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by rsj_hn 4y ago
The world is not going to burn if people use gas heaters. Not using gas heaters does not prevent anything bad from happening, or cause anything good to happen.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
No, the statement was that Desantis restricted voting rights . Here is the literal quote: "Desantis won by tight margins [..] and has consistently worked to gerrymander and restrict voting rights for those who'd vote against him.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
So that is your definition of "restricting" -- not expanding?
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
By that definition, "The Lord of the Rings" isn't a book, either :P But we can be gracious and understand what people mean. When asking a question like which books have you read multiple times, you would expect a lot of answe
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China Seeks to Cut Reliance on Coal Imports with Mining Boom(bloomberg.com)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Did you see Petra? How was it?
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I wouldn't say that either is overpopulated. Arizona, in particular, has plenty of water and is sparsely populated. It has more square miles of mountains than Switzerland. However, it may not have enough water to keep the huge cotton,
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Despite the fact that Reagan passed the "Lanterman-Petris-Short Act" Reagan was governor. Governors sign bills. Legislatures pass them. This was a bipartisan effort and was viewed as a civil rights issue, to not hold people
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I don't think that they literally meant "no one", but rather that a small group of people commit a majority of the crimes, and if those people were behind bars, the crimes rates would fall back to normal levels. There is evid
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Days of Rage (2017)(status451.com)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
if you believe that, say, C++ devs earn more than JS devs, it would matter. If you aren't sure and want to find out, it would also matter.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> The thing is, we have actual data on a lot of these policies. I am very skeptical of this - not that we have data, but that the data suggests such a clear and simple relationship that is open to exploitation via policy. There is a long
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> The idea that a driver can anticipate when a self-driving car is going to fuck up and do anything to prevent it is bullshit and the charlatans pushing these cars know it. There is no factual basis for this claim. Cruise control and ada
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I'd normally disagree since most of these systems ask you to keep paying attention or keep your hands on the wheel and they make it clear that this is assistive technology and not a replacement for an alert, licensed, driver being ulti
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Submitted this because it's a great piece of investigative journalism and has real meat -- occrp deserves our support.
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BP Turned a Blind Eye to Corruption in Azerbaijan Gas Project(occrp.org)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I was confused about Twitter's business model from the very start. But, I didn't think Uber and Lyft made a lot of financial sense, either :P Usually what you'd do is pump the platform full of ads and then offer an ad-free op
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
2006 was a while ago, so that sounds about right. Here's an article from 2012: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/automobiles/as-cars-are-k... Here's an article from 2018: "a typical passe
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
You can get aftermarket camera kits for ~$150 that handle that for older model cars. https://www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Backup-Cameras/b?ie=UTF8&node... The backup camera genuinely is a great feature, but the touchscre
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That number has been increasing every year, so the OP may simply be remembering an earlier number. We didn't use to keep cars around for so long but they have gotten more reliable (and rust-proofing has made big advances). It will soon
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I use gsuite for my own needs, but unfortunately whenever I deal with anyone on the non-technical side (marketing, support, etc) I always need to switch to word/excel/powerpoint. I have been waiting for this to change, but I can&#
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
You are confusing a public hearing about a decision with the actual decision, which is usually made by administrators and then the board votes up or down. The outcome is generally known beforehand and the public hearing gives an opportunity
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
All I can think of is that a lot of people enjoy outrage so when someone points out "No, the facts are different, so there is nothing to be outraged about", instead of viewing that as good news - that hey, schools are not actually
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
There was no school ban. The district was using Maus (a graphic novel) in the curriculum to teach about the holocaust, and opted to search for an actual textbook to use in its place. That's all. The comic book remains in the school lib
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I think the problem here is that it's very hard to enforce and requires everyone to open car doors in an unintuitive way. What would be better is an automated system, say something that flashed the rear lights and made a sound before t
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
If all you did with a car was get groceries, it would probably be more economical to just order delivery. Most people use their car for a lot more than that, though.
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OSHA ETS Vaccine mandate for employers to be withdrawn tomorrow [pdf](public-inspection.federalregister.gov)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Lack of adequate control structures, or for that matter, programming language support, is almost never the reason why code has inadequate error handling. The main reason is that developers often leave error handling as an afterthought becau
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
So the genius of the Senate is that it doesn't matter what wacky things Senators believe (and Senators tend to be much more reasonable than reps, who are really wacky due to them representing smaller constituencies). The Senate is th
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> People often bring up this analogy as a criticism of democracy, but I have to ask "How would the outcome differ if the 3 members of that society abandoned voting?". This is a great question, and the answer is two-fold. First,

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