is unclear whether home rule at that point would have come up with
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by onecommentman 2y ago
Attributing any mention of possible positive impacts of British colonialism to apologism on the part of the poster is itself a bad look. Let the good and bad be dredged out of the swamp of the past, washed off and compared. Nobody alive
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by onecommentman 2y ago
I’ll skip the well-meaning attempt at personal engagement (too old and cranky for that) and just wish everyone Merry Christmas (or whatever religious/winter solstice variants span your spiritual function space at this time of year) and
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by onecommentman 2y ago
Comments: The risk of being murdered on the NYC subway is comparable to being struck by lightning? I assume those struck by lightning are outside at the time…I go inside when lightning threatens, thus mitigating or eliminating that risk.
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by onecommentman 2y ago
When you put quotes around “crime” when describing an assault, you are part of the normalization of those acts. You aren’t a snowflake if you describe an illegal act against your person, however minor, as a crime. Reminds one of describin
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by onecommentman 2y ago
If we are going all “risky social experiment”, one could argue that almost all of humanity worked from home/neighborhood until passenger rail showed up in the mid 19th Century, and thus the actual anomalous human situation/exper
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by onecommentman 2y ago
Why is “global warming” being cited in this article as a major cause of Delhi’s air pollution? There is no supporting information provided to justify “global warming” as a major contributor to Delhi’s air pollution, and common sense sugges
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by onecommentman 2y ago
This is known as the “tu quoque” rhetorical device, used for millennia and commonly viewed as a fallacious argument. There are a lot of places online that explain the concept. Just because your opponent has done the same thing doesn’t mean
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by onecommentman 2y ago
Nice try, Canada. In almost all of the US, we can still feel our face if we venture outside in November, whereas Canada?
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by onecommentman 2y ago
If “the family” is getting together, it is probably for the benefit of a matriarch and/or patriarch on which your very physical existence on this planet depended during your developmental years. Attend for the critical event of the ho
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25 year old sedan with a Northstar engine, a couple belt and chain replacements, no significant transmission issues, no significant engine work. Regular dealer maintenance No major battery pack replacements. May not be the greenest, bu
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Or hospitals refusing to support the doctor in malpractice suits unless the MD can show they consulted with Dr Silicon during the diagnostic process. Include AI consults in clinical standards guidelines at the hospital level. Require AI t
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50 samples gets you past “intriguing” and into “we need to be doing something, maybe a large trial first, but something” territory The result that the human+AI is a little better but the AI alone is much better matches the experience with c
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It’s missing the fifth B, Beguines. The Beguines were a movement among Catholic lay women in Europe from 1200-1500. Women would live chaste lives in small communities among themselves (towns within towns) supporting themselves with lacemak
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It’s about time for the election discussions to disappear. The fingers are still typing but the brains are disengaged.
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This “revival” of Noam Chomsky in a certain corner of the hive mind is fairly inexplicable to someone who lived through the same era. It’s a kindness bestowed on him by a few students so in his dying days he believes he didn’t totally fade
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This rewrite of the linked article title is unhelpful. Significant rain has always been the only way to break a drought since forever. I prefer the raw US soil moisture maps to the US drought monitor map. The calculation of “drought” for
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by onecommentman 2y ago
I didn’t read where the US is mining out all their coal deposits and dumping them in the ocean. Current exploitation of coal in the US maybe be declining, but it is still an important part of a robust portfolio of energy technologies. The
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Such external costs should only be included if the uncertainties on estimates of external costs of CO2 emissions are somehow represented. And I’m referring to factoring in all structural and parametric uncertainties inherent in climate
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To provide a little perspective on what seems to be an fruitless exercise in Democratic Party political apologetics, let’s remind ourselves that the smart, dumb, rich, poor, wise, foolish, old, young, native born, foreign born, male, female

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