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by rory 5y ago
Sidenote-- is average === mean the standard lexicon now? When I was in grade school we learned that average was a generic term for mean, median, or mode. So when I see average conflated with median in discussion (as it often is), I assume i
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by rory 5y ago
The overall China number is a little funky because they still have 500M people in the countryside emitting very little. On a per capita basis, many Chinese metros are among the worst, as is much of the US (especially in the midwest and sout
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This image seems to tell the story best: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/696381/frsc-03-69... The per capita numbers in China are already big, but the biggest difference seems to be that there are
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by rory 5y ago
Of course! I guess my point is-- we should be doing any and all of these things, and the west should be investing as much as it takes, because the long-term payoff is worth it ten times over.
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> it's often women who don't want to have so many children, but men who decide whether or not to use birth control This is a meme based on a study from one small state in Nigeria, and hasn't been shown to apply more gene
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by rory 5y ago
Yes, it's likely one of the most effective methods that basically no one (in the west) would have a moral objection to. But there is some middle ground between that and nuclear annihilation. Making free, widespread birth control and st
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by rory 5y ago
Hey, at least we'll be able to "solve" the "problem" of sexts between youths by having a bunch of middle aged men rifle through them.
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by rory 5y ago
This is likely true to some definition of best (which is not exactly most effective ).
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by rory 5y ago
That prediction relies on all regions becoming wealthier, though. Which isn't currently happening. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locat... https://data.worldbank.org/indicat
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by rory 5y ago
The problem is, this CO2 difference is mostly because China has only 1/4 the per capita income of the US, and that income gap is rapidly closing.
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Maybe they could call it "For Us By Us"
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Subjectively-- many of the best "black" shows in the 90s were in the Traditional Sitcom category-- Fresh Prince, Martin, Family Matters, Steve Harvey show, etc.. Even though they touched on black issues, 80% of the shows' c
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by rory 5y ago
> In a majority white country you don't need to say x for white people, because that's the default If it would merely be a redundancy, why would it provoke outrage? "Conservative Talk Radio" seems pretty redundant t
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I'm asking simply as a thought experiment. And the reason to stop it is obvious-- to procure other taxes from those people. For example, many jurisdictions don't have an inheritance tax, and the US Gov't would likely want tha
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Wouldn't you not have a passport in that case? So presumably you would never be able to get back to the state you have a tie to, right? Seems like a tenuous circumstance.
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by rory 5y ago
Oh wow I missed that, thanks for catching. Given these are Japanese macaques, it looks like typical m/f size difference is more like ~32%, not ~45%, and 10kg puts her larger than the average female, but smaller than the average male. W
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by rory 5y ago
Without getting into the moral debate of taxing US Citizens globally... how could the US government stop this from happening? Surely these ex-citizens hold a lot of assets in the US, and most probably spend a lot of time in the country. Cou
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by rory 5y ago
This is all the more impressive because macaques generally display strong sexual dimorphism in size (males are ~45% bigger on average than females, vs. more like ~15% in humans). I wonder how big Yakei is.
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by rory 5y ago
> weigh the probability of that against the certainty of you and / or your loved ones getting the virus if you're not vaccinated Why do you say that's a certainty? I think it's still very uncertain how many people t
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by rory 5y ago
Allegedly BlackMatter is not. > It would not extort healthcare, critical infrastructure, oil and gas, defense, non-profit, and government organizations
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I understand now-- Four Cheese may as well be a drillbit.
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by rory 5y ago
Also-- is the implication that it's not a design flaw if the screen can be cracked by a corn chip crumb?
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by rory 5y ago
This seems like just another "America bad" post. When's the last time you walked the streets of Berlin at night? People sleeping on the streets all over. Berlin models homelessness efforts on US program: https://ww
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by rory 5y ago
Are they not able to learn to code though, or is it simply a matter of comfort and preference?
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> in today’s world of routine coronavirus testing of vaccinated people It's worth noting that the CDC is explicitly telling people not to do this: If you’ve been around someone who has COVID-19, you do not need to stay away from
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by rory 5y ago
> start with your conclusions and then work back from there Sadly this doesn't make it distinct from other fields at all, at least within the social sciences. Much of sociology is built on explicit anti-positivism and anti-empiricis
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by rory 5y ago
> There's nothing anybody could do about it. All the states with GL watershed agreed to the compact not-so-long ago. In a case of such egregious rule-skirting, couldn't they just agree to close the loophole?
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by rory 5y ago
In my experience as a small-time landlord, maintenance does scale somewhat with cost, but not linearly. A lot of big costs on the materials side (like say, a furnace) are more or less fixed. At least, repairs don't cost 4x as much in a
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by rory 5y ago
That is another type of inflation, but it's an interesting point that you may care about both the general consumer inflation rate (for its interaction with the mortgage interest rate) and the rent price inflation rate.
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Flights from Paris to Munich are also irrelevant to global warming in isolation, but they don't get a special tax cutout.

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