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by rory 4y ago
This source is out of date-- alfalfa acreage has substantially declined over the past decade while nut acreage has boomed. Both are bad though, obviously. https://cms-static.wehaacdn.com/hoards-com/images/2-CA-hay-
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by rory 4y ago
The worst culprits (in terms of volume + heavy water usage) are almonds, pistachios, and walnuts. No one is going to starve because nuts become rare and expensive, so let's start there.
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by rory 4y ago
How did you make the jump from " Residents use 3-5% of the water supply " to " any expectation of having enough water to reside in this place is absurd "? Do you think the water table is not enough to support 5% of curre
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by rory 4y ago
I'm not defending the central point-- I agree with you that the primary means of interplanetary communication will be email. It's just helpful to discussion if we don't assume others are expressing the stupidest possible iter
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by rory 4y ago
Cool dunk on the GP but it seems obvious that they didn't mean literally send the tweet to Mars as an HTML page with full Javascript bundle.
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by rory 4y ago
Conversely, my neighborhood on Cape Cod is absolutely overrun by bunnies, to the point where we could probably use a few cats to keep things in balance. Things used to be more reasonable, but as more people started living here full time, it
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by rory 4y ago
I don't know a ton about Canadian immigration, but while raw net immigration volume is likely important in pricing a relatively inelastic good like housing, I think the details of who the immigrants are is too often overlooked in thi
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by rory 5y ago
What do you mean? That the death rate is higher or lower? I'm not even making a claim re: death rate, I'm taking GP's word for it.
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by rory 5y ago
True. Either severity lessened, or social distancing was largely useless. I'm pretty confident it's the former, but that assumption is implicit to my comment above.
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by rory 5y ago
Yes, it seems to me like the lessened severity must necessarily be some combination of: 1) Improved immunity (vax and/or recovery) 2) Improved treatment 3) Virus evolution What else could it be (not rhetorical)?
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by rory 5y ago
I think it's clear avoiding the park, in retrospect, was unnecessary. I'm just describing the feeling at the time, which I believe was shared by the vast majority of people for at least those first few weeks. I could be wrong thou
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by rory 5y ago
This reminds me of D.A.R.E. talking about whippets in grade school. The speaker went on about "When you do whippets, you don't *actually* get high, your brain just *thinks* you're high..."
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by rory 5y ago
To be fair, it's roughly the same death count now with most people barely (if at all) paying attention, versus the first wave when most people were locking down and wouldn't even go to the park. Part of the "crisis" feel
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by rory 5y ago
Oof. Tough look to name the model after yourself. Why is this cited so many times?
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by rory 5y ago
~.2 isn't really "huge".. Your source shows that the SAT is much more strongly correlated with other measures of aptitude. The SAT does indeed correlate slightly more strongly with income than the AFQT does, which could show
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by rory 5y ago
This complaint is addressed in footnote 10 of the article. It would be great to design a test that's less gameable than the current version, and we should certainly try to do that, but the current version is already less gameable than
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by rory 5y ago
Well, you need at least some understanding of calculus to meaningfully understand statistics, don't you? A basic ability to intuit about integrals and derivatives seems like table stakes.
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by rory 5y ago
The link literally is a published study. Not sure if that's supposed to be some kind of gotcha. Fed research generally isn't published in third party journals. And the method you describe isn't weak at all, compared to social
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by rory 5y ago
Neither of your links contain an actual correlation measure, or links to actual source data. To even call them "articles" is a stretch, they appear to essentially be ads / link magnets (which as a category have an obvious bia
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by rory 5y ago
Yes, society can and should do more to encourage people to drive safely, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to do so. The same logic applies to all sorts of things like obesity, smoking, etc.. These things obviously have multip
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by rory 5y ago
Is there any actual evidence that what you're saying is the reason for the difference though? It's incorrect that credit scores are highly correlated with income [0]. Most accidents are caused by things that are pretty ordinary fo
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by rory 5y ago
A bit pedantic, but I agree the original title is distinctly clearer than the posted title. Also, "getting nervous" is better terminology than "worried," since absolute consumer confidence is still higher among the highe
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by rory 5y ago
That's like saying criticism of the current Russian government is blaming issues on the end of Bolshevism.
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by rory 5y ago
> More precise definition of terms is also desirable Which terms aren't well defined? > how would economists model that? Sounds kind of like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_economy Excep
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by rory 5y ago
This argument doesn't seem to be particularly strong, and to be honest the overconfidence comes off a bit embarrassing for physicists. It basically amounts to: 1) Energy use must keep increasing for utility to increase. This is empiric
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by rory 5y ago
Like at prep schools? Or some huge football program in Texas? This definitely isn't the case at the vast majority of schools in the US.
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by rory 5y ago
This is ridiculous. Why don't they make AEST time permanent? And if people want to have more light in the DAYTIME , they can just MOVE TO AUSTRALIA . Surely that is easier than PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO SEE MY FACE DURING ZOOM MEETINGS
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by rory 5y ago
Yes, but those bugs won't be caught since the test suite has an implicit dependency on the current US time, so they don't count.
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by rory 5y ago
> None of the federal money pays for expenses related to the actual programming and operations Is this a joke? Literally the first expense listed under federal appropriation is "Operations". In theory they don't pay the
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by rory 5y ago
That's not the same meaning of commercial used in the linked clip. High school sports are not a profitable activity for the organization running the team (the school), and building nicer facilities doesn't bring them significant m

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