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by panglott 9y ago
The point of this article is not that speeding is safer, but that wide variance in speed create their own risks, and some drivers will obey a posted speed limit that is lower than the road mean. OTOH, many surface streets necessarily have w
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by panglott 9y ago
Sure, but in my experience people who are speeding at 10-20 mph on 35-mph-limited mixed-user surface streets are doing both. That's true as well on rural highways with hidden curves and possibly animals or tractors, or complex urban in
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by panglott 9y ago
Mostly I'm talking about surface roads, especially where people go at ~50 mph in a 35 mph zone, without regard for road conditions or other road users. But drivers have developed a sense of entitlement to speed at least 10 mph, and reg
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by panglott 9y ago
Any use of power against other people is necessarily both a moral and a political question. I wouldn't take someone seriously who ~hasn't~ thought hard about the moral question involved.
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by panglott 9y ago
Right. It's illegal to exceed the traffic limit. It's immoral to speed excessively in way that causes needless risk of physical harm to other people.
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by panglott 9y ago
Maybe police should try enforcing the traffic laws? I refuse to speed; I think it is immoral. This is because I ride a bicycle everywhere, and the extent to which people speed on surface streets has an obvious and tangible effect on my safe
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by panglott 9y ago
Clearly North Korea's strategy here is deterrence of an invasion rather than an invasion. Looks like deterrence is effective.
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by panglott 9y ago
Everything I've read about a postwar reconstruction of North Korea says that the costs would be much, much greater than the integration of East and West Germany. Not only assuming that a hot war would have serious consequences to the e
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by panglott 9y ago
It's implicit in your statement that the moral repugnancy of the Kim regime makes any acceptance of its existence intolerable. But that clearly implies we should remove the Kim regime; but invading countries is also generally immoral a
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by panglott 9y ago
I don't want to minimize the North Korean regime, but you're talking about some of the world's largest armies engaged in a total war to the death in an area half the size of California with twice the population. You're t
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by panglott 9y ago
North Korea has conducted plenty of special operations against its neighbors. I'm most familiar with the kidnapping of Japanese citizens by submarine. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/north-koreas-abdu
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by panglott 9y ago
"Allowing the regime to continue to exist" is a backwards way of looking at things that serves to legitimate invasions. The US is a superpower, but that doesn't mean that other nation-states exist because we deign to suffer t
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by panglott 9y ago
I guess everybody's supposed to read Clausewitz and play wargames. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_War http://www.consimworld.com/
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by panglott 9y ago
"The final element in the DPRK plan is an extensive deep battle across the entire South Korean depth using some one hundred thousand special operations forces (SOF). An interesting feature of this war is that since both sides look and
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by panglott 9y ago
My understanding is that China has a very different relationship with North Korea and a very different perspective on foriegn policy. China tends to emphasize North Korea's stance as a reaction to US/South Korean provocations. Chi
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by panglott 9y ago
'The word amae comes from the word amaeru, which, according to Japanese psychoanalyst Takeo Doi (he's the guy who basically made this term a thing), can be defined as "to wish to be loved." On top of this, it has connota
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by panglott 9y ago
Yes. Perhaps it would be better to say "the review process" rather than "the peer review process".
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by panglott 9y ago
'Why did peer review not catch this? “Because peer review doesn’t do this,” Heathers told Ars. The point of peer review has always been for fellow scientists to judge whether a paper is of reasonable quality; reviewers aren't expe
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by panglott 9y ago
Spaced reptition isn't exactly a time-saving study method. It takes lots of time to build and maintain a large deck. For very small things to memorize (like the kana), it's probably easier to just make flashcards. But it's fa
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by panglott 9y ago
'urban forests are suffering partly because “so many of the trees we grow don’t belong here and aren’t sustainable without plentiful supplies of imported water.” “Historic photos of the region show coastal shrubs, oaks on the foothills
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by panglott 9y ago
Was wondering why not just use a hand-operated lever press, like the sort of low-tech cast-iron device you might find on an old farmhouse. Then realized this was the concept for the hipster Juicero.
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by panglott 9y ago
https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/4/19/15357290/juicero-400... 'Juicero’s business plan reads like a pitch-perfect parody of contemporary startup culture. One investor told Bloomberg that Juic
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by panglott 9y ago
Except in his 5th chart (the animated one), all the enterprise technologies and Haskell all pulsed up in the morning and afternoon local time, while Haskell was the only one to also pulse up in the evening. In fact, Haskell's evening p
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by panglott 9y ago
I am shocked [my city] isn't higher on this list, I'm immediately going to look through the RateBeer data to find out why this is so biased!
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by panglott 9y ago
More like, the loss is so enormous and consequential that even massive technological efforts cannot reverse it. I'm all for chestnut restoration and the Buffalo Commons and bringing back woolly mammoths and Carolina parakeets and passe
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by panglott 9y ago
Why? There's nothing wrong with cashing in on our desire to escape from the grind. The winter here in the upper South is an especially difficult season for me, since it's unpleasant to spend much time outside, and I absolutely wan
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by panglott 9y ago
Perhaps it's overdiscussed here, but there are lots of important environmental lessons that are worth reflecting on.
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by panglott 9y ago
Well, their propensity to flock together and strategy of predator satiation made them extremely vulnerable to commercial hunting. It also looks like they suffered from the hunting equivalent of "panic logging": as the population c
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by panglott 9y ago
The article is not about carrier pigeons, but about the passenger pigeon. This is a North American species of pigeon famous for the huge size of its flocks, large enough to darken the skies on a sunny day. It was commercially overhunted to
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by panglott 10y ago
Such a strange frame for this article: Some people like to listen to lots of audiobooks, and get more reading in that way. It must be addictive! Let's tie it to trends we like to finger-wag about, like multitasking and productivity cul

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