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571.
by rcpt 3y ago
It would be great if people would cut down all the olive trees in southern Italy as it'd curb the spread of xylella fastidiosa. That disease will do to Mediterranean olives what citrus greening did to Florida oranges
572.
by rcpt 3y ago
Ridiculous amounts of standardized testing and curriculums designed to optimize for that was the main thing we hated. Seems to be a thing everywhere. When I was a kid teachers had a bit more freedom to decide what to teach but now you teach
573.
by rcpt 3y ago
How do you propose we measure that efficiency? Attendance requirements? Standardized testing?
574.
by rcpt 3y ago
Because the funding comes from Medicare and when you talk about that in Congress everyone loses their minds. Past lobbying by the AMA gets some blame. Current government inability to fund public healthcare gets some to.
575.
by rcpt 3y ago
AMA stopped lobbying for that around ten years ago
576.
by rcpt 3y ago
Ctrl+f "pedestrian" Only one result and it's not even about roundabouts. This is how American traffic engineering is done.
577.
by rcpt 3y ago
Given California's booming economy anything aside from Shenzhen-tier growth is an "exodus".
578.
by rcpt 3y ago
One of the fun things about LinkedIn is figuring ways to filter the auto recruiter messages and his is pretty great tbh. I've been using »FirstName LastName« in my profile and when I get emails addressed to »FirstName I know they'
579.
by rcpt 3y ago
But there was something special about everyone being disconnected on the summit at the end of a long hike.
580.
by rcpt 3y ago
Pretty much every land owner
581.
by rcpt 3y ago
I thought he was talking about land value tax
582.
by rcpt 3y ago
You forgot about land. Land is different from capital. A competition where we all try to outbid each other on land does nothing for the economy.
583.
by rcpt 3y ago
> it's come from no one's pockets until you sell Assuming that property tax has been tracking the current market value of the house then yes. But in California prop 13 means that isn't the case
584.
by rcpt 3y ago
> the focus on EVs is a distraction Tire particles have been a problem since forever but recently its a big concern now that EVs are rapidly dethroning combustion cars. I'm suspicious
585.
by rcpt 3y ago
> large scale simulations of gravitational interactions I'm guessing this was mostly Fast Multipole Method? I don't think it ports that easily GPU since there's so much communication involved and the leaves don't do a
586.
by rcpt 3y ago
I think it'd be nice to blink and automatically post to Instagram everytime some driver does something unhinged while I'm on my bicycle. Not sure I can think of any pro-social use cases though.
587.
by rcpt 3y ago
If a few water molecules are destroyed and replaced created over a long time then is it still the same glass of water?
588.
by rcpt 3y ago
> Talk about primes in arithmetic progressions Turns on super saiyan mode for the first time
589.
by rcpt 3y ago
I've only been into cat discourse for a few months but in my experience it's almost a guarantee that someone will make the "humans are the real invasive species" argument to defend letting their cat out
590.
by rcpt 3y ago
Property taxes break everyone's brain. Owners will support any alternative no matter how ridiculous.
591.
by rcpt 3y ago
"Configure multiple Bluetooth controllers on retroarch" -- 100 points "Disable autofire" -- 200 points "Move save files (not save states) between cores" -- 300 points "Get the right cemu keys.txt" --
592.
by rcpt 3y ago
Does that data even exist or is this just supposed to be a stump argument?
593.
by rcpt 3y ago
> populations can easily absorb the loss Cats drive bird species to extinction all the time.
594.
by rcpt 3y ago
It seems like the kind of thing that would be canaried which is the kind of thing that you'd typically build alongside automated deployment
595.
by rcpt 3y ago
If something else kills you then yeah
596.
by rcpt 3y ago
Swing states + aggressive lobbying and any industry could get their own yearly Farm Bill. In New Zealand there are zero farm subsidies and people eat just fine. But without major structural changes to the US federal government I don't
597.
by rcpt 3y ago
> Every industry contributes a negligible amount. What? No.
598.
by rcpt 3y ago
And this was all despite Python 3 which was, imo, the worst software migration in history
599.
by rcpt 3y ago
The amount of conspiracy talk surrounding this fire is already nuts. This revelation will supercharge that.
600.
by rcpt 3y ago
Free parking is theft

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